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A Malickian period piece and so-so Dramatic Competition entries round out Sundance 2025
By Jacob Oller January 31, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Sundance 2025 shows off its wild and predictable sides with genre gambles and straightforward indies
By Jacob Oller January 29, 2025 | 1:00pm
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February film preview: Valentine treats from Paddington, Captain America, and the Looney Tunes
By Matt Schimkowitz January 28, 2025 | 3:00am
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Paul Newman was the Method's greatest star
By Brogan Morris January 27, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Sundance documentaries tackle gender-affirming care, cancer treatment, and warmongering
By Jacob Oller January 27, 2025 | 11:00am
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Bold takes on Frankenstein and Cinderella open Sundance, while Juliette Lewis body-swaps with a chair
By Jacob Oller January 25, 2025 | 10:00am
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A history of Hindi cinema: The 1970s, part one
By Nandini Balial January 23, 2025 | 10:00am
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Our most anticipated films of Sundance 2025
By Jacob Oller January 22, 2025 | 8:00am
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Naoko Yamada is carving an abstract path to the top of the anime world
By Autumn Wright January 22, 2025 | 6:00am
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The biggest casualty of The Phantom Of The Opera was Patrick Wilson’s movie-musical career
By Manuel Betancourt January 21, 2025 | 7:00am
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Spoiler Space: Wolf Man passes on the pain of its predecessor
By Jacob Oller January 20, 2025 | 11:00am
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An almost exhaustive guide to Michelle Yeoh’s early Hong Kong career
By Caroline Siede January 20, 2025 | 5:00am
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AVQ&A: What's your favorite David Lynch moment?
By A.V. Club Staff January 16, 2025 | 6:00pm
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The blinding light of love
By Katie Rife January 16, 2025 | 4:56pm
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Film Trivia Fact Check: Original The Wolf Man script kept the werewolf at bay
By Matt Schimkowitz January 16, 2025 | 1:00pm
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My World Of Flops: Shazam! Fury Of The Gods
By Nathan Rabin January 15, 2025 | 10:00am
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The exciting original films of 2025: Soderbergh, Coogler, and Paul Thomas Anderson return
By Matt Schimkowitz January 15, 2025 | 6:00am
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Over three films, Jamie Foxx caught Michael Mann in transition
By Jesse Hassenger January 14, 2025 | 6:00am
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The film adaptations of 2025: Superman flies, Fantastic Four clobbers, Daffy Duck saves the world
By Matt Schimkowitz January 10, 2025 | 6:00am
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Cult Of Criterion: Winchester '73
By Jacob Oller January 9, 2025 | 9:00am
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Jim Jarmusch poked holes in the hero worship of Elvis with Mystery Train
By Craig D. Lindsey January 8, 2025 | 9:52am
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The film sequels of 2025: Marvel, Avatar, and Paddington bring back favorites
By Matt Schimkowitz January 8, 2025 | 9:00am
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Bad Day At Black Rock remains an essential anti-McCarthyite text
By Alex Lei January 7, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Aardman Animations maintains its stop-motion ideal of a simpler England
By Anna McKibbin January 3, 2025 | 10:03am
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Move over, Sundance—Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight has become the proving ground for American indies
By Alex Lei December 30, 2024 | 9:00am
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Bob Dylan continues to evade the film world's attempts to define him
By Alex Lei December 27, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Primer: Erotic vampire films
By Katie Rife December 26, 2024 | 1:00pm
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DVD is dead. Long live DVD.
By Matt Schimkowitz December 26, 2024 | 10:00am
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Rod Serling's films brought his Twilight Zone themes down to earth
By Chloe Walker December 25, 2024 | 8:00am
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In 2024, cult films found their audiences in real time
By Jacob Oller December 24, 2024 | 7:00am
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Shadow Of The Vampire “adapted” Nosferatu as a searing filmmaking satire
By Trace Sauveur December 23, 2024 | 10:00am
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Mufasa stares Disney’s “live-action” problem in the face
By Jacob Oller December 23, 2024 | 7:00am
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With two low-budget horror movies, Bob Clark captured the anxieties of 1974
By Greg Cwik December 20, 2024 | 7:00am
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The best film scenes of 2024
By A.V. Club Staff December 20, 2024 | 3:00am
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Film Trivia Fact Check: Can you feel the truth tonight about The Lion King’s biggest song?
