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Vulture Section Lede

  1. oscar futures
    Is This Finally Saoirse Ronan’s Year?She has two shots at a 2025 Oscar with her passion project The Outrun and her first maternal role in Blitz. One is a better bet than the other.
    By Nate Jones
  2. nyff 2024
    Blitz Is the Worst Movie Steve McQueen Has MadeBy any wider standard, that means that the World War II drama is still not bad at all.
    By Alison Willmore
  3. bumpin’ that
    Still Brat After All These MonthsIt’s okay to be annoying about Charli XCX’s massive year.
    By Craig Jenkins
  4. politics
    Why Trump Was on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant PodcastAnd why it might just help him win the election.
    By Jesse David Fox
  5. this v. that
    Which Brat Is More Brat?Comparing Charli XCX’s Brat remix album to the original, track by track.
    By Jason P. Frank
  6. that’s (not) entertainment
    Why Do a Joker Musical If You Don’t Want to Do a Joker Musical?Todd Phillips, a one-time purveyor of boys-will-be-boys frat comedies, can’t seem to embrace the flamboyance of the genre.
    By A.A. Dowd
  7. tv review
    Disclaimer Is a Flaccid, Pretentious SlogAlfonso Cuarón’s first episodic outing takes all the wrong lessons from prestige TV.
    By Nicholas Quah
  8. movie review
    The Lego Pharrell Movie Has a Lego Black Lives Matter SegmentSome thoughts on Piece by Piece and the dangers of committing to the bit.
    By Alison Willmore
  9. movie review
    The Apprentice Gets Dumber the Longer It Goes OnDirector Ali Abbasi’s portrait of a young Donald Trump never lives up to its strongest performance: Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  10. theater review
    Stage, Managed: A TV-Star-Driven Our TownKenny Leon’s production is gentle where it could bite.
    By Sara Holdren
  11. theater review
    Climate Hopefulness Faces the Fire in Deep HistoryDavid Finnigan’s play starts as lecture, then takes a turn.
    By Jackson McHenry
  12. genevieve who?
    New Survivor Kinda Freaked It With This EditSeason 47 just Usual Suspects–ed Lavo. It was awesome.
    By Joe Reid
  13. close read
    Politics Won’t Tear Love Is Blind ApartMarissa and Ramses’s conversation marks a watershed moment for the series — and reveals a truth about what makes or breaks the show’s relationships.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  14. backstory
    How a Rape Scene Blew Up the Trump Movie“Part of me is like, Sue us,” says the Apprentice director. “The other part is like, This can ruin my life.”
    By Chris Lee
  15. exit interview
    Natasha Rothwell Had to Do the How to Die Alone Cold Plunge Herself“I wasn’t acting. I have never been in a two-piece-underwear situation in public, let alone on national television.”
    By Ile-Ife Okantah
  16. superlatives
    Rick Wakeman on His Proudest and Most Baffling Music“People sometimes say prog rock’s too serious. No, it’s not!”
    By Jordan Hoffman
  17. theater review
    What’s In a Name? Surface and Substance In The Counter and Dirty LaundryMeghan Kennedy goes deep in a diner, and Mathilde Dratwa gets personal with grief.
    By Sara Holdren
  18. tv review
    Slow Horses Got the Chance to Get ComfortableWhen a series perfects its formula, even the weakest seasons feel like a triumph.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  19. finale thoughts
    Hugo Weaving’s Slow Horses Villain Knew He Was Asking Too Much“There’s humor in the fact he even makes the offer.”
    By Nicholas Quah
  20. race to the bottom
    Slow Horses Competence Index: Many Jobs Well DoneWell, this is awkward: In the season finale, Slough House’s finest rose to the occasion.
    By Brian Grubb
  21. single tear
    Coldplay’s Most Earnest Lyrics, RankedFrom the rabidly heartfelt to the disgustingly sincere.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  22. theater review
    Marla Mindelle Is Back, Ridiculously, in The Big Gay JamboreeQueen of the world!
    By Jackson McHenry
  23. this is trifficult
    Every Bluey Minisode, RankedSome are almost — almost — enough to make you forget you’re not watching Bluey proper.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  24. theater review
    In a Pair of Musicals, Gabriel Kahane Seeks America and HimselfHe performs ‘Magnificent Bird’ and ‘Book of Travelers’ on alternating nights.
    By Jackson McHenry
  25. brush strokes
    Enter the Gaping Maw of Animated TeethA collection of the form’s most striking onscreen dentition, from horrifically accurate to freakishly surreal.
