Anne Hathaway: The Odyssey actress’s hardest role has always been as herself.
One of the biggest compliments I can pay Anne Hathaway is that in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, she…
The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan ends his movie with an added plot twist.
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Steven Spielberg was a punching bag. Then one year changed everything.
This article is part of Spielberg Week, Slate’s seven-day celebration of Steven Spielberg. In 1993 Michael Jordan led…
Now the Oscars Aren’t Just Moving to YouTube, They’re Moving Out of Hollywood
Enjoy your old-school Oscars while you can because, three years from now, everything about them is going to…
Security Firm Speaks Out On Oscars Confrontation With Teyana Taylor
The security firm that employed a guard accused of shoving Teyana Taylor at the Oscars claimed the contact…
2026 Oscar winner Sean Penn skipped the show. It wasn’t the statement he thinks.
When Kieran Culkin, last year’s winner for Best Supporting Actor, arrived onstage at the Dolby Theatre in Los…
Watch Teyana Taylor Confront A Man In Post-Oscars Dustup
Taylor repeatedly admonished the person for putting his “hands on a female.” “You’re very rude,” she snapped as…
Sinners made history, but not the kind anyone expected.
With 16 nominations—two more than Titanic or All About Eve or La La Land—Sinners made Oscars history before…
The 2026 Oscar nominations’ biggest surprise is thrilling everyone—even Sinners skeptics.
When the 2026 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday morning, one surprise was a delight above all others:…
The best movie scenes of 2025, including one Quentin Tarantino would hate.
In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore,…
Timothée Chalamet’s is great in the movie. He’s even better outside of it.
I can’t remember the precise moment, but somewhere between Marty Supreme’s ecstatic surprise premiere at the New York Film…
The Netflix movie is terrifying. Is it realistic?
I’ve been researching and writing about nuclear war—its history, politics, science, and strategy—for more than 40 years. None…