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Garth Davis' dystopian sci-fi, Foe, has been getting some lukewarm reviews. But there's one surefire element of the film, based on Iain Reid's 2018 novel, that actually deserves its moment in the burning, burning sun — and it's not necessarily the beautiful people feeling all the feelings within it. 

It's the way the world as we've known it is actually ending, often incrementally but surely. And you'd better believe it's all thanks to climate change.

How is the world ending in Foe?

Set in the year 2065, Foe is a work of speculative fiction that presents an Earth that has become almost but not entirely inhospitable, when fresh water and inhabitable land are scarce. They're not human rights but instead the most important capital a human being can own. It's Mad Max without the steampunk or gang violence.

Reid's novel keeps specifics of the apocalypse off the page, but the film, which Reid and Davis co-wrote, gives details at the top. In this version of America, the government's Federal Climate Alert System has become useless. Human displacement sits at the centre of the global climate crisis, with nations uprooted by extreme weather events. Air quality has declined and respiratory conditions have risen. People are encouraged to stay indoors to avoid the extreme heat. Folks live off-grid if they can, using solar panels and reusing their waste water, but it's all a little too late. At the core of the narrative, humanoid AI robot substitutes have replaced human labour in many industries.

SEE ALSO: 'Foe' review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal can't save this empty sci-fi mess

Quietly surviving on a barren, isolated Midwest property is married couple Hen and Junior, played by Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal. In this future, inhabitable land is mainly owned by companies or governments and used for farming; as for the rest, inheritance rules, as Junior's property is fifth generation-owned. Above the dusty, cracked earth of the property, extreme weather events from intense dust storms to extreme heat are an everyday occurrence. Only one tree survives on the land, kept alive by the couple's waste water. In fact, water is such a precious commodity that we regularly see Junior and Hen drinking cans of beer instead of water first thing in the morning — perhaps beyond mild hydration, beer doesn't hurt for dealing with the end of the world, either. Though for someone trying to conserve water, Hen sure has some lengthy shower cries.

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Foe shows the end of the world in an isolated, domestic silence for two people, but it's also not quite ended. At every turn, it seems people are still working hard to keep surviving the harsh conditions. However, Junior and Hen's quiet, rural life changes with the arrival of a man called Terrance (Aaron Pierre), who works for a government-backed company called OuterMore, wielding a plan to evacuate the planet — but notably slowly.

Plans to move people off-planet to a colossal space station near Earth are well underway, moving away from a "climate migration strategy" to simply getting the hell out of here. Terrance mentions that the moon, Mars, and other planets were possibilities built for the "first wave of temporary settlement", but due to their distance from Earth and the time it will take to go back and forth to build a new colony there, OuterMore has instead built an enormous planet of its own near Earth and readies humans for permanent relocation to space through years of training.

Credit: Amazon Studios

People are chosen randomly through a lottery to participate in the first phase of the space program, known as The Installation, a two-year placement on the station to test its readiness for a whole planet to live on — but Terrance notes Junior's physical strength as a positive attribute for it. Notably, the program isn't optional for those chosen, instead functioning as a form of "fortunate conscription". Through discussions of this station around Junior and Hen's dining room table, Foe lightly takes aim at the billionaire space race and billion-dollar plans to terraform other planets like Mars. "Why should you be spending money up there when you should be fixing things down here?" Hen asks.

Hollywood disaster films love to cut to the chase.

By no means is Foe the only film to predict the end of the world through climate change and eventual human relocation to space — even in recent years, we've seen the likes of 2016 sci-fi Passengers sharing similar scenarios. But it's something films have only started to really hammer home within the last few decades, with a notable rise in the 2000s. Though scientists had been warning of the coming threat for frustrating decades, and weather disaster films had long rampaged through cinemas, filmmakers finally seemed to harness these legitimate fears in the 2000s and 2010s, punishing earthlings' blatant disregard for the planet with brutal, extreme weather-driven consequences in films like The Day After Tomorrow, Geostorm, 2012, and the Keanu Reeves remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. 

