Jason Bailey is a film critic and historian whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Vulture, the Playlist, Slate and Rolling Stone. He is the author, most recently, of "Gandolfini: Jim ...

It apparently doesn’t embarrass her, but it makes me cringe inside. I suppose I should have mentioned this a long, long time ago, but how would I even have gone about doing that? Or should I ...

Robinson didn't invent this kind of cringe comedy. One of the most sublime examples of the form traces back to Anton Chekhov's wordless short play, "The Sneeze," a proto-"SNL" skit about a man who ...

Certain moments in pop culture just haven’t aged well: Think of Friends having Courteney Cox don a fat suit to play “fat Monica,” or Aaliyah’s hit “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number ...

And it is sure to make many NFL and college football fans cringe. “According to people who have dealt with her directly, which is that she seems to be of the belief — as she carves up Bill ...

This feeling goes a long way toward explaining why “Friendship,” the new cringe-com starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, is often funny and always distressing. The feature debut of the writer ...