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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Halsey, Selena Gomez, and Pop That Acknowledges Mental Struggle
Two new albums, Manic and Rare, air inner turmoil bluntly while staying catchy and controlled.
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Pop TV Schitt’s Creek Has Been Building to This Point About Love
On the feel-good sitcom, now in its final season, romances signal a more surprising attachment: to home.
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GKIDS A Film About Teens Finding Love Amid Climate Apocalypse
Makoto Shinkai’s bold and charming Weathering With You is set in a world ending so gradually, people barely notice it anymore.
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Orlando Ramirez / USA Today Sports The Astros’ Cheating Scandal Rewrites a Decade of Baseball History
Houston’s dominance once looked like the sport’s biggest success story. Now their whole legacy is in doubt.
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Netflix / The Atlantic Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix Show Is Painful to Watch
The streaming service has turned the star’s controversial e-commerce brand into a series. Soft-lit chaos ensues.
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Interscope Records / Aftermath Eminem Slips Into the Mind of the Las Vegas Shooter
The rapper’s “Darkness” video tries to fight gun violence while also glorifying it.
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AP Photo / Mark Lennihan Stephen King’s Comments About the Oscars Explain the Oscars
The author, who is an Academy Award voter, inadvertently captured why Hollywood’s biggest ceremony faces a diversity problem year after year.
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Lawrey / Shutterstock The Books Briefing: What’s White and Black and Read All Over?
The journalists who help us contextualize: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Universal Dolittle Is One of the Worst Movies in Years
The new film starring Robert Downey Jr. as a doctor who talks to animals is transfixing at times, if only because it’s such a disaster.
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Doug McLean The Frank Bidart Poem That Sums Up How Artists Innovate
In writing, originality doesn’t have to mean rejecting traditional forms.
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Troy Taormina / USA Today The Case Against Stripping the Astros of Their World Series Title
The MLB has handed harsh penalties to Houston for sign stealing, but revoking the team’s ill-gained 2017 championship is implausible.
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Victoria Will / Invision / AP The Filmmaker Who Says M. Night Shyamalan Stole Her Movie
A lawsuit filed by Francesca Gregorini argues that the Apple TV+ series Servant shares eerie similarities with her 2013 film, The Truth About Emanuel.
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Rafy / USA Network When Female Athletes Take the Spotlight on TV
Two dramas—Dare Me and Spinning Out—follow girls as they juggle their competitive ambitions and interpersonal relationships.
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A24 / Everett Collection The Problem With the Oscars’ Idea of a ‘Good Movie’
Every year, plenty of excellent films are excluded from the awards-season conversation for reasons that have nothing to do with talent or artistry. This year is no different.
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Agence Opale / Alamy A Conversation With Lauren Groff About Her Writing Process
“Often before I write a scene for the final time … I take a minute, close my eyes, and build the world of the scene around me.”
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Warner Bros. Breaking Down the 2020 Oscar Nominations
Todd Phillips’s Joker is the biggest contender in an Academy Awards race featuring a single actor of color and no female directors.
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HBO A Stephen King Adaptation That Doesn’t Believe in Monsters
The Outsider, HBO's new 10-part series about an inexplicable murder in a small Georgia town, misses the uncanny intrigue.
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Warner Bros. Just Mercy Is a Stark True Story of Good and Evil
The biopic draws power from its faithful retelling of a man’s wrongful conviction, but risks seeming more like a news summary than a narrative work.
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Neil Hall / Reuters The Books Briefing: First Exercise, Then Write
Health for the body, the mind, and the world: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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HBO / Comedy Central / Netflix / Paramount ... The Most Unmissable TV Shows of 2020
A new Star Trek series, an Awkwafina-led comedy, star-studded literary adaptations, and more picks to watch, stream, and DVR
