Black Lightning arrives on television at a timely moment. Even better: It arrives with a ton of swagger.Based on the DC comic and premiering tonight on the CW, Black Lightning is slick, smart, and infused with a social conscience that feels especially spot-on in light of the heightened debate in
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We’ve had back-to-back dates where the likelihood of getting a concussion is high. Is that the only way producers can imagine that any of these women would be interested in Arie? If they all had minor head trauma? Next week, half the ladytestants are going to play football with old-timey
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There are many eyes trained right now on Studio Ponoc, the animation studio that rose from the ashes of Studio Ghibli following the latter’s shuttering in 2015. Founded by When Marnie Was There director Hiromasa Yonebayashi and producer Yoshiaki Nishimura, it’s a venture that couldn’t help but be viewed as
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In the wake of an allegation of sexual misconduct against Aziz Ansari, The Good Place’s Jameela Jamil would like to have a conversation. Not about about Ansari’s actions, as she claims to have “no right, nor inclination, to comment,” but on the importance of enthusiastic consent during sex. In a
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In the Lebanese drama The Insult (a probable Oscar nominee), a relatively minor interaction between two men mushrooms into a national tumult in which Christians are pitted against Muslims, each side proclaiming its victimhood with increasing violence. In its sensitivity to both men’s subjective experience of the incident, Ziad Doueiri’s
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In Phantom Thread, Daniel Day-Lewis’s quiet, meticulous dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock falls hard for a young, mysterious woman named Alma (Vicky Krieps). As with any fall, what results is bruising and chaotic — and a significant amount of noise. Reynolds is graceful and exacting. Alma is clumsy and clamorous. He works
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All week long, Vulture is exploring how the family has been represented on our screens. Today, executive producer and co-showrunner of the Roseanne reboot, Whitney Cummings, writes about bringing the show back in 2018. Cummings’ directorial debut, The Female Brain, is out Feb. 9.I’m not great at tweeting about politics
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After a life-threatening car wreck, John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) has to give up drinking. Cue his offbeat support system: his girlfriend (Rooney Mara, also Phoenix’s IRL girlfriend) and his zany sponsor in Call Me by Your Name–level booty shorts (Jonah Hill). Gus Van Sant directs this true story of Callahan’s
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