Lenika Cruz
She is the author of On BTS: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerity.
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Universal Pictures In Get Out, the Eyes Have It
Jordan Peele’s fantastic film relies heavily on the sense of sight to amplify its racial horror.
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Paramount Pictures Rings Would Be Better Off at the Bottom of a Well
This strange sequel comes 15 years after the terrifying American remake of a Japanese horror classic.
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Yves Herman / Reuters Nominated for an Oscar, Barred From America
The Iranian film The Salesman is shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. But because of Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, the movie’s director won’t be attending the ceremony.
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HBO There Are No Easy Answers in Beware the Slenderman
The HBO documentary delves into the disturbing 2014 case of two Wisconsin girls who say they stabbed their friend to appease a bogeyman-like figure.
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NBC The Otherworldly Genius of The Good Place
After a promising debut last fall, NBC’s quirky, metaphysical comedy enjoyed a terrific first season—only to brilliantly upend its entire premise in the final episode.
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Joe Lederer / Netflix There Are No Happy Endings in A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Netflix adaptation of the popular Lemony Snicket children’s book series is a weird, hyper-self-aware, bleak bit of fun.
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20th Century Fox What Sets the Smart Heroines of Hidden Figures Apart
Movies about brilliant scientific or mathematical minds often focus on their subject’s ego—not so with a new film about three African American women who worked at NASA in the ’60s.
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ABC Where Are All the Thanksgiving Pop-Culture Classics?
The American holiday has long been overshadowed by Christmas when it comes to widely beloved films, TV specials, and songs.
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FX Selfishness Is Complicated in You’re the Worst
The FX show’s largely hopeful third season saw all its characters try to become better people—often by ironically putting themselves first.
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Syfy Channel Zero Unleashes the Horrors of Childhood
The anthology series’ first season, subtitled Candle Cove, terrorizes its adult characters with the very things that scared them as kids.
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AMC The Walking Dead Might Be Its Own Villain
The hit AMC show ended its sixth season on a cheap cliffhanger. Its seventh-season premiere messily tried to regain momentum.
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ABC Fresh Off the Boat and the Elusiveness of Home
The sitcom’s season-three premiere, along with NBC’s The Good Place, shows how geography raises questions of belonging.
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20th Century Fox Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Is All Spectacle and No Heart
Tim Burton’s newest film, adapted from a popular young-adult novel, is a pretty but soulless adventure.
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Disney Queen of Katwe Is the Best Kind of Feel-Good Story
A new Disney film starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo follows the rise of Phiona Mutesi, a poor girl from Uganda who becomes a chess prodigy.
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Track of the Day: 'Sometimes' by My Bloody Valentine
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Track of the Day: 'My Little Rooster' by Almeda Riddle
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Track of the Day: 'Llorando' by Rebekah del Rio
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USA What Happens to Mr. Robot Without Mr. Robot?
The USA show does surprisingly well—thanks to a terrific supporting cast and a break from questions about reality and sanity.
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Laika Kubo and the Two Strings Is a Gorgeous Stop-Motion Adventure
The newest film from the animation studio Laika is visually stunning—even if the story it tells is shaky at times.
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David Cheskin / AP And the New Harry Potter Books Keep Coming
J.K. Rowling said there’d be no new stories about the boy wizard after the Cursed Child play. Then Pottermore announced three new e-books.
