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Netflix’s Woman of the Hour Makes a Wild True Story Feel Dry and Academic

 Anna Kendrick shows some promise as a director, and the film’s real-life serial-killer story is insane. But the whole film feels a bit too careful. By Bilge Ebiri
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Union Is a Reminder That Documentaries Can Be Artful As Well As Political

 Stephen Maing and Brett Story’s film is a gorgeously made document of a labor battle against the behemoth that is Amazon. By Alison Willmore
a long talk

A Night Out With the Strippers of Sean Baker’s Anora

 The breakout stars reflect on making it in Hollywood “not in spite of being a sex worker but because of it.” By Rachel Handler
  1. trailer mix
    All the 2024 New York Comic Con ContentTrailers from Dune: Prophecy, Outlander, and more.
    By Jason P. Frank
  2. coming soon
    Italian Auteur Takes the American PsychoLuca Guadagnino is directing a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  3. candid camera
    He Never Stood a ChanceBecause the best Chicken Shop Dates are the ones with guests who submit to getting pounded into oblivion by Amelia Dimoldenberg.
    By Nicholas Quah
  4. movie review
    Union Is a Reminder That Documentaries Can Be Artful As Well As PoliticalStephen Maing and Brett Story’s film is a gorgeously made document of a labor battle against the behemoth that is Amazon.
    By Alison Willmore
  5. movie review
    Netflix’s Woman of the Hour Makes a Wild True Story Feel Dry and AcademicAnna Kendrick shows some promise as a director, and the film’s real-life serial-killer story is insane. But the whole film feels a bit too careful.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  7. sooo meta
    Chicken Shop Date Flirts With Meta-Textual HonestyAndrew Garfield and Amelia Dimoldenberg attempt to define the relationship.
    By Jason P. Frank
  8. movie review
    Rumours’ Goofy Political Satire Has a Giant Glowing BrainRumours, the latest from legendary Canadian director Guy Maddin, has a glorious B-movie sheen.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. movie review
    It’s No Wonder That Everyone Falls for AnoraSean Baker’s Anora latest is a movie about the way people look at each other, though it may not seem that way on the surface.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  10. now streaming
    The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendTime to conjure up some Halloween classics.
    By Savannah Salazar
  11. a long talk
    A Night Out With the Strippers of Sean Baker’s AnoraThe breakout stars reflect on making it in Hollywood “not in spite of being a sex worker but because of it.”
    By Rachel Handler
  12. parody and puppetry
    How Did Cate Blanchett Wind Up in the Year’s Funniest Movie?With her starring role in Guy Maddin’s Rumours, she’s made one of her strangest and most perverse pictures to date.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. movie review
    Goodrich Feels More Like a Therapy Session Than a MovieThe new film from Hallie Meyers-Shyer stars Michael Keaton as a genial bad dad.
    By Alison Willmore
  14. fact vs. fiction
    The Real Rodney Alcala Story Was More Gruesome Than Woman of the Hour Lets OnAnna Kendrick’s directorial debut relives a chilling moment in true crime history but rushes past its gruesome backstory.
    By Laura Bradley
  15. coming soon
    Fran Drescher to Play Timothée Chalamet’s Mom in Marty SupremeEverything we know about the first solo effort by Josh Safdie.
    By Bethy Squires
  16. nobody wants this
    Lonely Planet Is the Most Evil of This Year’s Age-Gap RomancesWhat if the only person who understood you was a guy in private equity who hates his girlfriend?
    By Fran Hoepfner
  17. endings
    The Platform 2’s Ending Casts the Original in a Depressing New LightIn its bleak final minutes, the sequel reverses the first film’s message about hope as a force of political change.
    By A.A. Dowd
  18. now streaming
    9 Newish Movies to Rent This MonthYou can now watch one of the year’s best animated movies at home.
    By Brian Tallerico
  19. movie review
    Smile 2’s Ideas Are Scarier Than the Movie ItselfWhat starts off as a thoughtful thriller set in the world of pop stardom winds up mired in the usual horror-movie clichés.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  20. teenage dirtbag
    Terrifier 3 Gives The Wild Robot an AssistChildren love Art the Clown!
    By Jason P. Frank
  21. movies fantasy league
    Coulrophobia Strikes the Movies LeagueA dud-coded box office weekend and a conversation with the Podcaster Division’s reigning champ, Katey Rich.
    By Joe Reid
  22. movies fantasy league
    The MFL’s Opening Weekend is in the BooksThe draft window is officially closed, which means points are rolling in and the leaderboard is live.
    By Vulture Editors
  23. party report
    Add Anora to the Pantheon of New York City Rom-ComsWe asked the cast about some of their favorite Big Apple romances.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  24. poster children
    Cynthia Erivo Thinks Your Edits Are Wicked Inappropriate“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she said in response to a fan-made poster.
    By Jason P. Frank
  25. role call
