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Not Even Jennifer Lopez Seems to Know What Atlas Is Meant to Be

 The Netflix original is neither a serious action flick nor a B-movie. It’s just a slick, textureless attempt to assure you that AI is your friend. By Alison Willmore
technicolor nightmare

Dementus’s Color-Changing Cape Is the Key to Understanding Furiosa

 Dementus’s cape changes colors as he descends into further villainy and as Furiosa rises to become the rarest of things: a true hero. By James Grebey
endings

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s Fantastically Demented Ending, Explained

 George Miller’s Fury Road prequel has one of the bleakest, most twisted endings of any studio franchise movie in recent history. By Bilge Ebiri
  1. hail holy queen
    Everyone Who Whoopi Goldberg Has Asked to Be in Sister Act 3Daisy Ridley is the latest guest on The View to walk away with an offer.
    By Tom Smyth
  2. high five
    It Pays to Bet on Neon for the Palme d’Or at CannesNeon has won the Palme d’Or five times in a row, with Sean Baker’s Anora as its latest win.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  3. cannes 2024
    Who Will Score the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024?Sean Baker takes home Palme d’Or for Anora.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  4. cannes 2024
    Judith Godrèche Breaks Open France’s Moi Aussi Movement at Cannes“They wish I would fall, I’d make a mistake. Once you are someone who is a whistleblower about sexual violence, you need to be perfect.”
    By Rachel Handler
  5. technicolor nightmare
    Dementus’s Color-Changing Cape Is the Key to Understanding FuriosaDementus’s cape changes colors as he descends into further villainy and as Furiosa rises to become the rarest of things: a true hero.
    By James Grebey
  7. review roundup
    Do Critics Want to Put Atlas on the Map?Early reactions to J.Lo’s new sci-fi movie are mostly a shrug at best.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  8. cannes 2024
    George Lucas Is Being Cranky at CannesAnd, no, he will not re-releasing his original versions of the first Star Wars trilogy anytime soon, thank you.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. movie review
    Not Even Jennifer Lopez Seems to Know What Atlas Is Meant to BeThe Netflix original is neither a serious action flick nor a B-movie. It’s just a slick, textureless attempt to assure you that AI is your friend.
    By Alison Willmore
  10. movie review
    If Glen Powell’s Not Already a Star, This Movie Will Make Him OneRichard Linklater’s Hit Man is a genuinely fresh and surprisingly gentle addition to the assassin genre.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  11. endings
    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s Fantastically Demented Ending, ExplainedGeorge Miller’s Fury Road prequel has one of the bleakest, most twisted endings of any studio franchise movie in recent history.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  12. cannes 2024
    All the Films Sold at Cannes 2024Sideshow and Janus Films picks up Misericordia.
    By Zoe Guy
  13. chat room
    Why Praetorian Jack’s Furiosa Romance ‘Worried’ Tom BurkeThe actor talks about his first big blockbuster and finding the tenderness in George Miller’s postapocalyptic wasteland.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  14. chapters
    ‘That’s Our Bond!’What it took to turn a relatively little-known, working-class actor named Sean Connery into the high-living, suave James Bond.
    By Paul Duncan
  15. now streaming
    The 12 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch Memorial Day WeekendGarfield canceled Monday.
    By Savannah Salazar
  16. slouching towards retirement
    Jessica Lange Is Putting on Her Magical Thinking CapThe Year of Magical Thinking is keeping her out of retirement.
    By Jason P. Frank
  17. rip
    Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me Director, Dead at 53He earned an Oscar nomination for the documentary in 2005.
    By Zoe Guy
  18. vulture lists
    12 Essential Movies About the End of High SchoolWe tip our graduation caps to these senior-year films.
    By Brian Boone
  19. cannes 2024
    The Best Movie at Cannes This Year Is an Oddball Canadian ComedyMatthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  20. coming loose
    Say Beetlejuice Three Times and You’ll Get Jenna OrtegaScream queen, meet Birdman.
    By Zoe Guy
  21. cannes 2024
    A Night at Cannes With the Strippers of Sean Baker’s AnoraThe breakout stars on making it in Hollywood “not in spite of being a sex worker but because of it.”
    By Rachel Handler
  22. chat room
    Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau, the Babes Babes, on Motherhood and Poop“There is so little art out there that uses what is uniquely a woman’s experience as hard comedy.”
    By Matthew Jacobs
  23. scene partners
    Ryan Gosling’s Best Co-stars Are His JacketsSorry, Emma Stone.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  24. better things
    Babes Was a Labor of LoveIn directing a feature about motherhood, Pamela Adlon found the sweet spot between slapstick and body horror.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  25. how to be a star in 2024
    21 Ways to Hack StardomAfter a dry period, a new crop of A-listers is rising in Hollywood — and doing it differently this time.
