Of the many reasons to treasure the work of Tamara Jenkins (The Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages), the best might be her cunning way with a non sequitur. In Private Life, her new film screening at the Sundance Film Festival, many of her scenes begin on a disorienting note,
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The newest ode to the American warrior is 12 Strong (subtitle: The Unclassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers), which follows a dozen Special Forces soldiers who surreptitiously choppered into northern Afghanistan less than two months after 9/11. Their mission was incredibly perilous, but they weren’t on the ground to
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They say that Hollywood is high school but with money, and while watching Bo Burnham’s new film Eighth Grade, which just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, I started to wonder if that old saying is a few grades too generous. At first, this very specific junior-high story seems to
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The government may be about to shut down, but Drake is dedicated to keeping you up all night. If you hated that segue, hopefully you’ll like the rapper’s two brand-new two singles, released at midnight on Friday, a whole lot better. Entitled “God’s Plan” and “Diplomatic Immunity,” Drake’s latest are
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It’s understandable why television would want to engage with Our Current Political Moment, but that doesn’t mean it’s advisable. We live in a time rife with uncertainty, when outrage and despair feel like the two dominant modes of expression. Barring a full cultural disconnect, there’s no sure way to decrease
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As long as there’s been TV, the family has been one of its favorite go-tos. All week long, Vulture is exploring how it’s been represented on our screens.The arc of American history is undergirded by a continuous, pointed degradation of the black family.The crux of this is the pervasive mythology
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In 2016, J.J. Abrams and his production company Bad Robot pulled off a true, rare “holy shit” movie moment, unleashing the existence of the sequel to his found-footage sci-fi hit Cloverfield without having given the moviegoing public even the slightest indication any such sequel was ever in the works. That
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The Oscar nominations will be announced this Tuesday, and while the unsettled field has gradually come into focus, this still feels like an up-in-the-air year. By now, the potential nominees usually feel so locked in that it becomes boring, but as I rifle through my final predictions, I’m struck by
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