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film The director of Pulse leads an invasion of the body snatchers in the goofy-creepy Before We Vanish
By A.A. Dowd February 1, 2018 | 4:40pm
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tv Altered Carbon gives Netflix a sprawling, sci-fi blockbuster of a series—with lots of nudity
By Alex McLevy February 1, 2018 | 4:00pm
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games Monster Hunter: World Reminds Us of Our Place in the Ecosystem
By Shonte Daniels February 1, 2018 | 11:30am
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tv A focused episode of American Crime Story plays to its strengths
By Pilot Viruet February 1, 2018 | 4:20am
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tv Happy!'s season 1 finale is definitely 'my kind of dirty'
By Andrea Reiher February 1, 2018 | 4:00am
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tv Like the old Riverdale saying goes: When you’re here, you’re family
By LaToya Ferguson February 1, 2018 | 3:19am
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tv Scully has strange dreams on a twisty X-Files
By Zack Handlen February 1, 2018 | 2:00am
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games Celeste
is out to prove video
games can be hard without
being
jerks about it
By Matt Gerardi January 31, 2018 | 9:25pm
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film The animated Bilal proves Christians don't have a monopoly on inspirational junk
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 31, 2018 | 9:10pm
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games Dragon Ball FighterZ Is My Favorite Dragon Ball Anything
By Holly Green January 31, 2018 | 3:30pm
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tv Black Lightning falters by being too neat and tidy when things get messy
By Kyle Fowle January 31, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv Team Flash gets downsized in the season's funniest episode
By Scott Von Doviak January 31, 2018 | 2:00am
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film From Lebanon comes The Insult, an Oscar nominee that pulls its punches
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 30, 2018 | 9:00pm
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film The late, great Abbas Kiarostami ends his career on the vanguard with the adventurous 24 Frames
By Mike D'Angelo January 30, 2018 | 7:40pm
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games Celeste Makes a Mountain Out of Mental Illness
By Garrett Martin January 30, 2018 | 3:00pm
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tv A scattered Supergirl checks in on all the storylines it forgot about
By Caroline Siede January 30, 2018 | 4:45am
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tv With “Til Death Do Us Part,” Lucifer makes a friend for life (and death)
By LaToya Ferguson January 30, 2018 | 4:00am
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tv The Alienist steps into its own...and stumbles
By Genevieve Valentine January 30, 2018 | 3:10am
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tv The Chi is still unsure of what story it wants to tell in a dense fourth episode
By Ashley Ray-Harris January 29, 2018 | 4:26am
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tv Star Trek: Discovery is exciting, but not much else
By Zack Handlen January 29, 2018 | 3:35am
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tv Divorce pulls off a superlative episode about the concept of worth
By Gwen Ihnat January 29, 2018 | 3:30am
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tv A weak finale suggests Shameless wasn’t even aware it needed to redeem a wasted season
By Myles McNutt January 29, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv Will Ferrell does what he can on an indifferently written Saturday Night Live
By Dennis Perkins January 28, 2018 | 10:01am
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tv The Gilmore Girls duke it out in a rare season 6 high spot
By Gwen Ihnat January 27, 2018 | 8:40pm
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tv A messy Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. can't even deliver on the promise of a zero-gravity fight
By Alex McLevy January 27, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv Jane The Virgin sets up a big reunion with a rich, graceful episode
By Oliver Sava January 27, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv Rebecca goes off the rails in a fun but frustrating Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
By Allison Shoemaker January 27, 2018 | 2:05am
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music Nils Frahm, No Age, and more albums to know about this week
By AV Club Staff, Matt Gerardi, A.A. Dowd January 26, 2018 | 6:00pm
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tv One great sequence does not a perfect Arrow make—but it is a great sequence
By Allison Shoemaker January 26, 2018 | 6:25am
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tv Great News closes out the season (and possibly the series) on a positive note
By Vikram Murthi January 26, 2018 | 6:20am
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tv Restaurant Wars brings out the best (and the worst) in Top Chef's final eight
By Randall Colburn January 26, 2018 | 5:55am
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tv Bonnie and Annalise's toxic relationship remains one of the best parts of How To Get Away With Murder
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 26, 2018 | 5:35am
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tv The Good Place warily contemplates the rules in "The Burrito"
By Dennis Perkins January 26, 2018 | 5:10am
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tv At this point, Scandal doesn't have any more surprises left
By Ashley Ray-Harris January 26, 2018 | 4:11am
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tv RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars returns when we need it most
By Oliver Sava January 26, 2018 | 2:30am
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film National Lampoon biopic A Futile And Stupid Gesture laughs at and with Doug Kenney
By Charles Bramesco January 25, 2018 | 9:42pm
