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games Once a novelty, full-motion video is now a useful tool for game designers
By Farouk Kannout December 11, 2025 | 1:00pm
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games Hades II—and its heroine—asks why we fight for the status quo
By Madeline Blondeau December 11, 2025 | 9:00am
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tv Heated Rivalry raises the bar for queer sex on TV
By Hunter Ingram December 11, 2025 | 6:00am
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tv American mockumentaries somehow got both nicer and more realistic this year
By Saloni Gajjar December 10, 2025 | 4:00pm
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music Has The xx’s debut album always sounded this limp and dull?
By Benny Sun December 10, 2025 | 1:30pm
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music Well-lubed and swerving all together: Drive-By Truckers get back to Decoration Day
By Matt Mitchell December 10, 2025 | 12:00pm
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games After 20 years of airbending, Avatar Legends delivers the series' first good game
By Elijah Gonzalez December 10, 2025 | 11:00am
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film Cult Of Criterion: Pee-wee's Big Adventure
By Jacob Oller December 10, 2025 | 6:00am
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film Hollywood's gateways to horror are crumbling
By Trace Sauveur December 9, 2025 | 3:00pm
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film, tv The A.V. Club's guide to the best pop culture gifts of 2025
By A.V. Club Staff December 9, 2025 | 10:00am
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tv In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19
By Mary Kate Carr December 9, 2025 | 7:00am
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anime This Monster Wants To Eat Me's sapphic horror delights in discomfort
By Elijah Gonzalez December 8, 2025 | 3:00pm
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music Have yourself a very John Waters Christmas
By Matt Mitchell December 8, 2025 | 11:00am
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film Bryan Fuller on his film debut Dust Bunny: "We've lost our appetite for bite"
By Jacob Oller December 8, 2025 | 9:00am
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aux 2025 was the year comedians defended comedy from itself
By Matt Schimkowitz December 8, 2025 | 6:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—Little Disasters and Wake Up Dead Man
By Christina Izzo December 7, 2025 | 8:00am
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film Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is the best and the worst of Quentin Tarantino
By Katie Rife December 5, 2025 | 4:00pm
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games 20 years ago, Animal Crossing: Wild World proved the series was here to stay
By Elijah Gonzalez December 5, 2025 | 2:00pm
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games What PAX Unplugged tells us about the future of tabletop gaming
By Cameron Kunzelman December 5, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Asbury Pines is the best-written idle game in nearly a decade
By William Hughes December 5, 2025 | 7:00am
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tv Maxton Hall helps fill a void left by The CW's YA dramas
By Saloni Gajjar December 4, 2025 | 3:00pm
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games Yakuza 0 Director's Cut makes a great game worse while erasing gaming history
By Elijah Gonzalez December 4, 2025 | 1:00pm
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games Rereleased after 43 years, this infamous Atari 2600 game is a brutalist take on Pac-Man
By Garrett Martin December 4, 2025 | 11:00am
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music 10 years ago, Erykah Badu embraced the retail mixtape
By Daniel Bromfield December 4, 2025 | 11:00am
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aux Interstellar Arc takes you to the ends of the universe—and the limits of VR
By Garrett Martin December 3, 2025 | 12:00pm
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music Rock and roll as we know it began with Rubber Soul
By Matt Mitchell December 3, 2025 | 9:00am
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anime Amazon's AI anime dubbing fiasco reminds us that voice actors are severely undervalued
By Elijah Gonzalez December 3, 2025 | 6:00am
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tv Queens of the desert—On the gloriously messy set of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Titans
By Katie Rife December 2, 2025 | 2:00pm
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games Scrabdackle turns a notebook into the best vehicle for discovery
By Wallace Truesdale December 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
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anime With anime more popular than ever, it's time to go beyond shonen
By Farouk Kannout December 2, 2025 | 8:00am
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tv Eldest-daughter burnout is popping up everywhere in 2025
By Caroline Siede December 1, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in December 2025
By Jacob Oller December 1, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Netflix Party Games marks the streamer's latest unconvincing push into gaming
By Elijah Gonzalez December 1, 2025 | 7:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—The Abandons and Spartacus: House Of Ashur
By Christina Izzo November 30, 2025 | 8:00am
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games Dungeons & Dragons sticks to the Forgotten Realms with its two new Faerûn books
By Cameron Kunzelman November 28, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film Spoiler Space: Wake Up Dead Man is a pleasure and (like all Knives Out films) a frustrating mystery
By Rory Doherty November 28, 2025 | 12:00pm
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film Hamlet becomes art therapy in the hands of 2025's films
By James Grebey November 28, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Kirby Air Riders is a so-so racing game, but a nifty little addiction
By William Hughes November 28, 2025 | 7:00am
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games Dispatch shows how player choice doesn't always work with telling a story
By Willa Rowe November 27, 2025 | 2:00pm
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anime Cracking Angel's Egg is a fool's errand, but let's try anyway
By Elijah Gonzalez November 27, 2025 | 12:00pm