    Holt McCallany Answers Every Question We Have About Fight ClubOn working with the man he calls “Meat” (last name Loaf), the catharsis of terrorizing a priest, and his decades-old beef with Rosie O’Donnell.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  26. am i the drama?
    Zendaya to Cause Drama with Robert PattinsonAnd Alana Haim has reportedly joined them in the cast of Kristoffer Borgli’s upcoming film.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  27. box office beatdown
    Animated Movies Are Taking Over the Box-Office Top 10For the first time ever. Ani-mazing!
    By Jason P. Frank
  28. making myths
    A Hard-to-Find Cult Classic Is Finally Streaming — and Coming Back to Blu-RayTarsem Singh’s 2006 epic The Fall is now back in theaters, and the director says a physical re-release is on the way, too.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  29. vulture lists
    Every Laura Dern Role, RankedOften volatile and warped onscreen, immensely likable off-screen.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  30. box office report card
    Terrifier 3 Wins Box Office Battle of the Killer ClownsAudiences say Art the Clown > Arthur Fleck.
    By Bethy Squires
  31. now streaming
    The 12 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch On Your Day OffThere’s the new Terrifier movie, and then there’s a bunch of things that are not the new Terrifier movie.
    By Savannah Salazar
  32. vulture lists
    The 20 Best Movies About American PresidentsFrost/Nixon, Secret Honor, Lincoln, and more.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
  33. hey that’s me
    How the Original SNL Cast Reacted to Saturday Night MovieDan Aykroyd calls the 90 minutes of pre-production chaos “pretty accurate.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  34. oscar futures
    Saoirse Ronan Has Two Shots at Making This Her Oscar YearHer passion project The Outrun and her first maternal role in Blitz. One is a better bet than the other.
    By Nate Jones
  35. nyff 2024
    Blitz Is the Worst Movie Steve McQueen Has MadeBy any wider standard, that means that the World War II drama is still not bad at all.
    By Alison Willmore
  36. meet cute
    Love Is a (Cinematrix) GameWe’ll always have rom-com week (in the archives).
    By Britina Cheng
  37. vulture lists
    Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movies, RankedIt’s been 50 years since Tobe Hooper unleashed Leatherface, and horror cinema has never been the same.
    By Daniel Dockery
  38. journeys
    Does Jessica Chastain Know She Won an Oscar?It’s not necessary to yell at JetBlue over in-flight entertainment!
    By Jason P. Frank
  39. that’s (not) entertainment
    Why Do a Joker Musical If You Don’t Want to Do a Joker Musical?Todd Phillips, a one-time purveyor of boys-will-be-boys frat comedies, can’t seem to embrace the flamboyance of the genre.
    By A.A. Dowd
  40. movie review
    The Lego Pharrell Movie Has a Lego Black Lives Matter SegmentSome thoughts on Piece by Piece and the dangers of committing to the bit.
    By Alison Willmore
  41. movie review
    We Live in Time Failed to Move My Cold, Cold HeartI never really bought the onscreen relationship, in part because I could constantly feel the movie trying too hard.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  42. movie review
    The Apprentice Gets Dumber the Longer It Goes OnDirector Ali Abbasi’s portrait of a young Donald Trump never lives up to its strongest performance: Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  43. vulture lists
    A Spooky Guide to All the New Horror Streaming in OctoberA tricky Stephen King adaptation, Anna Kendrick’s long-awaited directorial debut, and streaming releases for some of the year’s best horror.
    By Brian Tallerico
  44. vulture lists
    Movies About Live TV, Ranked by StressSaturday Night recreates the chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the first SNL episode; see how other filmmakers have explored live TV’s highs and lows.
    By Gayle Sequeira
  45. trailer mix
    A Martha Stewart Documentary: It’s a Good ThingMartha comes to Netflix October 30, in some anti-Halloween counterprogramming.
    By Bethy Squires
  46. backstory
    How a Rape Scene Blew Up the Trump Movie“Part of me is like, Sue us,” says the Apprentice director. “The other part is like, This can ruin my life.”
    By Chris Lee
  47. her web connects them all
    The Complete History of Dakota Johnson: Agent of ChaosJohnson’s chaos has infected the friendly skies, as R-rated Daddio was played on every screen of a Quantas flight, and couldn’t be changed.
    By Bethy Squires
  48. nyff 2024
    How to Make an Elevated Dog MovieLiterate, sober, and bathed in Mozart needle drops, The Friend is a pet film for book clubs and graduate writing seminars.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  49. drumroll please
    Who Is This Diva in the Wicked Trailer?Mama, a squirrel behind you!
    By Rebecca Alter
  50. nyff 2024
    Grand Tour Is a Deliberately Ramshackle Yet Captivating Work of ArtMiguel Gomes’s globetrotting, language-spanning film gently refutes any conventional moviegoing expectations.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  51. fancasts
    Let’s Fan-Cast Folie à Deux’s Fictional Joker TV MovieFolie à Deux never shows us this TV movie, perhaps because that would be funny and interesting, two qualities the film abhors. But it got me thinking.
    By Nate Jones
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