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  1. album review
    Lady Gaga Throws Everything in the PotMayhem isn’t quite the return to form it’s being sold as.
    By Craig Jenkins
  2. pod goss
    ‘You’re Here to Find Husbands, and You Can’t Marry Each Other’The women of Love Is Blind season eight unpack the pods and the reunion from their perspective.
    By Jason P. Frank
  3. guaranteed!
    Vulture Is Turning La La Land Into Ha Ha LandOn March 25, we’re launching Guaranteed!, a biweekly comedy show at L.A.’s Lyric Hyperion theater!
    By Jesse David Fox
  4. a long talk
    Michelle Zauner’s Success Nearly Destroyed HerAnd then the Crying in H Mart film fell apart. But she’s changing her fortune with a new Japanese Breakfast album.
    By Delia Cai
  5. sxsw 2025
    Death of a Unicorn Is 5 Pounds of Purple Poop In a 10-Pound BagFantasy-creature gore may be a funny spectacle, but it’s not enough to hang a whole movie on.
    By Alison Willmore
  6. theater review
    How Do You Measure a Career? The Jonathan Larson Project.A revue of the Rent creator’s trunk songs and offcuts isn’t profound, but it’s moving all the same.
    By Jackson McHenry
  7. theater review
    A Ghosts That Doesn’t Go MadJack O’Brien’s new Ibsen adaptation could use a couple more brainworms.
    By Sara Holdren
  8. tv review
    Give Zahn McClarnon an Emmy AlreadyDark Winds’s strongest season to date is defined by his outstanding performance.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  9. love is blind club
    20 Moments That Made Love Is BlindAfter five years of LIB, we’re looking back at the most jaw-dropping scenes from our favorite social experiment.
  10. profile
    The Resilient Natasha RothwellThe writer and actor returns to The White Lotus just as the show she created, How to Die Alone, has been canceled.
    By Phoebe Reilly
  11. the righteous gemstones
    Bradley Cooper Is So Good at This“This” being “acting like an asshole.”
    By Roxana Hadadi
  12. theater review
    Launching Into Adulthood, With Frenemies and Hummus: All NighterSenior year is almost over, guys.
    By Jackson McHenry
  13. slaycation
    The White Lotus Kill-or-Be-Killed Report: Are We Having Fun Yet?Someone — or someones — is scamming too close to the sun.
    By Jessica M. Goldstein
  14. backstories
    How Dark Winds Scored Two Legends for a Premiere Cameo“I was never really sure it was going to happen until it happened,” says showrunner John Wirth.
    By Jen Chaney
  15. sxsw 2025
    The Accountant 2 Cannot Be Taken SeriouslyDo not approach this sequel, starring Ben Affleck as an underworld accountant again, with any sort of sobriety.
    By Alison Willmore
  16. roll clip!
    Virginia Outlines Her LIB-eral Values at Season-8 Reunion“I still don’t really feel comfortable telling you Devin’s views, but I will be really clear about mine,” she says in new Love Is Blind reunion clip.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  17. sxsw 2025
    Another Simple Favor Is So Fun, Until It Gets So DumbBy the end, the film doesn’t feel subversively strange, just self-consciously campy and irritatingly smug.
    By Alison Willmore
  18. gold rush
    Who Won Oscar Night?We know who won the Academy Awards, but here’s who notched victories after the ceremony.
    By Nate Jones
  19. game theory
    The Traitors - Season 3
    The Traitors Has a Glaring Flaw When It Comes to the Actual GameAnd producers could easily address it with a few small tweaks to the competition.
    By Joe Reid
  20. endings
    How Bong Joon Ho Crafted His First (Mostly) Happy EndingThe Parasite director talks about the Trump parallels and optimism of his new movie, Mickey 17.
    By Alison Willmore
  21. scene report
    The Thrill of a Queer Movie That Doesn’t Appeal to AnyoneInside Bruce LaBruce’s ludicrously graphic new movie The Visitor, and the sex party that followed its premiere.
    By P.E. Moskowitz
  22. break room gossip
    Can Cobel Be Trusted? And Other Severance Questions.Last season, that would have been a definitive “no.” After this week’s visit to Salt’s Neck, however …
    By Brian Grubb
  23. endings
    Heretic’s Ending Begs for a Bigger IdeaThe horror movie crackles as a showcase for a sadist’s critiques of religion. But it’s far less compelling when it tries to counter them.
    By Nicholas Quah
  24. theater review
    Where’s Willy? Abe Koogler’s Deep Blue SoundThe orcas have vanished, and a Pacific Northwest community is puzzled.
    By Sara Holdren
  25. album review
    Jason Isbell Reimagines the Divorce AlbumHis split from Amanda Shires marked the end of a potent redemption arc. Foxes in the Snow imagines a new path.
