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Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
The 25 best movies of 2022The 25 best movies of 2022
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The greatest films from a tumultuous year.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Of course Glass Onion is a blast. But it cuts deeper than Knives Out, too.
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Rian Johnson’s murder mystery follow-up takes on the self-styled founder class, with riotous results.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Marvel has a whole lot riding on Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverMarvel has a whole lot riding on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The original film, starring the late Chadwick Boseman, set a standard for Marvel excellence. The sequel is ready to meet it.

By Alex Abad-Santos
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
The Banshees of Inisherin is great — and even better if you know the history behind itThe Banshees of Inisherin is great — and even better if you know the history behind it
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson re-team for Martin McDonagh’s riotous fable that’s about more than a friend breakup.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Here are 29 new movies to get excited aboutHere are 29 new movies to get excited about
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Fall has arrived. Here’s everything to know about the year’s upcoming releases.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Tár demands — and deserves — your full attentionTár demands — and deserves — your full attention
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Cate Blanchett stars in a tightly wound masterpiece that slices through class anxiety and power.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Triangle of Sadness might be the meanest film of the year. Its director is an optimist.Triangle of Sadness might be the meanest film of the year. Its director is an optimist.
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Ruben Ostlund doesn’t think we’re hypocrites.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Every movie right now, from Amsterdam to Glass Onion, stars a million A-listersEvery movie right now, from Amsterdam to Glass Onion, stars a million A-listers
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

On the Endgamification of everything.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
The buzziest fall movies have something in commonThe buzziest fall movies have something in common
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

From The Fabelmans to Bardo to Armageddon Time, the filmmakers are making their memoirs.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Inside Darren Aronofsky’s messy movie The Whale is something wise about religious traumaInside Darren Aronofsky’s messy movie The Whale is something wise about religious trauma
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The Whale is more than the movie where Brendan Fraser wears a fat suit.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
What the film Women Talking loses (and preserves) from the 2018 novelWhat the film Women Talking loses (and preserves) from the 2018 novel
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The plot is based on a horrifying true story from 2011, but the resistance philosophy goes back to St. Augustine.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
This summer’s movies are all about loveThis summer’s movies are all about love
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Loneliness, longing, and love in the third pandemic summer.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Elvis and the trouble with musician biopicsElvis and the trouble with musician biopics
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Baz Luhrmann’s movie about The King belly-flops, but in an interesting way.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
15 unmissable movies from this year’s Cannes15 unmissable movies from this year’s Cannes
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The films that scandalized and enchanted audiences at the world’s most prestigious film festival — and how to watch them soon.

By Alissa Wilkinson
The long, long, twisty affair between the US military and Hollywood
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

For the Pentagon, films like Top Gun: Maverick are more than just a movie.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Hollywood’s hot new trend: Parents who say they’re sorryHollywood’s hot new trend: Parents who say they’re sorry
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Everything Everywhere All at Once and Turning Red are part of a burgeoning subgenre: the millennial parental apology fantasy.

By Emily St. James
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Everything Everywhere All at Once, explained by a quantum physicistEverything Everywhere All at Once, explained by a quantum physicist
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The probability that we’re all living in the multiverse, and why that idea is so appealing.

By Alex Abad-Santos
Culture
Will Smith’s slap and Oscars ban, briefly explainedWill Smith’s slap and Oscars ban, briefly explained
Culture

What the American Oscars telecast cut from the Will Smith-Chris Rock confrontation.

By Constance Grady
Culture
You can’t save the Oscars by making them sponconYou can’t save the Oscars by making them sponcon
Culture

Figure out what the Academy Awards are for before you do another one.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Culture
Two actors — and one major corporation — that broke boundaries at the 2022 OscarsTwo actors — and one major corporation — that broke boundaries at the 2022 Oscars
Culture

An openly queer woman of color, a deaf actor, and a streaming service all celebrate Oscar wins.

By Emily St. James
Culture
A night of chaos: 4 winners and 2 losers from the 2022 OscarsA night of chaos: 4 winners and 2 losers from the 2022 Oscars
Culture

Beyoncé, Bruno, and the beef between Will Smith and Chris Rock.