Not simply allowing viruses and sentient machines to destroy the world as we know it, rising sea levels caused by a warming planet finally got their moment in the 2000s, notably with Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence — also aligned with Foe in terms of AI human replacements and self-aware robots in the coming apocalypse. In the film, set in the 22nd century, melting Arctic ice causes catastrophic flooding in coastal cities, meaning widespread human displacement, starvation, and death. New York is underwater. The global population plummets and humanoid robots step in for both human labour and companionship because they're "never hungry and ... did not consume resources beyond those of their first manufacture." 

In the book Hollywood Wants to Kill You, Rick Edwards and Dr. Michael Brooks write of Hollywood's tendency to speed things up when it comes to planetary death by climate change, to get to the dramatically perilous stuff overnight instead of showing how it happens and how we could have stopped it gradually. The authors particularly skewer the films Geostorm and The Day After Tomorrow, which predict an overnight climate overhaul, a catastrophic tipping point that sees the planet plunged into every kind of extreme weather Hollywood can conjure at once.

"It turns out that governments, both Hollywood-imagined and real-life, aren't really interested in long-term gains that involve short-term pain," Edwards and Brooks write. The film 2012 also does this, cutting straight to the chase, but at least the movie consistently reiterates that scientists and world leaders have known what's coming for years.

But one of the most realistic parts of the potential end of the world in Foe is not that we'll all inevitably shack up with a smokin' partner with an endless supply of PBRs. It's that some things will happen slowly, the decline of the planet's habitable spaces slowly increasing as CO2 levels skyrocket, climate science misinformation continues, and government inaction prevails. (Some impacts, like amplified Western U.S. wildfires and increased flooding, are happening rapidly.)

Foe isn't a perfect representation of a future Earth, notably being the experience of two sad yet socioeconomically advantaged white people, citizens who by no means are on the frontline of the climate crisis. And notably, climate doomism itself gets us nowhere — we're not completely up the bone dry creek yet. Despite how things appear, we haven't passed a point of no return, and earthlings still have the power to either exacerbate the planet's problems or seal them in stone.

Instead, Foe is a cautionary tale, a hypothetical endgame. One that's slow but sure, and without action on climate change, could very well be what the end of the Earth looks like.

How to watch: Foe is now streaming on Prime Video.

By all appearances, Foe is a beautiful movie. Beautiful people — Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, and Aaron Pierre — explore beautiful landscapes, talking about beautiful human emotions like love and loss.

Yet all these aesthetic pleasures can't cover up the vapid emptiness at Foe's core. There is indeed some attempt at substance here, but it's buried under layers of nonsensical storytelling and clumsy dialogue. Not even its prestigious stars can sell it.

SEE ALSO: 'The Creator' review: A stunning reminder we need more original sci-fi What's Foe about? Saoirse Ronan in "Foe." Credit: Amazon Studios

Ronan and Mescal play Hen and Junior, a married couple living through the climate crisis. The year is 2065, and water and habitable land are scarce. Humans have begun moving to space stations to preserve the species, but Hen and Junior remain on Earth, living in Junior's family's old farmhouse in the Midwest.

Director Garth Davis, who co-wrote Foe's screenplay with the original novel's author Iain Reid, finds beauty in the apocalyptic. Gorgeous desert landscapes and pink salt flats make up Hen and Junior's isolated world, while billowing clouds of smoke in the distance suggest encroaching danger. These quiet vistas are about as subtle as Foe gets — emphasis on quiet, because it's when the movie really gets talking that it starts to lose you.

That talking begins in earnest with the arrival of mysterious stranger Terrance (Pierre) on Hen and Junior's farmstead. Terrance reveals that Junior has been chosen to live on a space station for a few years. However, Hen will have to stay behind while he's gone.

