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Final Emmy Predictions: Bear With Us, the Shō Must Go Un

It’s going to be a big night for fine dining, baby reindeer, and feudal Japan. By Joe Reid

endings

Rebel Ridge’s Unexpectedly Non-Violent Ending, Explained By Jeremy Saulnier

Filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier on crafting Terry Richmond’s “mission of morality.” By Roxana Hadadi

tiff 2024

You’d Think Watching Tilda Swinton in an Apocalypse Movie Musical Would Be Fun

But at two and a half very staid hours, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a punishing picture. By Bilge Ebiri

endings

The Speak No Evil Remake’s Ending Is a Cowardly Cop-out

Speak No Evil is meant to be a sick joke, and it doesn’t work without the punch line. By Louis Peitzman

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Josh Brolin’s Childhood Sounded Like an Episode of Tiger King He remembers a story where his mother, a wildlife rehabilitator, saw someone’s leg get bitten by a lion.
battle of the bats 4:25 p.m.

Is The Penguin Better Than Joker: Folie à Deux? Critics seem to think so.
break outs 12:46 p.m.

Nothing’s Shocking About Jane’s Addiction Fighting at Reunion Singer Perry Farrell punched guitarist Dave Navarro mid song.
now streaming 10:13 a.m.

The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Including Scary Jesse Plemons.
vulture games 5:00 a.m.

Cinematrix No. 172: September 14, 2024 Can you name a Hiroyuki Sanada movie based on a book?
work history 2:10 a.m.

How Quickly Did Joaquin Phoenix Split Up With Split? James McAvoy has an estimate.
the law 9/13/2024

Cher Ends Bid to Become Court-Appointed Conservator of Her Son Almost nine months after she made the initial request.
y'all see this? 9/13/2024

Kelly Clarkson, Shaboozey, and More React to Beyoncé’s CMAs Snub “I feel like those songs were everywhere.”
bad omens 9/13/2024

All of Neil Gaiman’s Halted and Canceled Projects Following sexual-assault allegations made by multiple women.
vulture lists 9/13/2024

Forgotten YA Adaptations, Ranked by Cultural Impact Will Netflix’s Uglies leave a bigger mark than these 15 Twilight–Harry Potter–Hunger Games rip-offs?
the alchemy 9/13/2024

Will Taylor Swift Be at Travis Kelce’s Next Game? And other burning football questions, answered.
brat summer 9/13/2024

What’s the Latest With Justin Timberlake’s DWI? “I’m hoping that whoever’s watching and listening right now can learn from this mistake.”
journalism lives! 9/13/2024

Did That Anti–Lady Gaga Facebook Group Really Exist? “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous” is officially famous.
vulture sports! 9/13/2024

Lil Wayne ‘Felt Like Shit’ Over Super Bowl Halftime ‘Letdown’ “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared …”

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overnights 9/13/2024

How to Die Alone Series-Premiere Recap: Lift, Thrust, Weight, Drag Natasha Rothwell plays lovable Melissa, who is compelled to change her life and face her loneliness after a near-death experience.
overnights 9/13/2024

Pachinko Recap: Kiss and Tell Our romances begin to heat up, but progress comes with complications.
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The Old Man Recap: Love Versus Trust Emily’s family reunion isn’t as smoothly as everyone would have hoped.
overnights 9/12/2024

The Old Man Season-Premiere Recap: Reality Bites The Old Man bursts into the new season with an action-packed episode and an annoying cliffhanger.
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The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Project Runway Why does Alexis need as much support as Shannon? She’s not the victim here. Nothing has happened to her!
overnights 9/12/2024

Emily in Paris Season-Finale Recap: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Everything works out for Emily in the finale, so naturally, Gabriel will ruin everything.
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Emily in Paris Recap: Out-of-Office Reply Emily in Rome has a promising premiere, what with being away from work and Gabriel and all.
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Emily in Paris Recap: The Lonely Goatherd Hot Italian skier makes his triumphant return!
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap Celebrimbor’s solution for all the bad rings is to … make more rings. And for men, one of Middle Earth’s more disappointing races?
overnights 9/12/2024

Emily in Paris Recap: What We’ve Got Here Is Failure to Communicate I’ll never understand how Gabriel has the audacity to blame Emily for their breakup. He’s been the worst since the moment we met him!
overnights 9/12/2024

Emily in Paris Mid-Season-Premiere Recap: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Emily finally realizes what a bad deal dating Gabriel is. Also, how is it Christmas already?
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Bad Monkey Recap: Disrespect Is Always Personal Every finds themselves in quite a jam. Pickle, even.
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Slow Horses Recap: Tourist Season River goes rushing into a situation utterly unprepared and without a plan, as he’s wont to do.
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Only Murders in the Building Recap: Perfect Strangers The actors assist Mabel, Charles, and Oliver during their investigation with mixed results.

