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Schwarzenegger hit his apex as a movie star and an actor in the record-breaking Terminator 2
By Tom Breihan July 24, 2020 | 11:00am
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The New Mutants’ cast and director talk the film’s “strange” journey and its Breakfast Club comparisons
By Cameron Scheetz July 23, 2020 | 10:30pm
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The reigning champ of direct-to-video action elevates this prison-slugfest sequel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 23, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Radioactive's Marjane Satrapi on the challenges of adapting a life to film
By Marah Eakin July 23, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Alison Brie on making a horror movie: “It’s a high-intensity sport”
By Cameron Scheetz July 23, 2020 | 2:00pm
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Triple Threat is like an Avengers for martial-arts masters, except the explosions are real
By Vadim Rizov July 22, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The queen of DTV action takes cues from The Dead Zone in her boldest, sexiest movie
By Beatrice Loayza July 21, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Only for VOD could they make a Jean-Claude Van Damme sequel this weird, violent, and brilliant
By Charles Bramesco July 20, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Thirty years ago, Akira predicted the chaos of 2020
By Sam Barsanti July 20, 2020 | 11:00am
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The most popular movies on Netflix, reviewed by The A.V. Club
By The A.V. Club July 19, 2020 | 6:03pm
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This box-office flop is the only movie that let Martin Short be Martin Short
By Erik Adams July 17, 2020 | 7:00pm
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After 25 years, Clueless is still our cleverest Jane Austen adaptation
By Caroline Siede July 17, 2020 | 11:00am
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Bill Murray captured the whimsical hostility of New York in his underseen directorial debut
By Jesse Hassenger July 16, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Clueless director Amy Heckerling on how a pessimist created one of cinema’s great optimists
By Katie Rife July 16, 2020 | 11:00am
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Molly Shannon plays the ultimate dog-lover in a downer comedy from the creator of Enlightened
By Beatrice Loayza July 15, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Why didn’t we get more comedies pairing Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn?
By Mike D'Angelo July 14, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Emily Mortimer on the pleasures and torments of making Relic
By Katie Rife July 14, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Maya Rudolph brought low-key humanity to the prenatal antics of Away We Go
By Jesse Hassenger July 13, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Relic’s psychological terror is built into its creepy set design
By Deirdre Crimmins July 13, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Luke Wilson, Rossif Sutherland, and Laysla De Oliveira on eating deep fried rabbit ears
By Marah Eakin July 10, 2020 | 7:30pm
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The most satisfying answer to Clue’s farcical whodunit is “All of them”
By Erik Adams July 10, 2020 | 7:00pm
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J.K. Simmons on Palm Springs and why he loves working with Andy Samberg
By Cameron Scheetz July 10, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Home Alone made a generation of kids cheer—and probably scarred them for life
By Tom Breihan July 10, 2020 | 1:00pm
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A classic “movie about movies” offers escapism behind the scenes
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 9, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Palm Springs' Camila Mendes and Meredith Hagner pick their fave Lonely Island sketches
By Cameron Scheetz July 9, 2020 | 3:30pm
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The best films of 2020 so far
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, Noel Murray, Beatrice Loayza, Lawrence Garcia, Charles Bramesco July 9, 2020 | 11:00am
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David Thewlis and Atom Egoyan on secrets, lies, and food-borne illness
By Marah Eakin July 8, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Being on the clock was never so enjoyable as at the Car Wash
By Katie Rife July 8, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The ultimate Hollywood “women’s picture” was the one that featured no men at all
By Gwen Ihnat July 7, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Danny Trejo on life in quarantine, Animal Crossing, and his new nickname
By Cameron Scheetz July 7, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Drugs, infidelity, and a telekinetic kid aren’t the half of this brash Pedro Almodóvar comedy
By Lawrence Garcia July 6, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti on Palm Springs' deeper resonance during quarantine
By Cameron Scheetz July 6, 2020 | 6:30pm
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Hamilton on Disney+ can’t replace the live theatrical experience, but it’s a triumph all the same
By Allison Shoemaker July 3, 2020 | 8:30pm
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One of the earliest disaster movies destroyed New York and looked at life in the rubble
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 3, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The dishes are done, man, in this exclusive look at the Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead house today
By Marah Eakin July 3, 2020 | 4:36pm
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The Wedding Planner made rom-com stars out of Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey
