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Our Final Guesses for the 2025 Oscar Nominations

 This year’s Oscars class did not begin the season especially heralded, but on the precipice of the nominations, its reputation has turned around. By Nate Jones
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How to Campaign for an Oscar While L.A. Is on Fire

 Hollywood insiders say you can have a screening or a dedication: “Just no Champagne. No party.” By Chris Lee
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Mike Leigh Knows Someone Like Pansy in Real Life, Too

 The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you. By Matt Zoller Seitz
  1. cast away
    The Force Awa-Kens in Ryan GoslingHe’s reportedly in talks to star in an untitled Star Wars movie from Shawn Levy.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  2. los angeles wildfires
    How to Campaign for an Oscar While L.A. Is on FireHollywood insiders say you can have a screening or a dedication: “Just no Champagne. No party.”
    By Chris Lee
  3. now streaming
    5 New Movies You Can Finally Rent This MonthTime to invite Nosferatu over for dinner.
    By Brian Tallerico
  4. vulture lists
    Every Paul Schrader Movie, RankedThe director’s psychological portraits of lost souls desperately seeing salvation take many forms.
    By Vikram Murthi
  5. awards szn
    Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott Are on Oscar-Nominations DutyTrading “haha”s for “ooh”s and “aah”s.
    By Jason P. Frank
  7. oscar futures
    Our Final Guesses for the 2025 Oscar NominationsThis year’s Oscars class did not begin the season especially heralded, but on the precipice of the nominations, its reputation has turned around.
    By Nate Jones
  8. a long talk
    Mike Leigh Knows Someone Like Pansy in Real Life, TooThe Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  9. wild at heart
    Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, and More Remember David Lynch“I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  10. pandora’s box
    Josh Gad Looked Too Much Like a ‘Smurf’ to be a Na’vi“When I was turned into a digital Avatar I supposedly looked like a tall, overweight Smurf.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  11. money please
    One of Them Days Had One of Those Good WeekendsThere’s no need to sell any plasma.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  12. our robot overlords
    The Brutalist’s AI Controversy, ExplainedIncluding how Brady Corbet responded to the controversy.
    By Bethy Squires
  13. oscars 2025
    The Five Oscar Nominations We’re Most Afraid ofAs Oscar pundits, we try to be fair to everyone, but we know who we’re rooting for — and also, who we aren’t.
    By Nate Jones and Joe Reid
  14. vulture lists
    The 47 Best Movies Over 3 Hours LongGot some extra time? Lose yourself in these cinematic spectacles.
  15. the industry
    Hollywood Braces for a ‘Masks Off’ Trump Era“There’s more fear in the executive suites now than there ever has been.”
    By Chris Lee
  16. now streaming
    The 16 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendYour Innie’s watching Severance; your Outie’s at the movie theater.
    By Savannah Salazar
  17. fall preview 2024
    Adam Pearson Is No WallflowerIn A Different Man, the actor has his biggest role to date in a dark comedy inspired by his upbeat personality.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  18. the law
    Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s Legal Battle, ExplainedWhat to know about how the It Ends With Us co-stars ended up here.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  19. life after lynch
    ‘What Do I Do With This Grief?’The owner of Laura Palmer’s house has been comforting David Lynch fans for years. She has no plans of stopping.
    By Rachel Handler
  20. coffee and cigarettes
    An Extensive Guide to the Surreal Commercials of David LynchFrom PSAs to PS2.
    By Rebecca Alter
  21. movie review
    Fernanda Torres Is a Subtle Marvel in I’m Still HereWalter Salles’s political drama looks at one family’s suffering during Brazil’s military dictatorship.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  22. vulture lists
    How to Watch All the Early 2025 Oscar ContendersArchitects! Bob Dylans! Gladiators!
    By Brian Tallerico
  23. imaxxinista
    Greta Gerwig Broke NetflixHer upcoming Chronicles of Narnia adaptation lands an unprecedented theatrical run for the streamer.
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. strength and honor
    Gladiator II Enters the Paramount+ ColiseumThe gates of streaming will soon be open night and day.
    By Savannah Salazar
  25. movie review
    Grand Theft Hamlet Is a Delightful Putting-on-a-Show DocumentaryShot entirely in Grand Theft Auto Online, this film about two actors attempting an unusual Shakespeare production is both hilarious and touching.