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tiff 2024 9/13/2024

You’d Think Watching Tilda Swinton in an Apocalypse Movie Musical Would Be Fun But at two and a half very staid hours, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a punishing picture.
movie review 9/13/2024

The Speak No Evil Remake Is Sillier (and Better) Than the Original The American remake loses something in ditching the unrelenting darkness, but it also avoids the original’s borderline reactionary message.
movie review 9/13/2024

Girls Will Be Girls Sneaks Up on You Shuchi Talati’s debut feature, one of the best films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is now in theaters.
movie review 9/13/2024

My Old Ass Is Low-Key Devastating Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza star in a rewarding coming-of-age story about getting the chance to advise your teenage self.
tiff 2024 9/13/2024

The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s Play Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms.
theater review 9/12/2024

Counting and Cracking Is a Joyous Generational Square-off Plus a smart new play, ‘The Ask,’ at the Wild Project.
theater review 9/12/2024

The Roommate Barely Unpacks Its Own Boxes It settles in, and then it’s gone.
movie review 9/12/2024

The New Hayao Miyazaki Doc Is Obsessed with Death In Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron, the legendary animation director loses close friends to old age and grapples with the twilight of his own life.
tv review 9/12/2024

Who Needs the Batman? As The Penguin’s representatives of Gotham’s underworld, Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti can do bad all by themselves.
movie review 9/12/2024

Is a Movie About Electing a Pope Allowed to Be This Entertaining? Conclave combines the pulp velocity of a great airport read with the gravitas of high drama.
docu-ethics 9/11/2024

American Freak Show Chimp Crazy and Tiger King director Eric Goode doesn’t seem to care that his nonfiction work doubles as exploitation. Should we?
tiff 2024 9/11/2024

The Thing About Barry At Toronto International Film Festival, Barry Keoghan is a meme king who’s extremely good at his actual job (acting).
book review 9/10/2024

Is Rejection the First Great Incel Novel? Tony Tulathimutte’s second book is a hilariously brutal story collection about elder millennials grappling with their sexual failures.
tiff 2024 9/9/2024

Relay Might Be the Next Great Corporate Espionage Thriller But it’s the rare movie where I might recommend leaving ten minutes before the end.

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Selling Sunset’s Emma Hernan Isn’t Sure She’ll Return After Being ‘Blindsided’ By Anne Victoria Clark

How to Die Alone (S1/E1)

Lift, Thrust, Weight, Drag Natasha Rothwell plays lovable Melissa, who is compelled to change her life and face her loneliness after a near-death experience.
Pachinko (S2/E4)

Kiss and Tell Our romances begin to heat up, but progress comes with complications.
The Old Man (S2/E2)

Love Versus Trust Emily’s family reunion isn’t as smoothly as everyone would have hoped.
The Old Man (S2/E1)

Reality Bites The Old Man bursts into the new season with an action-packed episode and an annoying cliffhanger.
The Real Housewives of Orange County (S18/E10)

Project Runway Why does Alexis need as much support as Shannon? She’s not the victim here. Nothing has happened to her!
Emily in Paris (S4/E10)

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Everything works out for Emily in the finale, so naturally, Gabriel will ruin everything.
Emily in Paris (S4/E9)

Out-of-Office Reply Emily in Rome has a promising premiere, what with being away from work and Gabriel and all.
Emily in Paris (S4/E8)

The Lonely Goatherd Hot Italian skier makes his triumphant return!
The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power (S2/E5)

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap Celebrimbor’s solution for all the bad rings is to … make more rings. And for men, one of Middle Earth’s more disappointing races?
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now streaming The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Including Scary Jesse Plemons. By Savannah Salazar
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movie review The New Hayao Miyazaki Doc Is Obsessed with Death In Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron, the legendary animation director loses close friends to old age and grapples with the twilight of his own life. By Nicholas Quah
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a long talk Richard Kind Will Accept 93 Percent of Job Offers The actor, now a guest star on Only Murders, just loves saying yes to roles. “What else am I going to do on a Tuesday and a Wednesday?” By Devon Ivie
unkillable Requiem for a Nightmare I’m not ready to say good-bye to the gloriously janky Friday the 13th game. By A.A. Dowd
buffering Jokes Amber Can Tell (on CNN) On Have I Got News for You, Amber Ruffin is playing to win — especially when the news “is utter chaos.” By Josef Adalian

Movies

battle of the bats

Is The Penguin Better Than Joker: Folie à Deux?