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tv Pucker up that sphincter for the latest Happy! episode
By Andrea Reiher January 25, 2018 | 4:40am
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tv American Crime Story begins to paint a portrait of a killer
By Pilot Viruet January 25, 2018 | 4:20am
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tv The first episode of Waco introduces David Koresh, happy-go-lucky cult leader
By Josh Modell January 25, 2018 | 3:05am
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tv In its bloody mid-season finale, Vikings finds some redemption in the chaos
By Dennis Perkins January 25, 2018 | 3:02am
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tv A delightful X-Files plays with memory, lawn darts
By Zack Handlen January 25, 2018 | 2:03am
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tv Riverdale adds "wrestling" and "federal snitch" to the things Archie's bad at
By Genevieve Valentine January 25, 2018 | 2:00am
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film The Maze Runner series makes an exit with the proficient, energetic sci-fi junk of The Death Cure
By Jesse Hassenger January 24, 2018 | 11:15pm
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film The Chinese crime comedy Have A Nice Day blurs the line between comics and animation
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 24, 2018 | 5:50pm
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tv A game-changing This Is Us builds to a fiery cliffhanger
By Caroline Siede January 24, 2018 | 6:15am
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tv With The Flash sidelined, the B-team takes center stage in an uneven episode
By Scott Von Doviak January 24, 2018 | 3:21am
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tv Black Lightning expands its scope, and challenges Jefferson in the process
By Kyle Fowle January 24, 2018 | 3:00am
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film Mediterranea gets an inferior follow-up in the neo-realist coming-of-age story A Ciambra
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 23, 2018 | 10:15pm
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film The cloying Please Stand By goes where feel-good movies about autism have gone before
By Mike D'Angelo January 23, 2018 | 8:15pm
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tv Waco dramatizes a colossal and deadly series of real-life mistakes
By Alex McLevy January 23, 2018 | 3:00pm
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tv It's “All About Her,” but Lucifer still tries to make it all about him
By LaToya Ferguson January 23, 2018 | 1:07pm
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games Innerspace: Beautiful, Rapturous and Painfully Disorienting
By Cameron Kunzelman January 23, 2018 | 12:00pm
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games Prepare for the Apocalypse with the Great Board Game Wasteland Express Delivery Service
By Keith Law January 23, 2018 | 10:30am
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tv An impressively female-centric Supergirl goes where no man has gone before
By Caroline Siede January 23, 2018 | 5:00am
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tv The Alienist is already haunted by what came before
By Genevieve Valentine January 23, 2018 | 3:10am
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tv With HBO’s murderous Mosaic, Steven Soderbergh assembles one of the best miniseries of the year
By Alex McLevy January 22, 2018 | 5:30pm
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tv Divorce faces the adolescent fallout
By Gwen Ihnat January 22, 2018 | 5:00am
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tv The Chi fails to cover new ground in its repetitive third episode
By Ashley Ray-Harris January 22, 2018 | 4:00am
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tv Look, we have no idea what the hell Shameless is doing right now, either
By Myles McNutt January 22, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv Burnham meets the Emperor and Discovery finds a new groove
By Zack Handlen January 22, 2018 | 2:30am
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tv A rock-solid Jessica Chastain powers a fine Saturday Night Live
By Dennis Perkins January 21, 2018 | 9:31am
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tv Gilmore Girls starts to unravel in spectacular fashion
By Gwen Ihnat January 20, 2018 | 10:45pm
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tv Time travel musings muddy an overstuffed Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
By Alex McLevy January 20, 2018 | 3:00am
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music Fall Out Boy resets, sort of, on the delayed Mania
By Kyle Ryan January 19, 2018 | 9:50pm
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music First Aid Kit, They Might Be Giants, and 5 more albums to know about this week
By AV Club Staff, Sean O'Neal, Alex McLevy, Erik Adams, Gwen Ihnat, David Anthony January 19, 2018 | 6:00pm
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film Nicolas Cage tries to kill his kids (and a pool table) in the pitch-black horror comedy Mom And Dad
By A.A. Dowd January 19, 2018 | 4:05pm
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tv Frustrations boil over as Top Chef sprints toward the halfway mark
By Randall Colburn January 19, 2018 | 6:10am
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tv As the season winds down, Great News allows its entire ensemble to shine
By Vikram Murthi January 19, 2018 | 6:05am
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tv Will & Grace pulls off an emotionally effective episode about Will’s ex
By Gwen Ihnat January 19, 2018 | 5:30am
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tv Arrow and its heroes shake it all off in a solid episode
By Allison Shoemaker January 19, 2018 | 5:28am
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tv How To Get Away With Murder jolts back into action with a million flashbacks
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 19, 2018 | 4:45am
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tv Scandal raises more questions in a slow return from hiatus
By Ashley Ray-Harris January 19, 2018 | 4:33am
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tv Portlandia begins its final season with an empathetic satire of aging punks
By John Hugar January 19, 2018 | 3:33am
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tv The Good Place in the Bad Place is fucking great
By Dennis Perkins January 19, 2018 | 2:00am
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film The Final Year is both a love letter and gut punch to the Obama presidency
By Josh Modell January 18, 2018 | 9:30pm
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film The low-rent Heat clone Den Of Thieves gives Gerard Butler his best role in ages
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 18, 2018 | 8:05pm
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tv A returning Riverdale struggles in its attempts to move forward
By LaToya Ferguson January 18, 2018 | 9:21am
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tv American Crime Story premieres with a new murder, and a new approach
By Pilot Viruet January 18, 2018 | 4:30am
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tv Happy! and Nick realize they need each other in 'Scrap Yard of Childish Things'
By Andrea Reiher January 18, 2018 | 4:00am
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tv Modern Family's lust for life is surprisingly effective
By Kyle Fowle January 18, 2018 | 3:40am
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tv A dull Vikings plods along with speechifying and unworthy men
By Dennis Perkins January 18, 2018 | 3:01am
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tv A killer game of Hangman makes for inarticulate X-Files
By Zack Handlen January 18, 2018 | 2:00am
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film John Hawkes gets his Coen brothers on in the appealingly generic Small Town Crime
By Katie Rife January 17, 2018 | 11:10pm
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film Chris Hemsworth takes on the Taliban in 12 Strong, a war movie that’s more ho-hum than gung ho
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 17, 2018 | 8:40pm
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film Forever My Girl is barely a love story, but it wants you to swoon anyway
By Jesse Hassenger January 17, 2018 | 5:00pm
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tv The Flash speeds through the trial of the fastest defendant alive
By Allison Shoemaker January 17, 2018 | 4:22am
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tv Black Lightning’s series premiere gives us the mature, nuanced superhero show we need
By Kyle Fowle January 17, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv This Is Us throws every last care away, goes to the mall... today!
By Caroline Siede January 17, 2018 | 3:00am
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film Studio Ghibli alums keep the company’s whimsical spirit alive with Mary And The Witch’s Flower
By Mike D'Angelo January 16, 2018 | 7:30pm
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tv The new American Crime Story is a worthy successor to O.J. anchored by a star-making performance
By Erik Adams January 16, 2018 | 4:00pm
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tv A two-hour season finale finds The Gifted at a crossroads where its best meets its worst
By Jesse Hassenger January 16, 2018 | 5:05am
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tv Supergirl’s return is stylish, confident, and full of new superheroes
By Caroline Siede January 16, 2018 | 2:00am
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tv Don’t worry about the crossovers—Black Lightning doesn’t need any other heroes
By Danette Chavez January 15, 2018 | 7:25pm
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tv Divorce kicks off season 2 by making it official
By Gwen Ihnat January 15, 2018 | 6:30am
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tv The Last Man On Earth repeatedly hits one morbid note in its winter finale
By Vikram Murthi January 15, 2018 | 5:45am
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tv A fitfully funny Simpsons comes tantalizingly close to takeoff
By Dennis Perkins January 15, 2018 | 4:31am
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tv The Chi explores black masculinity through its central characters in a gripping second episode
By Ashley Ray-Harris January 15, 2018 | 4:00am
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tv Girl power heals a broken heart on an empowering Bob's Burgers
By Brianna Wellen January 15, 2018 | 3:39am
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tv A solid Shameless can't fix the season, but it's an improvement nonetheless
By Myles McNutt January 15, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv Truths are discovered and old friends return on a fast-paced Discovery
By Zack Handlen January 15, 2018 | 2:30am
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tv Sam Rockwell’s moves can’t rescue a listless Saturday Night Live
By Dennis Perkins January 14, 2018 | 10:10am
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tv The April storyline is the worst thing Gilmore Girls ever did
By Gwen Ihnat January 13, 2018 | 10:30pm
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tv Heart and a lot of humor help the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. evade alien hunters
By Alex McLevy January 13, 2018 | 3:00am
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tv Crazy Ex-Girlfriend hits its 100th song, and it's hundo-p great
By Allison Shoemaker January 13, 2018 | 2:01am
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film Corporate training meets high art in the offbeat Dim The Fluorescents
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 12, 2018 | 11:15pm
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film Taraji P. Henson’s Proud Mary is a great leading woman in search of a good movie
By Katie Rife January 12, 2018 | 8:10pm
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tv David Letterman returns to talk shows, with Barack Obama and a new thoughtfulness in tow
By Dennis Perkins January 12, 2018 | 4:45pm
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film The Inside remake is a cut below its insanely violent inspiration
By A.A. Dowd January 12, 2018 | 3:45pm
