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Roxana Hadadi is a TV critic who also writes about film and pop culture, with the closed captions on and motion smoothing off.

  1. lesbian space witches!
    The Acolyte Is Not the Star Wars You Were Looking ForAnd that’s a very good thing.
  2. best of 2024
    The Best TV Shows of 2024 (So Far)Couples (and a throuple) working through their issues, feudal lords on the brink of war, and a comedian we’d follow anywhere.
  3. natural selection
    54 Alien Creatures From the Scavengers Reign Bestiary, RankedAdorable critters, sentient geology, and other dangerous fauna.
  4. overnights
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: A Blank CanvasThe chefs play with their food in one of this season’s rare conceptually successful episodes.
  5. vanderpunch rules
    Tom Sandoval Spent 18 Episodes Asking to Get PunchedLest Vanderpump Rules end this cursed season with Sandoval thinking he won anyone over, here is an incomplete list of his most intolerable moments.
  6. ranking
    The Best Names in Furiosa Are Also the GrossestThe Fury Road prequel is packed with the nuttiest, most goofy-ass names George Miller could dream up.
  7. endings
    The Empty Perspective of Civil War’s Final ShotIt’s the closest Alex Garland’s “anti-war” film comes to a distinct political statement.
  8. love is an open door
    Abbott Elementary Crossed the Will-They-or-Won’t-They ThresholdThe latest step in Janine and Gregory’s romantic journey begins the same way as their sitcom predecessors’: with a closed door reopening.
  9. scene partners
    Ryan Gosling’s Best Co-stars Are His JacketsSorry, Emma Stone.
  10. overnights
    Top Chef - Season 21
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Family-Reunion TimeBoiled fish? Apparently it’s a thing.
  11. endings
    The Empty Impact of Dune: Part Two’s Villain TurnThe sci-fi sequel’s condemnation of colonialism rings false when it won’t acknowledge its own Middle Eastern and Muslim influences.
  12. chat room
    Jack O’Connell Says the Amy Winehouse Biopic Isn’t ‘Pointing Fingers’The Back to Black star on finding compassion for the late singer’s ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.
  13. close read
    X-Men ’97 Told the Avengers They SuckThe series undermining Earth’s mightiest “heroes” is delightful fan-service subversion.
  14. the other manny
    QUINTA BRUNSON, JOSH SEGARRA
    Let Janine Have ThisWe all know Abbott Elementary’s romantic endgame. In the meantime, this could be a love triangle made in sitcom heaven.
  15. overnights
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Whole New ShowThis is a classic example of the chefs “doing too much” and struggling to get their dishes together.
  16. the rings of power
    How Much More Sauron Prologue Do We Need?Middle-earth has so much more to offer!
  17. aide de vamp
    Armand Comin’What Interview With the Vampire’s last-minute Rashid reveal means for the new season.
  18. overnights
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Conceptual ClumsinessThis season’s Restaurant Wars offers a classic example of a team not hitting the challenge brief and succeeding all the same.
  19. the fall guy
    What If The Fall Guy’s Diva Action Star Is Based on a Real Person?Let’s talk about Tom Ryder, the smug, showboating actor who lies about doing his own stunts.
  20. vulture lists
    Every Ryan Gosling Movie, RankedA closer look at the actor’s tortured men, silent heroes, and wounded lovers.
  21. overnights
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Sausage ShowdownA high-anxiety challenge and a huge comeback might just be what we need to inject some healthy competition into the season.
  22. movie review
    It’s Desire vs. Domination in the Intensely Erotic FemmeThe razor’s edge between pleasure and pain gives this transgressive thriller its potency.
  23. bob’s belchers
    I Have So Many Questions About The Jinx’s Wonder TwinsThe standouts of the Durst prosecution team are John Grisham protagonists run through a Workaholics filter.
  24. overnights
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Under PressureIt’s difficult to judge the chefs when the point of the challenge is so confusing.
  25. exit interview
    ‘It Was So Hard to Remember, Don’t Cry’Shōgun’s Hiroyuki Sanada on off-screen methods, onscreen battles, and the scene that moved him to tears.
