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Showtime The Bloody, Brutal Business of Being a Teenage Girl
Showtime’s Yellowjackets is an addictive and perceptive coming-of-age story cloaked in psychological horror.
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Will Heath / NBC ‘The Timeline You’re All Living in Is About to Collapse’
SNL’s inaugural episode of 2022 turned to dark, and often awkward, absurdity to explain our exasperating moment.
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Kailey Schwerman / Showtime The TV Show for the Age of Conspiracism
Yellowjackets, a feminist update of Lord of the Flies, has created a rich world where everyone—and everything—is a suspect.
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Paramount Pictures The Newest Scream Movie Skewers Fandom Itself
The latest film in the famously self-aware franchise takes aim at Hollywood, legacy sequels, and the horror genre.
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Niko Tavernise / Netflix / Charlie Le Maignan … Why Are People So Mad About Don’t Look Up?
Climate change is a tough subject for any film, let alone a satire.
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Hulton Archive / Getty; Imagno / Getty; Lambert … For Women, Is Exercise Power?
In Let’s Get Physical, Danielle Friedman traces the fascinating, loaded history of female fitness.
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The Atlantic A Guide to 2022’s Most Promising TV
Here are the shows to watch this year, whether you’re looking for something new or hoping to catch up on an old favorite.
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Alison Rosa / Apple TV Enter the Nightmarish World of Joel Coen’s Macbeth
Denzel Washington leads a magnificent ensemble in this stark, minimalist adaptation of a Shakespearean tragedy.
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Matilda Finn Welcome to Purgatory. The Weeknd Will Be Your DJ.
His new album makes the road to the afterlife sound like the ’80s, in the best way possible.
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Emma McIntyre / Getty Bob Saget Was Entertainment’s Consummate Father Figure
The late actor and comedian’s gift was his fluency in dad jokes and dirty humor alike.
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Tate The Art Movement That Embraced the Monstrous
Since its formation in the 1920s, surrealism has produced works that are unnerving, disturbing—and perversely appealing as well.
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CBS Photo Archive / Getty; The Atlantic Survivor Is Deceptive. That’s What Makes It So Real.
The contestants on the show are always performing. But, then again, so are we.
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Claire Folger / Amazon George Clooney’s Unfulfilled Promise
The director’s latest movie, The Tender Bar, captures a problem with his brand of filmmaking.
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Netflix / Charlie Le Maignan / The Atlantic The ‘Meta-emptiness’ of Emily in Paris
Can the joyfully escapist Netflix show also argue for the importance of escapism?
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Why Star Wars Keeps Telling the Same Stories
The Book of Boba Fett turns one of the most mysterious characters in the galaxy into a classic savior figure, to watchable but uninspiring effect.
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Netflix The Movie That Understands the Secret Shame of Motherhood
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of The Lost Daughter challenges Hollywood’s ideas about what women owe to their children—and to themselves.
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Kirn Vintage Stock / Corbis / Getty Eight Ghost Stories in Which the Dead Won’t Go Quietly
Literature has a long tradition of using the genre to address unsettled pasts and forgotten traumas.
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Marvel / Sony Pictures What the Success of Spider-Man Means for Hollywood in 2022
Spider-Man: No Way Home bodes well for cinemas. Yet smaller-budget films might get left behind.
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D Dipasupil / FilmMagic / Getty The Sly Sunniness of Betty White
The actor and producer and host, who died yesterday at 99, spent eight decades poking fun at those who would underestimate her.
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Carole Bethuel / Netflix Emily in Paris Is the Last Guilty Pleasure
The Netflix show, now in its second season, is an argument for the joys of tackiness.
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