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1 month ago | 
vulture.com | Charlotte Walsh |Alejandra Gularte |Laura Bradley
Clockwise from top left: Safa and Mohammed from Love Is Blind: Habibi season 1, Taylor and Garrett from Love Is Blind season 7, Wataru and Midor from Love Is Blind: Japan season 1, Jasmine and Bobby from Love Is Blind: U.K. season 1 Love Is Blind launched five years ago, and at this point, it’s hard to remember the “before” times. What was life like before names like “Messica,” “Bartise,” and “Sam from London” lived rent-free in our brains?
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
Deal or No Deal Island Chain of Command Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** I’m just going to come out and say I’m sick of Dr. Will. It’s been, like, two episodes, and already, he’s sucked up all the energy on this Deal or No Deal island, turning what promised to be a silly, relaxing vacation into a monsoon of chaos. Everyone hates him, and even worse, he wants everyone to hate him. This is all Part of the Plan — one gamer’s scheme to make the show all about him.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
Nosferatu has no shortage of harrowing human performances, but let’s be honest — this movie’s many, many rat actors are the ones who make our skin crawl. A physical manifestation of Count Orlok’s pestilence, these rodents have a ball running around, crawling all over people, and pretending to eat them alive. But what is it like to direct live rats? To find out, we had to go straight to the source — director Robert Eggers and head animal trainers Jáchym and Ota Bareš from Fauna Film.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
Deal or No Deal Island Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** In this life, there are some rules we all must follow. Don’t play with fire. Don’t talk with your mouth full. And please, for the love of God, if you’re on a reality-competition show, do not — I repeat DO NOT! — take undue credit for your team’s victories.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
Deal or No Deal Island The Banker Strikes Back Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Reality-competition series are a lot like group vacations. Both test everyone’s ability to stay calm and companionable despite a rising tide of logistical challenges and social tensions, and more often than not, someone thinks they’re the ringleader when they’re really just along for the ride.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
This December, audiences have two excellent stealth Christmas movies to choose from. But only one truly captures the holiday spirit. Spoilers ahead for the plots of Nosferatu and Babygirl. This holiday season, we all have the chance to watch a Christmas movie that uses repressed sexual fantasies to dig deep (so deep) on gender dynamics, societal expectations, and the relationship between self-acceptance and desire. The only question is, which one will you choose — Babygirlor Nosferatu?
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On Week 3 (Episodes 9-10) Season 3 Episodes 9 - 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** For every reality TV reunion, there must be a sacrificial lamb — one person who becomes the target of fellow participants and producers alike. Usually, it’s pretty obvious who’s going to get the hero’s edit and who will be the heel, but going into The Ultimatum’s final episodes, the finale and the reunion, I actually wasn’t sure.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
Without her mom, the “magic” of the holiday seemed lost. Enter The Holiday Junkie. It seems like a candy-striped glitch in the matrix — an oversight so unbelievable, it’s a wonder casting directors missed it. How the hell has Jennifer Love Hewitt, known to her Instagram followers as the “Holiday Junkie,” never starred in a Christmas movie until now? At long last, Hewitt debuts her first Lifetime holiday film this week (called, of course, The Holiday Junkie).
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On Week 2 (Episodes 6-8) Season 3 Episodes 6 - 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Behind every bad tattoo, there’s usually a great story. Whether it’s a mistranslated inspirational phrase, a drunkenly commissioned cartoon, or a giant back phoenix dreamed up during emotionally fraught times, the intention behind bad ink is often more interesting than the tat itself.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
vulture.com | Laura Bradley
Each winter, as the air gets chilly and the skin around my nose gets dry, I’m called to my most sacred tradition: watching every strange, sentimental Netflix holiday movie until I can no longer stand the sight of pine needles and fake snow. But over the years, as the Netflix Christmas Universe has expanded, something very strange has happened. A portal has been opened, unlocking multiple peppermint-scented, tinsel-coated dimensions in which all of us NCU fans are now trapped.
