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Why Spider-Verse fans see Gwen Stacy as a transgender allegory

By Alex Abad-Santos June 7

Hollywood is staring down the barrel of a double strike

By Alissa Wilkinson June 6

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a gorgeous, daring triumph

By Alex Abad-Santos June 1

Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney, is unsettling, vital viewing

By Alissa Wilkinson May 29

17 Cannes movies worth watching for

By Alissa Wilkinson May 28

Cannes and the banality of evil

By Alissa Wilkinson May 27

The year’s scariest horror film is The Zone of Interest

By Alissa Wilkinson May 26

What Disney changed (and didn’t) in The Little Mermaid remake

By Alex Abad-Santos May 25

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reminds you how much Hollywood has changed

By Alissa Wilkinson May 25

Why does The Little Mermaid remake look so bad?

By Alex Abad-Santos May 22

How the Disney villain disappeared

By Tom Smyth May 19

11 questions you’ll have before, during, and after Fast X

By Aja Romano May 18

The return of the porn wars

By Constance Grady May 16

There’s no such thing as a new idea — just ask the Little Mermaid

By Alissa Wilkinson May 15

How A24 took over Hollywood

By Edward Vega May 12

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is somehow the best animal rights movie of the year

By Bryan Walsh May 11

Hollywood is in its business-guy era

By Alissa Wilkinson May 10

The Starling Girl delicately explores the gray areas of teen angst and fundamentalist guilt

By Alissa Wilkinson May 10

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’s two credits scenes, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos May 4

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the best Marvel movie in years

By Alex Abad-Santos May 4

Hollywood’s writers are on strike. Here’s why that matters.

By Alissa Wilkinson May 2

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

AI should scare Hollywood writers — and everyone else

By Alissa Wilkinson May 2

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is about far more than periods

By Constance Grady April 27

What the hell is going on in Beau Is Afraid?

By Alissa Wilkinson April 21

Ari Aster doesn’t want to explain Beau Is Afraid

By Alissa Wilkinson April 19

Star Wars has a Baby Yoda problem

By Aja Romano April 17

Why Austin Butler still sounds like Elvis, explained by his own vocal coach

By Luke Winkie April 11

In Showing Up, Michelle Williams is an artist desperately trying to get anything done

By Alissa Wilkinson April 8

The Super Mario Bros. Movie, like the video game, is for kids

By Alex Abad-Santos April 7

What the new D&D movie gets — and misses — about the game

By Kim Eggleston April 6

10 new documentaries to watch for, from Thomas Kinkade to Y2K

By Alissa Wilkinson April 5

Keanu Reeves, explained

By Aja Romano March 24

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