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games The Playfield: What The A.V. Club's been playing this week
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez, Dia Lacina April 4, 2026 | 10:00am
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aux AVQ&A: What's your favorite pop culture about your hometown?
By The A.V. Club April 4, 2026 | 7:00am
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film Mary Beth Hurt didn't want to lead, but stood out from the start
By Monica Castillo April 3, 2026 | 5:00pm
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film Everything's for babies in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
By Jacob Oller April 3, 2026 | 3:00pm
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games Pokopia takes Pokémon's apocalyptic tendencies to their natural endpoint
By William Hughes April 3, 2026 | 1:00pm
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tv "It feels like it was all a dream": The making of Girls' "The Panic In Central Park"
By Billy McEntee April 3, 2026 | 12:00pm
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music The live celebrity cameo is a played-out ploy for virality
By Grace Robins-Somerville April 3, 2026 | 10:00am
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games Illumination's Mario movies aren't just bad, they're antithetical to Nintendo
By Garrett Martin April 3, 2026 | 6:00am
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film My Undesirable Friends and yours
By Jacob Oller April 2, 2026 | 4:00pm
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games Whatever happened to college basketball video games?
By Marc Normandin April 2, 2026 | 2:00pm
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music Daniel Pemberton built his Project Hail Mary score from the ground up
By Sam Rosenberg April 2, 2026 | 10:30am
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aux 5 new comics to read in April, including a Bollywood body horror story
By Oliver Sava April 2, 2026 | 10:00am
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games The video game industry is broken, and the horror genre may be able to fix it
By Elijah Gonzalez April 2, 2026 | 6:00am
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tv On the set of Dark Winds, a show looking back to shape the future of Indigenous stories
By Saloni Gajjar April 1, 2026 | 3:00pm
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music Trent Reznor still has music's best April Fools’ prank ever
By Derrick Rossignol April 1, 2026 | 10:00am
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film Please welcome our new Film Critic, Monica Castillo
By Danette Chavez April 1, 2026 | 10:00am
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games April games preview: Saros leads a packed month for sci-fi action
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez April 1, 2026 | 9:00am
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music 50 years of domination, 50 years of Sad Wings of Destiny
By Nathan Stevens April 1, 2026 | 9:00am
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film The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in April 2026
By Jacob Oller April 1, 2026 | 7:00am
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film April film preview: Super Mario levels up as Michael moonwalks into theaters
By Matt Schimkowitz March 31, 2026 | 9:00am
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film Dario Argento's Inferno traps you in New York's most evil building
By Jacob Oller March 30, 2026 | 3:00pm
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aux Podcast Canon looks back on 30 years of This American Life
By Benjamin Cannon March 30, 2026 | 1:00pm
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music Falco's “Rock Me Amadeus” is still the oddest #1 hit ever
By Derrick Rossignol March 30, 2026 | 10:00am
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games Fortnite chased the metaverse, and now workers are paying the price
By Mikhail Klimentov March 30, 2026 | 10:00am
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tv April 2026 TV preview: Beef, Euphoria, The Audacity, The Boys, and Richard Gadd
By A.V. Club Staff March 30, 2026 | 7:00am
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music In LA, Paul McCartney is king
By Matt Mitchell March 29, 2026 | 12:00pm
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tv What's on TV this week—Your Friends & Neighbors, Paradise's season finale, and XO, Kitty
By Christina Izzo March 29, 2026 | 8:00am
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music Flamin’ Groovies did more than shake some action on Teenage Head
By Matt Melis March 28, 2026 | 12:30pm
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anime An emerging class of virtual YouTuber is selling out shows in the U.S.
