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Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ credits scene teases a future that might never come

By Alex Abad-Santos March 16

Scream’s lasting legacy is its final girls

By Alex Abad-Santos March 14

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Why Everything Everywhere All at Once won ... everything

By Alissa Wilkinson March 13

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

One year later, Chris Rock addresses the Will Smith Oscars slap

By Constance Grady March 7

The biting, witty melancholy of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn

By Constance Grady March 7

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The surprising lesson from a century of Oscar scandals

By Alissa Wilkinson March 1

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

What’s the future of Black horror?

By Alissa Wilkinson February 28

The shadowy puzzle-box pleasures of Chinese spy thriller Hidden Blade

By Aja Romano February 28

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

This is the most populist Oscars in a long time

By Alissa Wilkinson February 25

Marvel is in a rut

By Alex Abad-Santos February 24

What really happens if a bear does cocaine, explained by an ursinologist

By Alex Abad-Santos February 22

Quantumania’s post-credits scene gives us Marvel’s next big bad

By Alex Abad-Santos February 16

The best movie you didn’t see last year is finally out

By Alissa Wilkinson February 15

What Magic Mike’s Last Dance gets right (and wrong) about female desire

By Meredith Haggerty February 10

The case for better-seats-cost-more movie tickets

By Peter Kafka February 10

Breaking down Pathaan, the most popular movie in the world

By Swati Sharma February 10

Why Pamela, a Love Story works where Pam and Tommy failed

By Constance Grady February 5

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Why we loved Everything Everywhere All at Once — and why we hope it wins the Oscar

By Alissa Wilkinson, Aja Romano, and 2 more February 4

How Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin rewrote the book’s ending for a big twist

By Alex Abad-Santos February 2

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

What Andrea Riseborough’s controversial nomination reveals about the Oscars

By Alissa Wilkinson February 2

17 movies to watch out for in 2023

By Alissa Wilkinson January 31

We can’t grieve what we can’t remember

By Alissa Wilkinson January 31

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

How Avatar: The Way of Water can make $2 billion and still feel irrelevant

By Alex Abad-Santos January 30

Past Lives is already one of the year’s best films

By Alissa Wilkinson January 25

Cat Person, Brett Kavanaugh, Fair Play, and the anger of entitled men

By Alissa Wilkinson January 24

M3gan is about how scary a tween girl can be

By Alex Abad-Santos January 11

The Golden Globes, Hollywood’s most chaotic awards, have returned

By Alissa Wilkinson January 9

Why M3gan is already a camp horror icon in the making

By Alex Abad-Santos January 5

What Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is really about

By Alissa Wilkinson December 30, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Babylon’s debauched old Hollywood is about something much bigger

By Alissa Wilkinson December 23, 2022

What gets lost when comedies go straight to streaming

By Alissa Wilkinson December 22, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Avatar: The Way of Water reminds us that blockbusters don’t have to look absolutely terrible

By Alissa Wilkinson December 16, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

3 things to remember about Avatar before you see Avatar: The Way of Water

By Alex Abad-Santos December 15, 2022

Why are Christmas movie “miracles” never miracles at all?

By Alissa Wilkinson December 14, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

In 2022, nothing horrified us as much as old age

A year in horror movies about the nightmare of aging, from X to Pearl, Barbarian to Old People.

By Aja Romano December 12, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The Whale screenwriter on writing about religious fundamentalism, bodies, and hope

By Alissa Wilkinson December 9, 2022

It’s best you know nothing about the new greatest movie of all time

By Alissa Wilkinson December 1, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The 25 best movies of 2022

By Alissa Wilkinson December 1, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Stop watching movie trailers

By Alissa Wilkinson November 29, 2022

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Of course Glass Onion is a blast. But it cuts deeper than Knives Out, too.

By Alissa Wilkinson November 23, 2022