'If I Had Legs I’d Kick You' is 'Uncut Gems' for moms

Watching

• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Writer-director Mary Bronstein’s jagged black comedy is an expressive blurt of a movie, a nightmare vision fueled by all the things anxious moms don’t want to come out and say. Read more.

• Urchin. Harris Dickinson’s debut feature is a heartfelt and surprising drama about an addict named Mike, who, after punching and robbing a man who offers to help, emerges from prison on a tentative path to rehabilitation. Dickinson speaks to TIME here about the film.

• The Woman in Cabin 10. On her first night on board the Aurora Borealis, a luxury superyacht embarking on a weeklong maiden voyage across the North Sea, journalist Laura "Lo" Blacklock (Keira Knightley) witnesses the aftermath of a passenger being thrown overboard. We break down the ending of this whodunnit here.

Listening

• The Memory Palace. We tend to think about history through the lens of major events, notable names, and distinguishable causes and effects. But this podcast, created and produced by Nate DiMeo and part of the Radiotopia collective, puts a poetic wrinkle into that framework. Read more.

• Plain English With Derek Thompson. Former Atlantic writer Derek Thompson takes a multifaceted approach to understanding big problems, like preparing cities for climate catastrophe or the free fall of media, on this podcast. Read more.

• The Rewatchables. This podcast takes a closer look at those movies that we keep going back to, from the films you could reliably find on cable back in the 1980s and ‘90s to bona fide crowd-pleasers from yesterday. Read more.

Talking About

• Zach Bryan, one of the biggest stars in country music over the past few years, pushed back against rage from the right after he waded into the political moment with a lament of the fading American dream. Read more.

• Three recent movies make white male saviors the butt of the joke. Read about how (and why) One Battle After Another, Eddington, and The Mastermind give us protagonists that are complete idiots here.