oscar futures
Nov. 11, 2022
Oscar Futures: Is The Fabelmans Still Our Front-runner? Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical time capsule debuts on the back of a starry AFI Fest relaunch and a rapturous Academy screening.
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Nov. 4, 2022
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Oct. 28, 2022
Oscar Futures: Tár and Everything Everywhere Compete for Hipster Hearts The two Best Actress vehicles are also facing off in the battle to become the season’s tastemaker pick.
What Do This Fall’s Movies Have Against Donkeys? The humble creature steals scenes in three big films — and meets a tragic end in each of them.
fire and blood
Oct. 23, 2022
What If Viserys Married Laena Velaryon? Predicting a House of the Dragon future in which the Blues usurped the Greens in the Dance of the Dragons.
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Oct. 21, 2022
Oscar Futures: Can Banshees of Inisherin Banter Its Way to a Trophy? Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges reunion is the most universally regarded contender to bow thus far.
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Oct. 14, 2022
Oscar Futures: Can She Said Get Voters Talking? Harvey Weinstein created the modern Oscars. Can the drama about his downfall become an awards contender?
oscar futures
Oct. 7, 2022
Oscar Futures: A Tár Is Born? Cate Blanchett is getting raves as a manipulative maestro in Todd Field’s drama. Could she get her third trophy, too?
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Sept. 29, 2022
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Sept. 29, 2022
The New Rules of Oscars Season As we stand on the precipice of another awards season, here are four crucial lessons to remember about the way the Academy works now.
oscar futures
Sept. 29, 2022
Are You Ready for This Year’s Incredibly Messy Best Actor Race? In The Whale and The Son , two of the strongest Best Actor contenders come from films a chunk of the critical community absolutely loathed.
vulture investigates
Sept. 28, 2022
What Are Tom Hanks’s 4 ‘Pretty Good’ Movies? An Investigation. Hanks might have been joking when he said he’d only made four “pretty good” movies. But what if he wasn’t?
Will This Finally Be Michelle Williams’s Year? Williams is the emotional backbone of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans , and this puts her in an Oscars sweet spot.
roma watch
Sept. 15, 2022
Which of This Year’s Wannabe Roma s Is the Most Roma -y? It’s shaping up to be a banner fall for directors doing Roma s, with Armageddon Time , Empire of Light , and The Fabelmans.
Damien Chazelle Pulls Back the Veil on Babylon At TIFF Chazelle isn’t done with Babylon yet, but he did treat TIFF to the trailer, revealing an extravaganza of Old Hollywood misbehavior.
Is Harry Styles a Good Actor? A Conversation After the premieres of Don’t Worry Darling and My Policeman , we must speak our truth.
Clapter and Ass-Shaking at the World Premiere of Bros When an audience member asked why, despite all the talk of representation, the film stars two white men, co-star Ts Madison stepped up to the plate.
darling we’re worried
Sept. 7, 2022
Don’t Worry Darling Conspiracy Theories, Ranked by PlausibilityEveryone in this movie is way too famous, and they’re all either sleeping with each other or hating each other’s guts.
House of the Dragon Became The Bachelor This WeekWill King Viserys follow his head (a 12-year-old) or his heart (a 15-year-old)?
a twenty-four
Aug. 24, 2022
Every A24 Movie, Ranked Neon lights, creepy birds, white people rapping — the studio spawned an aesthetic universe. Here are the good, bad, and vibe-y.
a twenty-four
Aug. 24, 2022
The Cult of A24 Since 2012, the studio has bred superfans, dropped swag, and perfected a singular house style. It’s also teetering on the verge of self-parody.
let’s do it again
Aug. 23, 2022
The 102 Best Movie Sequels of All Time Who in the world wanted a Top Gun sequel? Not even Tom Cruise, but that didn’t stop Maverick from getting made and soaring in our ranks.
here we go again
Aug. 18, 2022
So, Uh, What Is House of the Dragon , Anyway? A guide to the who, what, when, where, and why.
inflation reduction act
Aug. 12, 2022
IRA Is Already Taken, Democrats The party needs a name for its bill that doesn’t summon images of Joe Manchin in a balaclava.
