what's great about Ebert is that he both will have the most astute powerful take on a Terrence Malick movie and then he'll also be heaping the dumbest praise ever on Paul Blart mall cop - people contain multitudes!

great film

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Los Angeles has a lot wrong with it. But those criticize it from the left do so with love. People like Spencer Pratt criticizes it from a place of hate. He wants to see this city into a sterile, sprawling Caruso mall. He hates everyone in this city who’re neither white nor wealthy.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 782: May 17, 2026 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2345 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜ Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

The first time I had that feeling was oddly enough seeing Attack of the Clones, though I think it was more I didn’t like that a movie ending was depressing. In all honesty, the film that really showed me how bad films could be was 2004’s The Alamo.

lol

The fact that a New York mayor marked Nakba Day is historic

VC Defensa volunteer Leo Martinez woke up at 3am on Wednesday to federal agents breaking down his door to search his home — the latest escalation in the federal government's campaign to harass and intimidate people who patrol immigration enforcement operations www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Cannes people! Help a fellow film critic👇🏻

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

Once again, California appears to be targeted solely for political reasons. The Trump Administration is planning to defer over $1 billion in Medicaid funding for vital programs that helps seniors and people with disabilities remain safely in their homes.

Californians! Social media is full of the idea that waiting until the last minute to vote in California's election is strategic. But not if you're voting by mail. Attorney General Rob Bonta warns voters to mail ballots at least a week ahead of the June 2 election.

Time for the Dems in the righthand column to start dropping out.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 778: May 13, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2632 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem... 4%

Here's Obama bragging about how "the difference" between him/Biden and Trump "is that we didn't put our names" on stimulus checks. Eight days after he posted this, the Democrats lost another presidential election to Trump.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 777: May 12, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2573 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

“Bill Cassidy sold his soul to the devil” is right. Great op-ed by Gary Sernovitz www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians. Read @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Vulture Cinematrix No. 775: May 10, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2608 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Vulture Cinematrix No. 773: May 8, 2026 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2327 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

One of my favorite yearly events - it actually led to one of the few public screenings of Mona Fastvold's THE WORLD TO COME

Also, most of us here sucked it up & voted for Harris anyway when there was no other choice. Some liberals just need to have this imaginary leftist voter villain because they never want to have to reflect on Democrat failures and why they should perhaps discourage yet another repeat of said failures

Vulture Cinematrix No. 772: May 7, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2648 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Vulture Cinematrix No. 771: May 6, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2612 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem... 7%

unironically love this

Seeing a lot of people repost this — understandably, her work deserves to be recognized — but this is a salient detail The Pulitzers may be theoretically righting a previous wrong here, but it comes off somewhat disingenuous without acknowledging the history www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Leo - blood diamond and The Departed Jamie Foxx - Ray and Collateral (moving supporting up to lead)

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Important to breaking the stranglehold of authoritarian governments over their country’s films

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 764: Apr 29, 2026 I got 8/9 Correct Score: 2357 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜ Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

No powerful person in my lifetime has degraded American discourse and vilified, dehumanized and demonized those who disagree with him more than Donald Trump. He and his sycophants are blaming the left for the world they themselves built, and their complaints should not be given a moment's credence.

Vulture Cinematrix No. 762: Apr 27, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2647 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

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Movie I’ve probably seen more than any other tbh (also I think one of the last videotapes my family bought?)

Vulture Cinematrix No. 757: Apr 22, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2597 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Vulture Cinematrix No. 754: Apr 19, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2518 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

Vulture Cinematrix No. 752: Apr 17, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2608 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem... 6%

mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

Excited to share that my feature script SHELLS (which I'm working on turning into a feature film) was just selected by JHRTS 2026-2026 Script Competition via FilmFreeway.com!