SEE ALSO: The best part of 'Foe' is how the world is ending

To make sure that Hen isn't totally alone while Junior is in space, Terrance's company OuterMore will provide her with an AI human substitute of Junior — essentially a clone. In order to get this substitute completely right, Terrance will live at home with Hen and Junior, observing every aspect of their marriage and conducting interviews about their personal lives. If this all seems like a lot of trouble to go to to send one man into space, you'd be right! Why not set up correspondence between the space station and Earth? Or why not send Junior's replacement into space, if he'll basically be the same person?

These are all questions Foe simply avoids in order to get to the meat of the film: Terrance's time with Junior and Hen. Unfortunately, this meat has all the flavor and value of a scrap of gristle.

Foe is a run-of-the-mill marriage drama with uninspired sci-fi elements. Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal in "Foe." Credit: Amazon Studios

Despite being the focus of the film, the actual discussions of Hen and Junior's marriage are not particularly revelatory. Junior is possessive of Hen and (not so shockingly) grows jealous of Terrance's talks with her. Meanwhile, Hen feels that the marriage is stifling. As time goes on, she confides in Terrance that their marriage has become predictable, complete with a sense of losing her identity. "It's like he's replaced me with someone else," she tells Terrance.

The sublimation of self to keep a dying marriage going is not necessarily a new idea, although here, Foe complicates it somewhat with the addition of AI replacements. When Junior leaves for space, he'll have given up everything of himself in order to create a copy that can stay behind. But instead of reckoning with that further, or with the fact that he will be going to space, we mostly see Junior mope about how his wife will be spending time with another man — even though it will look and act exactly like him. Who needs nuance when we could watch the archetypes of the jealous husband and the cowed wife instead?

For their parts, Ronan, Mescal, and Pierre do their best with the material they're given. Mescal channels frustrated male aggression — culminating in a wall-punching scene, no less! — but he tries to soften it with bewilderment as Terrance's lines of questioning become more and more bizarre. Pierre is softly menacing as an authority figure who has the clear power over Hen and Junior. Foe mostly relegates Ronan to the role of subdued wife, which is a travesty given her skill. (It's also, ironically, what Junior does to Hen.) Despite her character being a mostly unknowable mystery, Ronan delivers a layered performance that ages better as Foe arrives at its climax. Still, even she can't make lines like "It would mean nothing and everything at the same time" feel human.

With the set-up of three great actors mostly confined to a house in the middle of nowhere, you may expect Foe to be an artful pressure cooker. Yet Foe is almost entirely devoid of tension, playing more like a series of overwrought vignettes that neither build on each other nor reach meaningful conclusions. The conclusion the film does reach is as self-satisfied as it is predictable, with all the subtlety of a slap to the face.

The casting of Academy Award nominees Ronan and Mescal suggests that Foe is aiming for prestige, but in reality, it calls to mind another sci-fi disappointment: 2016's Passengers. While Passengers is more of a blockbuster and Foe is more contained, both films highlight their leading pair of beloved stars — Ronan and Mescal in Foe's case, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in Passengers'. Both also fail to deliver on their stories of romantic relationships tested by humans' attempts to leave a dying Earth.

It's hard to tell if Foe is a case of wasted potential, or if its concept — with its uninspiring ideas and groan-worthy twists — was doomed to fail from the start. Ultimately, its visual beauty is the best thing about it. And that is certainly not enough to make up for hollow filmmaking.

How to watch: Foe is now streaming on Prime Video.

UPDATE: Oct. 5, 2023, 2:07 p.m. EDT Foe was reviewed out of the 2023 New York Film Festival. This review has been rerun for its streaming release.

