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Back to Black is the worst of bad musical biopics

By Kyndall Cunningham

Challengers is the best thing that could happen to polyamory

By Alex Abad-Santos

The Idea of You — and the idea of age gaps

By Constance Grady

Challengers forces us to ask: Is tennis sexy?

By Alex Abad-Santos and Kyndall Cunningham

“Civil War” has little to say about America — but a lot to say about war

By Zack Beauchamp

X-Men ’97 is Marvel’s best argument for an X-Men animated feature

By Alex Abad-Santos

Oppenheimer won Best Picture. Its new reception in Japan was very different.

By Li Zhou

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7 winners and 0 losers from the surprisingly delightful 2024 Oscars

By Aja Romano, Alex Abad-Santos, and 4 more

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The profound weirdness of Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar win — and the category he won

By Constance Grady

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No one wants an Oscar as badly as Bradley Cooper

By Alex Abad-Santos

Giant worms, dour nuns, and Timothée Chalamet: The world of Dune, briefly explained

By Patrick Reis and Caroline Houck

Dune: Part 2 explained, for someone who has no idea what Dune is

By Alex Abad-Santos and Patrick Reis

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Your guide to the 2024 Oscars

Everything you need to know about this year’s Academy Awards.

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Why all the internet’s boyfriends are Irish

By Kyndall Cunningham

This Is Me… Now is the most J. Lo thing J. Lo’s ever done

By Kyndall Cunningham

Dakota Johnson’s aloof appeal, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos
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The evolution of the movie backdrop

By Edward Vega

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Does Barbie need all the Oscars for feminism?

By Alex Abad-Santos

How the internet built a conspiracy theory around a new spy flick, a debut novel, and Taylor Swift

By Constance Grady

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4 winners and 3 losers from this year’s Oscar nominations

By Aja Romano, Constance Grady, and 2 more

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It’s a movie! Now it’s a musical! Now it’s a movie musical!

By Esther Zuckerman

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Taraji P. Henson’s salary issues point to a larger problem in Hollywood

By Fabiola Cineas

Want to understand American views on Israel? Take a look at this 1958 novel.

By Marjorie Ingall

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The lasting impact of The Color Purple 

By Nylah Iqbal Muhammad

Ferrari is an ode to dudes who love cars, from one of their own

By Renan Borelli

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The movies to watch for this fall

By Alissa Wilkinson

It was a great year for movie sex scenes, despite the discourse

By Esther Zuckerman

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Poor Things stars Emma Stone as a horny Frankenstein’s monster coming of age

By Constance Grady

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In American Fiction, a Black writer who “doesn’t see race” pens a race novel

By Constance Grady

The 10 most read Future Perfect stories of 2023

By Bryan Walsh

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This year’s “great man” biopics have a couple of things in common

By Esther Zuckerman

What does Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’s credits scene say about the future of the DCU?

By Alex Abad-Santos

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When is a nose just a nose? A brief history of non-Jews playing Jews onscreen.

By Marjorie Ingall
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What all Christmas movies have in common

By Edward Vega

Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney’s chemistry can’t save Anyone But You

By Alex Abad-Santos

The year of Ozempic bodies and Barbie Botox

By Constance Grady

Why are Christmas movies all about kissing? A theory.

By Meredith Haggerty

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The year’s scariest horror film is The Zone of Interest

By Alissa Wilkinson

What Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka has in common with Paddington Bear

By Esther Zuckerman

The best Christmas rom-com is actually Batman Returns

By Alex Abad-Santos

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