“LaFleur” rebooted the Season 5, kicking off a major new story arc for the show which finds our beloved castaways living among the Dharma Initiative in the 1970s. Reviews were largely very positive for the ep, though a few critics had trouble with the back-and-forth-through-time nature o...

“The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” the 7th episode of Lost Season 5, generated the most mixed responses of any episode yet this year. Some are fiercely passionate about the show’s sudden return to more emotion-based storytelling, while others feel let down that John Locke̵...

This week’s metareview of Lost 5.05 “This Place is Death” features a ton of new review/recap sources for your reading pleasure. There are no less than 19 reviews linked and excerpted. Enjoy! Entertainment Weekly ’s Doc Jensen: …let’s swipe one of Ms. Hawking’...

Here’s what the critics had to say about the third episode of Lost Season 5, “Jughead.” EW’s Adam Vary fills in for Doc Jensen with a lengthy recap and some pretty out-there assumptions that don’t add up for me (Charlotte as “Ellie”’s daughter? really?...

So, what did mainstream media think of Lost’s Season 5 premiere? Let’s take a look. EW’s Doc Jensen offered his typically thoughtful and theory-laden take on “Because You Left” and “The Lie,” separately, saying about the former: ”Because You Left”...

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports True story: We were going to review Skate 2 ourselves, but we ... no, not we ... I, I Justin McElroy sucked too bad at it to review it. I don't know if my thumbs are just too stupid or what, but as a long-time Tony Hawk fan, I found it hard...

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Metareviews EA got the folks who made the rather excellent Star Wars: Battlefront II to make Lord of the Rings: Battlefront Conquest , so it, too, must be rather excellent? Despite the source material, developer pedigree and the fact that ...

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports, Metareviews Boxing has so many wonderful terms that hacky writers can employ when something is good. Knock out, 1-2 punch, we could go on. But there is a severe deficiency of boxing terms that just mean "OK" or "Kind of decent." It's a shame, because a few wo...

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action, Metareviews So, here's the thing about a metareview for Metal Gear Solid 4 : You probably don't give a crap. Well, let us rephrase that. It's not that you don't want to hear what people are saying about the game, it's that it's probably not going to effect yo...

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action When the first next-gen game ever announced doesn't get released until a few years into that generation's life cycle, it's pretty much impossible for it to be "worth the wait." But Dark Sector seems to be doing a valiant job of at least bei...