By Matt Schimkowitz December 19, 2024 | 7:00am
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Cult Of Criterion: Eastern Condors
By Jacob Oller December 18, 2024 | 12:00pm
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The best films of 2024: The ballots
By A.V. Club Staff December 17, 2024 | 7:01am
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The 25 best films of 2024
By A.V. Club Staff December 17, 2024 | 7:00am
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Spoiler Space: The middlebrow soap of Conclave belies its complicated, left-field ending
By Jacob Oller December 16, 2024 | 12:00pm
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One of the best action movies of the ’90s is a Disney princess musical
By Caroline Siede December 16, 2024 | 8:00am
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Nickel Boys ushers in a new era of POV cinema
By Rory Doherty December 16, 2024 | 5:00am
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Primer: The Chilean films of Pablo Larraín
By Luke Hicks December 13, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Who actually is Kraven The Hunter, and why should we care?
By William Hughes December 11, 2024 | 6:00am
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Yes, Martin Scorsese made a film with women, and women made it great
By Kayleigh Donaldson December 10, 2024 | 11:00am
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The A.V. Club's guide to the greatest pop culture gifts of 2024
By A.V. Club Staff December 10, 2024 | 7:00am
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Ella Raines and Robert Siodmak spent four movies bending the dreamy parameters of noir
By Jesse Hassenger December 10, 2024 | 3:00am
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In 2024, pregnancy horror gave way to mothers who are fed up and worn out
By Nadira Begum December 9, 2024 | 12:00pm
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AVQ&A: What's your favorite movie heist?
By A.V. Club Staff December 7, 2024 | 8:00am
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My World Of Flops: Joker: Folie À Deux
By Nathan Rabin December 5, 2024 | 7:00am
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Moana 2 reveals the catchphrase-laden secret to Disney sucking at sequels
By Jesse Hassenger December 2, 2024 | 8:00am
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Ashcan dreamers: 10 films made only to preserve their copyrights
By William Hughes November 29, 2024 | 6:00am
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The perfect Thanksgiving movie (depending on your family)
By Jacob Oller November 28, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Sean Connery could never escape James Bond. Daniel Craig already has
By Chloe Walker November 27, 2024 | 12:00pm
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December film preview: Watch movies with Sonic, Nightbitch, and Mufasa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
By Matt Schimkowitz November 26, 2024 | 3:00am
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Wicked’s best scene is a wordless dance number
By Caroline Siede November 25, 2024 | 9:00am
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Spoiler Space: The hero of Gladiator II is just an echo
By Jacob Oller November 25, 2024 | 7:00am
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AVQ&A: What's your favorite uncomfortable holiday movie?
By A.V. Club Staff November 23, 2024 | 8:00am
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A history of Hindi cinema: The 1960s
By Nandini Balial November 22, 2024 | 10:00am
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Overly literal fairy tale Spellbound makes parents into monsters
By B. Panther November 22, 2024 | 3:01am
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Dialogue-free animation is entering a new golden age
By Tara Bennett November 21, 2024 | 9:00am
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Film Trivia Fact Check: Were we robbed of a Gladiator product endorsement?
By Matt Schimkowitz November 21, 2024 | 6:00am
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Did five movies with Ridley Scott lead Russell Crowe away from superstardom?
By Jesse Hassenger November 20, 2024 | 6:00am
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The neo-noirs of Denzel Washington helped complicate his heroic star persona
By Chloe Walker November 18, 2024 | 12:54pm
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Wonder Woman was a beacon of hope during a dark political time
By Caroline Siede November 18, 2024 | 10:00am
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Staff Picks: A sweet immigrant comedy and an hour of noir
By A.V. Club Staff November 16, 2024 | 8:00am
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For Christmas, Amazon gave us a knock-off Marvel movie
By Jacob Oller November 14, 2024 | 12:00pm
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40 years ago, A Nightmare On Elm Street gave us the greatest kill in '80s horror
By Matthew Jackson November 14, 2024 | 8:00am
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Quincy Jones' funkiest film scores were his '70s crime caper comedies
By Craig D. Lindsey November 13, 2024 | 8:00am
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Heretic flips the script on how horror plays with the Christian persecution complex
By Rory Doherty November 12, 2024 | 10:00am
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Interview With The Vampire still enthralls and inspires at 30
By Kayleigh Donaldson November 11, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Andrea Arnold's pop-filled movies still find love in hopeless places
By Nadira Begum November 8, 2024 | 10:00am
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Clint Eastwood and his movies have something to say, but nobody's listening
