Who’s Still Laughing With the Razzies? Forty years into the gag, the Razzies’ co-founders explain their purpose, process, and why they let anyone pay $40 to name the “worst” of the year.
The History of Cinematic Kinkiness, in 20 Films Fifty Shades is following in a long, scandalous tradition.
5 Movies to Watch by the Dardenne Brothers The Belgians are among the world’s greatest living filmmakers.
future of movies
Dec. 10, 2014
YA Dystopian Films Have Become What They Hate Conformist instruments of the ruling machine!
vulture lists
Nov. 20, 2014
The Expendables 3 and How PG-13 Has Ruined the Modern Action MovieCan you point to any decent action in a recent big-budget American movie?
looking back
Aug. 8, 2014
one of these things is much like the other
Aug. 3, 2014
Primer: Snowpiercer Director Bong Joon-ho His is a diverse and daring canon with universal appeal.
Robots Have Become One of 21st-Century Cinema’s Go-To Blockbuster Clichés If you plan on going to the movies this weekend, or this month, or at any point this summer, it might help if you like robots.
let cage be cage
Apr. 11, 2014
Nicolas Cage Doesn’t Need a McConaissance He delivers a sturdy, soulful performance in Joe . But he doesn’t need roles like that.
Robert Redford, Awards Buzz, and How Hollywood Takes Movie Stardom for Granted Robert Redford has been thrust into the awards-season storm courtesy of All Is Lost , and with good reason.
Talkin’ to Himself: The Family and Robert De Niro’s Self-Parody Problem There are two kinds of self-parody — deliberate and unintentional — and Robert De Niro is now a master of both.
Edgar Wright Is the Patron Saint of Fanboy Culture Between Shaun of the Dead , Hot Fuzz , Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , and The World’s End , Wright has crafted a canon that’s the apex of fanboydom.
The Conjuring and Horror Cinema’s ‘Real’ ProblemWhy do some scary movies increasingly seem so intent on striving for realism?
What the Hell Is a Kaiju? 5 Movies That Can Help Explain Pacific Rim Guillermo del Toro’s monsters-versus-robots movie is constructed from the disparate parts of myriad genre predecessors.
Now You See Me : Why Movies About Magicians Don’t WorkIf there’s a trick the cinema has rarely pulled off, it’s making a decent magic movie.
The Year of Rock: How the Former Wrestler Became King of the Action-Cinema Ring It’s not hard to smell what The Rock is cooking this summer — it’s box-office domination.
stop biting
Apr. 24, 2013
Hands Brushing Against Wheat, or the Many Mimics of Terrence Malick As other filmmakers borrow from Malick, has the director devolved into self-parody?
familiar feelings
Apr. 5, 2013
instructions
Mar. 11, 2013
How to (and How Not to) Make a Good Horror Anthology Movie This weekend’s ABCs of Death is just the latest in the scary subgenre.
man and superman
Feb. 14, 2013
The Downward Spiral of Die Hard ’s John McClane From Everyman to Superman For our macho movie hero, dying hasn’t just become hard — it’s become impossible.