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The many layers of May December

By Aja Romano

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The Boy and the Heron treats growing up with the seriousness it deserves

By Alanna Okun

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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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George Santos treated politics like reality TV. And he won.

By Alex Abad-Santos

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Blue Eye Samurai is one of the smartest Netflix shows in years

By Aja Romano

The Israel-Hamas war is tearing American cultural institutions apart

By Marin Cogan December 6

Rizz, the word of the year, explained

By Constance Grady December 5

Renaissance isn’t a deification of Beyoncé. It’s a reminder she’s human.

By Alex Abad-Santos December 5

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

By Esther Zuckerman December 4

Features

How millennials learned to dread motherhood

To our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story?

By Rachel M. Cohen December 4

Netflix’s Squid Game reality show is kinda great. Oh no.

By Alex Abad-Santos December 1

The truth about Napoleon and Josephine’s marriage, divorce, and lasting legacy

By Nylah Burton November 30

What Matt Rife’s baffling Netflix special tells us about comedy

By Aja Romano November 29

Why cheating is allowed on game shows

By Phil Edwards November 29

Alex Murdaugh stands guilty of killing his wife and son. That’s just scratching the surface.

By Aja Romano November 29

Why is dating advice on TikTok so sexist — and so bleak?

By Rebecca Jennings November 29

What is life like in Palestine? These short films offer a glimpse.

By Nylah Burton November 29

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By Constance Grady November 16, 2021

Did the Scream franchise just fall apart?

By Alex Abad-Santos November 28

Mary Kay Letourneau, the grim inspiration for May December, explained

By Aja Romano November 25

The violence against Indigenous women in Killers of the Flower Moon isn’t just historical. It’s an ongoing crisis.

By Li Zhou November 23

The race to optimize grief

By Mihika Agarwal November 21

Leave the World Behind is a slick and stylish apocalyptic thriller

By Constance Grady November 20

Why influencers with 7, 8, or 10 kids are having a moment

By Anna North November 20

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

By Marjorie Ingall November 20

Formula 1 grew too fast. Now its new fans are tuning out.

By Izzie Ramirez November 18

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes might be the best Hunger Games movie yet

By Alex Abad-Santos November 17

The Crown increasingly becomes a fantastical apologetic for the royal family

By Aja Romano November 17

Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is finally here. Was it worth the 16-year wait?

By Aja Romano November 17

Why do we keep tabs on people we can’t stand?

By Angel Martinez November 17

Jacob Elordi is the number one babygirl

By Alex Abad-Santos November 16

All of this year’s National Book Award finalists, reviewed by Vox

By Vox Staff November 15

Explaining “Twin Flames,” the subject of Netflix’s disturbing new documentary

By Aja Romano November 14

Buy less stuff

The lie of “deinfluencing”

By Rebecca Jennings November 14

What the Hasan Minhaj controversy says about the trouble with storytelling

By Aja Romano November 10

The Marvels, goofy and bold, shows there’s still some magic left in the MCU

By Alex Abad-Santos November 10

Priscilla and Sofia Coppola’s lonely girls

By Alissa Wilkinson November 10

The Marvels’ post-credits scene brings back [spoiler]

By Alex Abad-Santos November 9

The long, long Hollywood strikes have ended

By Alissa Wilkinson November 9

Hollywood is missing the big picture on the opioid crisis

By Alissa Wilkinson November 8

The Curse is a fully bizarre and brilliant maze of a show

By Alissa Wilkinson November 7

Killers of the Flower Moon and who gets to tell an Osage story

By Jason Asenap November 6

Gen V was always much more than a Boys spinoff. Its season finale proved that.

By Alex Abad-Santos November 3

How The Conjuring became the Marvel of horror

By Edward Vega October 31

From Amityville to Annabelle, the Warrens on film are a lie

By Aja Romano October 31