Jerrod Carmichael’s surreal new HBO docuseries Reality Show puts all his relationships to the test. He’s still living with the aftermath.By Matthew Jacobs
stand-upNo One Ends a Comedy Show Like Tig Notaro In her specials and albums, the stand-up constantly pushes the boundaries of what audiences might expect from a closing joke.By Hershal Pandya
countdownEvery Beyoncé Album, Ranked Her catalogue is filled with confidence, curveballs, and the occasional cliché.By Matthew Ismael Ruiz
movie reviewDid We Really Need Kaiju to Get All Cute?Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire doesn’t deliver the giant-monster goods, but it does make its creatures disconcertingly adorable.By Alison Willmore
one loveThe Flattening of Bob Marley’s Radicalism The biopic One Love continues a long tradition of downplaying the late reggae star’s lifelong commitment to the liberation of Black people.By Lawrence Burney
the action editionPicking His Fights The twists and turns of Jake Gyllenhaal’s unlikely, unsettling action career have brought him to Road House.By Bilge Ebiri
in conversationTodd Haynes Plays the Superego The director is interested in people constrained by society’s rules. In his new film May December, he makes it harder to root for the rule-breakers.By Madeline Leung Coleman
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the industryRomeo and Juliet Was a Tragedy In 1968, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were the most famous teenagers in the world. Fifty-five years later, they sued Paramount for child abuse.By Lila Shapiro
screen timeThe Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes The most overrated metric in entertainment is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip.By Lane Brown