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With Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho Offers a Bitterly Funny Take on America

Robert Pattinson plays an immortal drudge and Mark Ruffalo gives sci-fi Trump in the new film from the director of Parasite. By Alison Willmore

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SNL Has Always Been Bad

And that’s precisely what makes watching the 50-year-long live TV experiment so good. By Jesse David Fox

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Could Kieran Culkin Win an Oscar for Playing Himself?

“He’s being criticized for not fully availing himself of his magical ability to have a complete and utter transformation.” By Nate Jones

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Abbas Kiarostami’s Humanist Legacy Lives on in Universal Language

The Canadian film remixes Iranian cinematic traditions, but speaks in its own whimsical voice. By Roxana Hadadi

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SNL turns 50.

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Beloved Actor Biff Wiff Remembered by Shirt Brother Tim Robinson The late actor starred alongside Robinson in several sketches for I Think You Should Leave.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses TV Series Doesn’t Survive Valentine’s Day A rose by any other name still dies in development hell.
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Every TV Show Canceled in 2025 So Far The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh isn’t getting a second season.
awards season 2/15/2025

The Writers Guild Awards 2025 Winners Tonight, David Lynch will posthumously receive the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.
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The 14 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend A three-day weekend means more time with your sweetheart (TV).
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Cinematrix No. 326: February 15, 2025 Can you name a Tina Fey or Jimmy Fallon movie with a title that contains “the”?
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Everything That Happened at the SNL50 Concert Lady Gaga put her what in a box?
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Heathcliff Is Supersize Now Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation has handed us a first-look image of a finger.
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The Rape Lawsuit Against Jay-Z and Diddy Has Been Dismissed “The trauma that my wife, my children, loved ones and I have endured can never be dismissed,” Jay-Z said in a statement reacting to the news.
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Live From New York … It’s SNL 50! This article has everything … you need to know.
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A Guide to the Many Lawsuits Against Diddy Five new lawsuits bring the total to over 40.
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Sam Levinson Still Likes Working With Pop Stars Rosalía will appear on Euphoria season three, alongside Marshawn Lynch.
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How to Watch and Stream All the Oscar Contenders This Year Vampires! Gladiators! Bob Dylans!
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Sarah Bock Terrified the Severance Set “When I played her, I didn’t feel very scary. But at the end of the day, crew members would come up to me like, ‘You freaked me out.’”

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Snatch the Crown Snatch Game feels significant for the first time in years, but not in the way we generally expect.
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Dexter: Original Sin Finale Recap: Born This Way The finale proves that the series stretched the limits of prequel logic and bit off more than it could chew.
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Cobra Kai Series-Finale Recap: Once Upon a Time in the Valley We always knew it would all come back to Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, the original karate kid and his nemesis.
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Cobra Kai Recap: Dragonslayer That ending with John Kreese and Terry Silver made me gasp, crack up, and rewind multiple times.
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Yellowjackets Recap: Truth or Dare Walter may be a creep, but he’s right that Misty should probably get away from the other Yellowjackets.
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Love Is Blind Season-Premiere Recap: Only Have Eyes for Two The pods are back with the largest group of singles ever, but the couples are barely holding our attention.
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Yellowjackets Season-Premiere Recap: Screaming Trees The Yellowjackets reckon with the aftermath of Natalie’s death.
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Severance Recap: Unsanctioned Erotic Entanglement We finally get our girl back, but the vibes are still off thanks to Mark’s integration sickness making him kind of a jerk.
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Elsbeth Recap: Love Is in the Air A man becomes so smitten with Elsbeth that he makes a grand transatlantic romantic gesture, and who can blame him?
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The Pitt Recap: Have You Seen Our Sad Boy? Robby is certainly making a real meal out of letting his emotional baggage loose in the workplace.
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The Traitors Recap: A Doll’s House Danielle and Carolyn realize that figuring out life after Rob won’t be as easy as they thought.
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Matlock Recap: Paranoia Will Destroy Ya The season is racing toward some kind of reckoning, but Matty has to deal with Sarah and Shae’s immediate threats before we get there.
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Cobra Kai Recap: My Right Foot In its finale moments, Cobra Kai revisits the disturbing moment at the end of The Karate Kid that inspired Johnny Lawrence’s underdog arc as an adult.

