A.V. Club: Best of the Decade
  • Army Of Darkness

    The New Cult Canon Army Of Darkness

    Some movies have rich subtexts. Others have heroes with chainsaws for arms.

    November 19, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • In The Company Of Men

    The New Cult Canon In The Company Of Men

    Neil LaBute's debut still maintains its power to shock.

    November 12, 2009 | 12:00pm -

  • Hedwig And The Angry Inch

    The New Cult Canon Hedwig And The Angry Inch

    Looking for the origin of love in a cheap seafood restaurant.

    November 5, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Ginger Snaps

    The New Cult Canon Ginger Snaps

    Sometimes "the curse" really is a curse.

    October 29, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Army Of Shadows

    The New Cult Canon Army Of Shadows

    Suppressed in the ’60s, this World War II classic has recently found itself a cult.

    October 22, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Stepfather

    The New Cult Canon The Stepfather

    Before he was Locke on Lost, he was a psycho stepdad who murdered his way across the country in a personification of the Reagan Revolution.

    October 15, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy

    The New Cult Canon Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy

    A trilogy explores a dirty business from several angles.

    October 8, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Head-On

    The New Cult Canon Head-On

    Crazy in love (and out and then back in again).

    October 1, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Napoleon Dynamite

    The New Cult Canon Napoleon Dynamite

    The squeaky clean freak show that conquered the world.

    September 24, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Slacker

    The New Cult Canon Slacker

    Withdrawing in disgust: Same as apathy?

    September 3, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Lovers On The Bridge

    The New Cult Canon The Lovers On The Bridge

    A love story. With fireworks.

    August 27, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Cult Canon Stuck

    The director of Re-Animator takes on a horror from real-life.

    August 20, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Dead Ringers

    The New Cult Canon Dead Ringers

    David Cronenberg and Jeremy Irons create a pair of twins, separate and inequal.

    August 13, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Naked

    The New Cult Canon Naked

    Mike Leigh pays tribute to the human spirit in the ugliest way possible.

    August 6, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • It’s showtime!

    The New Cult Canon Beetlejuice

    Remember when Michael Keaton was an up-and-coming wild man?

    July 30, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Pootie Tang

    The New Cult Canon Pootie Tang

    Critics and mainstream audiences hated this blaxploitation sendup, but they may have missed the humor in its specificity, absurdism, and daring.

    July 23, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Lost Highway

    The New Cult Canon Lost Highway

    Revisiting the dark turns of an oft-overlooked David Lynch movie.

    July 9, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Darkman

    The New Cult Canon Darkman

    So who was Darkman?

    July 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • I Heart Huckabees

    The New Cult Canon I Heart Huckabees

    What does Shania Twain have in common with a rock? Only one film dares to ponder the question.

    June 25, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Quick Change

    The New Cult Canon Quick Change

    Bill Murray just wants to rob a bank and go home, okay?

    June 18, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Trust

    The New Cult Canon Trust

    Can love be reduced to an equation?

    June 11, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Code Unknown

    The New Cult Canon Code Unknown

    A master of philosophical violence and philosophy about violence turns the "everything is connected" movie upside-down.

    June 4, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Team America: World Police

    The New Cult Canon Team America: World Police

    Puppet satire! Fuck yeah!

    May 28, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Brick

    The New Cult Canon Brick

    High school goes noir.

    May 21, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Big Lebowski

    The New Cult Canon The Big Lebowski

    The cult abides.

    May 14, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Careful

    The New Cult Canon Careful

    The obsessive fantasylands of Guy Maddin.

    May 7, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Millennium Actress

    The New Cult Canon Millennium Actress

    A twisty anime feature folds fantasy into reality.

    April 30, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Triplets Of Belleville

    The New Cult Canon The Triplets Of Belleville

    How can a film so bent on imitation and allusion be so thoroughly original?

    April 23, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Spirited Away

    The New Cult Canon Spirited Away

    The mirror image of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland strikes an audaciously melancholy tone.

    April 16, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Alice

    The New Cult Canon Alice

    Animation month goes down the rabbit hole.

    April 9, 2009 | 12:00am -