Critics seem to think so. By Alejandra Gularte

now streaming The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Including Scary Jesse Plemons. By Savannah Salazar
work history How Quickly Did Joaquin Phoenix Split Up With Split? James McAvoy has an estimate. By Jennifer Zhan
bad omens All of Neil Gaiman’s Halted and Canceled Projects Following sexual-assault allegations made by multiple women. By Jason P. Frank

movie review The Speak No Evil Remake Is Sillier (and Better) Than the Original The American remake loses something in ditching the unrelenting darkness, but it also avoids the original’s borderline reactionary message. By Alison Willmore
vulture lists Forgotten YA Adaptations, Ranked by Cultural Impact Will Netflix’s Uglies leave a bigger mark than these 15 Twilight–Harry Potter–Hunger Games rip-offs? By Rory Doherty
movie review Girls Will Be Girls Sneaks Up on You Shuchi Talati’s debut feature, one of the best films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is now in theaters. By Bilge Ebiri
movie review My Old Ass Is Low-Key Devastating Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza star in a rewarding coming-of-age story about getting the chance to advise your teenage self. By Alison Willmore
tiff 2024 The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s Play Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms. By Bilge Ebiri

Movies

TV

chat room

Selling Sunset’s Emma Hernan Isn’t Sure She’ll Return After Being ‘Blindsided’

“It’s so crazy that it was even allowed.” By Anne Victoria Clark

a long talk Richard Kind Will Accept 93 Percent of Job Offers The actor, now a guest star on Only Murders, just loves saying yes to roles. “What else am I going to do on a Tuesday and a Wednesday?” By Devon Ivie
this week in late night Jimmy Kimmel’s Deep Roster of Impressionists Won Late Night This Week Also Kevin Hart’s “Day Drinking” segment and Jimmy Fallon dying repeatedly. By Bethy Squires
buffering Jokes Amber Can Tell (on CNN) On Have I Got News for You, Amber Ruffin is playing to win — especially when the news “is utter chaos.” By Josef Adalian
tv review Who Needs the Batman? As The Penguin’s representatives of Gotham’s underworld, Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti can do bad all by themselves. By Roxana Hadadi

race to the bottom
Slow Horses Incompetence Index: Cry Me a River Cartwright Jr. is a sweet boy. I have no clue how he has survived three-plus seasons of this show. By Brian Grubb

strange frequencies The Old Man’s Secret Code The sneakily unconventional series returns bearing all the idiosyncratic qualities that keep it from becoming another predictable spy thriller. By Roxana Hadadi and Nicholas Quah
last night on late night Late Night’s Familiar With Master Debaters All of them have been through two Trump presidential-election cycles before this. How did their experience pay off? By Jason P. Frank
docu-ethics American Freak Show Chimp Crazy and Tiger King director Eric Goode doesn’t seem to care that his nonfiction work doubles as exploitation. Should we? By Nicholas Quah
feuds What’s Going on With Selling Sunset’s Chelsea and Bre? The drama continues with no reunion announced. By Anne Victoria Clark

Music

break outs

Nothing’s Shocking About Jane’s Addiction Fighting at Reunion

Singer Perry Farrell punched guitarist Dave Navarro mid song. By Alejandra Gularte

the law Cher Ends Bid to Become Court-Appointed Conservator of Her Son Almost nine months after she made the initial request. By Bethy Squires and Jennifer Zhan
y’all see this? Kelly Clarkson, Shaboozey, and More React to Beyoncé’s CMAs Snub “I feel like those songs were everywhere.” By Jennifer Zhan
the alchemy Will Taylor Swift Be at Travis Kelce’s Next Game? And other burning football questions, answered. By Justin Curto

brat summer What’s the Latest With Justin Timberlake’s DWI? “I’m hoping that whoever’s watching and listening right now can learn from this mistake.” By Victoria Bekiempis
journalism lives! Did That Anti–Lady Gaga Facebook Group Really Exist? “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous” is officially famous. By Jason P. Frank
vulture sports! Lil Wayne ‘Felt Like Shit’ Over Super Bowl Halftime ‘Letdown’ “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared …” By Justin Curto
tone deaf Let Jack Antonoff Protect His Hearing, Damn He was not wearing AirPods during Katy Perry’s VMAs performance. By Alejandra Gularte
beeves We Need Cooler Heads Kendrick’s latest song takes aim at a new target: the hip-hop influencers pushing propaganda to their audiences. By Craig Jenkins

