Lizzo loves herself, and learns to love somebody else, on the empowered yet tender Cuz I Love You

Weyes Blood ascends to new musical heights on the lush, cinematic Titanic Rising

LPX is the American Robyn, and her new EP proves she’s ready for pop stardom

Romeo and Juliet are reborn in Kenya in the vibrant lesbian romance Rafiki

Teen Spirit has plenty of it

Curse Of La Llorona is more parody than expansion of the Conjuring universe

Young Mozart composes kid-friendly comic strips around a musical icon

A graphic-novel adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale is a little too pretty

Hawkman captures the scope of DC Comics in one high-flying hero

Human and inhuman—and bad sex writing—come together in sci-fi head trip Dark Constellations

Class and power share a bed in Sally Rooney’s Normal People

How To Do Nothing is a rallying cry against the internet’s endless scroll

Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake is bold, confident, and unapologetically outdated

The new No More Heroes is a love letter to tons of great games you should play instead

Hitman 2’s big, living levels are machines for dark comedy

The deliciously nasty Vampyr feels like a game from another era

Far Cry 5’s nihilistic ending tries to take the rest of the game down with it

Ni No Kuni 2’s final hours bring a conventional ending to an unconventional RPG

With Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick shot a brilliant satire like a straight thriller

Fantastic Planet looks as strange today as it must have 40 years ago

Jean Renoir’s path to greatness began with La Chienne

Wyatt Cenac’s latest album finds the funny in world-weariness

Taylor Negron isn’t exactly himself on this posthumous collection

On Effable, Guy Branum imbues observational humor with personal pain