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Is somebody gonna match my freak? It’s the question that’s been on everyone’s mind since R&B singer Tinashe posed it in her song “Nasty,” which has gone viral since its release in April. While we’re all just trying to find someone who will, in fact, match our nasty, it’s not just the relatability of Tinashe’s lyrics that has found “Nasty” such a large audience.

The internet is brimming with movie lists and best-ofs, templates that aim to impose some sense of order on a sprawling, more-than-100-year-old popular art form. These lists, even when they’re compiled by more than one person, are subjective, and that’s a good thing. There are enough values in this world determined by algorithm; let’s preserve discriminate human thought for as long as we can. When it comes to lists of the sexiest movies ever made, subjectivity takes on yet another shade of meaning.

The Garfield Movie, in theaters May 24, offers a healthy dose of body pawsitivity in a sprawling story about how an orange tabby named Garfield became America’s most famous fat lazy cat. The film starts with Garfield (Chris Pratt) on his smartphone, ordering his beloved lasagna to be delivered via drone.

“You did not tell me how sexy it is to be pregnant,” Ilana Glazer’s character Eden, a free-spirited yoga teacher and single expectant mother, tells her best friend Dawn (played by Michelle Buteau) before getting hot and bothered over a grocery haul of phallic vegetables and a surprisingly erotic pack of chicken breasts in the new comedy Babes.

Warning: This story includes light spoilers for the first six episodes of Frankly Speaking. Frankly Speaking’s most juvenile moment is also, somehow, its most charming. Netflix’s South Korean comedy splits its first episode on either side of an egregiously long fart joke, when JBC announcer Song Ki-baek (Ko Kyoung-pyo) becomes trapped in an elevator with variety writer On Woo-joo (Kang Han-na) and his own unsettled stomach.

(NEW YORK) — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous work skewered American food and diets and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Spurlock died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer, according to a statement issued Friday by his family. “It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan,” Craig Spurlock, who worked with him on several projects, said in the statement.