By Caroline Siede July 3, 2020 | 11:00am
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This Sylvester Stallone flop still makes for an explosive good time
By Patrick Gomez July 2, 2020 | 7:00pm
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There’s no Tenet this July—but you can watch Tom Hanks at sea and Charlize Theron on Netflix
By The A.V. Club, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, William Hughes, Jesse Hassenger July 2, 2020 | 11:00am
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The Poseidon Adventure is the best of the 1970s disaster movie craze
By Gwen Ihnat July 1, 2020 | 7:00pm
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In the shadow of Dr. Strangelove, Sidney Lumet sounded a laugh-free alarm about nuclear war
By Beatrice Loayza June 30, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Irresistible's Chris Cooper and Mackenzie Davis talk working with cows, Jon Stewart
By Cameron Scheetz June 30, 2020 | 6:30pm
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The proto-Titanic was a shameless melodrama about a devastating earthquake
By Mike D'Angelo June 29, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Will Ferrell on the origins of "Jaja Ding Dong," Eurovision Song Contest's catchiest cut
By Marah Eakin June 29, 2020 | 5:30pm
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Blending conspiracy, kung-fu, stop-motion, and Jesus Christ makes for a damn fine cult movie
By Alex McLevy June 29, 2020 | 11:00am
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Bill Clinton is a supporting character in this inside look at his campaign for the presidency
By A.A. Dowd June 26, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Rachel McAdams screamed herself hoarse making Eurovision Song Contest
By Marah Eakin June 26, 2020 | 2:30pm
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Will The King Of Staten Island make you a Pete Davidson fan? Our critics are split
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife June 26, 2020 | 12:00pm
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Dan Stevens on what Americans don't get about the Eurovision Song Contest
By Marah Eakin June 25, 2020 | 8:30pm
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Not even Frank Capra could be totally optimistic about politics
By Gwen Ihnat June 25, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Irresistible's Rose Byrne on her weekly Zooms with the Mrs. America cast
By Cameron Scheetz June 25, 2020 | 5:30pm
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The Magnolia soundtrack made sweet music from a cinematic ode to Aimee Mann
By Alex McLevy June 25, 2020 | 11:00am
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There would be no West Wing without Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau’s HBO political satire
By Vikram Murthi June 24, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Jon Stewart talks Irresistible, the magnificence of "silver fox" Steve Carell
By Cameron Scheetz June 23, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Nixon looms in the background of the superb Warren Beatty sex farce Shampoo
By Lawrence Garcia June 23, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Onward’s tearjerking finale is a triumph of perspective
By A.A. Dowd June 23, 2020 | 2:55pm
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Wag The Dog’s portrait of political shamelessness doesn’t look so exaggerated anymore
By Mike D'Angelo June 22, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The never-ending Toy Story
By Erik Adams June 22, 2020 | 2:30pm
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William Haines was out and proud in silent-era Hollywood
By Mike Vago June 21, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Purgatory is as drab as the DMV in the profound and moving After Life
By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2020 | 9:30pm
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Incredibles 2 showed the “real” superheroes how it’s done
By William Hughes June 19, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Remember video stores? Our critics take a trip back to the Blockbuster era
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife June 19, 2020 | 12:00pm
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On its 60th anniversary, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment looks like an indictment of toxic masculinity
By Caroline Siede June 19, 2020 | 11:00am
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Warren Beatty scored an unlikely hit with a comedy about life after death
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 18, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Bella Thorne on the danger of becoming engulfed by social media: “You’re fucked”
By Alex McLevy June 18, 2020 | 5:00pm
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Pixar got self-aware in Cars 3, a movie quite literally about selling out
By Randall Colburn June 18, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Hollywood’s biggest comedians are all hell-bound assholes in This Is The End
By Roxana Hadadi June 17, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Pixar’s world-building was more important than ever in Coco
By Danette Chavez June 17, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Nobody Knows I’m Here trailer shows Lost’s Jorge Garcia exiled in paradise again
By Gwen Ihnat June 16, 2020 | 8:53pm
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Nicole Kidman delivered one of her greatest performances in an eerie reincarnation drama
By Beatrice Loayza June 16, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Finding Dory went all out for its bananas, action-packed finale
By Gwen Ihnat June 16, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Jean Cocteau’s take on a famous myth offers a truly strange vision of life and death
By Mike D'Angelo June 15, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Looks That Kill trailer offers quirky take on the teen ailment drama