Sexual desire can be a twisted thing, and Emerald Fennell isn't afraid to showcase the dark side of lust and longing. In fact, she relishes it with the kind of blood-smeared smile you might expect from the mind behind the darkly comic revenge-thriller Promising Young Woman. (Her feature-length directorial debut snagged her an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and a nom for Best Director — not too shabby.) With her sophomore outing, Saltburn, the English writer/director points her razor-sharp wit at the British upper class, the kind of vaguely aristocratic, disorderly decadent, and woefully snobby folks who boast appalling wealth and privilege along with an estate so big it has its own name: Saltburn.

SEE ALSO: 'Saltburn' seduces us with '00s nostalgia. Why does it affect us so much?

In Fennell's much-anticipated follow-up to Promising Young Woman, she once more presents audiences with an anti-hero who uses sex and stereotypes as tools to achieve their darkest desires. While some critics have crudely denounced Saltburn as "The Talented Mr. Ripoff," this comparison to Anthony Minghella's 1999 movie adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel is as thin as that comparing Anna Kendricks's Woman of the Hour to Fennell's provocative previous feature. Perhaps the problem is that, in a cinema landscape overrun with superhero movies and other kid-friendly films, cinema for grown-ups is so rare that it shocks us into clumsy comparison. 

While Saltburn does have some familiar framework to classic tales of obsession and deception, Fennell's love of bad fashion, banger songs, and the messy area where attraction meets repulsion offers audiences a thrill ride that is uniquely harrowing, hilarious, and exhilarating. Plus, Saltburn is a thriller that edges confidently into self-aware queer comedy. 

SEE ALSO: 25 best movies of 2023, and where to watch them What's Saltburn about?  Credit: MGM/Amazon Studios

The Banshees of Inisherin Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver Quick, a "scholarship case" attending Oxford University in 2006 alongside fleets of the UK's upper-crustiest youth. While relentless hard work got him there, their spots were secured by legacy, family names, and heaps of donations. While he looks achingly dweeby in glasses and a blazer, they look effortlessly cool in Juicy Couture sweatpants and eyebrow rings. 

Gen Z can bring back '00s fashion without irony, but Fennell reminds us how impossibly uncool even the hippest of fits from this era was. Visual jokes range from the reveal of achingly regrettable fashion choices to Oliver facing a comically large manor door, unsure of how to even address such an antiquated symbol of affluence and gatekeeping. But even as the cool kids might make us laugh in retrospect, Oliver pines to be with them. Or more specifically, he deeply desires to be with their king, the hot but dopey Felix Catton (Euphoria's Jacob Elordi). Class conflicts aside, "Ollie" and Felix become fast friends, and as summer approaches, the latter invites his poor friend to join him at the family's ludicrous estate. 

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The film's gothic framework involves a grown and glowering Oliver looking back on this summer, warning his audience that people misunderstood his feelings for Felix. Throughout the film, this ominous voiceover will arise, giving some added color — or shadow — while reminding us that all of this is coming from the unreliable narration of a character as enigmatic as he is mesmerizing. Oliver becomes a figurative shapeshifter at the Catton home, bending his persona to best appease whoever is his audience: the project, the crush, the student, the co-conspirator. But to what end? 

SEE ALSO: 'Triangle of Sadness' review: The "eat the rich" comedy goes gross-out, and it's great Saltburn's supporting cast – from Rosamund Pike to Carey Mulligan — is stupendous.  Credit: MGM/Amazon Studios

While the first act on the Oxford campus is ripe with cringe comedy of the social embarrassment variety, the second act at Saltburn itself is absolutely on fire with its scorching satire of the so-called elite. Rosamund Pike, who deserved an Oscar for Gone Girl, gives her funniest performance yet as mother Elspeth, who chatters away with her concern about others — in between some of the most cutting barbs ever committed to film. (Her withering delivery of "She'll do anything for attention" may be the best punchline of the year.) With a wide smile and breezy tone, Pike welcomes audiences into Saltburn, then swiftly stings with a series of increasingly outrageous confessions, to which Oliver — and us — are eager audience. She is electrifying in her blithe cruelty, delivering the kind of lines that drag queens would call "reads" but with the British brightness that makes their sharp edge all the more jolting. 

