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film For a cartoon adventure, Smallfoot is awfully cautious
By Jesse Hassenger September 21, 2018 | 2:00pm
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tv Maniac’s first episode suffers from the Netflix condition
By Eric Thurm September 21, 2018 | 2:00pm
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music A rare view of Prince, plus Metric and more in this week’s new music
By The A.V. Club, Gwen Ihnat, Alex McLevy, Marty Sartini Garner September 21, 2018 | 1:00pm
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tv A stirring season finale sees Snowfall put Franklin through the American prison system
By Kyle Fowle September 21, 2018 | 3:00am
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film Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly bicker, bond, and chase a bounty as The Sisters Brothers
By A.A. Dowd September 20, 2018 | 8:00pm
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music Christine And The Queens’ swaggering Chris revels in fluid identities
By Annie Zaleski September 20, 2018 | 2:00pm
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tv American Horror Story has become bleak reality TV
By Molly Horan September 20, 2018 | 4:55am
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tv The Sinner reveals its secrets in a satisfying if predictable season finale
By Alex McLevy September 20, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv Sweet Dee is stuck replaying the wrong game on an all-women Always Sunny
By Dennis Perkins September 20, 2018 | 2:30am
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film Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls
By Katie Rife September 19, 2018 | 10:42pm
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film Keira Knightley’s charms fail to save the timely, tepid biopic Colette
By Vikram Murthi September 19, 2018 | 8:00pm
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tv Fusing 2001, True Detective, and Eternal Sunshine, Maniac defies reason
By Erik Adams September 19, 2018 | 6:23pm
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film Michael Moore looks at and beyond Trump in the enraged but scattered Fahrenheit 11/9
By A.A. Dowd September 19, 2018 | 6:15pm
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tv I Feel Bad brings a distinctly female voice to issues-based comedy
By Kate Kulzick September 19, 2018 | 5:00pm
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music Noname opens up, and invites us to do the same, on the unapologetic Room 25
By Dianca London Potts September 19, 2018 | 3:45pm
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music Jóhann Jóhansson embraces the void on the doom-metal influenced Mandy soundtrack
By Katie Rife September 18, 2018 | 8:50pm
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film Intolerance gets Purged in Assassination Nation, a midnight movie more righteous than exciting
By Mike D'Angelo September 18, 2018 | 8:45pm
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tv Elementary tries out an ending, with hope for "Whatever Remains"
By Genevieve Valentine September 18, 2018 | 6:25am
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tv Almost everybody says or does something stupid on a momentous Better Call Saul
By Donna Bowman September 18, 2018 | 2:00am
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film From the creator of This Is Us comes a melodrama even more dire than life itself
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 17, 2018 | 7:00pm
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film Love, Gilda struggles to summarize the joyful genius of Gilda Radner
By Jesse Hassenger September 17, 2018 | 6:10pm
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tv Lawrence's return showcases Insecure's ensemble in a rewarding episode
By Ashley Ray-Harris September 17, 2018 | 6:42am
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tv A new invention leads to old jokes on The Venture Bros.
By Zack Handlen September 17, 2018 | 4:55am
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tv Changing faces and facing change on The Deuce
By Erik Adams September 17, 2018 | 2:45am
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tv Frank gets political, sending Shameless stumbling through an ideological minefield
By Myles McNutt September 17, 2018 | 2:00am
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tv Time's up for
BoJack Horseman's fifth season, and the time has come to make
a choice
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 10:00pm
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tv BoJack finally
loses the ability to tell truth from television in another crushing
penultimate BoJack Horseman
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 9:00pm
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tv Philbert isn't
the only dark and personal release at a BoJack Horseman
premiere party
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 8:00pm
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tv BoJack Horseman
tries to renew old relationships, and remembers life gets in the
way of that
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 7:00pm
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tv A fecal finale of American Vandal somehow turns a season about poop into a commentary on a generation
By Brian Tallerico September 14, 2018 | 6:30pm
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tv The First, like outer space, feels endless
By Allison Shoemaker September 14, 2018 | 6:30pm
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tv Four Halloween
parties on BoJack Horseman is exhausting a prospect as you'd
think
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 6:00pm
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tv The shit gets deeper on the penultimate episode of American Vandal’s 2nd season
By Brian Tallerico September 14, 2018 | 5:30pm
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tv It's the adventures
of BoBo The Angsty Zebra as BoJack Horseman lightly
upends its storytelling framework
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 5:00pm
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tv A kiss with tongue, a canceled skip day, and a broken friendship on American Vandal
By Brian Tallerico September 14, 2018 | 4:30pm
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tv BoJack Horseman
delivers a jaw-dropping eulogy and once again raises the bar for
concept episodes
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 4:00pm
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tv American Vandal exposes a cover-up as the boys get to the bottom of a fourth poop crime
By Brian Tallerico September 14, 2018 | 3:30pm
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tv Princess Carolyn
learns you can't go home again as BoJack Horseman heads to the
Tar Heel State
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 3:00pm
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tv 3 new suspects are profiled as American Vandal reaches its midway point
By Brian Tallerico September 14, 2018 | 2:30pm
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music New albums out today: Low, Paul Weller, Spirit Of The Beehive, and more
By The A.V. Club, David Anthony, Annie Zaleski September 14, 2018 | 2:00pm
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tv It's time for
BoJack to get woke as Hollywoo's hypocrisy on “bad men” gets the
BoJack Horseman treatment
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 2:00pm
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tv How far did Mr. Untouchable push his luck on the 3rd episode of American Vandal?
