When Dr. Pimple Popper Encounters the Biggest Cyst and Milia She's Ever Seen, We Encounter Hell
Since we didn’t dry up and die like a popped lipoma after watching the first episode of TLC’s deliriously gross new…
I Cried During Skyscraper
It was about 50 minutes into Skyscraper—after approximately four explosions, two knife fights, five gun battles, and…
Sharp Objects Dissects Our Morbid Desire for Stories About Dead Girls
“I’m going out to join the search party now,” St. Louis crime reporter Camille Preaker nearly whispers to her editor in…
The New Whitney Houston Documentary Is Painfully Bleak
“You want our blood, but you don’t want our pain,” is how Whitney Houston assessed the public’s interest in superstars…
Obsessing Over the Quiet Charm of Terrace House
The chaos of reality TV is an addiction so comfortable, so absolute that anything less tends to feel abnormal. The…
Blue the Raptor Is This Weekend's Queen of Pop Culture
First, a word on my bias: I consider watching the neck-first lurch of a T-Rex with the smell of popcorn filling my nose…
Incredibles 2 Is an Animated Film for the Empowerment Generation
Fourteen years ago, Disney/Pixar released its superhero centerpiece The Incredibles, an animated film about a…
Tag, a Movie About Grown Men Playing Tag, Isn't Absurd Enough to Be Funny
The popular children’s game Tag—where kids run around getting “tagged” until one survivor remains—does nothing more…
Christina Aguilera's Confused Stab at Liberation
After Beyoncé and Jay-Z beyoncéd their joyous joint album Everything Is Love Saturday evening, the memes turned to…
'It's by a Blogger': Jezebel's 10 Reviews Ocean's 8
Because we are women and therefore simple creatures who are easily enticed by a movie with a cast of all women, the…
Alex Strangelove's Pedestrian Lust
“Can someone please explain modern high school boys to me?” asks Claire (Madeline Weinstein), the long-suffering…
Ocean’s 8 Is Too Easy, Too Perfect, and Too Hard to Root For
When Sandra Bullock’s character, Debbie Ocean, gets out of prison in the new Ocean’s 8 movie, her hair looks great.…
'It Feels Like 2008': A Conversation About AMC's Exhausting New Series Dietland
After watching three screener episodes of AMC’s Dietland, which premiered on Monday June 4, two Jezebel staffers…
13 Reasons Why Season 2 Still Exploits the Teen Audience It Aims to Support
Disclaimer: This blog has major spoilers.
The New Picnic at Hanging Rock Is Weirder, Wilder, and Way Hornier
It is extremely gutsy to take on an adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock when there is already…
Life of the Party Proves a Mid-Life Crisis Can Be Fun and Stupid as Hell
Forgive me, self-assigned arbiters of taste, but I’m about to lay one on you: Life of the Party, for all it’s…
After Watching the Latest Little Women Adaptation, I Think I'm a Marmee Now
One of the weirder aspects of becoming a parent is reencountering a staple of your own childhood from your new vantage…
In Ali Wong's Hard Knock Wife Special, Motherhood Is a Queef-Filled Adventure
In Ali Wong’s latest stand-up special Hard Knock Wife, she tells the audience near the top of the show: “I’ve been…
Tully Is a Mind-Fuck That Bucks the Tradition of Nanny Films
In the role of an expectant mother named Marlo in Tully—Diablo Cody’s latest film—Charlize Theron fully inhabits the…
Arctic Monkeys' Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Is Their Most Divisive Album Yet
Arctic Monkeys have long been consistent. Not with their musical style, which morphs with every album, nor their…
