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    Helen Hunt Answers Every Question We Have About TwisterThe actress on performing with Bill Paxton, what it was like to be temporarily blinded on set, and what her future with the franchise looks like.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Mr. and Mrs. Smith Is a Straight Shot of Movie Star CharismaWhen Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt met on the set of the 2005 film, it was a meeting of two very different emblems of Hollywood past.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    The Timeless Honesty of Wild Style, the First Hip-Hop MovieCharlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy’s documentary-like film became an international cult favorite in the early 1980s. It’s just as fresh today.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Scott Speedman Answers All Our Questions About UnderworldOn why he left the franchise after two films, the pressures of fame at a young age, and wild times in Budapest.
    By Wolfgang Ruth
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    Longing for The Way We WereIf you want to watch two beautiful movie stars at the peak of their visual power and box-office draw, you can’t do much better than this film.
    By Christina Newland
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    Like Ben Affleck, Gigli Deserves a Second ChanceSomehow, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez manage to make his real teeth, her real accent, and their real chemistry seem fake.
    By Anna Peele
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    Catwoman May Be Bad at Being Good, But It’s Very Good at Being BadHollywood turned its back on Halle Berry after her movie bombed, but why couldn’t the industry let a Black woman flop in campy peace?
    By Muna Mire
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    Pride & Prejudice Is a Subtly Horny Balm for Our TimeThis week’s Friday Night Movie Club pick celebrates the small things when it comes to courtship, such as holding hands and brushing past one another.
    By Randi Bergman
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    A Decade Later, Bridesmaids’ Supporting Players Deserve Their FlowersOur unending gratitude to Jessica St. Clair, Ben Falcone, and Annie Mumolo for their comedic service.
    By Shannon Carlin
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    Twilight Is Forever Camp-Cringe RoyaltyGive Bella Swan a Nobel Prize now.
    By Wolfgang Ruth
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    Belly Is the FUBU of American Cinema, and That’s Why I Love ItHype Williams’s iconic, undeniably stylish feature film isn’t a masterpiece, but it lets stars like the late DMX shine.
    By Jordan Coley
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    30 Years Later, Defending Your Life Is Still the Best Movie About the AfterlifeWhat else has Meryl Streep, an A-list cameo, and unlimited buffets?
    By Rachel Simon
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    Fargo Claimed to Be a True Story, But the Coen Brothers’ Touches Made It GreatTwenty-five years later, we still happily vouch for this Minnesotan classic.
    By Max Cea
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    In Praise of Barb & Star’s Club Remix of ‘My Heart Will Go On’Why is it only a minute long? I need more!
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Brandy Answers Every Question We Have About CinderellaOn singing with Whitney Houston, the fate of the movie’s soundtrack, and building up impossible hopes for Black girls everywhere.
    By Zoe Haylock
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    Do You Understand the Impact of Brandy and Whitney’s Cinderella?It would not be an overstatement to say that Blinderella is the piece of culture that has most profoundly shaped my life.
    By Chris Murphy
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    The Still-Burning Fire of Born in FlamesA failed progressive regime demands collective action to meet the people’s needs. Hmm …
    By Yasmina Price
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    Wiping the Dust Off Sweet Smell of SuccessIt’s an incredibly contemporary movie about media power and the brutally transactional form it can take.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    The Exquisite Violence of The Age of InnocenceThere are no shootings or beatdowns. No one gets run over by a carriage or slapped with a glove. But there’s emotional violence. And it’s unrelenting.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Is Save the Last Dance Worth Rewatching?For the cursed audition scene? No. For the underappreciated performances from Kerry Washington and Bianca Lawson? Yes.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Miffy Englefield Answers Every Question We Have About The Holiday The actress recalls Mr. Napkin Head, how the movie helped pull her family out of debt, and the last time she heard from Jude Law.
    By Rachel Handler
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    It’s Christmas, So Let’s Watch Eyes Wide Shut for the 101st TimeAfter a miserable year, the holiday season is upon us again and we’re calibrating our seasonal movie selections accordingly.
    By Lila Shapiro
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    Here’s the Only Home Alone Conversation I Want to Have This Holiday SeasonIt has nothing to do with Catherine O’Hara, Donald Trump, or sequels.
    By Joe Reid
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    Casino Is the Gaudy Pinky Ring of the Vegas Movie SubgenreI love this movie about a lot of greedy, glamorous people who are always looking for the bigger and better deal.
    By Hunter Harris
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    The Endless Rewards of Rewatching Citizen KaneDo you need to see Citizen Kane to enjoy Mank? No, you don’t — you need to see Citizen Kane, period.