    By Vulture Editors
  26. splits?
    Can You Handle Another Bennifer Breakup?Jennifer Lopez is dodging questions on the Atlas press tour.
    By Justin Curto
  27. cannes 2024
    Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope Is As Beguiling As It Is AlienatingOnly Sorrentino could pull off something like this.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  28. o-town
    The 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Standing-O-MeterPaolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope was up to par at 9(ish) minutes.
    By Bethy Squires
  29. coming soon
    Rare Sighting of the Rock With HairAs MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the Benny Safdie–directed biopic The Smashing Machine.
    By Zoe Guy
  30. vulture movie club
    Bryant Park and Movies Go Together Like Peas and CarrotsStarting June 10, we’re giving you a reason to look forward to Mondays.
    By Vulture Editors
  31. cannes 2024
    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
  32. 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.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  33. cannes 2024
    If Only David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds Weren’t So LifelessThere’s adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas. But none of it really fits together.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  34. cannes 2024
    Terrible Billionaire Who Funded the Trump Movie Thought It Would Be PositiveReportedly “under the impression that it was a flattering portrayal of the 45th president.”
    By Nate Jones
  35. cannes 2024
    Horizon: An American Saga Is Dune: Part One for DadsHi, I’m dads.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  36. cannes 2024
    The Substance Is Disgusting, Twisted, and Instantly DivisiveThe graphic body-horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley is lighting up debate at Cannes.
    By Rachel Handler
  37. remembrance
    Dabney Coleman Was the Perfect Onscreen JerkMaybe likeability is overrated.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  38. summer preview 2024
    20 Movies We Can’t Wait to See This SummerThere’s only one new superhero movie coming soon, but that’s not necessarily bad news.
    By A.A. Dowd
  39. coming soon
    28 Days Later Is Getting Another Sequel 18 Years LaterAnd Cillian Murphy will be back “in a surprising way and in a way that grows.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  40. cannes 2024
    Yorgos Lanthimos and Jesse Plemmons Love Their Filmmaking CultAnd their new movie Kinds of Kindness, an anthology of abject debasement starring fellow cult members Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe.
    By Rachel Handler
  41. cannes 2024
    Emilia Pérez Is the Breakout Movie of Cannes 2024Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón on making the Jacques Audiard film that’s taking this year’s festival by storm.
    By Rachel Handler
  42. cannes 2024
    We’ll Be Yelling About Emilia Pérez Long After Cannes EndsMost people at the 2024 film festival seem to love the movie, and the ones that hate it, really hate it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  43. cannes 2024
    Franz Rogowski Explains Bird’s ‘Fantasy of a Naked Man Standing on a Skyscraper’The actor sat down at Cannes to talk nude spas, fame, and his dreamlike character in Andrea Arnold’s new film.
    By Rachel Handler
  44. cannes 2024
    Rumours’ Goofy Political Satire Has a Giant Glowing BrainThe legendary Canadian director Guy Maddin’s latest, which just premiered at Cannes, has a glorious B-movie sheen.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  45. cannes 2024
    Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada Is the Confession of a Man Who’s Faced DeathRichard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s latest as two versions of a dying filmmaker reckoning with a lifetime of regret.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  46. cannes 2024
    Nicolas Cage Is at His Maniacal Best In The SurferThe sunburnt thriller-comedy, which premiered at a midnight screening at Cannes, also birthed a new Cage catchphrase.
    By Rachel Handler
  47. know your target audience
    Of Course There’s a Challengers Throuple DiscountToo bad the tickets don’t come with a free churro.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  48. rip
    Dabney Coleman, Actor Known for Asshole Roles, Dead at 92He bossed Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton around in the 1980 comedy 9 to 5.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  49. at the box office
    IF Looked Like a Surefire Bomb. Now It Might Win Opening Weekend.How a kids’ flick starring Deadpool is going to overcome indifferent buzz and bad reviews to win the box office this weekend.
    By Chris Lee
  50. coming soon
    A New Kevin Costner Movie Is on the HorizonHorizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 has a ominous trailer filled with ominous statements.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  51. movie review
    Babes Revels in the Grossness of PregnancyBut the Michelle Buteau and Ilana Glazer comedy is better when it’s focused on their characters’ bittersweet friendship.
    By Alison Willmore
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