Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the “Christmas creep” now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself. That’s right: December 25 marks the official start of […] Read more ›
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A woman lights a candle placed atop a sign showing an Israeli flag with hand-written notes. | Jack Guez/AFP via Getty ImagesHow to understand Hamas’s alleged sexual attacks on October 7. As Israeli officials piece together the attacks of October 7, evidence is mounting that Hamas committed crimes of sexual violence against the people it attacked in Israel — both women and men, both dead and alive. UN testimony delivered... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphotoSocial media is a stressful place. Keeping things in perspective is important. We’ve all been there: scrolling through a heated Facebook comment section, and some troll says the most offensive trash ever. You know you should let it go, take some space, but you can’t hold it in. You need to fight back. Or do you? Holding a rational debate can be impossible when you are feeling triggered. Whether... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden joins Israel’s Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. | Miriam Alster/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesUS law limits aid to countries that violate human rights. Here’s why it isn’t applied to Israel. The recent high-profile killings of three Israeli hostages, two women in a Gaza... Read more ›
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Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former US President Donald Trump on August 1, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesTrump wants to run out the clock on his criminal trials. The Supreme Court just gave him a significant assist. In a surprising move, the Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will not hear Donald Trump’s claim that... Read more ›
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American Fiction and Perfect Days are two standouts on the fall festival circuit. | Toronto International Film FestivalIt’s a great time to be at the movies. Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what it is to live in this historical moment. Audiences around the world get to see them at festivals first, whether they’re... Read more ›
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Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) after a romp with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo). | Searchlight PicturesIn Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Passages, and more, sex on screen drove the plot. Earlier this year a TikToker posted a video explaining how she and her husband “prepared” themselves for the sex scenes in Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh. The influencer described how her husband would close his eyes every time there was nudity... Read more ›
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Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things. | Atsushi Nishijima via Searchlight PicturesStone reunites with The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos for a lovable movie from one of our prickliest filmmakers. Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is famous for making strange and chilly movies: 2016’s eerie dramedy The Lobster; 2018’s The Favourite, a cynical comedy; movies about power games and humans hurting each other and brutal, unforgiving worlds, shot through with... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden joins Israel’s Prime Minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. | Miriam Alster/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesUS law limits aid to countries that violate human rights. Here’s why it isn’t applied to Israel. The recent high-profile killings of three Israeli hostages, two women in a Gaza... Read more ›
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Jeffrey Wright as Monk in American Fiction. | Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLCJeffrey Wright gives a career-crowning performance in this wry and surprisingly warm-hearted race satire. Early on in American Fiction, a deceptively biting and warmly funny new satire, a writer (played by Jeffrey Wright in a career-crowning performance) sneaks into a book fair event celebrating the hot new book of the season. His eyebrows arch at the... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxThe case against pets, what Oppenheimer got wrong, and the magic of meditation. As Future Perfect has in past years, we’re calling out our most read stories of the year. It’s a great way to get a sense of the breadth of our coverage and the specific stories, authors, and subjects that you, our audience, found most engaging. In the list that follows, you’ll find classic Future Perfect stories... Read more ›
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Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro. | NetflixWhat Oppenheimer, Napoleon, Maestro, and Ferrari have to say about the men at their centers. This has been a banner year for movies about Great Men. Now first let me clarify what I mean by the term Great Men. I don’t mean “men who are good,” for instance. This is not a moral judgment. Great Men can be bad men as well... Read more ›
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It was a year we ate in extremes. | Getty ImagesThe shifting value of going out to eat. 2023 was a year of extremes in eating: We went out to buzzy restaurants with the flamboyant ambience of nightclubs — or we sat at home, scrounging up two olives and a tortilla chip for a girl dinner. More often, it was the latter. As the dust settles around a turbulent couple... Read more ›
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Jason Momoa as Aqauman in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. | Warner Bros. Studios/DC ComicsIs there a future for Jason Momoa’s Aquaman? Spoiler warning: This post contains spoilers for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is truly so much movie. The film marks the return of Aquaman a.k.a. Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) — who, after ascending to the throne of Atlantis, has to fight off David... Read more ›
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Ellen Weinstein for VoxBradley Cooper’s turn as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro is just the latest role to stoke conversations about what Jewish representation means in Hollywood. When the first images of Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic schnoz — the honking appendage he wears to play conductor Leonard Bernstein in Maestro — made their internet debut a few months ago, hot takes abounded: The Nose was antisemitic! The Nose was not antisemitic! Anyone... Read more ›
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Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York, during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on December 5. Lawmakers on the education committee grilled the leaders of Harvard, UPenn, MIT, and American University about their responses to protests that erupted after the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. | Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCongressional Republicans say that college diversity, equity, and inclusion programs exacerbate... Read more ›
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Just take a listen. ’Tis the season for sitting in front of the cozy glow of a Christmas movie. Don’t you just love the snow, the twinkling tree lights, and, of course, the charming sounds of festive music? But not all Yuletide melodies are created equal. In a 2015 analysis, FiveThirtyEight found that nine out of the top 10 most featured Christmas songs on movie soundtracks were in the public... Read more ›
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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You, a movie about Bostonians falling in love in Australia. | Sony PicturesPoweeney deserves a better rom-com. The most compelling reason to sit through all 104 minutes of Anyone But You is closure. I’m not referring to finishing the uneven movie, but the opportunity to finally witness the “are they or aren’t they?” chemistry between the movie’s extremely good-looking blonde leads Glen... Read more ›
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Madison Ketcham for VoxCorporate feminism will not save us. The buzzy new drug Ozempic was designed in a lab to treat diabetes, but sometimes it seems like it was also designed in a lab to spark bad-faith corporate conversations about body positivity. Ozempic and its generic name, semaglutide, are such provocations: After years of brands selling feel-good taglines about how all bodies are beautiful, the arrival on the scene of... Read more ›
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The new Journal app is now available in the iOS 17.2 update. | Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFinally, a way for your phone to know even more about your personal life. My wife was in her first trimester when my mom made the suggestion: “I hope you’re journaling. Your baby will get a real kick out of learning about these early days.” And then it was my therapist in the... Read more ›
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Yelena Bryksenkova for VoxFinally, a term that explains the sadness of a whole season — and a way of life — melting before our eyes. A snowy winter in New York City brings with it a kind of magic. The air goes crisp, then bitter, and fragile snowflakes sift down in the early dark, silvering the trees and blanketing the sledding hills in the parks. After the first big snow,... Read more ›
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