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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
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The Sword In The Stone set a high mark for Disney animation
By Gwen Ihnat May 27, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Military Wives' Sharon Horgan and Jason Flemyng on love and the British Armed Forces
By Marah Eakin May 27, 2020 | 6:30pm
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Toy Story 2 was the first time Pixar tried to reduce the whole audience to a sobbing wreck
By Gwen Ihnat May 27, 2020 | 11:00am
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Guy Ritchie couldn’t make a franchise out of King Arthur, but his attempt is a fun one-off
By Jesse Hassenger May 26, 2020 | 7:00pm
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A Bug’s Life is the technological marvel Pixar left behind
By Patrick Gomez May 26, 2020 | 11:00am
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After mastering the zombie movie, George Romero took a left turn into an Arthurian Ren faire
By Mike D'Angelo May 25, 2020 | 7:00pm
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What can you say about a movie in which a guy shoves people up his asshole?
By Alex McLevy May 25, 2020 | 1:00pm
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One of Toy Story’s most daring innovations was making its hero, Woody, kind of a jerk
By A.A. Dowd May 25, 2020 | 11:00am
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A holy grail of ’80s cult movies has arrived on Blu-ray
By Katie Rife May 24, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Are The Lovebirds and Capone worth a watch this Memorial Day weekend?
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife May 22, 2020 | 7:08pm
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With Death Proof, Tarantino drove home that cars are fucking terrifying
By Erik Adams May 22, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Something’s Gotta Give is the ultimate quarantine rom-com
By Caroline Siede May 22, 2020 | 1:35pm
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Joaquin Phoenix and one terrifying car chase elevate a familiar cop drama
By A.A. Dowd May 21, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The sleeper horror hit of 2020 might be a “cursed” film streaming on Amazon
By Andrew Paul May 21, 2020 | 3:00pm
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The Beastie Boys discuss their bread and butter: “Being fools and telling fart jokes”
By Alex McLevy May 21, 2020 | 11:00am
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When Jackie Chan is behind the wheel, it’s the car you need to worry about
By Katie Rife May 20, 2020 | 7:00pm
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It’s a miracle no one died filming this outrageously dangerous action movie
By Alex McLevy May 19, 2020 | 7:00pm
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It’s the drivers, not the driving, that supply the real fun in mega-hit Smokey And The Bandit
By Mike D'Angelo May 18, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Fred Willard on playing boobs and the occasional authority figure
By Erik Adams May 16, 2020 | 7:26pm
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The Henry Cavill-Armie Hammer action franchise that never was
By Patrick Gomez May 15, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Our critics run the Friday The 13th series in honor of its 40th anniversary
By Katie Rife, A.A. Dowd May 15, 2020 | 6:30pm
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Top Gun is the sleekest, horniest recruitment ad of the 1980s
By Tom Breihan May 15, 2020 | 11:00am
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The 25 best horror movies since 2000
By Nathan Rabin, Nick Wanserski, Benjamin Mercer, A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Joshua Alston, Josh Modell, Katie Rife, Nick Schager, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Alex McLevy, Danny King, Kiva Reardon May 14, 2020 | 11:15pm
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Stardust might be the closest we’ve got to a new Princess Bride
By Alex McLevy May 14, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Before Resident Evil, the other Paul Anderson got some pure camp fun out of Mortal Kombat
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 13, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Remember outside? 21 streaming picks that fight cabin fever, one way or the other
By Katie Rife, Randall Colburn, Alex McLevy May 13, 2020 | 11:00am
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Ishtar, the ultimate Hollywood punchline, is actually pretty damn funny
By Mike D'Angelo May 12, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Author Caitlin Moran picks her top 5 coming-of-age movies
By Marah Eakin May 12, 2020 | 6:30pm
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Tim Burton and Johnny Depp teamed up again for the loopy, fun flop Dark Shadows
By Jesse Hassenger May 11, 2020 | 7:00pm
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You love to see it: 9 movie clichés we don’t hate
By The A.V. Club, Patrick Gomez, Sam Barsanti, Alex McLevy, William Hughes, Gwen Ihnat, Danette Chavez, Katie Rife, Randall Colburn, Shannon Miller May 9, 2020 | 1:00pm
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One of the greatest comedies ever made now looks even more like a celebration of public spaces
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2020 | 7:00pm
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What's the best year ever for summer blockbusters?
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife May 8, 2020 | 6:45pm