    By Ryan Leas
  26. cultural pharmacopeia
    ‘This Show Really Faced an Uphill Battle’Deli Boys creator Abdullah Saeed talks about putting the jokes first while examining survivor’s guilt and dodging representation discourse.
    By Hershal Pandya
  27. theater review
    Sumo Is a Subculture Story That Goes BigThe backstage dynamics of an ancient, extremely ritualized sport.
    By Sara Holdren
  28. bop or flop
    Is Kyle Gordon’s ‘Selekta’ a Banger or Bad Bangers and Mash?“Blood on my trainers? I can’t risk it.”
    By Rebecca Alter and Anne Victoria Clark
  29. tv review
    Meghan Markle Pioneers New Frontiers in UnrelatabilityWith Love, Meghan desperately wants your approval and playacts normalcy to try to get it.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  30. tv review
    Marvel Won’t Let Daredevil: Born Again LiveIt doesn’t take long for the promising revival to crumble into another incoherent mess of IP management.
    By Nicholas Quah
  31. another day in paradise
    In The Palaces of Crowned Kings
    We Built This City on Cheesy ’80s HitsParadise’s commitment to dramatic cover songs is both a misguided choice and one of the most entertaining things about it.
    By Jen Chaney
  32. lingering questions
    The Man Who Kept the Secrets
    Another Season in ParadiseWho will serve the cheese fries now? Just one of many questions we’ll be chewing on during the long wait for season two.
    By Keith Phipps
  33. ex post facto
    Erika Jayne Has Reclaimed Her RHOBH NarrativeThe veteran Housewife’s ability to rebound from her demonic season-11 nadir is deserving of a pizza party.
    By Louis Peitzman
  34. vulture recommends
    I Don’t Need More Constantine, I Need More Movies Like ConstantineTwenty years after the Keanu Reeves supernatural noir, some thoughts on what’s missing in everyday entertainment.
    By Alison Willmore
  35. book review
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Frustrating ReturnHer new novel Dream Count suffers from the retrograde gender politics and bad writing that has defined her career of late.
    By Sanjena Sathian
  36. jokes
    The 2025 Awards Season in Opening MonologuesFrom Nikki Glaser at the Golden Globes to Conan O’Brien at the Oscars, and seven others in between.
    By Hershal Pandya
  37. oscars 2025
    Why the Oscars Put a Ring on AnoraThe Best Picture winner’s early setbacks may have been blessings in disguise.
    By Nate Jones
  38. close read
    Severance Gets Lost in TimeLike “The Constant” did for Lost, “Chikhai Bardo” finds emotional resonance — and perhaps a clue — in the shifting “whens” of this story.
    By Jen Chaney
  39. oscars 2025
    And the Oscar Goes to … SueHow Demi Moore lost the Best Actress award after staging a near-perfect career comeback.
    By Joe Reid
  40. oscars 2025
    The Oscars’ Most Pressing Cause This Year Was the Movies ThemselvesThis year’s ceremony was an inward-looking affair that found the industry foremost concerned with itself.
    By Alison Willmore
  41. highs and lows
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2025 OscarsHIGH: Conan! LOW: The Hulu feed cutting out just as Best Actress was announced. WHOA: Who in the writers’ room really loves The Wiz?
    By Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, and Jackson McHenry
  42. awards szn
    Every Single Thing That Happened at the 2025 OscarsAnora takes Best Picture and director Sean Baker sets an Oscar record.
    By Vulture Staff
  43. slaycation
    The White Lotus Kill-or-be-Killed Report: Snake in the GrassStep aside, dream sequence, we have a murder/murders to solve.
    By Jessica M. Goldstein
  44. stand-up
    5 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)Looking for some stand-up recommendations? Here are some February releases that are worth your attention.
    By Jesse David Fox
  45. funny videos of the month
    The Best Comedy Shorts of February 2025Rounding up our favorite funny videos of the month.
    By Luke Kelly-Clyne and Graham Techler
  46. gold rush
    Every Movie Nominated for a 2025 Oscar, RankedThis is on balance a very strong Oscar year.
    By Joe Reid
  47. song review
    Lizzo Is in LimboOn “Love in Real Life,” she struggles to change her narrative.
    By Craig Jenkins
  48. close read
    Severance Doubles Down on the Body HorrorTrust Lumon to keep finding new and disturbing ways to terrorize its severed employees.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  49. oscars 2025
    ‘Let People Wear Whatever Pin They Want’Ahead of the Oscars, Hollywood is torn over a blistering letter that chastised Artists4Ceasefire’s invitation for celebrities to wear its pins.
    By Chris Lee
  50. break room gossip
    What Is Lumon Up to Now? And Other Severance Questions.Sure, this is a question every week, but the events of “Chikhai Bardo” have made it more complicated than ever.
    By Brian Grubb
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