Music

Comedy

snl

SNL Adds Three New Cast Members for Season 50

Chloe Troast departs from the show after one season. By Alejandra Gularte and Jesse David Fox

oh hello again John Mulaney Will Reunite With Richard Kind on Broadway Likely featuring less — or, at the very least, a moderate amount of — tuna. By Hershal Pandya
studio ate-h New York’s Hottest Trailer Is Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night “Did anyone ask Edison what a light bulb was before he harnessed electricity?” By Jesse David Fox
comedians you should know Eagle Witt Plans to Keep It Diabolical “I’m funny, therefore my thoughts are funny.” By Vulture Editors

good times After Midnight Has Gotten Weird in the Best Way If you’re a fan of off-kilter late-night TV but not watching it, you’re missing out. By Hershal Pandya
comedians you should know Emil Wakim’s Parents Finally Understand His Job Now “A blurry screenshot from the video of me shaking Jimmy Fallon’s hand is both of their phone wallpapers still, which is cool, but also a bit much.” By Vulture Editors
comedians you should know Gianmarco Soresi Demands Inclusive Bullying in Comedy “Embarrassment is, unfortunately, one of the best tools for making better comedy.” By Vulture Editors
comedians you should know Veronika Slowikowska’s Got Magic to Do “I love seeing performers with joy and a spark in their eye! It’s all fun!” By Vulture Editors
comedians you should know Rekha Shankar’s Life Mission? Laugh, Have Dumb Ideas. “Go ahead and maybe do it wrong. It’s better than never trying it at all.” By Vulture Editors

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Theater

theater review

Counting and Cracking Is a Joyous Generational Square-off

Plus a smart new play, ‘The Ask,’ at the Wild Project. By Sara Holdren

theater review The Roommate Barely Unpacks Its Own Boxes It settles in, and then it’s gone. By Sara Holdren
extra extra Brendan Fraser Is Staging Another Comeback The Oscar winner will star in Samuel D. Hunter’s Grangeville in early 2025. By Jason P. Frank
spicy takes Patti LuPone Can Shade Madonna With or Without Words “I’ve seen her onstage and I’ve seen her in a movie, and I went, ‘Umm, okay.’” By Jason P. Frank
rip James Earl Jones, Acting Legend, Dead at 93 The voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa was accomplished on stage and screen. By Justin Curto

theater
What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors

egot watch Benj Pasek and Justin Paul EGOT With OMITB More like EEGGOOTT (because there’s two of them). By Bethy Squires
theater review Apps, Drinks, and Drama at Table 17 Kara Young eats, spectacularly. By Sara Holdren
theater review The Marriage of Figaro, Almost Solo and Fully Alfresco The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo sings every part as his co-stars lip-sync. By Sara Holdren
the rehearsal Opera Singer Anthony Roth Costanzo Can Do It All The countertenor is mounting a one-person adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro at Little Island this fall. By Justin Davidson

Theater

Books

booked and busy The National Book Foundation’s 2024 Fiction Longlist Featuring three debut novels, two short-story collections, and one Miranda July. By Emma Alpern
happy birthday The Twilight Saga’s Renesmee Cullen Is Old Enough to Vote Three questions for the Cullens as the 2024 election approaches. By Bethy Squires
beach read book club ‘Too Much Hugging and Learning’ Our book club discusses the ending of Long Island Compromise.
profile In the Shack With Robert Caro The Power Broker is turning 50. His final LBJ book is almost — well, he won’t say exactly, but he’s trying for 900 words a day. By Christopher Bonanos
remembrance Noel Parmentel Jr., the Man Joan Didion Left Behind When she said good-bye to all that. By Linda Hall

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Art

encounter Thomas Houseago Was Mad at His Dad (and Larry Gagosian) It’s his first NYC gallery show in a decade, thanks in part to Leonardo DiCaprio. By Rachel Corbett
fall preview 2024 10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall An Alvin Ailey retrospective sets the tone for an array of eclectic offerings from the art world. By Jerry Saltz
art review Abigail Goldman’s American Horror Story Her new show, “State of Nature,” depicts our depraved moment in miniature — literally. By Jerry Saltz
public art watch A Sixteen-Foot-Tall Pigeon Comes to Nest on the High Line Please don’t feed Iván Argote’s monumental Dinosaur. By Carl Swanson
wwjd Da Vinci Would Have Loved the Olympics’ Controversial ‘Last Supper’ The Catholic church of France, however, did not. By Jason P. Frank