Plot spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution. One minor scene in A Star Is Born is also referenced below.

In order for A Simple Favor to hook us, it had to be in on the joke, which lies in its very premise: just say the words “mommy blogger mystery thriller” and try to avoid a laugh. Paul Feig’s movie adaptation of Darcey Bell’s novel of the same name does succeed in selling its inherent madness, and that’s largely to the…

What counts as “humanizing a Nazi?” It’s a question that will be debated quite a bit as director Amma Asante’s new film Where Hands Touch continues its press tour in the coming weeks (it hits theaters September 14), and it’s one worth asking and answering in good faith, considering the recent resurgence of Neo-Nazi…

Cynthia Nixon: New York gubernatorial candidate, actor, internet troll for justice, and purveyor of questionable taste in bagels.

What if Fred Rogers wrestled with grief and rage when he wasn’t calmly charming millions of children on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood? What if Michel Gondry, the mastermind of brain-twisting music videos from the likes of Björk and Daft Punk and director of one of the best movies of this millennium, Eternal Sunshine of the…

Good banter is a rom-com’s secret sauce. Whether it’s the dueling politics of Kathleen and Frank in You’ve Got Mail, the bickering of Harry and Sally, or the mind-games of movies like 10 Things I Hate About You and How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days, rom-coms thrive when they play with a lightly masochistic fantasy best not…

Lately, critics and the people who make movies have argued that we’re on the verge of a romcom revival, which happens to be right on time. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a romantic comedy I really loved. The genre is well-worn, frequently dull, occasionally sexist, and it’s a lot easier to screw up a romcom than to…

The theater on opening night for Crazy Rich Asians—John Chu’s glittering, tacky, and ultimately satisfying homage to romantic love and money—was full of Asian people, all of whom cheered, whooped, hollered, and audibly awwww-ed for the entire two hours. It was an experience that felt interactive—the first romcom that…

A third of the way into Be the Cowboy, over the upbeat strum of an acoustic guitar, Mitski relays a sober realization to a lover. “Nobody butters me up like you,” she sings. “And nobody fucks me like... me.”

Four years ago, Nicki Minaj shook the rap world so thoroughly, her haters never got over it. She spoke of her future with clarity and precision—plans to have a child and get married. She told a true story of heartbreak and falling in love—a story that even now continues to haunt her, as she spends her current album…

When Sony Pictures announced that a movie based on Slender Man—a piece of Internet folklore circulated online around 2009—people were worried it was a shameless attempt to capitalize on the recent attempted murder trial in which two 12-year-old girls stabbed a classmate to impress the fictional creature. The film is …

Long before Insatiable, Netflix’s latest original teen dark comedy, premiered on August 10, it was met with premature waves of criticism. Within five days of its trailer hitting YouTube, a Change.org petition called for its cancellation—the show’s apparent fat-shaming rhetoric made it prime bait for judgment. While…

Narcissism is delicious—so suggests Jon Turteltaub’s giant-shark flick The Meg. How else to make sense of the strange behavior of its featured creature, an 80-foot prehistoric shark that’s capable of polishing off a humpback whale in a few bites, but instead focuses most of its time picking off humans and comes up…

“A cyst poot is sometimes when you remove contents from the skin and the skin is a little bit floppy—it can make noises,” Dr. Pimple Popper informs us this week. “And so, yes, sometimes you get cyst poots.” Cue the “The More You Know” bumper...

From the first season on, Orange Is the New Black relished in turning viewer expectations on their heads. What started as a show about a privileged white woman named Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) feeling her way through a minimum security prison became multilayered and complex as the seasons progressed, taking a…

It is with a heavy heart that I share the following news: Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth entry in the Mission: Impossible film series that was released last week to critical acclaim and ravenous audiences, is not only the best installment of the now 22-year-old franchise, but the best movie ever made.

Last week’s episode of Dr. Pimple Popper nearly broke us, but this week’s episode felt...tame, somehow, in comparison. Perhaps it’s because of the lack of fluids that resemble soft cheese—or maybe it’s because our constitutions, stomachs, and hearts are growing ever stronger.

Did we really need a sequel to 2008’s Mamma Mia!, the frothy movie based on an even frothier musical, which itself was conceived as a tribute to the 1970s Swedish mega-pop group ABBA? Regardless of the answer to that question, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again landed in theaters on July 20. Jezebel writers Esther Wang and…

For three years, UnREAL—the Lifetime drama that sought to illustrate how the Bachelor franchise sausage is made through a meta-fictitious reality TV show titled Everlasting—made television for those who seek to suspend reality without participating in the fantasy. The same could be said for the unsustainable fairytale…

Since we didn’t dry up and die like a popped lipoma after watching the first episode of TLC’s deliriously gross new series Dr. Pimple Popper, we’re back to chat about what the hell is going on in episode 2 and what it’s doing to our constitutions. Join us if you dare.