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Vox's coverage of movie news, reviews, analysis, and recommendations of film, from blockbuster hits to movie festival highlights.

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

By Nylah Burton

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

By Nylah Burton

Did the Scream franchise just fall apart?

By Alex Abad-Santos

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

By Li Zhou

Leave the World Behind is a slick and stylish apocalyptic thriller

By Constance Grady

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

By Marjorie Ingall

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

By Alex Abad-Santos

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

By Aja Romano

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

By Alex Abad-Santos

Priscilla and Sofia Coppola’s lonely girls

By Alissa Wilkinson

The long, long Hollywood strikes have ended

By Alissa Wilkinson

Hollywood is missing the big picture on the opioid crisis

By Alissa Wilkinson

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

By Jason Asenap
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How The Conjuring became the Marvel of horror

By Edward Vega

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

By Aja Romano

The surprising science that explains why we love thrillers

By Alissa Wilkinson

Five Nights at Freddy’s, the cult horror game turned movie, explained 

By Aja Romano

What the end of Killers of the Flower Moon means

By Alissa Wilkinson

The complicated relationship we have with Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s complicated relationship

By Alex Abad-Santos

The wisest choice in Killers of the Flower Moon

By Alissa Wilkinson

The movies to watch for this fall

By Alissa Wilkinson

The actors strike negotiations have broken down

By Alissa Wilkinson

Why you should be watching more short films

By Alissa Wilkinson

Cat Person, Fair Play, and Brett Kavanaugh

By Alissa Wilkinson

On The Royal Hotel, Louis C.K., and burning it all down

By Alissa Wilkinson

The new Exorcist movie proves how much the world has changed since 1973

By Alissa Wilkinson

More evidence the streaming wars are (kinda) over: You can watch Dune on Netflix

By Peter Kafka

Was The Blind Side’s white savior narrative built on a lie?

By Fabiola Cineas

Dumb Money and what actually happened with GameStop, explained

By Emily Stewart

The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big

By Alissa Wilkinson and Emily Stewart

Two young missionaries made headlines. Two new docs look at why.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Sound of Freedom wants to raise awareness about child trafficking. Here’s what it’s really doing.

By Aja Romano

What’s the state of the Hollywood strikes?

By Alissa Wilkinson

It’s not just famous actors and big-name writers the Hollywood strikes are hurting

By Emily Stewart

People forgot how to act in public 

By Alex Abad-Santos

How should we remember Trinity Site, where the first nuclear bomb was tested?

By Bryan Walsh

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Lessons from a Barbenheimer summer

By Alissa Wilkinson

The ageless appeal of Pee-wee Herman, explained

By Tanya Pai

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The nuclear bomb’s enduring, evolving place in pop culture

By Alissa Wilkinson

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Oppenheimer is the surprise fashion movie of the summer

By Esther Zuckerman