What Does Tom Hanks’s Elvis Voice Sound Like? It’s like Mike Myers’s Goldmember on a take when Jay Roach told him, “Just let loose on this one.”
Which Cannes Films Could Make a Splash With Oscar? Consensus hasn’t settled on the standout film, but this year’s Cannes still boasted a number of possible contenders.
indian cinema
June 1, 2022
How to Make It in Bollywood, One Evil Brit at a Time Fifteen years ago, Edward Sonnenblick came to India with a dream: To play British bad guys in Bollywood movies. It’s worked out better than expected.
The Best Movies at Cannes Broke Through the Bleakness The film festival was full of doomed protagonists, graphic murders, and children driven to crime. But a handful of movies were hopeful, too.
summer preview
May 27, 2022
What Will Be the Biggest Movie of the Summer? Vulture bets on five films that will break through the hottest months of 2022, in whatever ways they can.
In Elvis , There’s No Business Like Baz-ness Why have only one montage when you can edit another montage inside that montage?
Both the Kids From Squid and the Whale Brought Coming-of-Age Tales to Cannes Seventeen years after The Squid and the Whale, both of the children from that film have brought their directorial debuts to Cannes.
Park Chan-wook’s Latest Is Serving Hitchcock Vibes Decision to Leave is a classical, restrained effort from the guy who gave us the squid scene in Oldboy.
The ‘Eat the Rich’ Comedy Making Cannes Say ‘Blech!’ In Triangle of Sadness , Ruben Östlund rubs audiences’ noses in shit. They love him for it.
Oscars Declare COVID Over, Require Theatrical Release Again For the past two seasons, films could qualify by playing on the Academy’s in-house streaming platform.
Cannes Returns, With Zombies in Tow This year’s festival opens with Final Cut , a zombie flick from The Artist ’s Michel Hazanavicius. “I am prepared to be booed,” he says.
What They Don’t Tell You About Booing in Cannes A handy tip before you read the festival-reaction stories out of the Croisette in the coming weeks.
William Sadler Answers Every Question We Have About Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey The veteran character actor on the origin of Death’s Czech accent, creating some of the character’s most famous lines, and bonding with George Carlin.
backstories
Apr. 22, 2022
The Hardest Day on the Set of The Northman Dozens of viking extras, nonstop rain, and a village full of animals — what could go wrong?
big dirk energy
Apr. 13, 2022
oscars 2022
Mar. 29, 2022
How CODA Won Best Picture All season long, Sian Heder’s movie was overshadowed by bigger, starrier contenders. But none of that mattered come final voting.
oscars 2022
Mar. 28, 2022
oscar villains
Mar. 25, 2022
Against Every 2022 Oscars Movie If you’re still not sure what to root for this year, at least you can come up with something to root against.
oscar futures
Mar. 24, 2022
Vulture’s Final 2022 Oscar Predictions for Every Category Many categories, including Best Picture, seem like genuine fifty-fifty calls.
what might have been
Mar. 22, 2022
Let’s Imagine the Deep Water Press Tour That Never Was What might have happened if Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas had set aside their awkwardness and jumped headfirst into a Deep Water promo tour?
oscars 2022
Mar. 22, 2022
So You Want to Make Your Own Roma You’re not a real auteur unless you too have lovingly crafted a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film.
oscars 2022
Mar. 11, 2022
Is CODA ’s Oscar Momentum for Real? Is the indie dramedy really a sneaky Best Picture contender, or do we just need something new to talk about in the final month of the season?
vulture lists
Mar. 9, 2022
Batman Chins, Ranked Of all the men who have become Batman, who filled out the chin area the best?
vulture lists
Mar. 8, 2022
What If Every Movie Was Named After a Beatles Song? An attempt to rename every movie I could think of with a new title drawn from the work of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
character actors
Mar. 7, 2022
The Character Actors Who Could Have Played the Penguin in The Batman Instead of spending time and money to make Colin Farrell look like a middle-aged Italian American, why not just cast these guys instead?
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