    By Eric Vilas-Boas
  26. network notes
    Now That’s What I Call Network TVA promising slate of new dramas counters prestige fatigue with tried-and-true procedural appeal.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  27. oral fixation
    Drilling Into the Painful Cavities of Celebrity ToothTokDentists online have figured out that one way to go viral is by forensically explaining your favorite famous person’s teeth.
    By Emma Alpern
  28. investigation
    The Case of Jack Nicholson’s Missing Baby TeethIn 2001, an auction channel claimed it was going to sell them. Then the story disappeared — until now.
    By Chris Stanton
  29. vulture lists
    Cissy Houston Sang Backup on Your Favorite SongsYou know her work as intimately as you do the hits of her daughter Whitney.
    By Stephen Thomas Erlewine
  30. movies fantasy league
    We Are So BackTo quote Tashi Duncan: LET’S GOOOO.
    By Joe Reid
  31. behind the scenes
    My Favorite TeethTen behind-the-scenes creators on how some of film and TV’s scariest, silliest, and most iconic chompers came to be.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  32. master class
    Jim Carrey Is the World’s Greatest Teeth ActorThe actor possesses the unique ability to conjure an entire sense of a character just using the insides of his mouth.
    By Nicholas Quah
  33. as told to
    ‘When You Get Famous, Are You Gonna Fix Your Teeth?’Joel Kim Booster opens up about surviving in Hollywood without veneers.
    By Joel Kim Booster
  34. big spoon vs little spoon
    Culinary Class Wars Revolutionizes the Cooking ShowThe K-reality series smashes conventions of the genre and pokes holes in the distinction between fine dining and street food.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  35. theater review
    Hannah Gadsby Won’t Give You ClosureThe comedian’s new show, Woof!, offers a kaleidoscopic tour of their current state of mind but no pat takeaways.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  36. the industry
    The Diddy Discourse Has Lost the PlotAs conspiracy theories continue to spread, we have to stop pretending the story here is dark forces corrupting a few promising men each generation.
    By Craig Jenkins
  37. backstories
    How The Substance Created the Ultimate Body of HorrorsAnd turned Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley into one of the year’s best movie monsters.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  38. tv review
    The Franchise Isn’t Super Satire, But It Is a Fun HangVeep’s Armando Iannucci sends up superhero fatigue with a workplace comedy that thrives when it’s not succumbing to cynicism.
    By Jackson McHenry
  39. movie review
    Will the Year’s Most Powerful Documentary Ever Make It to Theaters?No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won awards and acclaim. But no one in the U.S. wants to distribute it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  40. endings
    Penelope’s Cliffhanger Undermines Its Quiet AmbitionsThis rare piece of indie television says so much with so little — until its final moment.
    By Nicholas Quah
  41. movie review
    Joker: Folie à Deux Commits the Mortal Sin of Wasting Lady GagaI mean, what are we even doing here?
    By Alison Willmore
  42. close read
    Ryan Murphy Doesn’t Understand How True Crime Has ChangedNetflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is the latest example of Ryan Murphy’s dated tropes.
    By Alessa Dominguez
  43. a great debate
    Megalopolis Can Only Imagine Genius As a BrandFrancis Ford Coppola’s passion project about a visionary architect is a banal paean to stale ideas about great men.
    By Alison Willmore
  44. sexy death boat
    JOSHUA JACKSON, DON JOHNSON
    Every Sea-mergency on Doctor Odyssey“Singles Week” brings STDs and broken hearts aplenty.
    By Rebecca Alter
  45. this week in late night
    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Compassion Won Late Night This WeekPlus wig work on WWHL and Roy Wood Jr. standing up on his new show.
    By Bethy Squires
  46. scene report
    NYC’s Newest Music Festival Was a Gay DreamAll Things Go brought young queer fans in front of many of their idols (just not Chappell Roan).
    By Rebecca Alter
  47. theater review
    Is the Safety Not Guaranteed Musical What You Wish For?Guster’s singer-songwriter Ryan Miller tries his hand at musical theater.
    By Sara Holdren
  48. oscar futures
    Bring on the Oscars ChaosThe 2025 Academy Awards race will be the most wide-open movie season in years. I can’t wait.
    By Nate Jones
  49. finale thoughts
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    Charlie Vickers Was ‘Trying Not to Flinch’ in Rings FinaleTo invoke Tolkein’s “representation of evil,” the Sauron actor looked to Hannibal Lecter, Walter White, and … Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
    By Sean T. Collins
  50. conspiracy theories
    The Secret History of the Mad Men Lawn-Mower SceneIt was cruel, it was shocking, and it ended with fan interpretations not even the filmmakers could have anticipated.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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