  26. finale thoughts
    Shōgun’s Tadanobu Asano Had to Consider Every Side of Yabushige“He would have been a wonderful jam-session performer because he is able to get going with whatever vibe is surrounding him.”
  27. movie review
    An Exploited Neighborhood, Seen Through Children’s EyesMinhal Baig’s We Grown Now tells the story of two childhood best friends in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project.
  28. vulture lists
    The Stoner Canon: Over 100 Trippy Movies, Albums, Books, TV Shows, and MoreThe ultimate guide to experiencing the high.
  29. tv 101
    Every Shōgun Episode Ends PerfectlyThe best show on television right now is doing something simple: nailing its final minutes every week.
  30. art history
    RIPLEY
    37 Ripley Shots That Would Blow Caravaggio’s MindThe black-and-white Netflix series relies on visual motifs that reflect its central character’s alienation. It absolutely rips.
  31. overnights
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Join the ClubLaura must be stopped.
  32. exit interview
    ‘I Hate Clear Blue Skies’Why Steven Zaillian brought a monstrous, black-and-white version of The Talented Mr. Ripley to Netflix.
  33. chat room
    Show Kasamatsu Isn’t Trying to Make Smoking Look So CoolThe Michael Corleone of Tokyo Vice on perfecting the cigarette etiquette of the period, Backstreet Boys karaoke, and why he ad-libbed a crucial scene.
  34. q+a
    Geoff Rickly Ripped the Band-Aid Off to Make a New Thursday SongTheir first single in 13 years arrived after a “contentious” writing session.
  35. overnights
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: Shaking Things UpWhy is Top Chef making these tweaks to the format? It already works. Just leave it!
  36. chat room
    Tokuma Nishioka Brought the Shōgun Set to Tears“I looked around and they were clapping, very, very silently, and some of them were crying. I thought, I guess I did well.”
  37. endings
    Tokyo Vice Goes to PressJake’s big exposé, and what it took to publish it, cements the series as a great gangster show that’s also a great journalism show.
  38. tv review
    The Remorseless Mr. RipleyAndrew Scott’s phenomenal take on Patricia Highsmith’s con man anchors a deliciously mean adaptation.
  39. overnights
    Top Chef: Wisconsin Recap: The Great Croquette ConfluenceSome of the same faces are already popping up in the top and the bottom, as the chefs most willing to take risks begin to pull away.
  40. phonetics
    FYI, the ‘x’ in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Is SilentWe got an email about it.
  41. overnights
    Top Chef Recap: Raising the Bar SnacksThe show becomes a more recognizable version of itself as the Wisconsin season settles into its groove.
  42. bug out
    3 Body Problem’s Imagination ProblemIn ignoring humanity’s wider reaction to the end of the world, the Netflix adaptation fails to find gravity in its final scene.
  43. wine and crime
    11 Signs You’re Watching a MotherthrillerA crappy husband, an elite Zip Code, and women supporting (other rich) women? Check, check, and check.
  44. no chef!
    Top Chef Serves Up Chaos MenuThe venerable cooking competition returns in reinvention mode, but its newly Bear-ified visual style feels undercooked.
  45. to me my childhood
    X-Men ’97 Will Validate Your NostalgiaWas Gambit always this shirtless? (No complaints!)
  46. moment of tooth
    Girls5eva Delivers 2024 TV’s Most Horrifying ImageNight Country’s corpsicle’s got nothing on this.
  47. close read
    Shōgun Explodes Into the FutureCannon fire soundtracks a polite society being ushered into a new, more indiscriminately brutal age.
  48. highs and lows
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2024 OscarsIs this a show for everyone or just the diehards? Is Hollywood back and better than ever, or has it lost its sense of identity?
  49. finale thoughts
    C.T. Tamburello Made a Pact Going Into The Traitors“We’re The Challenge. We started this competition reality-TV stuff, and we’re gonna finish it.”
  50. backstories
    A Party, a Spanking, a Radio PlayThe past came looking for Killers of the Flower Moon in its three most ambitious scenes.
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