    By Mark Harris
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    When Harry Met Sally Won the Friday Night Movie Club ElectionYou’ll have what we’re having.
    By Jen Chaney
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    The It Follows Sex Demons, RankedFor this week’s Friday Night Movie Club, we are honoring the villain in David Robert Mitchell’s 2015 indie-horror sleeper hit.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Get in the Tub, We’re Watching What Lies BeneathWe deserve to see more class and trash collide in mid-tier-budget movies with stars of a certain age giving us their best spurned-spouse meltdowns.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
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    The Liberating Beauty of the Final Destination MoviesThe many dangers of our sad little lives are weaponized by this horror franchise. Which might be one reason why it’s so strangely cathartic.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Children Can Have a Little Nightmare Fuel, As a TreatThis Halloween season, we’re rewatching Coraline until our eyes are sewn over with buttons.
    By Rebecca Alter
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    In The Ring, the House Haunts YouBefore you die, you see The Ring … by joining us this October 2 for a live tweet as part of Vulture’s Friday Night Movie Club.
    By Alison Willmore
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    The Time to Watch Molly’s Game Is All the TimeIt’s a story of greed, excess, hubris, and bandage dresses; it’s a story about Hollywood.
    By Hunter Harris
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    Harold Perrineau Answers Every Question We Have About Romeo + JulietMercutio on the wild off-set nights with Leo, getting caught in a hurricane filming his death scene, and the movie’s second life as a cult classic.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Leonardo DiCaprio Won’t Let Himself Be Hot Onscreen Without DyingI am here today to posit a theory about the Romeo + Juliet and Titanic actor’s storied career and his Fibonacci sequence of a face.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Grab Your Quarantine Pet, We’re Watching Best in Show This FridayAnd please, for the love of dog, don’t forget Busy Bee.
    By Rebecca Alter
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    I Loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I’m Scared to Ever Rewatch It.This week’s Friday Night Movie Club is a film about whether it’s worth it to keep mining your memories for meaning.
    By Nate Jones
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    The Lost World Is Steven Spielberg’s Nastiest Film, and I Love ItIt’s a truly demented series of mostly wordless action and horror setpieces whose technical proficiency is matched only by their cruelty.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    A Candid Conversation With the (Fake) Jurassic Park Social-Media Manager“I think it’s just such a dumb time to be alive. I think people are bored.”
    By Rebecca Alter
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    The Movie of This Quarantine Summer Is Jurassic ParkRunning from dinosaurs, stress-eating ice cream, filing into a theme park even though it means putting lives at risk — who can’t relate?
    By Alison Willmore
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    You Can Hate Inception All You WantBut the highest hope anyone has for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is that it will be another Inception.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    We’re Watching the Best Adam Sandler Movie This FridayI’m sorry, but it’s still Click.
    By Jesse David Fox
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    Twister Is the Perfect ’90s Disaster MovieHelen Hunt and Bill Paxton bickering about who gets to throw themself in front of a tornado first, while giving each other the F me eyes? Say less.
    By Dee Lockett
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    Clueless Is a Great Teen Movie. It’s Also a Satire About the White and Wealthy.We go back to this movie over and over because it’s fun. But we don’t talk enough about how it cleverly critiques Cher’s obliviousness.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Patrick Fugit Answers Every Question We Have About Almost FamousFugit tells us about his crush on Kate Hudson, the legendary cast parties, and Bijou Phillips’s attempts to “corrupt” him.
    By Rachel Handler
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    The Bittersweet Experience of Watching Almost Famous 20 Years OnThe movie is, by Cameron Crowe’s own admission, based on actual things that happened to him. Two decades later, it feels like his biggest fantasy.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Why The Social Network Feels Sharper Now Than It Did When It First Came OutDavid Fincher’s masterpiece, now streaming on Netflix, isn’t really about the internet — it’s about power.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Inside Man Still Absolutely RulesIt’s Spike Lee and Denzel Washington at their slickest.
    By Hunter Harris
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    Bill Duke on the Making of His Essential ’90s Thriller Deep CoverThe director contemplates the legacy of his neo-noir about cops and criminals, and what he sees in the protests sweeping the country today.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Deep Cover Defies the Standards of Hollywood Stories About CopsThe film noir genre has always been good at laying bare the lies at the heart of the American dream.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Kiki’s Delivery Service Is a Perfect Fable for Lonely City DwellersStudio Ghibli’s catalogue is finally available to stream on HBO Max. Celebrate with us this Friday by watching Miyazaki’s 1989 animated film first.
    By Jackson McHenry
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