Sabrina Carpenter has been accused of ‘marketing’ herself using problematic Lolita references, so we discuss in light of her new Netflix Christmas special A Nonsense Christmas. Plus, Keira Knightley is back on our screens with the highly entertaining spy thriller Black Doves, but will the media be kinder to her this time? Also, ‘brain rot’ is the word of the year, to which we hard relate, and Amy Adams’s new motherhood horror film, Nightbitch, has left us reeling.

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Recs:

• Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore, Siân Boyle, Guardian

• Black Doves, Netflix

• Black Doves review – Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw’s gleefully pulpy Christmas gift, Guardian

• In ‘Black Doves,’ Keira Knightley is a mother and an assassin, LA Times

• Keira Knightley: 'Turning 40? It looks rather great', the Times

• A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter, Netflix

• Your fave is selling a pedophilic fantasy, Jade Hurley on Substack

• She was a child influencer. Her fans were grown men, New York Times
• Nightbitch, in cinemas now
• Amy Adams and Marielle Heller on toddlers, incontinence and Nightbitch, the Guardian