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The Best Movie at Cannes Last Year Is Finally in Theaters Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.
movie review 2/15/2025

With Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho Offers a Bitterly Funny Take on America Robert Pattinson plays an immortal drudge and Mark Ruffalo gives sci-fi Trump in the new film from the director of Parasite.
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Questlove’s Sly Lives! Is a Revealing Portrait of the Hazards of Genius You walk out of Sly Lives! feeling like you’ve genuinely learned something, but you also walk out exhilarated.
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Becoming Led Zeppelin Isn’t Trying to Tell the Whole Story A thoroughly researched documentary blessed by control freaks who still can’t, or won’t, wrestle with the less flattering parts of the band’s history.
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Bridget Jones Forever As long as Bridget Jones lives, we should be allowed to tag along for the ride.
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Ricken Got Lumon-ed The self-help author’s shift from naysayer to bootlicker reveals what the Severance corporation actually produces.
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Paddington in Peru Bites Off More Than It Can Chew Fortunately, adorable talking bears have big appetites.
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Subsisting on Scraps Yellowjackets saves the juiciest meat for its ’90s story line, leaving characters in the present day starved for attention.
art review 2/14/2025

The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun Kim Her new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage.
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All Bark, No Bite: Redwood Idina Menzel grieves in a tree and leaves.
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A Henry IV That Doesn’t Know Its Own Strength This play has underappreciated muscles that its director intermittently flexes.
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For God’s Sake, Let’s Talk About a Different Movie For months, cinephiles have claimed to find substance in a certain body-horror movie. I am politely asking you to look elsewhere.
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Marvel Is Now a Giant Slop Machine The messy and tiresome Captain America: Brave New World has a few ideas, but it handles them in the most shallow, simplistic ways.
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It’s Honestly Really Nice to Get Older With Bridget Jones In Mad About the Boy, Renée Zellweger’s chaotic singleton has finally learned to love herself.

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Mason Horacek Knows He Did Love Is Blind All Wrong By Jennifer Zhan

RuPaul’s Drag Race (S17/E7)

Snatch the Crown Snatch Game feels significant for the first time in years, but not in the way we generally expect.
Dexter: Original Sin (S1/E10)

Born This Way The finale proves that the series stretched the limits of prequel logic and bit off more than it could chew.
Cobra Kai (S6/E15)

Once Upon a Time in the Valley We always knew it would all come back to Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, the original karate kid and his nemesis.
Cobra Kai (S6/E14)

Dragonslayer That ending with John Kreese and Terry Silver made me gasp, crack up, and rewind multiple times.
Yellowjackets (S3/E2)

Truth or Dare Walter may be a creep, but he’s right that Misty should probably get away from the other Yellowjackets.
Love Is Blind (S8/E1)

Only Have Eyes for Two The pods are back with the largest group of singles ever, but the couples are barely holding our attention.
Yellowjackets (S3/E1)

Screaming Trees The Yellowjackets reckon with the aftermath of Natalie’s death.
Severance (S2/E5)

Unsanctioned Erotic Entanglement We finally get our girl back, but the vibes are still off thanks to Mark’s integration sickness making him kind of a jerk.
Elsbeth (S2/E11)

Love Is in the Air A man becomes so smitten with Elsbeth that he makes a grand transatlantic romantic gesture, and who can blame him?
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hammer of the gods Becoming Led Zeppelin Isn’t Trying to Tell the Whole Story A thoroughly researched documentary blessed by control freaks who still can’t, or won’t, wrestle with the less flattering parts of the band’s history. By Brady Gerber
scene report What I Saw Camped Out for Paul McCartney’s Secret Shows Attempted bribery, vehicular mishaps, and tears ensued. But nothing was as bad as a Ticketmaster queue. By Nick Robins-Early
*capybara screech* How Flow’s Filmmakers Decided a Tiger Could Voice a Whale Oscar nominee Gints Zilbalodis on the allure of capybaras, casting his sound editor’s cat, and including human voice actors in his next movie. By Alejandra Gularte

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The Best Movie at Cannes Last Year Is Finally in Theaters

Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is. By Bilge Ebiri

awards season The Writers Guild Awards 2025 Winners Tonight, David Lynch will posthumously receive the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. By Alejandra Gularte
now streaming The 14 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend A three-day weekend means more time with your sweetheart (TV). By Savannah Salazar
promising young man Heathcliff Is Supersize Now Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation has handed us a first-look image of a finger. By Jason P. Frank

movie review Questlove’s Sly Lives! Is a Revealing Portrait of the Hazards of Genius You walk out of Sly Lives! feeling like you’ve genuinely learned something, but you also walk out exhilarated. By Bilge Ebiri
hammer of the gods Becoming Led Zeppelin Isn’t Trying to Tell the Whole Story A thoroughly researched documentary blessed by control freaks who still can’t, or won’t, wrestle with the less flattering parts of the band’s history. By Brady Gerber
vulture lists How to Watch and Stream All the Oscar Contenders This Year Vampires! Gladiators! Bob Dylans! By Brian Tallerico
*capybara screech* How Flow’s Filmmakers Decided a Tiger Could Voice a Whale Oscar nominee Gints Zilbalodis on the allure of capybaras, casting his sound editor’s cat, and including human voice actors in his next movie. By Alejandra Gularte
just as you are Bridget Jones Forever As long as Bridget Jones lives, we should be allowed to tag along for the ride. By Fran Hoepfner

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A Court of Thorns and Roses TV Series Doesn’t Survive Valentine’s Day

A rose by any other name still dies in development hell. By Alejandra Gularte

cancel culture Every TV Show Canceled in 2025 So Far The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh isn’t getting a second season. By Jennifer Zhan
love is blind Mason Horacek Knows He Did Love Is Blind All Wrong “Out of context, I don’t expect people to know what I went through.” By Jennifer Zhan
live from new york it’s… Everything That Happened at the SNL50 Concert Lady Gaga put her what in a box? By Jennifer Zhan
well isn’t that special? Live From New York … It’s SNL 50! This article has everything … you need to know. By Jason P. Frank

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Ohmigod You Guys, There’s a New Elle Woods Her name is Lexi Minetree. By Jason P. Frank

saoko papí saoko Sam Levinson Still Likes Working With Pop Stars Rosalía will appear on Euphoria season three, alongside Marshawn Lynch. By Jason P. Frank
on the severed floor Sarah Bock Terrified the Severance Set “When I played her, I didn’t feel very scary. But at the end of the day, crew members would come up to me like, ‘You freaked me out.’” By Jen Chaney
buffering Why SNL Still Matters to NBC Network TV may be fighting for its life, but not on Saturday night. By Josef Adalian
coming soon Benedict Bridgerton’s Ho Phase Is Coming to a Close Peek through your masquerade mask at season four. By Bethy Squires and Alejandra Gularte

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What I Saw Camped Out for Paul McCartney’s Secret Shows

Attempted bribery, vehicular mishaps, and tears ensued. But nothing was as bad as a Ticketmaster queue. By Nick Robins-Early

fake pop stars It’s Valentine’s Day, and John Malkovich Wants to Funk You With Nile Rodgers and The-Dream’s help, of course. By Rebecca Alter
please please please Dolly and Mini-Dolly Are Beggin’ Please, Please, Please Sabrina Carpenter’s auditioning for the Dolly Parton musical with her new video. By Jason P. Frank
where’s the beef? A Complete Track-by-Track Timeline of Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s Feud Drake’s not entirely over it yet on $ome $exy $ongs 4 U. By Tom Smyth

change Every Artist Who Donated to Chappell Roan’s Health-care Cause Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Noah Kahan, and more have matched Roan’s donation of $25,000. By Alejandra Gularte
romance Selena Gomez’s Next Album Is With Benny Blanco, Obviously She just dropped her new single with her fiancé just before Valentine’s Day. By Alejandra Gularte
splits? Bianca Censori May or May Not Be Divorcing Kanye West Depending on whom you believe. By Justin Curto
he’s electric Actually, Bruv, Liam Gallagher Would Attend His Rock Hall Induction Even if it makes him seem like “a wanker.” By Devon Ivie
future lovers rise Madonna Confesses She’s Working on Confessions Part 2 And she’s back in the studio with Stuart Price. By Justin Curto

