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Elle Fanning and the cast of Mary Shelley didn’t know much about the author before reading the script
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 18, 2018 | 6:30pm
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The Phantom paid tongue-in-cheek homage to old-timey do-gooders but never got its due
By Tom Breihan May 18, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Chronicles Of Riddick barely makes sense, and that doesn’t matter in the slightest
By Alex McLevy May 17, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Director Haifaa al-Mansour spent most of her childhood watching American films with her dad
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 17, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Han Solo brings not enough fun to Cannes, while a superb film makes its late-festival premiere
By A.A. Dowd May 17, 2018 | 4:50pm
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Lars von Trier doesn’t need a press conference to shock the hell out of the Cannes Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2018 | 6:20pm
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The paranoid late ’90s thriller Arlington Road hides a cruel twist in plain sight
By Mike D'Angelo May 15, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Emily Mortimer on singing with Lin-Manuel Miranda, and telling fart jokes with Elaine Stritch
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 15, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Spike Lee teams up with Jordan Peele for the funny, pointed, uneven BlacKkKlansman
By A.A. Dowd May 15, 2018 | 4:10pm
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Alien³ is so much better than David Fincher and its reputation insists
By A.A. Dowd May 14, 2018 | 8:00pm
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What if Gaspar Noé threw a party and everyone lost their minds?
By A.A. Dowd May 14, 2018 | 1:50pm
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#MeToo looms over a Cannes contender, while Michael B. Jordan flames out in Fahrenheit 451
By A.A. Dowd May 14, 2018 | 1:50am
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Jean-Luc Godard returns to Cannes to make a dunce out of our correspondent
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2018 | 2:40pm
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Toward the end of his career, a movie innovator turned to theater for inspiration
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 11, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Mads Mikkelsen endures a cold crucible, but it’s Cold War that could win big at Cannes
By A.A. Dowd May 11, 2018 | 4:47pm
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My Best Friend’s Wedding rewrote the rom-com happy ending
By Caroline Siede May 11, 2018 | 11:00am
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This Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd thriller gets so intense you have to laugh
By Alex McLevy May 10, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Spending a day on the longest movie in the history of the Cannes Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd May 10, 2018 | 4:50pm
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Scary Movie was ground zero for some of the worst comedy of all time
By Ryan Vlastelica May 10, 2018 | 11:00am
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Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers ad-lib their way through a very loose stage adaptation
By Gwen Ihnat May 9, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz help break Cannes’ opening-night curse
By A.A. Dowd May 9, 2018 | 3:05am
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In Richard Linklater’s SubUrbia, the kids aren’t all right, all right, all right
By Sean O'Neal May 8, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Adam Pally, Rachel Bloom, and the Most Likely To Murder crew reflect on the horrors of high school
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 4, 2018 | 6:30pm
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How the hell are we supposed to care about Ant-Man And The Wasp now?
By Alex McLevy May 3, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Han Solo, Deadpool, and Melissa McCarthy dominate the May movie calendar
By A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy, Katie Rife, Sean O'Neal May 3, 2018 | 11:00am
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Let’s talk about the secret villain of Avengers: Infinity War
By Alex McLevy May 1, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Infinity War’s ending packs a wallop, if you don’t think about it too hard
By A.A. Dowd April 30, 2018 | 7:00pm
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An openly gay superhero deserves better than Bruce Vilanch and Soup Nazi cameos
By Alex McLevy April 30, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The rainy, smoky, lovesick world of Alan Rudolph, the last of the romantics
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 27, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Juliette Binoche fakes it so real (or maybe the opposite) in a head- and heartbreaking masterpiece
By A.A. Dowd April 27, 2018 | 7:30pm
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"Here's your 2 dollars": 9 great gags from otherwise tepid comedies
By A.V. Club, Clayton Purdom, A.A. Dowd, Erik Adams, Matt Gerardi, William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Sean O'Neal, Nick Wanserski April 27, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The Overlook Film Festival haunts New Orleans with tigers, punks, and a new Puppet Master
By Katie Rife April 27, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Our critics weigh the strengths and weaknesses of the biggest, busiest Avengers movie yet
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 27, 2018 | 5:00pm
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No one in Marvel's Avengers universe has a character arc that compares to Tony Stark's
By Alex McLevy April 27, 2018 | 4:00pm
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In a sea of unintentionally creepy rom-coms, the original Overboard goes, well, overboard
By Caroline Siede April 27, 2018 | 11:00am
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A bleak love triangle gave Juliette Binoche her big break
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 26, 2018 | 8:50pm
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Virtual reality, cowboy hats, and gonorrhea: Four days at this year's tech-addled Tribeca Film Festival
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 25, 2018 | 11:30pm
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Juliette Binoche plays an enigmatic seductress in an early, captivating role
