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  1. rocky start
    The Marvels’ Opening Weekend Isn’t Feline GreatIt might become the lowest opening-weekend box office for a Disney Marvel film.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  2. obits
    Piper Laurie, Star of Carrie and Twin Peaks, Dies at 91The actress earned three Oscar nominations across three decades.
    By Bethy Squires
  3. meow
    Annapurrrrna Is Making a Stray MovieIt’s being adopted by the same team that saved Nimona.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  4. fantastic
    Barbie Is Still a Personal Movie to Greta Gerwig“Oh, man, I didn’t hide anywhere.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  5. party report
    Judy Blume Would Rewrite It’s Me, Margaret’s Janie for Amari Price“To be recognized and accepted for my work, it felt great.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  6. at the club
    An Ode to John Wick’s Many Nightclub BrawlsThe whole world was John Wick’s dance floor, and what a delight to watch him bust a move (and some heads).
    By Roxana Hadadi
  7. sláy
    Lydia Tár on Being a Lesbian Icon: ‘I Don’t Know What It Means’Through her spokesperson, Cate Blanchett.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  8. backstories
    ‘Every Movie Is a Coming-of-Age Movie’: A Conversation About My Father’s DragonThe screenwriter and director of Cartoon Saloon’s latest, My Father’s Dragon, break down three pivotal scenes.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  9. close reads
    Holy Spider’s Ending Uncovers a Tangled Web of MisogynyHoly Spider is at its most precise and upsetting in the film’s final scene.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  10. remember that time
    When Lindsay Lohan Was the Best Part of a Paul Schrader MovieThe Canyons makes the case that Lohan possesses more self-awareness than we give her credit for, then or now.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  11. here kiri kiri
    In Praise of Sigourney Weaver’s Teen Angst in Avatar: The Way of WaterYou’re wild for this one, Jim!
    By Roxana Hadadi
  12. chat room
    Raúl Castillo on The Inspection’s Unexpected Gallows HumorEven his brother thought the A24 military drama was “really, really funny.”
    By Roxana Hadadi
  13. never been kissed
    What Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Needed Was a KissImagine having the chance to kiss Namor … and not doing it.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  14. merry christmas!
    Kendrick Sampson Picks Up Something From Tiffany’s for ChristmasInsecure’s Kendrick Sampson in a rom-com? Yes, please.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  15. lingering questions
    10 Unanswered Questions to Worry About After Seeing Don’t Worry DarlingWhat’s up with the dancing ladies? And the plane? What happens in Kiki Layne’s cut scenes? More important, where can I get Alice’s nail polish?
    By Roxana Hadadi
  16. movie review
    Something in the Dirt Gets Paranoid in Los AngelesDirectors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s latest feels more familiar than the duo’s other work, but its enthusiasm goes a long way.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  17. close read
    To Understand Athena, Watch The Battle of AlgiersWhat the films have to say about the long-lasting impact of colonial structures is as illuminating as it is rare.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  18. trailer mix
    Doctor Florence Pugh Will See You Now in The WonderPugh will star in a new period piece set in 1862 Ireland.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  19. whole lotta hamm
    Confess, Fletch Gets Jon Hamm’s Appeal Like Nothing Has Since Mad MenHamm’s willingness to directly engage in a thorough send-up of Don Draper makes Fletch goofier and, well, hammier.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  20. coming soon
    Hellraiser Looks Like a Terrifying Acupuncture SessionWho are you calling, Pinhead? (It’s Jamie Clayton.)
    By Alejandra Gularte
  21. the snuggly duckling
    The Internet Knows Best: They Want Keke Palmer As RapunzelBRB, making a reservation at the Snuggly Duckling.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  22. movie review
    What Hides in the Heart of SaloumSaloum burrows its way into your raw nerve endings, your clenched teeth, your jostled bones.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  23. close reads
    Baz Luhrmann’s Tortured ArtistsElvis makes a point about exploited artists that Luhrmann first approached in Moulin Rouge!
    By Roxana Hadadi
  24. bad boys
    Zoë Kravitz Wanted ‘Boy Next Door’ Channing Tatum to Play a Dark Character“It’s always really intriguing to have someone bring you something that literally no one else has ever thought of you for.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  25. found in translation
    The Historic Power of Prey Is in Your Ears“Finally, the light came on,” the film’s Comanche language expert says. Then came the hard part.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  26. endings
    Let’s Talk About the Body-Horror Ending of ResurrectionIts contracting ambiguity and literalness make for unexpected nightmare fuel.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  27. cut it out
    What’s Happening in the Deleted Scenes From Nope?Why were we denied Antlers Holst’s oversize-loungewear ’fit?
    By Roxana Hadadi
  28. movie review
    The (Literal) Stink of Corruption in Costa Brava, LebanonPart family drama, part political statement, Mounia Akl’s debut is wistful and uncompromising.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  29. close reads
    Natalie Portman Put on a Cape for This?Thor: Love and Thunder lets down Jane Foster, who never makes it past a catchphrase in her return to the MCU.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  30. movie review
    The Forgiven’s Toothless Indictment of White CrueltyThe satire, starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes, grasps for profundity but lands on insincerity.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  31. the baz of it all
    Counting the Baz-isms in Baz Luhrmann’s ElvisBaz Luhrmann can do many things, but he cannot do less — especially not in Elvis.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  32. no joke
    Director Todd Phillips Reveals That Joker Sequel Is on the WayYou know he had to deux it to ‘em.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  33. tonka about it
    Movie-Star Chimp Found Alive After Owner Fakes His DeathAnd Alan Cumming is “dancing a jig” over the good news.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  34. movie review
    Neptune Frost Smirks at the Narrowness of Western ThinkingSaul Williams’s Afrofuturist, anti-colonialist film is a mission statement by way of a musical.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  35. vulture investigates
    Where Is Manny Jacinto in Top Gun: Maverick?Does Tom Cruise hate Jake Jortles? An investigation.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  36. movie review
    The Comfortable Familiarity of The Bob’s Burgers MovieIf you accept the narrative’s rigidity and safety, The Bob’s Burgers Movie is a jubilant bit of distraction.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  37. close reads
    Let’s Unpack That Diabolical Incest Scene in The NorthmanA prince creates an unalterable image of his mother and takes it with him into her bedchamber — where she destroys it.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  38. mia
    Dylan O’Brien Tried to Make the Teen Wolf Revival WorkO’Brien chalked the move up to scheduling, while Arden Cho was reportedly offered “half the salary” of co-stars.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  39. my single is dropping
    Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi’s ‘Just Look Up’ Is AstronomicalReporting from Planet Yuh!
    By Alejandra Gularte
  40. movie review
    Mark Wahlberg’s Reincarnation Movie Infinite Needs a Few More Lifetimes of WorkSuch a high-concept action movie, so little imagination.
    By Alison Willmore
  41. film festival
    17 Films You Should See at This Year’s Tribeca FestivalFrom an Ilana Glazer pregnancy-horror movie to a biographical doc about Anthony Bourdain.
  42. movie review
    Undine Is a Perplexing Take on the Mermaid MythThe new film from the Phoenix director Christian Petzold is hard to shake off, even if it also never really comes together.
    By Alison Willmore
  43. movie review
    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Should Have Stuck to the Haunted HousesThe Patrick Wilson–Vera Farmiga horror franchise tries to depart from its previous format, with some seriously mixed results.
    By Alison Willmore
  44. movie review
    The Woman in the Window Is a Trashy Movie Trying to Be a Classy OneThe Amy Adams thriller would be better off embracing its true self.
    By Alison Willmore
  45. movie review
    Oxygen Feels Like Something the Netflix Algorithm Vomited UpIn that sense, it’s fine?
    By Alison Willmore
  46. movie review
    Fear Not, Here Today Is Not a Billy Crystal-Tiffany Haddish Romantic ComedyBut you get the feeling that Crystal kind of wanted it to be?
    By Alison Willmore
  47. movie review
    About Endlessness Gloriously Collages the Absurdity and Grandeur of the EverydayThe sixth feature from Swedish director Roy Andersson finds connections between armies marching in the snow and girls dancing to music from a café.
    By Alison Willmore
  48. movie review
    Without Remorse Is Also Without a Single Moment of ExcitementHow is this Michael B. Jordan action movie, which is headed to Amazon, so dreary?
    By Alison Willmore
  49. movie review
    Sesame Street Doc Street Gang Is About When TV Needed To Be Saved From ItselfThe documentary, which celebrates the formative years of the iconic kids’ show, is also a testament to the singular forces that allowed it to happen.
    By Alison Willmore
  50. movie review
    In the Earth Is a Slapdash Wilderness Horror Story for the Age of COVIDThe new horror film from Ben Wheatley, made quietly and quickly last year, evokes the pandemic but can’t figure out what to say about it.
    By Alison Willmore
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