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Kids’ Movies Are Saving the Summer Box Office

 After a slow start to the season, Despicable Me 4 looks set to capitalize on the If-Garfield-Inside Out 2 family-film momentum. By Chris Lee
stories from the frontline

What It’s Like to Work With Madonna on a Movie Set

 Spike Lee and eight other collaborators look back on the highs and lows of the queen of pop’s Hollywood career. By Matthew Jacobs
movie review

The New Beverly Hills Cop Is a Predictable Retread, and I Don’t Care

 You can (justifiably) complain about its flaws, or you can relax and groove on its recycled rhythms. By Jen Chaney
  1. now streaming
    The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This July 4 WeekendSwap fireworks for fire-breathing dragons, baby.
    By Savannah Salazar
  2. going bananas
    Despicable Me 4 Turned the Box Office Red, White, and GruEarning the Minions franchise’s second-best July 4 performance.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  3. stories from the frontline
    What It’s Like to Work With Madonna on a Movie SetSpike Lee and eight other collaborators look back on the highs and lows of the queen of pop’s Hollywood career.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  4. at the box office
    Kids’ Movies Are Saving the Summer Box OfficeAfter a slow start to the season, Despicable Me 4 looks set to capitalize on the If-Garfield-Inside Out 2 family-film momentum.
    By Chris Lee
  5. what’s my motivation?
    Cate Blanchett Attributes Signing on for Borderlands to ‘COVID Madness’Like how some people made sourdough.
    By Bethy Squires
  7. coming soon
    It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s (Everything We Know About James Gunn’s) SupermanWill Reeve, son of OG Supes Christopher Reeve, will cameo.
    By Zoe Guy
  8. 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
  9. movie review
    The New Beverly Hills Cop Is a Predictable Retread, and I Don’t CareYou can (justifiably) complain about its flaws, or you can relax and groove on its recycled rhythms.
    By Jen Chaney
  10. remembrance
    No One Could Tee Up a Bullfrog Like Bill CobbsHe built a career on wise, one-shot characters, and he made everything from Demolition Man to The Sopranos better because of it.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  11. legacy crafting
    Eddie Murphy ‘Forced’ Himself to Change Beverly Hills Cop Laugh“In the ’80s, I was like, ‘I don’t want to be known for a laugh.’”
    By Zoe Guy
  12. best of 2024
    The Best Movies of 2024 (So Far)A sprawling western, a thrilling prequel, and a nonagenarian who finally gets a starring role worthy of her talents.
    By Bilge Ebiri and Alison Willmore
  13. from the archives
    From the Archives: David Denby on Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)“The original idea of the Axel Foley character … has been completely lost.”
    By David Denby
  14. from the archives
    From the Archives: David Denby on Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)“… The excruciatingly pragmatic Tony Scott, the director of Beverly Hills Cop II, is interested only in whipped-up excitement …”
    By David Denby
  15. from the archives
    Bewitched, Bored, and Bewildered: ‘Notes on Beverly Hills Cop II’From 1985: David Denby on the bad lessons Hollywood is learning from the success of Beverly Hills Cop II.
    By David Denby
  16. from the archives
    From the Archives: David Denby on Beverly Hills Cop (1984)“Murphy overwhelms everyone, even himself, with his gift of gab. He wants the world to be a faster place…”
    By David Denby
  17. health
    Jamie Foxx’s 2023 Hospitalization Happened After a ‘Bad Headache’“I was gone for 20 days,” he recalled.
    By Bethy Squires
  18. rip
    Chinatown Screenwriter Robert Towne Dead at 89He won an Oscar for his screenplay for the 1974 film.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  19. cameos
    RRR Fans Will Appreciate One Big Cameo in Kalki 2898 ADThe Telugu-language mythological sci-fi epic has a little something for everyone.
    By Siddhant Adlakha
  20. boston voice: wicked!
    Everything We Know About Wicked, If You Dare to Find OutWhat are you wearing to the Gladiator II–Wicked Part One double feature?
    By Jason P. Frank
  21. movie review
    Fancy Dance Expands the Lily Gladstone Heartbreak CanonErica Tremblay’s portrait of Indigenous womanhood is as idyllic as it is bristling.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  22. core memory
    Inside Out 2 Grows a Money Island After $1 Billion GloballyIt’s also the fastest animation movie to reach the milestone after 19 days.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  23. from the archives
    The Couple That Has Everything. Is Everything Enough?From 1973: Egon and Diane von und zu Fürstenberg are a contemporary version of the American Dream.
    By Linda Francke
    Photographs by Jill Krementz
  24. coming soon
    Paul Mescal Is ‘Big and Strong’ in Gladiator IIMovie-theater employees keep saying it’s “not November yet,” but we’re simply too seated.