By Elijah Gonzalez March 28, 2026 | 11:00am
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film Before Chuck Norris was a Texas Ranger, he was the face of Cannon Films
By Craig D. Lindsey March 27, 2026 | 4:00pm
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games Sinker Sound makes fishing feel like piloting a Gundam
By Willa Rowe March 27, 2026 | 1:00pm
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film The AI Doc argues over the flavor of Kool-Aid it has consumed
By Jacob Oller March 27, 2026 | 10:00am
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games Crimson Desert's pseudo-viking protagonist is the God Of Bore
By William Hughes March 27, 2026 | 7:00am
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music The rush of Thin Lizzy’s postcard rock and roll
By Matt Mitchell March 26, 2026 | 11:30am
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games Online games force players to embrace impermanence during uncertain times
By Madeline Blondeau March 26, 2026 | 7:00am
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music Snail Mail is more confident than ever
By Matt Mitchell March 25, 2026 | 11:00am
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film Cult Of Criterion: Testament
By Jacob Oller March 25, 2026 | 11:00am
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tv Like so many Americans, the people on Neighbors don't even want to get along
By Drew Gillis March 25, 2026 | 7:00am
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film Inventory: 8 characters who rock
By The A.V. Club March 24, 2026 | 11:00am
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film Project Hail Mary builds a translator for a better future
By Caroline Siede March 23, 2026 | 1:00pm
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film After 15 years, Sucker Punch is still swinging at air
By Caroline Siede March 23, 2026 | 10:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—Bait, The Comeback, and Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen
By Christina Izzo March 22, 2026 | 8:00am
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games Mystical cats and Tetris shapes make for family fun in the board game Wispwood
By Keith Law March 21, 2026 | 11:00am
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aux AVQ&A: What’s an adaptation you like better than its source material?
By A.V. Club Staff March 21, 2026 | 7:00am
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games Perform mad science with creature-building RPG We Shall Be Monsters
By Cameron Kunzelman March 20, 2026 | 2:00pm
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music Grace Ives is proud to be embarrassed
By Matt Mitchell March 20, 2026 | 12:00pm
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film Project Hail Mary's Drew Goddard loves people (and putting them through hell)
By Tara Bennett March 20, 2026 | 12:00pm
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music A long talk with ELUCID
By Casey Epstein-Gross March 20, 2026 | 11:30am
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games Would an "Undo" button ruin Slay The Spire 2?
By William Hughes March 20, 2026 | 10:00am
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anime The 10 best anime of winter 2026
By Elijah Gonzalez March 19, 2026 | 2:00pm
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film The best film at SXSW 2026 was a creepy-cozy Japanese exorcism
By Jacob Oller March 19, 2026 | 9:00am
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games You are not in control: How games use player agency to explore addiction
By Bee Wertheimer March 19, 2026 | 6:00am
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music The light in Robert Lester Folsom is shining
By Matt Mitchell March 18, 2026 | 1:30pm
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tv Two new campus comedies raise the question: Have TV writers ever been to college?
By Noel Murray March 18, 2026 | 1:00pm
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music R.E.M. collapsed the boundaries of alt-rock on Out of Time
By Matt Melis March 18, 2026 | 10:30am
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film Isaac Hayes won an Oscar and a lifetime of punchlines with his Shaft theme
By Craig D. Lindsey March 18, 2026 | 10:00am
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games Saying "nope" to Nvidia's "yassify" tech
By Jenn Frank March 17, 2026 | 3:00pm
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games It's tough to survive in Marathon and the video game industry
By Moises Taveras March 17, 2026 | 2:00pm
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tv DTF St. Louis' central trio on playing in a "fun, intimately weird" world
By Saloni Gajjar March 17, 2026 | 12:00pm
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music Andy Beta wrote the Alice Coltrane biography he always wanted to read
By Grant Sharples March 17, 2026 | 9:00am
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games Slay The Spire 2 lets you share your digital card game obsession with friends
By Elijah Gonzalez March 16, 2026 | 4:00pm
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film Why did it take so long for a woman to win the Best Cinematography Oscar?
By Kayleigh Donaldson March 16, 2026 | 2:00pm
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film Oscars 2026: The good, the bad, and the ugly
By Jacob Oller March 16, 2026 | 1:00am
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aux This archbishop was more interested in sucking up to those in power than saving souls
By Mike Vago March 15, 2026 | 12:00pm
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music What we dismiss when we call "Golden" K-pop
By Kayti Burt March 15, 2026 | 9:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—Imperfect Women, Invincible, and the Oscars
By Christina Izzo March 15, 2026 | 8:00am
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anime A recent sex crime scandal could (and should) cause true reform in the manga industry
By Elijah Gonzalez March 14, 2026 | 12:00pm
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music “Weird Al” Yankovic found a parodist’s paradise on Bad Hair Day
By Matt Melis March 14, 2026 | 9:00am
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games Crosstalk: Can Marathon survive where so many other live-service games failed?