By Gwen Ihnat April 25, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The Carter Effect director Sean Menard on how Drake got involved with the project
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin April 24, 2018 | 9:30pm
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Michael Haneke's mysterious Caché turns the establishing shot into an act of violence
By Clayton Purdom April 24, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Here’s what you need to know going into Avengers: Infinity War
By Alex McLevy April 24, 2018 | 11:00am
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Forget Chocolat—Juliette Binoche should have earned Oscar love for a different period piece
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The nightmarish world of Andrzej Żuławski
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 21, 2018 | 1:00pm
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There’s over-the-top, and then there’s Brian De Palma’s Phantom Of The Paradise
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 20, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Tragically and fashionably, The Crow turned superhero cinema into a death dance
By Tom Breihan April 20, 2018 | 11:00am
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For pure '80s-meets-'50s rock 'n' roll aesthetics, it's hard to top Streets Of Fire
By Katie Rife April 19, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Final Deadpool 2 trailer takes shots at Cable, Domino, the DCEU, basically everyone
By Danette Chavez April 19, 2018 | 2:24pm
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There’s no better movie about a genderqueer East German glam rocker than Hedwig And The Angry Inch
By Alex McLevy April 18, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Houston, we have problems: A cinematic guide to what can go wrong in space
By The A.V. Club, Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Clayton Purdom, William Hughes, Katie Rife April 18, 2018 | 11:00am
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Music gives you somebody to be in The Who's Quadrophenia
By Sean O'Neal April 17, 2018 | 8:00pm
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A stoned Kirk Douglas fights Harvey Keitel and a robot in the weirdest Alien knockoff of the 1980s
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 13, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Rampage is crazy violent for a movie sort of targeted toward kids
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 13, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The whole family gets super-dysfunctional in the new trailer for Incredibles 2
By Alex McLevy April 13, 2018 | 3:23pm
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Something Borrowed and the phenomenon of rom-coms that hate women
By Caroline Siede April 13, 2018 | 11:00am
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If you don’t want to see a guy get beat up with his own cut-off arm, do you even like action movies?
By Katie Rife April 12, 2018 | 8:30pm
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The Pink Panther series is slapstick fun that accidentally confronts its mortality
By Jesse Hassenger April 12, 2018 | 11:00am
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Brainstorm turned virtual reality into the orgasm machine that keeps on giving
By Clayton Purdom April 11, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Cloak & Dagger is one of the darkest kids movies of the 1980s
By Alex McLevy April 10, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Jason Segel and Lakeith Stanfield talk about the appeal of their new film, Come Sunday
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin April 9, 2018 | 10:00pm
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Real Men is one of the most underrated comedies of the '80s (but don't make a big thing out of it)
By Sean O'Neal April 9, 2018 | 8:00pm
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A Quiet Place, You Were Never Really Here, and the monsters we don't see
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 7, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Our critics sound off on A Quiet Place
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 6, 2018 | 7:00pm
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The trailer for The First Purge looks back on how the endless (legal) murder began
By Alex McLevy April 6, 2018 | 4:02pm
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25 years before Black Panther, a box-office bomb broke ground for black superheroes
By Tom Breihan April 6, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Avengers assemble one week early, plus 32 other movies coming this April
By AV Club Staff, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Sean O'Neal, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy, Katie Rife April 5, 2018 | 11:00am
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Booted from the galaxy far, far away, Colin Trevorrow returns to Jurassic World
By A.A. Dowd March 30, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Our critics plug in to Ready Player One
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 30, 2018 | 4:00pm
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The Big Sick lovingly updated the rom-com formula with a coma and a great 9/11 joke
By Caroline Siede March 30, 2018 | 11:00am
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The 25 best set pieces of Steven Spielberg’s career
By AV Club Staff, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Sean O'Neal, Alex McLevy, Gwen Ihnat, Mike D'Angelo, Jesse Hassenger, Clayton Purdom, Kyle Ryan March 28, 2018 | 5:30pm
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The Justice League Blu-ray is a bizarre exercise in hiding the truth about moviemaking
By Alex McLevy March 27, 2018 | 6:00pm
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In A.I., Steven Spielberg (and Stanley Kubrick) turned an eye to loneliness
By Ryan Vlastelica March 27, 2018 | 11:00am
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Imagine a cross between Game Of Thrones and The Walking Dead, but without any money or talent
By Alex McLevy March 26, 2018 | 2:00pm
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The forgotten ’90s thriller The Assignment took paranoia to another level
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 24, 2018 | 1:00pm
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40 years before Sherlock, Billy Wilder offered a lovelorn, lightly revisionist Holmes
By A.A. Dowd March 23, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Is Isle Of Dogs one of Wes Anderson’s best movies, or just his most overtly political?
