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Only Murders in the Building Can’t Live Forever

 But it feels like it could. By Nicholas Quah
theater review

The Alexander McQueen Bio-play Has Neither Style Nor Substance

 House of McQueen ought to be dripping in blood and exposed vertebrae. Instead, it’s all taupe with a relaxed fit. By Sara Holdren
tiff 2025

The Lost Bus Is an Instant Disaster-Movie Classic

 It’s Speed meets the end of the world. By Bilge Ebiri
  1. hallelujah
    The Book of BieberSwag II blesses us with the pop star’s Paradise Lost.
    By Craig Jenkins
  2. movie review
    Do Not Let Preparation for the Next Life Pass You ByThe first narrative film from Oscar-nominated documentarian Bing Liu is a remarkably clear-eyed love story.
    By Alison Willmore
  3. movie review
    The Baltimorons Is Funny, Moving, and Lovably AwkwardJay Duplass’s return to the directing chair represents an artistic turning point for the onetime mumblecore pioneer.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  4. tv review
    Task Will Test Your PatienceBrad Ingelsby’s Mare of Easttown follow-up buries some fantastic performances in the muck of an aggressively generic crime narrative.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  5. best of 2025
    Best Albums of 2025 (So Far)Including an arsenal of snappy, hooky nods to early B-boy culture and aughts club bangers.
    By Craig Jenkins
  6. movie review
    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Conjuring’s Version of the WarrensThe Conjuring: Last Rites was just campy enough to make me wonder if it was attempting a joke at its subjects’ expense.
    By Alison Willmore
  7. venice 2025
    I’ve Never Seen Anything Like The Testament of Ann LeeMona Fastvold’s story of the founding leader of the Shaker faith is sure to go down in history as one of the strangest musicals ever made.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  8. tv review
    The Paper - Season 1
    Yesterday’s FishwrapIn sitcom-ifying the decline of local news, The Paper offers an unexpectedly tender reminder of what we’ve lost.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  9. best of 2025
    The Best Songs of 2025 (So Far)The Alabama Shakes return while Japanese kawaii shredders BABYMETAL join forces with British Columbian upstarts Spiritbox.
  10. album review
    Sabrina Carpenter Is No SubMan’s Best Friend rejects ideas about her sexual politics, pulling off an expert troll.
    By Craig Jenkins
  11. best of 2025
    The Best Video Games of 2025 (So Far)What were the greatest games of the summer?
    By Lewis Gordon
  12. venice 2025
    The Voice of Hind Rajab Is the Most Powerful Film at VeniceKaouther Ben Hania’s film about the killing of a six-year-old Palestinian girl is clearly hitting a nerve.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. movie review
    The Long Walk Is Dude Hunger GamesAnd it’s pretty good!
    By Alison Willmore
  14. best of 2025
    The Best Movies of 2025 (So Far)Despite all the sequels, spinoffs, and remakes, audiences are still hungry for original stories.
    By Alison Willmore, Bilge Ebiri, and Angelica Jade Bastién
  15. venice 2025
    A House of Dynamite Is Kathryn Bigelow at Her BestThe director’s latest, her first film in seven years, is an absurdly riveting thriller with the kind of ticking-clock suspense Bigelow does so well.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  16. venice 2025
    Capitalism Won’t Love You BackGus Van Sant’s new ’70s-set thriller, Dead Man’s Wire, is a warning for today.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  17. best of 2025
    The Best Books of 2025 (So Far)Including memoirs about sex — both having lots and going without.
    By Vulture Editors
  18. best of 2025
    The Best Podcasts of 2025 (So Far)If you really want to absorb something, immerse yourself in the wonkiest podcasts imaginable.
    By Nicholas Quah
  19. venice 2025
    Venice Is Trashing The Wizard of the Kremlin, But It Happens to Be a Great FilmOlivier Assayas is getting some of the worst reviews of his career for his new film, in which Jude Law plays Putin. But I can’t wait to see it again.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  20. venice 2025
    The Smashing Machine Is Too Soft for Its Own GoodThe Rock is by far the best thing about the movie. But he’s also kind of the only thing in the movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  21. best of 2025
    The Best Anime Series of 2025 (So Far)The summer anime season has been an embarrassment of riches.
    By Kambole Campbell
  22. best of 2025
    The Best TV Shows of 2025 (So Far)Great television will not be confined nor defined by genre.
  23. venice 2025
    Jim Jarmusch Wants You To Call Your MotherJim Jarmusch’s new film finds the director in a minor key, which is sometimes his best key.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  24. venice 2025
    Venice Loves Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, With Good ReasonIt’s a perfect example of how the director coaxes his audience into total identification with people doing insane things.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  25. venice 2025
    Jacob Elordi Is the Soul of Guillermo del Toro’s FrankensteinFor its first half, Frankenstein is a lavish assemblage of elements that have electricity but no soul. That is, until Elordi enters the picture.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  26. venice 2025
