In ‘Passages,’ the Backs Tell a Story

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( performance review [The Backs of a Story Say It All]( Passages is the year’s strongest, sexiest acting showcase. Its best performances rely on one body part in particular. Photo: Mubi Passages is a movie that unfurls with each scene like a petal peeling back to reveal little despairs and grand desires — the brilliant hues of an adulthood well lived. It isn’t glossy or hermetically sealed. It is open. It is wanting. It is alive. This is evident from the jump. Second scene. It’s an after-party at a thumping Parisian nightclub, celebrating the end of a film shoot for the German director Tomas (Franz Rogowski). Bodies slink in and out of the shadows. Electronic grooves pop across the soundscape. The air seems thick with conflict and hunger, encompassing Martin (a delicate, dynamic Ben Whishaw) and Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos, enrapturing as ever), who is cool until Martin’s husband, Tomas, appears. “It’s my party and my husband doesn’t want to dance with me,” Tomas says. Agathe offers to dance in Martin’s stead. So they dance. Tomas in his tight midnight-black sweater, skin peeking through the knitting. Agathe in a textured top of ripe magenta. Around and toward each other, they saunter, smile, flirt, groove. It’s in wordless gestures that the arrival of a torrid affair makes itself known. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. Subscribe now to [save over 60%]( on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Below Deck Mediterranean: [The Masked Avengers]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Judy Chicago Didn’t Stop at ‘The Dinner Party’ Her famous (and controversial) installation cast a long shadow over her career. A New Museum show expands the Chicago canon.]( By Jillian Steinhauer [House of Usher’s Most Diabolical Falls In Mike Flanagan’s hands, not all deaths are created equal. Let us rank the ways.]( By Roxana Hadadi and Nicholas Quah [It’s Lily Gladstone’s World and Marty’s Just Living in It Scorsese is ready to edit fan cams (once Francesca teaches him what that is).]( By Jason P. Frank [Britney Spears Says She Had an Abortion While Dating Justin Timberlake “Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father,” she writes in her upcoming memoir.]( By Zoe Guy [Reptile Doesn’t Care About Its Mystery The Netflix murder mystery applies a veneer of intricacy to a story without any.]( By A.A. Dowd [Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Is Brought to You by Elvis That is, Austin Butler’s Elvis vocal coach.]( By Zoe Guy [All the Clues About Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon “The Devil Is Alive” and it’s Leonardo DiCaprio.]( By Jason P. Frank [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Photo: Protocol/Scholastic Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock When it comes to a child’s first introduction to horror, R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps may very well be at the top of the list, so what better thing to watch in the Halloween season? Flipping through a variety of Stine adaptations may launch you back two decades or more, when these shows and movies were at their peak, but you don’t need to have grown up a ’90s kid to enjoy them. Now that Disney+ and Hulu have debuted a new take on the series — and with the Stine series Just Beyond [recently pulled from Disney+]( — we thought it’d be a scary-good idea to list where you can watch all the [entries in the Goosebumps franchise](, plus a few extra Stine adaptations for good measure. [Read more from Vulture]( 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]( | [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