“Starburned and Unkissed,” Polachek’s song for the I Saw the TV Glow soundtrack, was inspired by Kurt Cobain and “temporary celibacy.”By Rachel Handler
This year’s song-of-summer bracket promises bops and bangers of all types, fit for many situations. Here, a guide to maximizing the current deluge.By Fran Hoepfner
How Do You Know When the World Is Over?Beneath the modest surfaces of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist runs an undercurrent of personal and ecological apocalypse.
Jane Schoenbrun Saw the TV GlowThe We’re All Going to the World’s Fair director is back at Sundance with a haunting new film about the thin line between fiction and reality.
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