    Dafoe vs. the DandiesWillem Dafoe and Greta Lee are so good in ‘Late Fame’ that I keep wishing the movie were better.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  27. movie review
    The Most Devastating Movie I’ve Seen in YearsChloe Zhao’s adaptation of the novel Hamnet reimagines the poetic act of creating the greatest play in the English language.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  28. movie review
    The Toxic Avenger Has Been Remade as a Champion For an Age of DespairPeter Dinklage plays an updated version of Troma’s mutant superhero. It isn’t perfect, but it’s kind of great.
    By Alison Willmore
  29. returning champ
    With Love, Meghan’s Best Guest Doesn’t Even CookDaniel Martin is the delightfully amateur embodiment of the show’s imperfect ethos.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  30. venice 2025
    After the Hunt Doesn’t Have That Much to Say About Cancel CultureDespite its deliberate pacing and talky script, Luca Guadagnino’s latest is not quite the heady intellectual drama it wants to be.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  31. venice 2025
    Jay Kelly Gives George Clooney the Role of a LifetimeClooney plays it all so cool in Noah Baumbach’s latest. But by the end, he gets you anyway.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  32. venice 2025
    With Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos Enters the Real World, Sort OfThat also makes it maybe the saddest film he’s ever made.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  33. venice 2025
    ‘This Is a Nightmare’A new documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis provides a fascinating look at one of the unlikeliest films ever made.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  34. movie review
    Austin Butler Gets Lost in Caught StealingThe ’90s-set crime comedy from Darren Aronofsky is watchable only because of its side characters.
    By Alison Willmore
  35. venice 2025
    Venice’s Opening Film, La Grazia, Finds Beauty in UnknowabilityPaolo Sorrentino’s latest, La Grazia (Grace), feels like a return to the director’s delicate earlier works.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  36. book review
    A Rebel Writer’s First RevoltA memoir by Arundhati Roy chronicles her tumultuous relationship with her mother.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  37. movie review
    Lurker Is a Talented Mr. Ripley for the Instagram EraThéodore Pellerin is an obsessive hanger-on who attaches himself to a pop star in this sly debut from The Bear writer Alex Russell.
    By Alison Willmore
  38. movie review
    Relay Might Be the Next Great Corporate Espionage ThrillerBut it’s the rare movie where I might recommend leaving ten minutes before the end.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  39. theater review
    Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night Is Both Pleasant and FacileDespite a compelling performance from Sandra Oh.
    By Sara Holdren
  40. movie review
    Ron Howard Has Finally Lost His MindWith his new film, Eden, the Hollywood stalwart lets the craziness take over, to his eternal credit.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  41. movie review
    Splitsville Is a Very Precise Comedy About Some Very Chaotic Non-MonogamyDakota Johnson and Adria Arjona star in Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin’s effervescent follow-up to The Climb.
    By Alison Willmore
  42. gun-fu
    When Hong Kong Cinema Ruled the WorldAn entire generation of classics from this golden age of action cinema is finally being restored and rereleased in the U.S.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  43. tv review
    The Defense Will Not RestThe Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, executive-produced by its subject, is more invested in image rehab than finding a new angle on a familiar story.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  44. cannes 2025
    Highest 2 Lowest Is All the Best and Worst of Spike LeeSpike Lee reunites with Denzel Washington for a movie that starts off a mess and ends up somewhere great.
    By Alison Willmore
  45. movie review
    Sydney Sweeney’s New Movie Is the Opposite of Her ‘Good Jeans’ AdAmericana is a crime drama that plays around with who owns the iconography we use to define our national identity.
    By Alison Willmore
  46. family first
    THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
    Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm Is the MVP of The Fantastic Four: First StepsThat Sue is by far the most compelling character to watch, however, accentuates how poorly developed the rest of them are.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  47. theater review
    Revisiting Mamma Mia!, Where the 21st Century Never ArrivesDoes your grandmother know?
    By Jackson McHenry
  48. movie review
    The Best Doc of the Year Is Like a 5.5 Hour-Long Panic AttackJulia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends drops you into a group of independent Russian journalists in the last months before the invasion of Ukraine.
    By Alison Willmore
  49. movie review
    Nobody 2 Is All About Bob Odenkirk’s FaceThe confusion in Odenkirk’s eyes speaks to both his character’s existential crisis and to this movie’s odd place in a dying subgenre.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  50. close read
    KPop Demon Hunters Puts the Music FirstThese songs live in the film’s universe as diegetic pop music, not an accessory to the plot.
    By Craig Jenkins
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