By Brian Tallerico September 14, 2018 | 1:30pm
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tv Go out on a date in
BoJack Horseman, where everything's funny until it's suddenly
not
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 1:00pm
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tv Forced confessions and forced turds battle for air in American Vandal’s 2nd episode
By Brian Tallerico September 14, 2018 | 12:30pm
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tv Diane travels to
Vietnam as she—and BoJack Horseman—grapple with
questions about her identity
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 12:00pm
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tv American Vandal graduates from dicks to poop in its 2nd-season premiere
By Brian Tallerico September 14, 2018 | 11:30am
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tv BoJack
Horseman's back to work in season five, and he's uncomfortably
close to home
By Les Chappell September 14, 2018 | 11:00am
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games Shadow of the Tomb Raider is Too Safe to Be Entertaining
By Holly Green September 14, 2018 | 10:30am
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film For a tale full of blood and sexual tension, Lizzie is awfully dull
By Katie Rife September 13, 2018 | 10:40pm
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film Ben Mendelsohn battles suburban ennui in Nicole Holofcener’s The Land Of Steady Habits
By Caroline Siede September 13, 2018 | 2:00pm
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games Disney Villains Take Over the Tabletop with the Fun Board Game Villainous
By Keith Law September 13, 2018 | 10:00am
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tv American Horror Story is back with our worst nightmare, which just isn’t that scary
By Molly Horan September 13, 2018 | 6:10am
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tv Right before the finale, The Sinner solves one of its two biggest mysteries
By Alex McLevy September 13, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv The Gang can't escape themselves in a rickety escape room-themed It's Always Sunny
By Dennis Perkins September 13, 2018 | 2:32am
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film Light, literate, and wickedly funny, A Simple Favor is Gillian Flynn for the mommy-blog set
By Katie Rife September 12, 2018 | 9:20pm
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film Hale County, This Morning, This Evening finds beauty in the small moments of black Southern life
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 12, 2018 | 6:30pm
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tv In the end, Castle Rock unlocks its potential and throws away the key
By Emily L. Stephens September 12, 2018 | 11:00am
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film It’s big trouble for Lil Chano in the wacky fast-food horror-comedy Slice
By Katie Rife September 11, 2018 | 9:05pm
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film White Boy Rick struggles to find singular drama in an all-too-common story
By Mike D'Angelo September 11, 2018 | 6:00pm
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film Unbroken gets a predictably preachy, faith-based sequel from the director of God’s Not Dead
By Lawrence Garcia September 11, 2018 | 3:00pm
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tv Better Call Saul can’t defy gravity, but still turns a few scenes upside down
By Donna Bowman September 11, 2018 | 2:00am
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film Nicolas Cage takes a chainsaw to ’80s action cheese in the heavy-metal fantasia of Mandy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 10, 2018 | 6:50pm
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film Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning spin their wheels in the hollow post-apocalyptic drama I Think We’re Alone Now
By Vikram Murthi September 10, 2018 | 3:40pm
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tv On The Venture Bros., everyone gets the nemesis they deserve
By Zack Handlen September 10, 2018 | 4:55am
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tv Insecure's girls trip gets derailed by a surprise return
By Ashley Ray-Harris September 10, 2018 | 4:55am
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tv 1977 looks great on The Deuce
By Erik Adams September 10, 2018 | 2:00am
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tv A decent premiere can’t escape the shadow cast over Shameless’ future
By Myles McNutt September 10, 2018 | 2:00am
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tv The Bad Seed fails to thrive in Rob Lowe's ill-conceived Lifetime remake
By Katie Rife September 10, 2018 | 2:00am
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film 1989 called, and it wants its Predator sequel back
By A.A. Dowd September 8, 2018 | 6:00pm
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film Tradition and technology collide in the spellbinding, bone-dry satire of I Am Not A Witch
By Katie Rife September 7, 2018 | 8:50pm
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film Ethan Hawke introduces an unsung country renegade in the intimate biopic Blaze
By Joshua Alston September 7, 2018 | 2:40pm
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music Spiritualized’s grand goodbye, Joey Purp’s live-wire mixtape, and more new music reviews
By The A.V. Club, Clayton Purdom, David Anthony, Tabassum Siddiqui September 7, 2018 | 2:00pm
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film The Nun is loud, lurid, and more than a little silly—and that's what makes it fun
By Katie Rife September 6, 2018 | 11:10pm
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film Despite Jennifer Garner’s efforts, Peppermint fails on nearly every level
By Allison Shoemaker September 6, 2018 | 4:15pm
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tv A fast-paced The Sinner gets darker the more its past comes to light
By Alex McLevy September 6, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv The Gang's attempts to exorcise Dennis make for an uproarious It's Always Sunny premiere
By Dennis Perkins September 6, 2018 | 2:32am
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tv Iron Fist is still the least interesting part of Iron Fist
By Danette Chavez September 5, 2018 | 8:55pm
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music The battle for baby-boomer relevance pits Paul against Paul
By Jesse Hassenger September 5, 2018 | 5:00pm
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tv Kidding reunites Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry, gets promptly lost in its protagonist’s head
By Erik Adams September 5, 2018 | 3:00pm
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tv With the end in sight, Castle Rock finally lets the cat out of the bag
By Emily L. Stephens September 5, 2018 | 11:00am
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film The shallow Hal skims the career of the director behind Harold And Maude and Being There
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 4, 2018 | 7:00pm
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games Spider-Man Combines 50 Years of History with Great Combat and Webslinging
By Garrett Martin September 4, 2018 | 5:30pm
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film The past is the present in Robert Greene’s latest eerie nonfiction experiment, Bisbee ’17
By Mike D'Angelo September 4, 2018 | 5:00pm
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games Life sucks and then you fight a supervillain in the new Arkham-indebted Spider-Man game
By A.A. Dowd September 4, 2018 | 2:00pm
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tv On Lodge 49, limbo is other people
By Danette Chavez September 4, 2018 | 4:00am
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tv Masterful editing propels a pivotal Better Call Saul
By Donna Bowman September 4, 2018 | 2:15am
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tv Adventure Time concludes with a celebration of what makes it so special
By Oliver Sava September 4, 2018 | 12:00am
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tv The family heads home on an excellent Venture Bros.
By Zack Handlen September 3, 2018 | 4:55am
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tv Insecure makes some major changes in one of its best episodes yet
By Ashley Ray-Harris September 3, 2018 | 4:51am
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tv Even with a lot on its mind, the TV adaptation of The Purge is mostly bloody good fun
By Alex McLevy August 31, 2018 | 6:00pm
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games Destination Primus Vita Provides a Promising Start in First Episode
By Shonte Daniels August 31, 2018 | 4:30pm
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music Wild Nothing’s best album yet, Danny Brown’s Twitch mixtape, and more music to hear this week
By The A.V. Club, A.A. Dowd, Annie Zaleski, Alex McLevy, Marty Sartini Garner, Nina Corcoran August 31, 2018 | 3:00pm
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music Desire and gender run free on Anna Calvi’s ferocious Hunter
By Kelsey J. Waite August 31, 2018 | 2:00pm
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film The Little Stranger isn't scary, but it is a supremely elegant riff on Gothic horror
By A.A. Dowd August 31, 2018 | 12:00am
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music Blood Orange builds a refuge for Black stories on the exquisite Negro Swan
By Judnick Mayard August 30, 2018 | 3:40pm
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games The Beautiful Everdell Is One of the Best Board Games of the Year
By Keith Law August 30, 2018 | 11:30am
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tv The Sinner goes into the past but skimps on the present
By Alex McLevy August 30, 2018 | 3:00am
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film The directors of Amer take on spaghetti Westerns in the delirious Let The Corpses Tan
By Katie Rife August 29, 2018 | 9:45pm
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film The primeval, apocalyptic Prototype is an experimental marvel in three glorious dimensions
By Charles Bramesco August 29, 2018 | 6:30pm
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tv An action-packed Castle Rock feels a little disjointed
By Emily L. Stephens August 29, 2018 | 11:00am
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film The kid-and-his-ray-gun movie Kin starts strong but eventually misfires
By Jesse Hassenger August 28, 2018 | 10:01pm
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games Dragon Quest XI Struggles to Let Go of the Past
By Andy Moore August 28, 2018 | 9:00am
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tv Forget the unicorns and quests—Lodge 49 continues to make the most of its detours
By Danette Chavez August 28, 2018 | 4:00am
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tv Better Call Saul traps its characters and sends them scrambling for escape
By Donna Bowman August 28, 2018 | 2:00am
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games Donut County: It's Time to Make the Donuts (and City-Devouring Holes)
By Garrett Martin August 27, 2018 | 3:30pm
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tv Sacha Baron Cohen turns a MAGA chud into a terrorist as Who Is America? comes to a close
By Randall Colburn August 27, 2018 | 5:40am
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tv Molly and Issa get everything they want in a hilarious Insecure
By Ashley Ray-Harris August 27, 2018 | 5:02am
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tv Dean goes to college on a funny, low-key Venture Bros.
By Zack Handlen August 27, 2018 | 4:55am