SEE ALSO: 'Saltburn' gives 'Murder On The Dancefloor' new life 20 years after its release

Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman's Oscar-nominated leading lady, reunites with Fennell to play a quirky friend of the Catton family. And while her appearance is brief, it is rife with comically flighty comments and ruthlessly funny reaction shots. Academy Award nominee Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) adds further panache as the family's oblivious but occasionally spunky patriarch. Alison Oliver (Conversations with Friends) sizzles as Felix's trouble-making little sister, while Elordi slyly plays Felix as nothing too special beyond being hot, young, and rich. It's not that he plays the role half-heartedly; rather, his shrug of a portrayal is a damnation of such poor little rich boys who cruise not so much on charm but on privilege. 

Archie Madekwe, as one of the Catton cousins always rankled over rankings, is exciting in his bullying of Oliver, thinking himself a cat in the game when he's just another jewel-encrusted mouse. And shout-out to Lolly Adefope, the English comedian who has awed in Ghosts and Miracle Workers; she has a small but biting role as a lady who is over all this posh nonsense — especially her fool of a wealthy husband. 

Barry Keoghan is a revelation in Saltburn.  Credit: MGM/Amazon Studios

The Irish actor has garnered wild praise from critics since his haunting performance in Yorgos Lanthimos's cerebral 2017 thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer. From there, he's been lauded in challenging films like Christopher Nolan's war drama Dunkirk, Bart Layton's true crime docu-drama American Animals, and David Lowery's surreal fantasy The Green Knight. His cheeky performance in Chloé Zhao's MCU entry Eternals spurred countless crushes online, while his heartbreaking turn in The Banshees of Inisherin made the Academy take notice. And now, with the world watching, Keoghan commits full-bodied to a role that dares you to look away. 

While Oliver is Saltburn's narrator and protagonist, he is nonetheless a slippery figure. Keoghan's penetrating gaze focuses on Felix, and it's hard to gauge if what Oliver is feeling is love, lust, jealousy, hatred, or a heady mix of all this and more. The role of Oliver is made up of masks, and Keoghan wears each one so convincingly that it's an enthralling game to guess which is real. Does he mean his chipper assessment of the house's priceless artworks? The growling huff of pillow talk during a late-night tryst? The sweet invitation to friendship? The hushed rush of gossip over cocktails? 

Oliver talks a good game no matter who he's talking to, but Keoghan and Fennell know the truth of him lies in his actions. Sex is not some lofty allusion in Saltburn. Love scenes — or lust scenes, anyway — play out with a visceral relish. Fennell refuses glossy displays of perfect flesh, instead reveling in sweat, spit, semen, and menstrual blood, sticky and viscous. Some in the audience at my screening gasped in surprise or cried out in dismay over these graphic depictions of sex, which range from kinky to taboo to groundbreakingly shocking. Yet Fennell's film doesn't project judgment onto any of the above, as it is tied deeply to Oliver's POV, and he is definitely unashamed. Keoghan expresses that in the confidence of his physicality in these sex scenes and beyond, to a climax that is kinetic, deliciously devilish, and over-the-top. (Dare I predict John Waters will love it?) 

In the end, Saltburn is unabashedly a movie for grown-ups, and thank god. 

Fennell unleashes a torrid eat-the-rich satire that confronts the 99%'s conflicted feelings over the 1%. In Oliver, we are given the vicarious thrill of being ushered into these precious, pompous spaces, taken on a tour of obscene consumerism that dates back centuries, and led into the labyrinth of jealousy, awe, and wrath. We are made complicit by following Oliver through his elaborate and merciless scheme, and we are invited to join him in a victory lap that is as jarring as it is jubilant. 

Simply put, Saltburn is dynamite, bursting with lust, lies, and laughs — the kind edged with a dark snarl. If loving a movie this willfully seedy, boldly savage, smoking hot, and unnervingly sensational is wrong, then being right is boring. 