By Alex Lei November 7, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Cult Of Criterion: Funny Girl
By Jacob Oller November 6, 2024 | 8:00am
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You probably can’t watch the political documentary of the year
By Jacob Oller November 5, 2024 | 10:00am
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My World Of Flops: Megalopolis
By Nathan Rabin November 5, 2024 | 8:00am
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After staging his own sex scandal, Citizen Weiner politician Zack Weiner is (probably) running again
By Drew Gillis November 4, 2024 | 9:00am
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The world has turned, leaving Robert Zemeckis (and his gimmicks) Here
By Matt Schimkowitz November 4, 2024 | 6:00am
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If it bleeds, it leads: Nightcrawler remains a perfectly hungry, perverse L.A. noir
By Tomris Laffly October 31, 2024 | 10:00am
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Fucking necessary: 10 horror films where sex actually moves the plot forward
By A.V. Club Staff October 31, 2024 | 5:00am
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Film Trivia Fact Check: Halloween III’s origins are as confusing as Michael Myers’ mythos
By Matt Schimkowitz October 30, 2024 | 11:00am
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Horror is a mask Marvel should wear more often
By Matt Schimkowitz October 30, 2024 | 6:00am
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Cult Of Criterion: Demon Pond
By Jacob Oller October 29, 2024 | 11:00am
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Things you can't unsee: Longlegs, Red Rooms, and the cursed aesthetics of true crime
By Katie Rife October 29, 2024 | 8:00am
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November film preview: Family dramas, fantasy blockbusters, and swords and sandals kick off the holidays
By Matt Schimkowitz October 29, 2024 | 5:00am
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Spoiler Space: What, if anything, do the Venom: The Last Dance credits scenes mean?
By Jesse Hassenger October 28, 2024 | 12:00pm
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The original Universal Frankenstein series became an unkillable horror model
By Jesse Hassenger October 28, 2024 | 11:00am
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24 hours of horror with Robert Eggers
By Jacob Oller October 28, 2024 | 5:00am
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A history of Hindi cinema: The 1950s
By Nandini Balial October 24, 2024 | 8:00am
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A documentary mostly shot in World Of Warcraft will make you cry
By Jacob Oller October 22, 2024 | 11:00am
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Spoiler Space: Smile 2 and the pop machine
By Jesse Hassenger October 21, 2024 | 12:00pm
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The low-key loser delights of Eephus, Cloud, and Vulcanizadora
By Jacob Oller October 16, 2024 | 10:00am
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The slim but powerful movie career of Shelley Duvall emerged from a Robert Altman crowd
By Jesse Hassenger October 15, 2024 | 10:00am
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Jennifer Lopez finally had Enough in her schlocky action thriller
By Caroline Siede October 14, 2024 | 10:00am
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In The Apprentice’s skin-deep world, plastic surgery is a bigger sin than rape
By Jacob Oller October 14, 2024 | 7:00am
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Revisiting the richest of the slasher franchises, A Nightmare On Elm Street
By Kenji Fujishima October 14, 2024 | 1:00am
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For 50 years, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies have made a meal out of raw panic
By Katie Rife October 11, 2024 | 8:45am
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My World Of Flops: Borderlands
By Nathan Rabin October 9, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Even Stephen King’s afterword to Salem’s Lot is better than the new movie
By Jacob Oller October 8, 2024 | 3:00am
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The nervous musical: Joker: Folie À Deux enters a genre with two left feet
By Jesse Hassenger October 7, 2024 | 1:30pm
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Aaron Schimberg on A Different Man: “It's not a fable or a moral tale”
By Drew Gillis October 4, 2024 | 3:00am
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The successful, influential Pulp Fiction soundtrack felt like Quentin Tarantino's personal mixtape
By Craig D. Lindsey October 2, 2024 | 10:00am
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Megalopolis sees Francis Ford Coppola go full Neil Breen
By Jacob Oller September 30, 2024 | 10:00am
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Sleep throws back to the mysterious horror impulses of Cat People
By Anna McKibbin September 30, 2024 | 5:00am
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My World Of Flops: Argylle
By Nathan Rabin September 27, 2024 | 10:00am
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Spoiler Space: When you wish upon a Substance
By Emma Keates September 24, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Mike Mignola on finally making a Hellboy movie his way
By Cindy White September 23, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Film Trivia Fact Check: Tyrese Gibson's sleazy way into Transformers
By Matt Schimkowitz September 23, 2024 | 11:00am
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Sarah Connor redefined the female action hero forever
By Caroline Siede September 16, 2024 | 3:00am