    By Alison Willmore
  26. mischief on set
    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Rats in NosferatuHow does one motivate 2,000 rats? Patiently.
    By Laura Bradley
  27. awooo!
    Every Universal Wolf Man Movie, RankedIncluding Leigh Whannell’s latest take on the hairiest of the classic monsters.
    By Louis Peitzman
  28. outrageous fortune
    Staging Hamlet Inside Grand Theft Auto Is Even Harder Than It Looks“It’s a very basic challenge when, as a performer, you have to think, Is this person going to shoot me?”
    By Nicholas Quah
  29. remembrance
    Beyond the EndDavid Lynch spent his five-decade film and TV career contemplating life, death, and the indescribable realms in between.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  30. damn fine friends
    Kyle MacLachlan Remembers David Lynch, ‘the Best Version of Human’“He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  31. at the box office
    Why Paramount Risked (and Lost) So Much Money on Better ManParamount spent $25 million on distribution rights for Better Man. But over its opening three days, the film pulled in a dismal $1.2 million.
    By Chris Lee
  32. a damn fine man
    10 Delightful David Lynch StoriesIncluding the time he led Laura Dern’s Oscar campaign with a cow.
    By Devon Ivie
  33. rip
    David Lynch, Legendary Filmmaker, Dead at 78“There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’”
    By Rebecca Alter
  34. in conversation
    David Lynch on His Memoir Room to Dream and Clues to His Films“People are detectives and we have life to find clues about in the same way we would with a piece of cinema.”
    By David Marchese
  35. crystal ball
    How the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Legal Drama Ends, to UsWhat’s next after Baldoni’s new lawsuit? Crisis comms and legal experts weigh in on all the ways the competing suits could go.
    By Victoria Bekiempis
  36. superlatives
    Hans Zimmer on His Most Unusual and Underrated Scores“I managed to go and fuck with the very fabric of time.”
    By Matthew Jacobs
  37. movie review
    Presence Is the Best Thing Steven Soderbergh’s Done in AgesIt’s an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  38. movie review
    Kieran Culkin Is a Mercurial Pleasure in A Real PainJesse Eisenberg’s charming Sundance breakout moves gently and smoothly but hints at an all-consuming darkness underneath.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  39. the industry
    The Voice WhispererEric Vetro teaches the stars how to sing for their Oscars. “They don’t have a vocal-coach award, but if there was one, he’d be Meryl Streep.”
    By Nate Jones
  40. the limes they are a-changin
    Timothée Chalamet Went Electric and Got FinedLime reportedly charged him £60 after the London premiere of A Complete Unknown.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  41. not my serkis not my monkeys
    The BAFTAs Went Bananas for Monkey MoviesThe BAFTAs sure aren’t flinging ‘boo!’ at these flicks.
    By Rebecca Alter
  42. take that
    A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown of Everything That Happens in Better ManThe Robbie Williams biopic may not be the best movie of the year, but it certainly is the most movie.
    By Bethy Squires
  43. movie review
    They Don’t Make Comedies Like One of Them Days AnymoreBut they should.
    By Alison Willmore
  44. awards szn
    The 2025 BAFTA Nominations Are HereConclave leads with 12, but Irish hip-hop biopic Kneecap surprises with six.
    By Jason P. Frank
  45. ay dios mio
    Emilia Pérez’s Controversial CaminoA timeline of the criticism Emilia Pérez faces on its way to the Oscars, from representation to Selena Gomez’s accent.
    By Bethy Squires
  46. he’s the one
    An American Guide to Robbie WilliamsWhat’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery?
    By Emma Madden
  47. a long talk
    The Melodrama of Robert EggersThe Nosferatu director doesn’t want to represent a modern point of view in his horror-adjacent movies.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  48. bad omens
    All of Neil Gaiman’s Halted and Canceled ProjectsThe author denies engaging in nonconsensual sexual activity “with anyone. Ever.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  49. movie review
    Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Is More Challenging Than You Might ExpectFor such a hot movie, this Daniel Craig–starring William S. Burroughs adaptation sure feels emotionally sealed off.
    By Alison Willmore
  50. performance review
    For the Love of God, Give This Woman an Oscar NominationNo one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths.
    By Alison Willmore
  51. respect the classics
    Neil Young Once Kicked Bob Dylan Off His Tour BusBut he still loved A Complete Unknown.
    By Devon Ivie
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