By Gwen Ihnat June 15, 2020 | 6:56pm
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Maude Apatow on all the dorky things her dad does on set
By Marah Eakin June 15, 2020 | 5:30pm
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Pixar finally laid an egg with The Good Dinosaur, but its failures are interesting
By Jesse Hassenger June 15, 2020 | 3:00pm
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The King Of Staten Island reveals the limitations of the Judd Apatow star vehicle
By Jesse Hassenger June 15, 2020 | 11:00am
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Feel The Beat’s trailer mashes Hallmark sentimentality with Little Miss Sunshine
By Gwen Ihnat June 12, 2020 | 8:42pm
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Rupert Grint rounds out Hogwarts trio with a statement supporting the trans community
By Shannon Miller June 12, 2020 | 6:31pm
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Inside Out makes the profound case that sadness is good
By Mike D'Angelo June 12, 2020 | 3:00pm
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On the long, wild, and exhilarating career of Spike Lee
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife June 12, 2020 | 12:00pm
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Rain Man’s movie-star chemistry holds up better than its depiction of autism
By Tom Breihan June 12, 2020 | 11:00am
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Marisa Tomei wants to help you "dance your feelings out"
By Marah Eakin June 11, 2020 | 6:30pm
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At Monsters University, Pixar repeated what worked before
By Sam Barsanti June 11, 2020 | 11:00am
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Judd Apatow on how he finds humor in sadness
By Marah Eakin June 10, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Pixar’s Brave both challenged and upheld the Disney princess tradition
By Danette Chavez June 10, 2020 | 11:00am
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Steve Buscemi has learned a lot from hanging around firefighters
By Marah Eakin June 9, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Pixar’s hot streak screeched to a halt with a starring vehicle for Larry The Cable Guy
By A.A. Dowd June 9, 2020 | 11:00am
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Shirley's Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg on Shirley Jackson and marital compromise
By Marah Eakin June 8, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Toy Story 3 said goodbye to the series’ original audience—and welcomed a new one
By Alex McLevy June 8, 2020 | 11:00am
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Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert is anything but a drag
By Patrick Gomez June 5, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Up crams a lifetime of joy and grief into 5 wordless minutes
By Katie Rife June 5, 2020 | 2:00pm
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20 years ago, But I’m A Cheerleader reclaimed camp for queer women
By Caroline Siede June 5, 2020 | 11:00am
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30 years ago, Paris Is Burning changed popular culture but not the lives of its subjects
By Katie Rife June 4, 2020 | 7:00pm
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New films from Spike Lee, Judd Apatow, and, uh, Kevin James are coming this June
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, William Hughes June 4, 2020 | 11:43am
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We fell in love with WALL-E because of how Pixar “filmed” him
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 4, 2020 | 11:00am
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The groundbreaking Desert Hearts brought lesbian romance to American screens
By Gwen Ihnat June 3, 2020 | 7:00pm
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No, Tracee Ellis Ross isn't playing her mom in The High Note, thanks
By Marah Eakin June 3, 2020 | 6:30pm
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Ratatouille tugs on taste buds, not heartstrings, and is all the better for it
By Randall Colburn June 3, 2020 | 11:00am
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By any title, Show Me Love remains a sweetly perceptive coming-out story
By Alex McLevy June 2, 2020 | 7:00pm
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With Cars, Pixar took a detour into the past—and made an ironic case against progress
By William Hughes June 2, 2020 | 11:00am
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New Queer Cinema pioneer Gregg Araki gave Joseph Gordon-Levitt one of his best roles
By Jesse Hassenger June 1, 2020 | 7:00pm
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With The Incredibles, Pixar told a story that resonated with parents as much as kids
By Shannon Miller June 1, 2020 | 11:00am
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Camelot was the proper model for Monty Python’s first real movie
By Erik Adams May 29, 2020 | 8:05pm
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Our critics investigate the strange world of TV in a format-breaking episode on The X-Files
By Katie Rife, A.A. Dowd May 29, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Our critics review the buzzy indie sci-fi movie The Vast Of Night
By Katie Rife, A.A. Dowd May 29, 2020 | 6:15pm
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Finding Nemo brought death into the world of Pixar
By Alex McLevy May 29, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Somehow, bogus big-screen sitcom Three Men And A Baby became the biggest hit of 1987
By Tom Breihan May 29, 2020 | 11:00am
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A French master found droll comedy in one of the earliest King Arthur stories
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 28, 2020 | 7:00pm
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When Monsters, Inc. banished Mike and Sulley, it made John Ratzenberger a permanent Pixar feature
By Erik Adams May 28, 2020 | 7:00pm