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film C'mon Zootopia 2, let's stop with the conspiracy theorist heroes
By Matt Goldberg November 27, 2025 | 10:00am
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film It's time to give "On The Nature Of Daylight" a rest
By Kayleigh Donaldson November 27, 2025 | 7:00am
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games Board games are always on the table at PAX Unplugged
By Keith Law November 26, 2025 | 3:00pm
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tv The Beast In Me, Task, and the thrill of TV's anti-whodunits
By Saloni Gajjar November 26, 2025 | 1:00pm
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games Insert credit: Games still struggle to credit the people who actually make them
By Catherine Masters November 26, 2025 | 11:00am
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books 5 new comics to read in December, including Marvel's Ultimate Endgame
By Oliver Sava November 26, 2025 | 9:00am
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anime Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe on what it takes for art to "survive beyond"
By Elijah Gonzalez November 25, 2025 | 4:00pm
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games Keep Thanksgiving on track this year with these family-perfect multiplayer games
By Bee Wertheimer November 25, 2025 | 9:00am
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film December film preview: Avatar and Marty Supreme play ping-pong for the holiday crowd
By Matt Schimkowitz November 25, 2025 | 6:00am
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aux Podcast Canon: The enduring mystique of Starlee Kine's Mystery Show
By Benjamin Cannon November 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
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film Spoiler Space: Was Wicked changed for good?
By Caroline Siede November 24, 2025 | 12:00pm
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games A quest for relevance: Dragon Quest's remakes search for the impact it had in the '80s
By Dia Lacina November 24, 2025 | 10:00am
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tv December 2025 TV preview: Fallout, Stranger Things' finale, and Taylor Swift
By A.V. Club Staff November 24, 2025 | 10:00am
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film Reluctant revolutionary Katniss Everdeen ignited a generation
By Caroline Siede November 24, 2025 | 7:00am
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aux Medieval Europe was fascinated by this Christian king in Central Asia
By Mike Vago November 23, 2025 | 12:00pm
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tv What's on TV this week—Stranger Things' final season, Blossoms Shanghai
By Christina Izzo November 23, 2025 | 8:00am
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film Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
By Alex Lei November 21, 2025 | 4:00pm
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film Train Dreams stakes a complex claim in the Pacific Northwest cinematic canon
By Chase Hutchinson November 21, 2025 | 11:00am
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games Baby Steps is one of the best single-player multiplayer games ever made
By William Hughes November 21, 2025 | 8:00am
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anime Netflix's The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity rejects toxic masculinity and chauvinism
By Elijah Gonzalez November 20, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film Quincy Jones was at his peak when he gave The Wiz its soul
By Craig D. Lindsey November 20, 2025 | 11:00am
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games Dragon Quest VII Reimagined imagines a less bloated role-playing game
By Moises Taveras November 20, 2025 | 10:00am
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games Princess Zelda reckons with her legacy and reclaims her legend in Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment
By Madeline Blondeau November 19, 2025 | 3:00pm
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tv Murdaugh: Death In The Family brings something new to an exhaustively covered case
By Hunter Ingram November 19, 2025 | 8:00am
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games Animal Crossing lost a bit of its soul when it turned the player into a god
By Catherine Masters November 18, 2025 | 4:00pm
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film A new documentary finds the limits of laughing at the school-shooter industrial complex
By Jacob Oller November 18, 2025 | 3:00pm
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tv IT: Welcome To Derry MVP Chris Chalk on breathing new life into Dick Hallorann
By Saloni Gajjar November 18, 2025 | 8:00am
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games The A.V. Club Games announces a new era
By Garrett Martin November 17, 2025 | 2:32pm
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music "We Built This City" is a good song, actually
By Matt Mitchell November 17, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film It's pretty damn ironic that Paramount is behind The Running Man
By Jacob Oller November 17, 2025 | 11:00am
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tv Aside from Interview With The Vampire, AMC's Immortal Universe feels bloodless
By Saloni Gajjar November 17, 2025 | 8:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—The American Revolution and Landman season 2
By Christina Izzo November 16, 2025 | 8:00am
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music 3 new songs and 3 new albums to listen to this weekend
By A.V. Club Staff November 14, 2025 | 5:00pm
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aux The Disney Destiny is a cruise ship with character (and characters)
By Garrett Martin November 14, 2025 | 3:02pm
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aux The Disney Destiny is a cruise ship with character (and characters)
By Garrett Martin November 14, 2025 | 3:02pm
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games Even the most action-heavy Zelda game in years is still too damn talky
By William Hughes November 14, 2025 | 11:00am
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games 2025 is the year of the Musou game
By Marc Normandin November 14, 2025 | 11:00am
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film Lynne Ramsay makes traumatic films you can reach out and touch
By Kayleigh Donaldson November 13, 2025 | 3:00pm
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tv The Morning Show is over the top. Its warnings about AI are not.
