At the end of Baby Boom, the 1987 film starring Diane Keaton as a career woman who suddenly becomes a mother after “inheriting” a baby, she stands before a board room full of the very men who decided ...

“She’s a runner, you a stone.” That’s a weird thing to say to Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Pat Calhoun, in One Battle After Another, given that the first time we see him in the film, he is in motion...

People have been quoting The Simpsons to me so often, and for so long, that even if I don’t recognize the quote, I am able to recognize that it’s from The Simpsons. When I do recognize the quote, it’s...

When I read that Robert Redford died on Tuesday, I did a double take. I didn’t realize he was 89, but even if he was, he had that air of immortality that attaches to all true movie stars. The double t...

There’s been this ongoing concern, I mean like in the air, for a while now, about people’s attention spans. I find it even creeping into my conversations. “Is this boring?” I’ll ask a few minutes into...

Would you be into watching a 100-minute I Think You Should Leave sketch? Because that’s basically what Friendship is—a Tim Robinson sketch stretched out way past its welcome. Robinson stars as Craig W...

Anything I say about “Magnetic,” the lead single off TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe’s first solo album, Thee Black Boltz, won’t live up to hearing it for the first time. Go listen to it. Bett...

I haven’t been as excited to see a movie as I was to see Drop in possibly years. I saw the trailer a couple of months ago at the beginning of some other movie I don’t remember, and this is how the tra...

In the modest new British detective series Ludwig, comedian David Mitchell—who you will likely know as uptight office drone Mark Corrigan from Jesse Armstrong’s very pre-Succession cult hit Peep Show—...

Sook-Yin Lee recreates the Toronto of her 20s in her adaptation of her ex-boyfriend Chester Brown's graphic novel Paying for It.

A week after Doug Ford (our provincial version of Trump, in every sense of the word) handily won the premiership of Ontario for a third time in a row, and within days of the announcement that some fuc...

The “black box” in the title of Shiori Itō’s documentary Black Box Diaries, in which the journalist investigates her own sexual assault, essentially refers to the excuse Japan gives for not properly i...

I was sleepwatching through the first two episodes of Severance. It’s not an easy show to get into. It’s sterile because it’s supposed to be—it’s a show about a biotech company called Lumon whose empl...

When I was a kid, like a lot of kids in the ‘80s, I had a View-Master. I had a few View-Masters, actually. You may have seen them before—they were these little red camera-looking things, with what loo...

When I was a kid, like a lot of kids in the ‘80s, I had a View-Master. I had a few View-Masters, actually. You may have seen them before—they were these little red camera-looking things, with what loo...

I hate to say it, but the biggest laugh in James Acaster’s new special, Hecklers Welcome, comes from a heckle. Obviously. The show opens with the British comic naming his house rules, which amount to ...

There’s something cathartic about a room full of strangers singing the words, “You don’t know the shape I’m in.” It’s not that the crowd wasn’t singing along to most every other song MJ Lenderman play...

There’s something cathartic about a room full of strangers singing the words, “You don’t know the shape I’m in.” It’s not that the crowd wasn’t singing along to most every other song MJ Lenderman play...

About halfway through my millionth encounter with Elephant, the fictional, Andrew Lloyd Webber-spoofing musical that features in the 1989 film The Tall Guy, I thought it might be one of the most perfe...

About halfway through my millionth encounter with Elephant, the fictional, Andrew Lloyd Webber-spoofing musical that features in the 1989 film The Tall Guy, I thought it might be one of the most perfe...

David Foster Wallace had a thing for boredom. He had such a thing for it that he turned it into a kind of last legacy. According to a lengthy (and pretty great) piece in The New Yorker by D.T. Max pub...

It seems like everyone in the world loves "Fetch the Bolt Cutters." So why don't I? On the isolation of disconnection.

Nightbitch is billed as a film about an overburdened stay-at-home mom who turns into a dog at night in order to free herself from her shackles. But it’s the night part rather than the bitch part that ...

Nightbitch is billed as a film about an overburdened stay-at-home mom who turns into a dog at night in order to free herself from her shackles. But it’s the night part rather than the bitch part that ...

I’m not sure Adam Sandler is capable of doing a bad set. Four decades into his career, I think he might be too much of a pro. Asking him to do stand-up badly would be like asking a master carpenter to...

I’m not sure Adam Sandler is capable of doing a bad set. Four decades into his career, I think he might be too much of a pro. Asking him to do stand-up badly would be like asking a master carpenter to...

It’s 26 years after the fact, but when I see Josh Hartnett now, I can’t not think of Josh Hartnett, around 20 years old, in his final scene of only his second feature film, The Faculty, Robert Rodrigu...

Would I die for Orville Peck? Seriously, would I die to hear Orville Peck yodel: “SEE-EE-EE-EE-EE-EE, see the boys as they walk on by.” Because I think I would. I think I would die for Orville Peck’s ...

I was really excited to see Twisters. Excessively excited. I was more excited to see Twisters than I was to see Twister almost three decades ago. That film came out in May 1996; Mission: Impossible ca...

I was really excited to see Twisters. Excessively excited. I was more excited to see Twisters than I was to see Twister almost three decades ago. That film came out in May 1996; Mission: Impossible ca...

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that in 1995 it was possible to land a so-called “micro-tight” budget of $6 million (in today’s money) to shoot a meandering movie in 35 days on location in Knoxvi...

I don’t know how music critics do this—I feel an immense impulse to just link to the song I’m about to talk about in order to save myself the anguish—but I am going to try to describe in mere words ho...

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah, that’s 10 yeahs. And, yeah, that’s how Challengers makes you feel. That song, the third on the film’s soundtrack, is scored entirely by Trent R...