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Brad Barket / Invision / AP Louis C.K. and the Men Who Keep Getting What They Want
The #MeToo comebacks are coming. And they’re revolving, once again, around the desires of those who needed to negotiate the returns in the first place.
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Julie Jacobson / Reuters If You Watch Nothing Else of Who Is America?, Watch the Segment With O.J. Simpson
The finale of the Sacha Baron Cohen series mingled slaughter and laughter to horrific—and revealing—effect.
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MGM James Bond’s Murky Future
A planned 25th film about the British secret agent, starring Daniel Craig, is stuck in limbo. But beyond the production issues are deeper problems that come with constantly rebooting the character.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Complicated Female Genius of Lauryn Hill
Twenty years after the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the artist has been granted something rarely afforded to women: the space to make mistakes—and still be considered great.
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Getty / Thanh Do / The Atlantic Aretha Franklin Finally Gets Credit for the Term She Popularized
Not only did the Queen of Soul change the course of music with her smash hit “Respect,” she also introduced a now-ubiquitous slang word into the American lexicon.
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HBO In Sharp Objects, Love Is Poison
The finale to the HBO series revealed its villains, and how corrupted they’d become.
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Kristian Buus / Getty Viv Albertine’s Got Something to Say
For her second memoir, the irreverent punk icon mixes a bit of vulnerability with a lot of grit.
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Sony / Screen Gems Searching Is a Fiendishly Clever Online Thriller
John Cho stars as a father looking for his missing daughter in a drama that plays out entirely on computer screens.
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Warner Bros. Hollywood Can’t Ignore the Success of Crazy Rich Asians
The film has passed $50 million within its first nine days of release, already sparking talk of a sequel. But producers should look beyond one potential new franchise.
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Doug McLean The Powerful Practice of Writing by Hand
The author Laura van den Berg on what inspired her newest novel, The Third Hotel, and how she accesses the part of the mind that fiction comes from
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Netflix The Innocents Is the Most Netflixy Drama Yet
The new eight-part supernatural series about teenagers on the run feels like a weaker mishmash of other streaming hits.
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Magnolia Pictures Support the Girls Is Breezy, Bracing, and Brilliant
Andrew Bujalski’s clever and funny new film follows a day in the life of the staff at a Hooters-like restaurant.
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Sanja Bucko / Warner Bros. One Way That Crazy Rich Asians Is a Step Backward
Despite its groundbreaking nature, the film also takes care to represent its characters according to white norms.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Ariana Grande’s Weird Take on Love
The singer’s new album Sweetener semi-successfully upends pop’s usual approach to scale and tension.
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Nichole Washington How the ’90s Kinda World of Living Single Lives on Today
Twenty-five years after its premiere, the cast and crew of Yvette Lee Bowser’s iconic ensemble sitcom talk about the show’s classic characters, memorable looks, and impact on how Hollywood tells black stories.
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OWN The Revolutionary Power of Pies in Queen Sugar
Season 3 has offered a compelling portrait of a middle-aged, African American woman chasing her dreams of entrepreneurship. The result is the kind of story that exists nowhere else on TV.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Asia Argento, #MeToo, and the Complicated Question of Power
The actress, who accused Harvey Weinstein of rape, reportedly settled claims with her own accuser. Her response to the allegations drew from a familiar playbook.
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MTV Films / Courtesy Everett Collection How Better Luck Tomorrow Argued for Its Existence, 15 Years Ago
Justin Lin’s indie about a group of bad teenagers in suburbia hit theaters in 2003, complicating the question of Asian American representation in Hollywood in ways that still resonate deeply today.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Madonna’s Tone-Deaf Tribute to Aretha Franklin
At the MTV VMAs, the big memorial for the Queen of Soul came in the form of lengthy self-mythologizing by the Queen of Pop.
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Warner Bros. / The Atlantic Which Crazy Rich Asians Scenes Were Most Memorable?
Four Atlantic staffers discuss the film’s particular power, and the movie moments they’re still thinking about.