By Saloni Gajjar November 13, 2025 | 1:00pm
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games Arcane Eats aims to offer its own flavor of roguelike deckbuilding
By Elijah Gonzalez November 13, 2025 | 10:35am
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aux This Disney Cruise Ship's Doctor Strange Bar Proves Mixology Is a Mystic Art
By Garrett Martin November 12, 2025 | 3:55pm
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film The scariest scene in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein isn't about the Creature
By Matthew Jackson November 12, 2025 | 3:00pm
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tv New NBC mockumentary Stumble is Friday Night Lights' first true successor
By Hunter Ingram November 12, 2025 | 1:00pm
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film Cult Of Criterion: Él
By Jacob Oller November 12, 2025 | 11:00am
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aux It's Always Fright Night at Universal Horror Unleashed
By Garrett Martin November 10, 2025 | 3:07pm
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film Predator: Badlands pits the Killer Of Killers against his most formidable foe: corporations
By Matt Schimkowitz November 10, 2025 | 3:00pm
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tv All's Fair isn't even a fun hate-watch
By Kayleigh Donaldson November 10, 2025 | 11:00am
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film In a year of prickly movies about parents, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein sides with one's Creation
By Drew Gillis November 10, 2025 | 7:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—The Beast In Me and Malice
By Saloni Gajjar November 9, 2025 | 8:00am
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aux Staff Picks: Get Freaked out by some Shiny Happy People
By A.V. Club Staff November 8, 2025 | 12:00pm
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tv Pluribus' Rhea Seehorn unpacks this week's "crushing twist"
By Saloni Gajjar November 8, 2025 | 8:00am
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music 3 new songs and 3 new albums to listen to this weekend
By Drew Gillis November 7, 2025 | 4:00pm
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games I miss Nintendo 3DS StreetPass, and games as physical community
By Farouk Kannout November 7, 2025 | 2:05pm
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film Like their prey, the Predator movies have evolved in order to survive
By Jesse Hassenger November 7, 2025 | 2:00pm
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games ARC Raiders is the most miserable a game has made us in a minute
By William Hughes November 7, 2025 | 11:00am
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games Bounty Star wants to be the mecha western David Milch never wrote
By Garrett Martin November 6, 2025 | 2:00pm
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film Diane Lane on the cautionary Anniversary, the slept-on Rumble Fish, and panicking on live TV
By Will Harris November 6, 2025 | 2:00pm
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anime May I Ask for One Final Thing? is about evil rich men getting punched in the nose, and that’s pretty neat
By Elijah Gonzalez November 6, 2025 | 11:00am
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anime The AI-brained sickos who upscale anime to 60 FPS need to be stopped, now more than ever
By Elijah Gonzalez November 5, 2025 | 9:55am
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tv The Lowdown, like Reservation Dogs, harnesses the strength of community
By Saloni Gajjar November 5, 2025 | 8:00am
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tv Sterlin Harjo on The Lowdown's "funny, sad, beautiful, heartbreaking" finale
By Jenna Scherer November 4, 2025 | 10:17pm
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anime Sanda’s latest episode confronts both Class S tropes and anti-queer, pro-natalist politics
By Elijah Gonzalez November 4, 2025 | 10:47am
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tv The Diplomat sings by doubling down on its goofiness
By Saloni Gajjar November 4, 2025 | 8:00am
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film How can you shock audiences in 2025? Some filmmakers turn to AI
By Katie Rife November 3, 2025 | 12:00pm
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games Marvel Cosmic Invasion shows why beat 'em ups are perfect for superheroes
By Wallace Truesdale November 3, 2025 | 12:00pm
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games Wait, that Egg game is evil, actually
By Elijah Gonzalez November 3, 2025 | 10:11am
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film The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in November 2025
By Jacob Oller November 3, 2025 | 8:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—I Love LA, All Her Fault, Pluribus
By Saloni Gajjar November 2, 2025 | 8:00am
