This week’s question comes from The A.V. Club’s online culture editor, Clayton Purdom:

“There are douches and there are scumbags and then there’s Dirty John Meehan. The eponymous greaseball of Wondery’s hit six-episode true-crime series is remarkably devoid of any redeeming qualities as he meanders through a lifetime of crime and manipulation, nursing both drug addiction and relentless grudges against…

Charlotte Gainsbourg takes full creative control on Rest; the late Sharon Jones takes one final encore on Soul Of A Woman; and OCS reverts to its lush, reflective roots on Memory Of A Cut Off Head. These, plus The Body & Full Of Hell, Mavis Staples, and Kamaiyah in this week’s notable releases.

As 2017 winds to a close, after a year that’s seen the release of thousands of albums—an unusually large number of which are quite good!—it seems almost unthinkable that November would still have more to give. But with new records from the likes of Björk, Angel Olsen, Shamir, Sharon Jones, and more still in the…

Sunday is the final day of Cannes, but for yours truly, the festival ends in a couple hours, with a flight from Nice to New York. It’s been a great time: a blur of movies, hastily consumed lunches, leisurely consumed late-night dinners, long and scenic walks into town (and back), feverish debates while standing in…

On the evidence of their worldwide smash The Intouchables, as well as their latest comedy-drama Samba, writer-directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano specialize in well-intentioned, crowd-pleasing bullshit. The Intouchables was about a wealthy white quadriplegic learning to love life again with the assistance of…

After breaking into the international scene with his role in The Intouchables, French actor Omar Sy has been splitting his time between films both big (Jurassic World, X-Men: Days Of Future Past) and small (Mood Indigo, Good People). Now Sy returns to the directors who gave him his big break with Samba, the story of a…

Because after making four movies with Lars von Trier, an alien invasion should be positively relaxing, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Charlotte Gainsbourg is in talks for a role in Roland Emmerich’s blockbuster sequel Independence Day 2. Gainsbourg will star opposite Liam Hemsworth, Survivor’s Remorse star…

The ancient gods would have loved Benoît Jacquot’s 3 Hearts, a romance that’s all fate and no free will, with characters who are mere pawns in this hopeless game called life and nothing more than slaves to the universe’s cruel timing. Hyperbolic? Perhaps, but Jacquot’s follow-up to the coyly closeted costume drama …

The grade above is a lie—or, at the very least, a wild estimation. How, after all, can one properly evaluate an incomplete movie? Nymphomaniac, Lars Von Trier’s new marathon-length odyssey, arrives in worldwide theaters by way of  two separate installments, released in the States a few weeks apart. There was never…