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 23, 2018 | 5:35pm
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Pacific Rim: Uprising proves that it is possible to screw up giant robots punching giant monsters
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 22, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Wild Things gave us twists, Kevin Bacon’s wang, and a threesome of sequels
By Alex McLevy March 22, 2018 | 11:00am
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Alicia Vikander is a winningly human Lara Croft, but her Tomb Raider is still a snooze
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 16, 2018 | 5:30pm
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After When Harry Met Sally, almost every rom-com tried to have what Nora Ephron was having
By Caroline Siede March 16, 2018 | 11:00am
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VR is getting very, very good
By Alex McLevy March 15, 2018 | 9:40pm
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Go back to a time when Iron Eagle made America great again
By Vadim Rizov March 15, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block has set a new bar for terrifying TV depictions of mental illness
By Alex McLevy March 14, 2018 | 11:00pm
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The director of Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning made a charming shaggy-dog drama
By Alex McLevy March 13, 2018 | 9:57pm
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Trainspotting’s soundtrack was a gateway for musical addictions to come
By Sean O'Neal March 12, 2018 | 11:00am
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John Krasinski, after seeing his own horror-film premiere: "Why did someone make this?"
By Alex McLevy March 10, 2018 | 5:23am
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How does the Soviet-era gallows humor of The Death Of Stalin measure up to Veep and In The Loop?
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 9, 2018 | 7:30pm
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’90s kids didn’t give a damn about the peerless movie-serial nostalgia of The Rocketeer
By Tom Breihan March 9, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Good intentions can’t save A Wrinkle In Time from its universe of missteps
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 8, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Neither Death Wish film dares to grapple with the anti-vigilante stance of the novel
By Ryan Vlastelica March 6, 2018 | 4:00pm
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What does the Academy’s changing makeup mean for Best Picture?
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 2, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Bringing Up Baby and the screwball comedies that delivered romance via pratfalls
By Caroline Siede March 2, 2018 | 4:00pm
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It’s Frances McDormand’s award to lose in the Oscar race for Best Actress
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 1, 2018 | 4:30pm
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It’s pretty baffling that Gary Oldman is the front-runner for Best Actor
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 28, 2018 | 6:30pm
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This year’s Best Director category is the strongest in recent memory
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 27, 2018 | 5:45pm
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The game-raising partnership of Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan goes beyond Black Panther
By Jesse Hassenger February 27, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Two tough mothers lead a tight race for Best Supporting Actress
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 26, 2018 | 6:30pm
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If a pro-life horror movie doesn’t think it’s pro-life, is it still a pro-life horror movie?
By Alex McLevy February 26, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Sam Rockwell will probably win Best Supporting Actor, but our hearts belong to another
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 25, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Our critics are split on Alex Garland’s Annihilation
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 23, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Long before Spider-Man, Sam Raimi cast Liam Neeson as a wilder, grosser superhero
By Tom Breihan February 23, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Lady Bird avoids the traditional pitfalls of the coming-of-age drama
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 22, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Get Out’s Oscar nominations were a welcome surprise from the stodgy Academy
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 20, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Black Panther is one of Marvel's best and most dramatically complex movies
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 16, 2018 | 11:00pm
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Are the detractors right about Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri?
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 15, 2018 | 9:00pm
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The Academy’s taste may be improving, but it still finds room for Oscar bait like Darkest Hour
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 13, 2018 | 5:30pm
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Like the best romantic comedies, Bridget Jones's Diary is about more than just falling in love
By Caroline Siede February 12, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Clint Eastwood directing military men with no acting experience goes about as well as expected
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 9, 2018 | 8:15pm
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The January Canon: 20 good movies released during Hollywood’s worst dump month
By AV Club Staff, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Alex McLevy, Clayton Purdom, Gwen Ihnat, Jesse Hassenger January 30, 2018 | 6:00pm
