Movies
Vox’s coverage of movie news, reviews, analysis, and recommendations of film, from blockbuster hits to movie festival highlights.
Before the Oscar nominee was in The Lost Daughter, she starred in the terrific Wild Rose.
Turning Red’s biggest offense may just be its unapologetic weirdness.
When Ariana DeBose and Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated on a musical about cheerleaders, based on a Kirsten Dunst franchise.
How the Best Picture nominee digs into Murakami and Chekhov.
A tale of two moral universes.
Hollywood’s going global, but its biggest awards are still provincial.
How do you get an Oscar? Who’s going to win Best Picture? Why wasn’t Spider-Man nominated?
Almost half of this year’s acting nominations went to actors playing real-life icons.
The stakes in Love & Basketball are higher because the rewards are so rare and small.
Co-writer (and Academy Award nominee) David Sirota on what the movie is really about.
Films from Tantura to Descendant challenge the powerful. But it’s still up to us to witness the truth.
For seven decades, she gave voice to the nation’s burgeoning film industry — and fought for better pay for the singers who powered it.
The truest, purest feast of fools.
The most exciting nonfiction from this year’s Sundance.
We’re all trying to be the authors of our own stories.
The lasting appeal of the Star Wars bounty hunter, explained.
The best and buzziest movies out of this year’s Sundance.
Digging into the Olympics’ official narrative on film to see what the movies really say.
How artists are thinking about the future of virtual reality.
Peeling back the layers of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s surprising TikTok hit.
Marvel turned its post-credits scenes into a pop culture phenomenon.
The new Scream movie and The Matrix Resurrections explore what happens when stories never end.
Art reminds us that survival after apocalypse is insufficient.
Why do so many TV shows and movies look like they were filmed in a gray wasteland?
A brief history of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s bad year.
The new Netflix drama’s web of allusions and alliterations are its key.
Silicon Valley is ignoring the Elizabeth Holmes story. Hollywood isn’t.
Forecasting what’s shaping up to be another bumpy year.
The survival of theaters depends on the people in the seats.
The Matrix Resurrections’ take on trauma therapy is more nuanced than it seems at first.
It was a boom year for nonfiction.
No time to rewatch The Matrix trilogy before Resurrections? Here’s the important stuff.
Eight hours with the lads from Liverpool in Peter Jackson’s new documentary.
The groundbreaking sci-fi franchise, explained in 5 eras.
Where does Peter Parker go from here?
Spider-Man: No Way Home has two credits scenes, and only one has to do with Spider-Man!
How to watch the greatest films from a wild year.
How Impeachment, Spencer, and Katie Couric are rethinking the diet culture of the ’90s.
Don’t Look Up and Silent Night lean into our proximity to disaster. Too bad they’re preaching to the choir.
Our critics hash out Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 classic.