5 Things to Do This Weekend

Demi Moore plays an actress who goes to extreme lengths to cling to youth in Coralie Fargeat's dark comedy, "The Substance."

Here's more on that film and other entertainment highlights this weekend →

A "very gory and often bombastic" meditation on our warped beauty standards, "The Substance" is "appropriately enough, a mirror, and our discomfort reveals our own hidden biases and fears about ourselves," Alissa Wilkinson writes. The film is in theaters today.

"You wanted to look at him under a microscope and understand, who is that guy?" Matt Reeves, the director of 2022's "The Batman," says of Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobb, a.k.a. the Penguin. Farrell returns to that role, and Reeves's Gotham, in "The Penguin," the first episode of which is now streaming on Max.

"Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies," an "exhilarating retrospective" of the artist and activist, focuses "without euphemism on her mission as she understood it," our critic writes. The show is at the Brooklyn Museum through Jan. 19.

"I don't think it's hidden gems. It's more like telling the story in a different way. It's a narrative thing," Galaxie 500's drummer Damon Krukowski says of the music that the band put together for "Uncollected Noise New York: '88-'90." Featuring eight previously unreleased tracks, the album is out today.

For David Cross and Super Pals, the comedian, perhaps best known from "Arrested Development," has gathered friends such as Ilana Glazer and Jason Sudeikis to close out the summer with a night of laughs. The show, in Central Park on Friday, is among our picks for entertainment in New York City.

Read our weekend roundup for more things to do in New York, or go to the Arts home page for the stories mentioned here and more.

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