"Cat Person," the new film based on the short story by Kristen Roupenian, is reviving the discourse that took over the internet five years ago. The movie stars Nicholas Braun ("Succession"), and ...

A long, excruciating sex scene is at the heart of “Cat Person”, both Kristen Roupenian’s short story and a flawed new film adaptation. In his klutzy rush to take off his trousers ...

Deputy Entertainment Editor A tale like the one told in “Cat Person,” Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker short story, no longer feels remarkable. Its plainspoken account of a college girl ...

This screen adaptation trades the insidious discomfort of Kristen Roupenian’s story for heavy-handed metaphors and on-the-nose thrills. By Claire Shaffer When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Margot (CODA‘s Emilia Jones) is a college student working at her local art house theater to earn some income. She catches the eye of an older, taller customer named Robert (Succession‘s ...

In Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person, the film adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral short story of the same name, what was “terrifyingly ordinary” on the page (to use the well-chosen words of ...

When author Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” appeared in the New Yorker nearly six years ago, its compelling depiction of a sweet flirtation turned sour date between 20-year-old ...

For all of its (much-discussed) flaws, the 2017 New Yorker short story “Cat Person” got at something fundamental about sexual relationships between women and men: There’s an undercurrent of ...

As the Cat Person teaser illustrates, the film will take a bit more of an outlandish and horror-tinged perspective than its source material previously did. Roupenian’s short story recounted the ...

Cat Person opens with the Margaret Atwood quote, “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” This directly speaks to the dynamic that unfolds ...

R ight after I saw the new film adaptation of “Cat Person,” I dug up the issue of the New Yorker in which Kristen Roupenian’s short story first appeared. Although the cover date is only Dec ...