In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson—about the year in cinema.

The news many fans of a certain blue dog have been waiting for has arrived. A movie based on the popular children’s animated series “Bluey” is headed to theaters. An announcement was made ...

In cinema, it’s not just that the endless options are enticing in their multiplicity — it’s that a great movie can come from almost anywhere. It can come from the heart of the megaplex ...

Every post-pandemic year has been one of commercial frustration and artistic anxiety for the movies. The theatrical experience feels under constant threat; each new generation is supposedly more ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with ... and Cruella co-scribe Dana Fox. In 2003, Wicked debuted ...

For the past eight years—ever since the last time there was an end-of-year movie season that fell in the shadow of a presidential election with results that were this, let’s just say ...

the movie-making machinery of Hollywood has apparently not drawn breath in the last few years. Though very little of the IP is original – there’s a lot of remakes, reboots and sequels to be ...

Is it safe to say the movies are back? Admittedly, they never really left. But it seems in this decade where every year throws up new challenges and hiccups in the industry, folks become convinced ...

This year, for the first time ever, the 10 highest-grossing movies in America were all sequels. Technically, “Wicked” is a prequel, and “Dune: Part Two” is the second half of one long ...

Gooodbye, 2024, you year of belated sequels, failed superhero-movie spin-offs, sci-fi extravaganzas and a hit witch musical, you! Hello, 2025, the upcoming annum that promises more, er ...

We watch movies for so many reasons: the spectacle of great cinematography, the experience of connecting with a director's ideas, the sheer pleasure of watching a story unfold before us.

I see a lot of movies in theaters every year. Last year, I was pretty pleased with my total of 79 trips to my local multiplex but for 2024, I set myself the goal of hitting triple-digits.