Dana Stevens

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Dana Stevens |Julia Turner |Stephen Metcalf

This week, the panel digs into the Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick noir-comedy Another Simple Favor, the new ballet series Étoile, and the surprise selection of the first American pope. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a valid phone number.

4 weeks ago | slate.com | Dana Stevens

Tim Robinson, the cult sketch comedian who makes his debut as a big-screen leading man in the new buddy comedy Friendship, has a comic persona different from that of any other funny dude currently working. Like Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David, Robinson traffics in a version of cringe comedy, but that long-established subgenre is now capacious enough to include more than one kind of taboo-breaking social misfit.

1 month ago | slate.com | Dana Stevens |Julia Turner |Stephen Metcalf

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1 month ago | slate.com | Dana Stevens

Movies This review contains spoilers for Another Simple Favor. The 2018 hit A Simple Favor had a storyline to match its title: Based on a bestselling novel by Darcey Bell, it was a snarky, snappy thriller that, for all its apparent plot convolutions, ultimately turned on that most basic of soap-opera twists—the secret identical twin.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Dana Stevens

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysThis review contains spoilers for Another Simple Favor.