    By Zoe Guy
  25. splits
    The Accountant 2 Better Be GoodBen Affleck sources continue to say he isn’t drifting apart from his wife — he’s just working.
    By Justin Curto
  26. vulture lists
    Every Kevin Costner Movie, RankedThe actor’s career is full of peaks, valleys, and Waterworlds.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
  27. box office
    How Did A Quiet Place: Day One and Horizon: An American Saga Do at Box Office?Spoiler alert: both movies couldn’t catch up to Inside Out 2.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  28. movie review
    Catherine Breillat Is Back, BabyThe transgressive French filmmaker is in fine, fucked-up form with Last Summer, about a middle-age lawyer who starts sleeping with her stepson.
    By Alison Willmore
  29. splits?
    Can You Handle Another Bennifer Breakup?As the couple prepare to sell their mansion, Affleck has reportedly moved his stuff out.
    By Justin Curto
  30. movie review
    Welcome to the New Quiet Place, Same As the Old Quiet PlaceThe prequel A Quiet Place: Day One is being sold as an expansion of the horror franchise, but in many ways it’s merely a reiteration.
    By A.A. Dowd
  31. movie review
    I Never Want to See This Movie AgainThe Devil’s Bath, a twisted horror drama from the directors of Goodnight Mommy, is both deeply captivating and deeply upsetting.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  32. cowboys don’t cry
    You Cannot Make Kevin Costner Do Therapy on TVHe just wants to talk about his movie!
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  33. movie review
    Dakota Johnson Is Actually Great in DaddioSean Penn is better than he’s been in years in Christy Hall’s old-fashioned strangers-in-a-cab drama. But Johnson nearly acts him off the screen.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  34. now streaming
    The 10 Best Tubi Original MoviesThe free streamer houses a vast library of intriguing obscurities without the pretensions.
    By Josh Bell
  35. obits
    Bill Cobbs, The Bodyguard and Air Bud Star, Dead at 90Whitney Houston’s manager and Air Bud’s coach? Now that’s a career.
    By Bethy Squires
  36. movie review
    Céline Dion Is Still Aiming for PerfectionHer new documentary refuses to be a portrait of a diva in decline.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  37. trailer mix
    Tom Hanks and Robin Wright Are De-Aged to Teenagers in HereReuniting with Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis.
    By Zoe Guy
  38. nepo-pinions
    Emma Roberts Isn’t Into Nepo-Baby Discourse, Unsurprisingly“If you’re kind of not the girl from the middle of nowhere that broke into Hollywood, there’s kind of an eye roll.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  39. movie review
    Mia Goth Will Almost Convince You MaXXXine Has Something to SayFor that, the girl deserves an Oscar.
    By Alison Willmore
  40. film
    Gena Rowlands Has Alzheimer’s, Mirroring Her Character“We lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us,” said her son, Nick Cassavetes.
    By Jason P. Frank
  41. posture
    Will Someone Please Check on Austin Butler’s Neck?He always looks like he’s either working through a cramp or about to get one.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  42. in memoriam
    10 Essential Donald Sutherland PerformancesThe New Hollywood icon was an unusually grounded movie star.
    By A.A. Dowd
  43. donnnn-keigh!
    Merry Shrek-mas and a Donkey New Year!Shrek 5 and Donkey are coming to theaters near you.
    By Jason P. Frank
  44. i’ll be your guide
    The Boy and the Heron Is Now Pooping on DigitalMiyazaki’s Oscar winner is on VOD, with a streaming debut to come.
    By Eric Vilas-Boas
  45. vulture lists
    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
  46. feeling joy
    Inside Out 2 Scores Another Win at the Box OfficeAfter eight days in theaters, it beat Dune 2 for the highest-earning movie of the year.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  47. living the dream
    Bravo Superfan Jennifer Lawrence Will Be a Real-ish HousewifeIn the sense that she’s starring in a Real Housewives–inspired murder mystery movie for A24 and Apple.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  48. movie review
    A Movie About Being Cool Shouldn’t Be This UptightHow is The Bikeriders, a movie in which Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy are a biker love triangle, so emotionally constipated?
    By Alison Willmore
  49. on the horizon
    Kevin Costner ‘Just Realized’ He’s Too Busy for YellowstoneGo see him in an actual movie if you like him so much.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  50. papa-paparazzi
    Ben Affleck Has ‘Resting Hard Face,’ Not RBF“People are projecting something onto me that I don’t feel about myself at all.”
    By Justin Curto
  51. 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
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