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M. Night Shyamalan Plot Twists, Ranked by Twistedness

 Where does Trap land on a scale from “stepping into something questionable on your commute,” to “your insides after late-night street meat.” By Megan Reynolds and James Grebey
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The 13 Best Sports Anime to Keep Your Olympic Endorphins Pumping

 The sportsmanship! The drama! The cartoon sweat! By Nicholas Quah and Eric Vilas-Boas
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3 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)

 Featuring Reggie Watts’s ’90s-themed Never Mind and a new hour from Sam Morril. By Jesse David Fox

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  1. now streaming
    The 10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendTime to yell at Industry again.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    Every Matt Damon Movie, RankedThere are no truly bad Damon performances: He’s too controlled for that. But how does his latest role, in The Instigators, stack up?
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
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    The 50 Greatest Sports Movies of All TimeBoxing epics, baseball weepies, golf comedies, and a sexy tennis movie.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
  4. now streaming
    The 30 Best TV Shows to Watch Across Every Streaming ServiceDon’t waste your valuable couch time.
    By Brian Tallerico
  5. essential roles
    Josh Hartnett Always Kills ItEleven essential performances that prove the former teen heartthrob is more than a pretty face (though it is a very pretty face).
    By Tres Dean
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    Every M. Night Shyamalan Movie, RankedMaking sense of the director’s twisty career.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
  8. now streaming
    The 12 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendCrimes, mostly.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading ListThe return to Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the final chapter for The Umbrella Academy, and a Colleen Hoover romance.
    By Emily Maskell
  10. pow! wham! boom!
    The 35 Best Superhero Cartoons of the Past 30 YearsFrom ’90s breakout hits Batman: The Animated Series and X-Men to this year’s outstanding X-Men ’97 and Batman: Caped Crusader.
    By Daniel Dockery
  11. vulture asks
    Vulture Asks: What’s Your Favorite Olympic Event?From an event that’s brand-new to the Olympics to a feat of athleticism that dates back to the Games of Ancient Greece.
    By Vulture Editors
  12. snl
    Celebrate the Olympics With These 17 Classic SNL SketchesFeaturing John Belushi, Nancy Kerrigan, Jennifer Lopez, and expert commentator Leslie Jones.
    By Dan Reilly
  13. i am so scared
    The 25 Best Found-Footage Horror MoviesThe Blair Witch Project didn’t invent the genre, but it did give it a name.
    By A.A. Dowd
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    All 14 X-Men Movies, RankedHollywood hasn’t always done right by the X-Men.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
  15. now streaming
    The 10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendIncluding the feats of athleticism.
    By Savannah Salazar
  16. a history of violence
    11 Comics to Read If You Want More Deadpool vs. WolverineThirty years of Deadpool and Wolverine being best frenemies.
    By Daniel Dockery
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    5 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This MonthPage-turning summer thrillers, breezy celebrity memoirs, and a gripping true-crime story.
    By Marshall Heyman
  18. syllabus
    7 Movies (and One TV Show) to Watch Before Deadpool & WolverineDo your homework with our syllabus to the first MCU movie with Deadpool and an X-Man.
    By Barry Levitt
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    Every Billy Joel Song, RankedHe’s a better pop songwriter than you remember.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. the dark knight
    12 Comic Books to Get in the Mood for Batman: Caped CrusaderThe new Prime series returns to the Dark Knight’s noirish origins.
    By Daniel Dockery
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    A Crash Course in a Century of Walt Disney Animation StudiosAs exemplified by its greatest hits and catastrophic failures.
    By Josh Spiegel
  22. now streaming
    The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendFrom the comfort of your storm cellar, maybe.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    The 33 Greatest Disaster Movies of All TimeWhat makes cinematic depictions of catastrophe so compelling?
    By Bilge Ebiri
  24. essential roles
    10 Essential Shelley Duvall PerformancesThis body of work paints a picture of an artist paving her own zigzagging path across showbusiness.
    By A.A. Dowd
  25. tornado tally
