In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson—about the year in cinema.

The movie feels like a cliché, almost deliberately so, for its first two-thirds before unveiling a completely wild twist that is just audacious enough to almost make you forget the ordinariness ...

TL;DR: Through Dec. 22, you can upgrade to Windows 11 Pro for $17.97 instead of $199 — that’s a 90% discount. Is your PC still running on Windows 10? You probably got that notification that ...