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Beloved Actor Biff Wiff Remembered by Shirt Brother Tim Robinson

The late actor starred alongside Robinson in several sketches for I Think You Should Leave. By Alejandra Gularte

legacy ‘There’s No Other Show Like It’ 50 seasons of Saturday Night Live’s impact, as told by 65 of its writers and cast members. By Andy Hoglund and Hershal Pandya
hindsight What It Was Like the Year After I Left SNL 38 alums describe a spectrum ranging from “devastating” to “awesome” to “unmitigated chaos.” By Jen Chaney
weird jobs 29 Cast Members and Writers’ ‘Welcome to SNL’ Moment “When I realized they were seriously trying me out as Biden on my first episode.” By Rebecca Alter

yikes My Most Embarrassing SNL Memory An insult from Colin Farrell, accidental full-frontal nudity, and 23 other memories of 8H cringe. By Rebecca Alter
a long talk SNL’s First Lady 1985 was a dangerous time for the show’s first openly gay cast member. Terry Sweeney was up for the challenge. By Jason P. Frank
recession indicator Pete Davidson, Please Help Me Find a Reformation Dress The comedian and actor models his new tattooless body. By Fran Hoepfner
auld lang syne Not Boyfriends, Boy Friends The trailer for Tim Robinson’s Friendship is heartbreaking but funny. By Jason P. Frank
power After Lorne The ringmaster of Saturday Night Live is 80 years old. What happens to the show, not to mention American comedy, when he retires? By Reeves Wiedeman

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All Bark, No Bite: Redwood

Idina Menzel grieves in a tree and leaves. By Sara Holdren

i can finally breathe again Idina Menzel Dangles From the Heavens While Singing She’s in a redwood, singing a song from Redwood about being in a redwood. By Jason P. Frank
theater review A Henry IV That Doesn’t Know Its Own Strength This play has underappreciated muscles that its director intermittently flexes. By Sara Holdren
theater review Urinetown Is Still Potable Whoa, there! Plenty of prescience reveals itself in Encores!’s revival of the 2001 musical. By Jackson McHenry
theater review The Antiquities Puts Humanity in a Museum Display Case The robots memorialize us in Jordan Harrison’s time-hopping speculative drama. By Jackson McHenry

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What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors

broadway baby! Tituss Burgess to Take Over Oh, Mary! “I understand the role of Mary Todd Lincoln maybe a little too well.” By Jason P. Frank
theater review At the Kennedy Center, Schmigadoon! Briefly Reappears Through the Mist Still sweetly spoofing classic Broadway, albeit with a little less bite than on TV. By Rhoda Feng
i’m just a broadway baby Quentin Tarantino Prefers the The-a-ter Right Now “When it comes to being a filmmaker, I’ve pretty much done everything I’ve wanted to do.” By Jason P. Frank
theater review Freedom in Speech: Sanaz Toossi’s English For these characters, learning a global language is both broadening and restraining. By Sara Holdren

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coming soon ;) Miranda July and STARZ Go Public With Their Relationship The All Fours author says the network “really digs into the reality of who women are and what we want.” By Fran Hoepfner
spellcasting Harry Potter Hires a Hogwarts Headmaster Reportedly casting John Lithgow as Dumbledore. By Rebecca Alter
testimonies Salman Rushdie Relived His Stabbing Attack in Court Testimony “It occurred to me that I was dying,” the author recalled. By Jennifer Zhan
controversies Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’s Family Speaks Out Against Allison Holker’s Memoir “That was his story to tell.” By Justin Curto
vulture lists 17 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2025 Reading List Bridget Jones is back in time for Valentine’s Day. By Emily Maskell

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art review The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun Kim Her new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage. By Jerry Saltz
remembrances Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World The longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74. By Jerry Saltz
art review Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands A retrospective at the Met captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy. By Jerry Saltz
extremely online The Hyperpigmentation Drawing Meme Is a Work of Art Call it TikTok’s modern-day Mona Lisa. By Jennifer Zhan
heists Graffiti Artist RETNA Claims an Auction House Sold His Stolen Work The graffiti artist says that his former landlord and Heritage Auctions illegally seized his property for profit. By Rachel Corbett