‘Fast X’ Feels Like a Head Injury

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( movie review [Fast X Feels Like a Head Injury]( I didn’t hate it! Photo: Universal Pictures The Fast & Furious franchise has been about many things since it began as a comparatively modest street-racing thriller back in 2001. It’s been about cars, obviously: cars that go fast and drift around corners and, in later movies, prove themselves capable of [launching into orbit]( and tenderly catching people on their hoods as though cradling them in cushioned catcher’s mitts. It’s about family, in both the biological and the found sense, with the latter slowly sucking in so many past antagonists that the movies occasionally take a beat to acknowledge who has previously tried to kill whom. It’s about the lingering allure of Hollywood bombast, the successful exporting of the kind of multiethnic ensemble that same Hollywood used to insist the rest of the world didn’t want, and gyrating butts in close-up. But now that the Fast & Furiouses are firmly in their dotage — Fast X is more self-referential remix project than film, an idiot 2046 for a series that has run out of new roads to zoom down — what they’re especially about is the state of stardom. No actor seems able to escape the gravitational pull of these movies, and it doesn’t feel like a spoiler to note that some well-known ones make unannounced appearances in this latest installment. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Yellowjackets: [We’re All Mad Here]( • RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: [She Has a Great Personality]( • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: [Crossroads]( • Citadel: [O Valencia!]( • Selling Sunset: [A Fresh Start (Episode 1)](, [Hell Is Nicole (Episodes 2 and 3)](, [Encino Isn’t That Far (Episodes 4 and 5)](, [Suggestion Box (Episodes 6 and 7)]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Gabrielle Dennis Will Gladly Injure Herself for Comedy The Black Lady Sketch Show star has seen a lot of changes to the series in its four seasons, but she remains as committed as ever.]( By Hershal Pandya [Fast X’s Candy-ass Mid-Credits Scene, Explained There’s more going on here than in your average post-film teaser.]( By Katie Rife [10 Vanderpump Rules Episodes That Hit Different After #Scandoval The red flags were there all along.]( By Brian Moylan [Pedro Almodóvar Can’t Talk About His New Movie (But It Will Be About Death) The director says he is following up his gay-cowboy short with a mysterious film about “two women in a very intimate situation.”]( [The Disney+, Hulu Purge Has Begun Off to the streaming vault you go! For now.]( [This Year’s Gore-Soaked Spectacle of Depravity and Pain at Cannes You can practically smell the Black Flies director chain-smoking behind the camera, muttering about spitting in the face of humanity.]( By Bilge Ebiri [Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Is Too Entertaining to Dismiss A movie about going back in time turns out to be something of a time machine itself.]( [The 8 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Salud, mi familia.]( By James Grebey and Savannah Salazar [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( Four-Down, Five Letters: William who created Shrek. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: AMC, Getty Images A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](link.nymag.com/manage/588/optout-vulture?email={EMAIL}&hash=39357a76f6d08b16239fd2ffa65e9c6f¶m=vulture-daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved