best of 2024
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The Best Songs of 2024 (So Far) A juicy diss track, an unadorned ballad, and a confident rock anthem.
the festival circuit
Apr. 15, 2024
best of 2023
Dec. 6, 2023
The Best Songs of 2023 A year of revenge fantasies, odd interpolations, and psychedelic journeys.
bop or flop?
Aug. 3, 2023
the festival circuit
June 12, 2023
coachella 2023
Apr. 17, 2023
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Coachella 2023 LITERAL HIGH: Pusha T’s “Welcome to Cokechella” sign.
grammys 2023
Feb. 5, 2023
Viola Davis Read Her Way to an EGOT After winning a Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording.
vulture lists
Jan. 3, 2023
The Best Books of 2022 Yes, this list features more than one book set in a postapocalyptic world, but have you looked around lately?
best of 2022
Dec. 7, 2022
The Best Songs of 2022 This year’s music provided a fleeting and desperately needed moment of salvation.
let’s do it again
Aug. 23, 2022
The 102 Best Movie Sequels of All Time Who in the world wanted a Top Gun sequel? Not even Tom Cruise, but that didn’t stop Maverick from getting made and soaring in our ranks.
coachella 2022
Apr. 18, 2022
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Coachella 2022 From Harry Styles’s Shania Twain cameo to … a metal version of the Simpsons theme?
grammys 2022
Apr. 4, 2022
The Missy Elliott Renaissance Is Here Few artists are more reflexively self-aware of the music they’re making and image they’re projecting than she is.
Juliet Rylance on The Knick and Corsets “Cornelia must have been a linebacker in a previous incarnation.”
scene stealers
Oct. 6, 2014
André Holland on The Knick , Period Pieces, and Bloody Surgery Scenes “But then Steven said, ‘No, no, no. We need blood — much more blood.’”
vulture lists
Sept. 11, 2014
vulture lists
Aug. 7, 2014
the more you know
Aug. 6, 2014
What Band Did Chris Pratt Dance to in Guardians ? “Come and Get Your Love” — and come and get your info about Redbone.
behind the music video
July 15, 2014
vulture compendiums
June 27, 2014
brief histories
June 12, 2014
90s nostalgia
May 23, 2014
What Is a Kaiju? Atomic Breath, Huh? An A-Z Glossary of the Godzilla Franchise In today’s age of easily disposable pop-culture ephemera, Godzilla represents something rare: stability.
vulture lists
Apr. 20, 2014
What Does Heaven Look Like in the Movies? Filmmakers have been trying to crack the afterlife’s code for decades.
brief histories
Apr. 8, 2014
Explaining Captain America: The Winter Soldier ’s Post-Credits Scenes Read only if you’ve seen the movie (or care nothing about the movie).
vulture lists
Mar. 24, 2014
The Greatest Hits of the Muppets’ Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Some people grew up on the Beatles. Then there are those who learned about music through the Muppets’ house band.
alternatives
Jan. 17, 2014
side by side
Nov. 27, 2013
spoiler alert
Nov. 8, 2013
What Did Thor 2 ’s Post-Credits Scene Mean? The revealed character offers hints about Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers 2 .
spoiler alert
Nov. 8, 2013
What Did Thor 2 ’s Post-Credits Scene Mean? The revealed character offers hints about Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers 2 .