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Watching

• Weapons. This sophomore film from Barbarian director Zach Cregger opens amid the fallout of an awful mass disappearance. Cregger deliberately opens his audience’s eyes over the movie’s two hours, allowing them an omniscient view of events unfolding as individual characters experience the plot like gameshow contestants sticking their hands into the same mystery box. Read more.

• Butterfly. This tense spy thriller follows David Jung (Daniel Dae Kim), a mysterious and unpredictable former U.S. intelligence operative living in South Korea. We break down the ending here.

• Smoke. Creator Dennis Lehane always envisioned a climax that erupted on every level. "It's such a cliché, but I wanted to have an explosive finale," he tells TIME. We explain the finale here.

Listening

• The Life of a Showgirl. Taylor Swift announced her 12th original studio album, opening preorders but keeping many other details to be revealed two days later during an appearance on the podcast “New Heights,” hosted by her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and his brother. Read more.

• Classy. As the class wars and culture wars collide, this podcast offers valuable insight into how climbing up and falling down the socioeconomic ladder can transform our worldviews. Read more and see TIME’s full list of the top 100 podcasts of all time here.

• Zoé Clauzure. For someone whose latest single is titled “Invisible,” Zoé Clauzure, 15, is anything but. Read more about Clauzure, who is one of TIME’s Girls of the Year, here.

Talking About

• “When the best ignored Sex and the City 2 movie is more radically open about menopause than a TV series made over a decade later, then you know you’ve got a serious problem.” Scarlett Harris writes on how And Just Like That gave us nothing.

• There’s another show that needs to end: The Valley. TIME critic Judy Berman says that this reality show “has become genuinely painful to watch.”

• In his first turn as the chief of the Kennedy Center, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he would honor Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, Kiss, Michael Crawford, and Sylvester Stallone for the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors. It’s another example of Trump putting his thumb on the scale of American culture and tossing it back to yesteryear. Read here.