SocietyPepsi’s ad was tone-deaf—and, since it came from Pepsi, logicalA much-mocked Kendall Jenner-helmed Pepsi ad has been pulled. But why were people expecting anything better from the brand?
TelevisionNirvanna The Band The Show: A Canadian comedy that’s actually funnyViceland’s ’Nirvanna the Band the Show’ dares to make you laugh without Canada’s typical nepotism or warmed-over gentle populism
MoviesWhy Paul Verhoeven’s ’rape comedy’ is more complicated than thatThe outrage around ’Elle’—the latest from the filmmaker behind ’Robocop’ and ’Basic Instinct’—masks the movie’s moral complexity
MoviesWarren Beatty’s worthy return to HollywoodHis new movie ’Rules Don’t Apply’—his first in 16 years—has pushed Warren Beatty out of reclusivity and back into our critic’s waiting arms
MoviesWhy ’Moonlight’ is fully deserving of its high-voltage buzzMoonlight is a meditative, colourful and entirely timely film
MoviesWith ’Mascots,’ Christopher Guest takes off the guiseMockumentary genius Christoper Guest is back, now on Netflix—walking the fine line between seriously funny, and funnily serious
MoviesThe Skyjacker’s Tale and its plane-hijacking antiheroAccused of a massacre, Ishmael Muslim Ali allegedly hijacked a plane to flee—but says he didn’t commit the crime
MoviesBlair Witch follows the original’s creepy footsteps back into the woodsCan the new ’Blair Witch’ possibly live up to the sheer terror of the pioneering ’Blair Witch Project’?
BooksAlan Moore’s Jerusalem is a failure—but perhaps the best kindOur review of the ambitious, mammoth work of fiction from ’Watchmen’ author Alan Moore
CultureNate Parker, rape allegations and The Birth of a NationA director who demands the redress of historical wrongs is forced to face his own past