    All the Twisters in Twisters, RankedPrepare for destruction, beauty, and movie theaters in ruins.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    Shannen Doherty’s Most Essential Beverly Hills, 90210 EpisodesThe late actor’s Brenda Walsh turned out to be the charismatic heart of the beloved ’90s series.
    By Maris Kreizman
  27. you can’t see him
    A Timeline of John Cena’s WWE CareerThe wrestling superstar just announced his retirement — here’s how he got there.
    By Daniel Dockery
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    Every Star Wars TV Show, RankedWith so many shows set in the galaxy far, far away, which ones are worth your time? And which ones will pay off in future stories?
    By Rafael Motamayor
  29. girl so literary
    Brat and It’s the Same But It’s a Track-by-Track Booklist So It’s NotHot-girl books to read at a bar with a martini and a side of fries.
    By Bethy Squires
  30. now streaming
    The 30 Best Movies to Stream With Your Kids This SummerWe bet you’ll like them, too.
    By Brian Tallerico
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    Every Woody Harrelson Movie Performance, RankedIn a career spanning over 60 films, Harrelson is always doing something a little bit different than what anyone would expect.
    By Will Leitch and Tim Grierson
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    Every Scarlett Johansson Movie Performance, RankedJohansson’s brilliant early promise has left us impatient, awaiting increasing greatness with each new role.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
  33. now streaming
    The 16 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendNic Cage is serially killing it.
    By Savannah Salazar
  34. final girl
    Maika Monroe’s Horror Movies, RankedThe 21st-century scream queen has one of her best roles yet in Longlegs.
    By Matthew Jackson
  35. vulture lists
    22 Nicolas Cage Movies You Had No Idea ExistedThanks to the Internal Revenue Service, Cage has become the king of VOD movies.
    By Nate Jones and Emily Heller
  36. self-care
    Movie Masturbation Scenes, RankedIt’s been 25 years since Paul Weitz showed one of the goofiest ways to beat off in American Pie.
    By Caroline Madden
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    Westeros Twins Ranked by Real Twins the Lucas BrothersMaybe George R.R. Martin secretly wants to be a twin?
    By The Lucas Bros
  38. banana!
    All 15 Illumination Movies, RankedWhere does Despicable Me 4 sit inside the house that the Minions built?
    By Brian Tallerico
  39. franchising
    Beyond the Trilogy: The 17 Best Part-Four MoviesFor some franchises, a fourth film is a jump-start that reminds us all why we loved these movies in the first place.
    By Matthew Jackson
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    Every Kevin Costner Movie, RankedThe actor’s career is full of peaks, valleys, and Waterworlds.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
  41. lights camera action
    15 Horror Movies About ShowbizMaXXXine is the latest in a canon of films about how Hollywood’s dream is killing us.
    By Rory Doherty
  42. kitchen nightmares
    Restaurant Shows, Ranked by StressfulnessHow many antacids will you need to watch The Bear?
    By Maggie Fremont
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    The 12 Best Horror PrequelsIf you aren’t a total hater, there are many delights to be found in the prequel bin.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  44. now streaming
    The 10 Best Tubi Original MoviesThe free streamer houses a vast library of intriguing obscurities without the pretensions.
    By Josh Bell
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    Every Lady Gaga Song, RankedA deep dive into a star who almost single-handedly raised the bar for pop music.
    By Kristen S. Hé
  46. in memoriam
    10 Essential Donald Sutherland PerformancesThe New Hollywood icon was an unusually grounded movie star.
    By A.A. Dowd
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    A Ranked Guide to John Wick–Inspired MoviesHollywood has been trying to make the next John Wick for the past decade with a new generation of stunt-heavy, fistfighting action movies.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
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    Every Emma Stone Movie, RankedEmma Stone manages to be one of us while being the best of us.
    By Will Leitch and Tim Grierson
  49. favo(u)rites
    All 9 Yorgos Lanthimos Movies, RankedWhere does Kinds of Kindness fit in the Greek Weird Wave provocateur’s filmography?
    By A.A. Dowd
  50. vulture lists
    The 15 Best Biker MoviesThe Bikeriders is an anomaly in 2024, but there was a time when outlaw bikers regularly fascinated and terrified moviegoers.
    By Katie Rife
  51. now streaming
    The 10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendIt’s hot out, let’s ride.
    By Savannah Salazar
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