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez March 13, 2026 | 3:00pm
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film The scariest movies don't care if you close your eyes
By Trace Sauveur March 13, 2026 | 1:00pm
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games Esoteric Ebb finds brilliance by imitating an all-time masterpiece
By William Hughes March 13, 2026 | 12:00pm
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music What Almost Famous can still teach us about music criticism
By Sam Rosenberg March 13, 2026 | 11:00am
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music Discovery predicted electronic music’s future
By Benny Sun March 13, 2026 | 9:00am
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film SXSW has moved on, but mumblecore preserves its legacy
By Alex Lei March 13, 2026 | 7:00am
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film The Oscars should actually award supporting performances
By Jesse Hassenger March 12, 2026 | 2:00pm
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games This cozy game should make Pokémon more popular than ever
By Garrett Martin March 12, 2026 | 12:00pm
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music The rise and fall of teen music movies
By Casey Epstein-Gross March 12, 2026 | 11:00am
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music Bounce, rebel, and Surrender to the Air
By Scott Bunn March 12, 2026 | 10:00am
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aux Kermit goes east: How a Hollywood landmark wound up in Atlanta
By Garrett Martin March 12, 2026 | 7:00am
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film Spider-Man 2's hospital horror show swung from test shoot to final cut
By Matt Schimkowitz March 11, 2026 | 2:00pm
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music Remembering my nana through Coco
By Grant Sharples March 11, 2026 | 11:00am
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aux Exclusive: The New Gods team reunites for international graphic novel series Deicidium
By Oliver Sava March 11, 2026 | 10:00am
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film Our most anticipated films of SXSW 2026
By Jacob Oller March 11, 2026 | 7:00am
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music From the vault: Country Joe McDonald in concert
By Matt Mitchell March 10, 2026 | 3:00pm
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film Who will win and who should win at the 2026 Oscars
By Jacob Oller March 10, 2026 | 2:00pm
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music The Oscars omnipresence of Diane Warren
By Kayleigh Donaldson March 10, 2026 | 11:00am
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music Can anyone really soundtrack Wuthering Heights?
By Andy Steiner March 10, 2026 | 10:30am
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film The Bride! mistakes female rage for female depth
By Caroline Siede March 9, 2026 | 2:00pm
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film Even Pixar's originals are starting to feel like sequels
By Matt Schimkowitz March 9, 2026 | 7:00am
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tv What's on TV this week—Rooster and The Madison
By Christina Izzo March 8, 2026 | 8:00am
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games How many more Highguards will it take for the game industry to change?
By Elijah Gonzalez March 7, 2026 | 12:00pm
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music Neko Case swam with Moby Dick in the fables of Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
By Nathan Stevens March 7, 2026 | 9:00am
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games Arcades spawned the Resident Evil virus
By Marc Normandin March 7, 2026 | 8:00am
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anime If anyone can rebuild Evangelion, it's Yoko Taro
By Elijah Gonzalez March 6, 2026 | 3:00pm
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tv The surreality of watching Industry during the Epstein fallout
By Tim Lowery March 6, 2026 | 1:00pm
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music OHYUNG: Explosions in the heartland
By Matt Mitchell March 6, 2026 | 12:45pm
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games Horripilant is creepy, cool, and the wrong way to build a better idle game
By William Hughes March 6, 2026 | 8:00am
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tv Steven Conrad on how a talk with a friend about kinks helped blow DTF St. Louis wide open
By Saloni Gajjar March 5, 2026 | 3:00pm
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music Saved by the dreamers disease
By Niko Stratis March 5, 2026 | 9:00am
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games By treating the past with reverence, Resident Evil Requiem loses its profane bite
By Grace Benfell March 5, 2026 | 6:00am
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games Konami needs to remember that there’s way more to Hudson than Bomberman
By Garrett Martin March 4, 2026 | 12:00pm
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film When Pixar filmmakers venture into live-action, the Brain Trust goes bust
By Rory Doherty March 3, 2026 | 4:00pm
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film The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in March 2026
By Jacob Oller March 3, 2026 | 1:00pm
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film Long before Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Bride was somehow all about Sting
By Jim Vorel March 3, 2026 | 12:00pm
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tv How Yerin Ha fulfilled her romance dreams with Bridgerton
By Saloni Gajjar March 3, 2026 | 6:00am
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aux Alia Shawkat has been looking for her first play for years
By Drew Gillis March 2, 2026 | 4:00pm
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film "True crime" is still just a buzzword to horror's biggest franchises
By Matt Schimkowitz March 2, 2026 | 2:00pm
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tv Industry's Myha'la and Marisa Abela on their gutting finale conversation
By Saloni Gajjar March 2, 2026 | 7:00am