Saltburn is now on Prime Video.

UPDATE: Jan. 4, 2024, 11:46 a.m. EST Saltburn was reviewed out of Fantastic Fest. The review has been republished for the film's debut on Prime Video

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How to watch Middlesbrough vs. Aston Villa for free

You can watch the FA Cup fixture between Middlesbrough and Aston Villa live on BBC One, with coverage starting from 5:25 p.m. GMT on Jan. 6. You can also live stream this fixture for free on BBC iPlayer.

BBC iPlayer is geo-restricted to the UK, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in the UK, meaning you can connect to BBC iPlayer from anywhere in the world.

Unblock BBC iPlayer by following these simple steps:

1. Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in the UK

4. Visit BBC iPlayer

5. Steam Middlesbrough vs. Aston Villa for free from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but leading VPNs tend to offer free-trial periods or money-back guarantees. By taking advantage of these offers, you can gain access to BBC iPlayer without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term solution, but it gives you time to stream games like Middlesbrough vs. Aston Villa before recovering your investment.

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What is the best VPN for BBC iPlayer?

ExpressVPN is the best service for unblocking BBC iPlayer, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 94 countries including the UK

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to five simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for £82.82 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. This plan also includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee.

Watch Middlesbrough vs. Aston Villa for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

TL;DR: Stream Sunderland vs. Newcastle United in the FA Cup for free on ITVX. Access this free streaming service from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The FA Cup is back with a selection of exciting third-round fixtures, but it doesn't get any bigger or better than the Tyne-Wear derby between Sunderland and Newcastle United. Seriously, if you're going to only watch one game from this round, make it this one. It's going to be spicy.

If you want to watch Sunderland vs. Newcastle United for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

When is Sunderland vs. Newcastle United in the FA Cup?

Sunderland and Newcastle United will kick off at 12:45 p.m. GMT on Jan. 6 at the Stadium of Light.

How to watch Sunderland vs. Newcastle United for free

You can watch the FA Cup fixture between Sunderland and Newcastle United live on ITV1, with coverage starting from 12 p.m. GMT on Jan. 6. You can also live stream this fixture for free on ITVX.

ITVX is geo-restricted to the UK, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in the UK, meaning you can connect to ITVX from anywhere in the world.

Unblock ITVX by following these simple steps:

1. Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in the UK

4. Visit ITVX

5. Steam Sunderland vs. Newcastle United for free from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but leading VPNs tend to offer free-trial periods or money-back guarantees. By taking advantage of these offers, you can gain access to ITVX without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term solution, but it gives you time to stream the best of the FA Cup third-round before recovering your investment.

In fact this could be the best time to make use of that money-back guarantee, because you can use this same process to watch the Australian Open for free this month. It's a sneaky trick, but it works without hassle.

What is the best VPN for ITVX?

ExpressVPN is the best service for unblocking ITVX, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 94 countries including the UK

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to five simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for £82.82 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. This plan also includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee.

Watch Sunderland vs. Newcastle United for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

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Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for Jan. 5's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

Where did Wordle come from?

Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

Not the day you're after? Here's the Wordle answer for Jan. 4.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles used to be available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately, it has since been taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

Why are there two different Wordle answers some days?

Though usually Wordle will only accept one correct solution per day, occasionally it has rebelled against the norm and deem two different answers acceptable. This is due to changes the New York Times made to Wordle after it acquired the puzzle game.

The Times has since added its own updated word list, so this should happen even less frequently than before. To avoid any confusion, it's a good idea to refresh your browser before getting stuck into a new puzzle.

Here's a subtle hint for today's Wordle answer:

To jump at someone.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

There are no letters that appear twice.

Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter L.

SEE ALSO: Wordle-obsessed? These are the best word games to play IRL. What's the answer to Wordle today?

Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to Wordle #930 is...

LUNGE.

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

Reporting by Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.