Rolling Stone

Ariana Grande

Positions

The pop superstar's latest is full of horny R&B slow jams rooted in a desire to express real intimacy.

Bruce Springsteen

Letter to You

Recorded in just a few days with the E Street Band, this is one of the most personal statements of Springsteen's career

21 Savage and Metro Boomin

Savage Mode II

The duo recaptures the magic of the first 'Savage Mode' installment while paying tribute to their Southern rap influences.

Machine Gun Kelly

Tickets to My Downfall

Blink 182's Travis Barker helps the Cleveland rapper find a new punk sound

The Liberator

Netflix's rotoscope-animation miniseries brings a fresh approach to familiar material

City So Real

A five-part look at Chicago's 2018 mayoral election goes beyond the political — and gives you an insightful, exhilarating and absolutely vital portrait of a great American city and its people

The Undoing

Star-powered HBO miniseries from David E. Kelley feels like a 'Big Little Lies' retread, but duller

A Teacher

Based on a 2013 film of the same name, this Hulu series about the illicit relationship between a high school student and his SAT tutor flounders over 10 episodes

The Climb

Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin's cringe comedy about a toxic but enduring male friendship is hilarious and tragic all at once

Freaky

A horrorcentric take on a tried-and-true comic premise brings both scares and laughs, along with … a first-rate Vince Vaughn performance?

Mank

The director's black-and-white opus about the making of 'Citizen Kane' is a both love letter to cinema and a timely cautionary tale about power

Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance's story of growing up poor gets the prestige-drama treatment — and ends up as a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing