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Is Amazon's War Of The Worlds the perfect media imagined by Jeff Bezos? An investigation
By Jacob Oller August 9, 2025 | 8:00am
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Sunset Boulevard is 75 and the pictures are smaller than ever
By Matthew Jackson August 8, 2025 | 10:00am
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Cult Of Criterion: A Confucian Confusion
By Jacob Oller August 7, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Spoofs haven't defined Liam Neeson's career, which makes him perfect for them
By Jesse Hassenger August 5, 2025 | 9:00am
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Even The Naked Gun has had enough with the manosphere
By Matt Schimkowitz August 4, 2025 | 10:00am
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The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in August 2025
By Jacob Oller August 1, 2025 | 6:00am
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps' boldest choice is a pregnant Sue Storm
By Caroline Siede July 30, 2025 | 4:00pm
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduced the new MCU's most important character
By Matthew Jackson July 29, 2025 | 12:00pm
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August film preview: More Freaky bodyswaps, Dakota Johnson relationship comedies, and Bad Guys
By Matt Schimkowitz July 29, 2025 | 6:00am
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Spoiler Space: Fantastic Four's mid-credits stinger is desperate, but necessary
By Matt Schimkowitz July 28, 2025 | 11:00am
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Eddington breaks COVID cinema out of quarantine
By Kayleigh Donaldson July 24, 2025 | 12:00pm
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The Southern lowlifes of Hustle & Flow and The Devil's Rejects were bonded by their influential soundtracks
By Craig D. Lindsey July 22, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Spoiler Space: I Know What You Did Last Summer knows exactly why it exists
By Drew Gillis July 22, 2025 | 7:00am
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Arnold Schwarzenegger played second fiddle to Red Sonja 40 years ago
By Caroline Siede July 21, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Spoiler Space: In Eddington, your outrage is its villains' payday
By Matt Schimkowitz July 21, 2025 | 12:00pm
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"This is a restaurant, not a fucking school": Big Night, The Bear, and art vs. commerce
By Tim Lowery July 19, 2025 | 10:00am
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Tyler Perry continues building his empire on Black pain
By Craig D. Lindsey July 18, 2025 | 11:00am
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Ari Aster is just asking questions, like "How the hell do we get off this thing?"
By Jacob Oller July 16, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Exit Poll: Does James Gunn set up a DC Universe worth investing in?
By The A.V. Club July 16, 2025 | 8:00am
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Whisper Of The Heart left a lo-fi legacy unique to Studio Ghibli
By Autumn Wright July 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Cult Of Criterion: Barry Lyndon
By Jacob Oller July 15, 2025 | 10:00am
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James Gunn's Superman launches a universe, not a character
By Caroline Siede July 15, 2025 | 6:00am
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Primer: An eerie road through the disaffected world of Kiyoshi Kurosawa
By Rory Doherty July 14, 2025 | 3:00pm
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The Supreme Court failed trans people, but Heightened Scrutiny reveals how the media targeted them
By Jacob Oller July 14, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Spoiler Space: In Superman, the Man Of Steel squares off against Man Of Steel
By Matt Schimkowitz July 14, 2025 | 10:00am
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10 years and 15 superhero movies weren't enough to fight the DCEU out of second place
By Jesse Hassenger July 10, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Come And See is a poster child for shock films, but its reputation misses what it's really about
By Alex Lei July 9, 2025 | 12:00pm
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The bigger the mutant dinosaurs get, the emptier the Jurassic World films are
By Jacob Oller July 7, 2025 | 10:00am
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Spoiler Space: Jurassic World Rebirth once again makes dinosaurs everyone's problem
By Jacob Oller July 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Spinal Tap defined a real genre with a fake band
By Jason Gorber July 3, 2025 | 2:00pm
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July film preview: Superheroes, Sandler, and Smurfs infiltrate summer movie season
By Matt Schimkowitz July 1, 2025 | 3:00pm
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The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in July 2025
By Jacob Oller July 1, 2025 | 10:00am
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F1 The Movie transforms the sport into just another piece of intellectual property
By Alex Lei June 30, 2025 | 2:00pm
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28 styles later: Consumer tech is the innovative bedrock of a horror trilogy
By Luke Hicks June 27, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Laughing in the face of helplessness: The Gold Rush celebrates a century of defiance
By Kathy Michelle Chacón June 26, 2025 | 2:00pm
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The best films of 2025 (so far)
By The A.V. Club June 25, 2025 | 6:00am
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A death-obsessed Britain serves as the bloody spine of 28 Years Later
By Rory Doherty June 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
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10 movies that wouldn't exist without the Sundance Directors Lab
By Jacob Oller June 24, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Spoiler Space: The side characters that turn 28 Years Later into an infectious odyssey
By Matt Schimkowitz June 23, 2025 | 4:00pm
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In Charlie's Angels, girls just wanna have fun
By Caroline Siede June 23, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Shark movies existed before Jaws, but they were never the same after it arrived
By Natalia Keogan June 20, 2025 | 7:00am
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Ernest Dickerson and Jada Pinkett transcended clichés From The Crypt with Demon Knight
By Matt Schimkowitz June 19, 2025 | 11:00am
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To Materialists director Celine Song, a "great act of bravery is saying yes to love"
By Tara Bennett June 18, 2025 | 7:00am
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28 movies that owe it all to 28 Days Later
By The A.V. Club June 17, 2025 | 7:00am
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Growing up and falling out couldn't keep Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor apart
By Jesse Hassenger June 16, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Materialists roots its modern numbers game in timeless rom-com tradition
By Mary Kate Carr June 13, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Music soothes, satirizes, and distracts in Robert Altman's sprawling epic Nashville
By Craig D. Lindsey June 11, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Cult Of Criterion: Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
By Jacob Oller June 11, 2025 | 9:00am
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Mike Flanagan's particular style of storytelling is honed to a fine point in The Life Of Chuck
By Matthew Jackson June 10, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Spoiler Space: John Wick makes for an awkward dance partner in Ballerina
By Matt Schimkowitz June 9, 2025 | 3:00pm
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5 under-the-radar films to see at Tribeca 2025
By Jacob Oller June 4, 2025 | 1:00pm
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The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in June 2025
By Jacob Oller June 2, 2025 | 11:00am
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The future of superhero movies looks to comics' past
By Matt Schimkowitz May 28, 2025 | 6:00am
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Primer: The immediately identifiable comedies of Wes Anderson
By Jacob Oller May 27, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Spoiler Space: Tom Cruise and Ethan Hunt refuse to die
By Rory Doherty May 26, 2025 | 11:00am
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The A.V. Club's most anticipated movies of summer 2025
By Matt Schimkowitz May 26, 2025 | 7:00am
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The Player's industry satire stings, now more than ever
By Jacob Oller May 22, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Tom Cruise found his creative soulmate in Christopher McQuarrie, then bent him to his will
By Jesse Hassenger May 19, 2025 | 4:00pm
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Cult Of Criterion: The Wind Will Carry Us
By Jacob Oller May 14, 2025 | 10:00am
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Final Destination combined the slasher and disaster genres to become elemental
By Jesse Hassenger May 13, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Primer: Where to start with Jia Zhangke, one of China's greatest living filmmakers
By Alex Lei May 12, 2025 | 1:00pm
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AVQ&A: What's your most visceral experience at the movie theater?
By A.V. Club Staff May 10, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Clown In A Cornfield director Eli Craig keeps the corn syrup flowing
By Matt Schimkowitz May 9, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Spoiler Space: Thunderbolts*' big twist hides deep connections to its comic book roots
By William Hughes May 7, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Music documentaries now carry the torch of the avant-garde
By Luke Hicks May 6, 2025 | 7:00am
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The Black Widow movie was too little, too late
By Caroline Siede May 5, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Fast & Furious defined what the Fast franchise would become
By Jacob Oller May 4, 2025 | 11:00am
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Inventory: 14 fourth movies that reset the series
By The A.V. Club May 4, 2025 | 9:00am
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Film Trivia Fact Check: Did Michael Caine buy a terrific house with his Jaws: The Revenge paycheck?
By Tim Lowery May 3, 2025 | 12:00pm
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20 years later, Bride And Prejudice remains a love letter to Bollywood
By Saloni Gajjar May 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
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The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in May 2025
By Jacob Oller May 1, 2025 | 10:00am
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May film preview: Thunderbolts* assemble, Tim Robinson finds a friend, and Wes Anderson Schemes
By Matt Schimkowitz April 29, 2025 | 6:00am
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The Legend Of Ochi saps the magic from the coming-of-age fantasy movie
By Rory Doherty April 28, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Spoiler Space: Until Dawn changes its gimmick, its plot, and its wendigos
By Jacob Oller April 28, 2025 | 10:00am
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The reaction to Sinners' opening lays bare the racial bias around Black blockbusters
By Craig D. Lindsey April 24, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Now's the perfect time to watch the 50-year-old Japanese thriller that inspired Speed
By Jacob Oller April 22, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Arthur Penn and Gene Hackman mellowed with age together
By Jesse Hassenger April 22, 2025 | 8:00am
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The Ugly Stepsister director Emilie Blichfeldt on body horror, fairy tales, and David Cronenberg
By Matt Schimkowitz April 21, 2025 | 3:00pm
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David Cronenberg goes back to his sci-fi roots with The Shrouds
By Alex Lei April 21, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Queerness gets comfortable in the updated Wedding Banquet
By Anna McKibbin April 21, 2025 | 8:00am
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Cult Of Criterion: Prince Of Broadway
By Jacob Oller April 18, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Inventory: 11 live-action video game movies that were never going to work
By Jacob Oller April 18, 2025 | 10:00am
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Let the madness begin: An oral history of Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
By Andrew Buss April 16, 2025 | 7:00am
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With Warfare, A24 brings arthouse style to the military-entertainment complex
By Alex Lei April 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Resident Evil remains the exception rather than the rule for female-led action franchises
By Caroline Siede April 14, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Drop is a loving homage to the underrated thriller Red Eye
By Caroline Siede April 14, 2025 | 11:00am
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Inventory: 14 movie business cards that make you say "Ooh, very nice"
By James Grebey April 14, 2025 | 6:00am
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The fantastic Good Boy sniffs out the ghosts of the 2025 Overlook Film Festival
By Matt Schimkowitz April 11, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Calling the shots: The evolution of the phone thriller
By Rory Doherty April 11, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Roy Ayers' lone Blaxploitation soundtrack expanded his influence to Quentin Tarantino and the MCU
By Craig D. Lindsey April 10, 2025 | 8:00am
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Spoiler Space: A Minecraft Movie hides its best, weirdest joke in a mid-credit scene
By Jacob Oller April 7, 2025 | 8:00am
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Val Kilmer never shot straight
By Matthew Jackson April 4, 2025 | 8:00am
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Video game movies have grown up by aiming young
By Jesse Hassenger April 3, 2025 | 4:00pm
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Terry Jones, Monty Python's quiet genius, was the beating heart of Holy Grail
By Matthew Jackson April 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Our most anticipated frights of the 2025 Overlook Film Festival
By Matt Schimkowitz April 2, 2025 | 7:00am
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The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in April 2025
By Jacob Oller April 1, 2025 | 7:00am
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Studio Ghibli faces its biggest villain yet: an ironic onslaught of AI
By Jacob Oller March 27, 2025 | 3:07pm
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Inventory: 7 times Jason Statham has played a totally normal working man
By Matt Goldberg March 27, 2025 | 2:00pm
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How Dungeons & Dragons set the rules for killer unicorns
By James Grebey March 26, 2025 | 11:00am
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Cult Of Criterion: A Woman Of Paris
By Jacob Oller March 26, 2025 | 9:00am
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Errol Morris defined modern true crime. Will streaming define him?
By Katie Rife March 25, 2025 | 2:56pm
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April film preview: A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, and The Accountant 2 celebrate the end of tax season
By Matt Schimkowitz March 25, 2025 | 10:00am
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Disney's latest take on girl power is just monarchy
By Caroline Siede March 24, 2025 | 9:00am
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My World Of Flops: Saturday Night
By Nathan Rabin March 21, 2025 | 10:00am
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Inventory: 9 Evil Queens who stole the spotlight from Snow White
By Manuel Betancourt March 19, 2025 | 7:00am
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The Russos’ Electric State is a banal betrayal of its haunting source material
By Manuel Betancourt March 17, 2025 | 2:00pm
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How Æon Flux became an infamous flop
By Caroline Siede March 17, 2025 | 11:55am
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On Swift Horses closes SXSW in throwback style, while sleeper hits round out the fest
By Jacob Oller March 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