By Alex Abad-Santos, Aja Romano and 2 more
Culture
How CODA managed to pull out a Best Picture winHow CODA managed to pull out a Best Picture win
Culture

The family drama is a hugely unlikely Best Picture winner. But it sort of makes sense.

By Alissa Wilkinson
One Good Thing
One Good Thing: The movie you have to see if you loved Drive My CarOne Good Thing: The movie you have to see if you loved Drive My Car
One Good Thing

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy explores the startling role of pure luck in our lives.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Stanley Nelson’s 3 decades of telling Black stories
Culture

The Oscar-nominated director of Attica keeps showing us the real America.

By Jamil Smith
One Good Thing
One Good Thing: The messy, glorious music videos of Paul Thomas AndersonOne Good Thing: The messy, glorious music videos of Paul Thomas Anderson
One Good Thing

The Licorice Pizza director has made beautiful loners out of Haim, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, and more.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
Pixar’s Turning Red is an unlikely culture war battlegroundPixar’s Turning Red is an unlikely culture war battleground
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Turning Red’s biggest offense may just be its unapologetic weirdness.

By Aja Romano
One Good Thing
3 Oscar nominees, one little-seen musical about cheerleaders3 Oscar nominees, one little-seen musical about cheerleaders
One Good Thing

When Ariana DeBose and Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated on a musical about cheerleaders, based on a Kirsten Dunst franchise.

By Constance Grady
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
The Oscars can’t quite decide if they’re about America or the whole worldThe Oscars can’t quite decide if they’re about America or the whole world
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Hollywood’s going global, but its biggest awards are still provincial.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Explainers
Your 9 biggest questions about the 2022 Oscars, answeredYour 9 biggest questions about the 2022 Oscars, answered
Explainers

How do you get an Oscar? Who’s going to win Best Picture? Why wasn’t Spider-Man nominated?

By Alissa Wilkinson
Culture
Why the Oscars are so weird about real people rolesWhy the Oscars are so weird about real people roles
Culture

Almost half of this year’s acting nominations went to actors playing real-life icons.

By Alissa Wilkinson
The Gray Area
The real story of “Don’t Look Up”The real story of “Don’t Look Up”
Podcast
The Gray Area

Co-writer (and Academy Award nominee) David Sirota on what the movie is really about.

By Sean Illing
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards
From a volcano love story to an all-girl metal band, 15 documentaries you can’t missFrom a volcano love story to an all-girl metal band, 15 documentaries you can’t miss
Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The most exciting nonfiction from this year’s Sundance.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Explainers
The Golden Globes are this weekend, but they won’t be on TVThe Golden Globes are this weekend, but they won’t be on TV
Explainers

A brief history of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s bad year.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Future Perfect
22 things we think will happen in 202222 things we think will happen in 2022
Future Perfect

Forecasting what’s shaping up to be another bumpy year.

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper and 1 more
Culture
The pandemic made live events surprising againThe pandemic made live events surprising again
Culture

Why the Oscars and the DNC were so great in lockdown and the Golden Globes and RNC weren’t.

By Emily St. James
Culture
7 winners and 4 losers from the deeply eccentric 2021 Oscars7 winners and 4 losers from the deeply eccentric 2021 Oscars
Culture

A fantastically unpredictable show ended on a huge bummer of an anticlimax.

By Emily St. James, Constance Grady and 2 more
Culture
Best Picture winner Nomadland doesn’t just tell a story about America. It embodies it.Best Picture winner Nomadland doesn’t just tell a story about America. It embodies it.
Culture

The quiet drama makes a lot of sense for this strange Oscars year.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Culture
4 ways the 2021 Oscars made history4 ways the 2021 Oscars made history
Culture

Major milestones from a historically weird Academy Awards.

By Constance Grady and Aja Romano
Culture
The 2021 Oscars have been shrouded in mystery. Here’s what to expect.The 2021 Oscars have been shrouded in mystery. Here’s what to expect.
Culture

The Academy Awards will look different this year.

By Alissa Wilkinson
Breaking down the 2021 Best Picture nominees
Culture

The merits, demerits, and awards chances of each film in a weird year at the Oscars.

By Alissa Wilkinson