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Josh Hartnett's first great villain was a teenage sociopath in the Shakespeare adaptation O
By Bryden Doyle August 1, 2024 | 10:00am
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Peter Riegert was the secret sauce for The Mask's manic comedy
By Jarrod Jones July 29, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Deep Blue Sea still reigns as the eminent anti-Jaws
By Natalia Keogan July 26, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Film Trivia Fact Check: Danzig ain’t no goddamn Wolverine
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My World Of Flops: Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania
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Why on Earth does Twisters keep referencing Frankenstein?
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AVQ&A: What's your favorite documentary?
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11 memorable lines from forgettable movies
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The Wanderers' throwback soundtrack coaxed its horny hooligans towards racial harmony
By Craig D. Lindsey July 16, 2024 | 2:20pm
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True Lies remains James Cameron's lightest, silliest, most controversial film
By Tomris Laffly July 15, 2024 | 3:00pm
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The blockbuster mediocrity of Despicable Me and its Minions dominate the made-for-iPad form
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Before Longlegs, Oz Perkins' Gretel & Hansel gave us unforgettable fairy tale terror
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Spoiler Space: MaXXXine attempts to untangle Mia Goth’s Pearl-sonality crisis
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35 years later, Weekend At Bernie's jokes have taken on a life of their own
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Indiana Jones turned its pulp hero into an American icon, then had the grace to end
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20 of our favorite subversive action films
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My World Of Flops: Madame Web and the glorious subversiveness of Dakota Johnson
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In 2024, filmmakers are finally letting their love triangles close
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Marc Singer on teaming with Chuck Norris for Agent Recon and the enduring legacy of The Beastmaster
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Spider-Man 2 uses its sequel status as a strength
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Kevin Costner trusts exactly one filmmaker with his biggest ideas: Kevin Costner
By Jesse Hassenger June 27, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Why are film characters always spilling their guts in taxi cabs?
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The best horror prequels of all time
By Matthew Jackson June 26, 2024 | 2:00pm
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Yorgos Lanthimos and Willem Dafoe say Kinds Of Kindness is a funny movie, actually
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Audrey Hepburn and Stanley Donen pushed Classic Hollywood towards modernity
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Only Nicole Holofcener has cracked the code on Julia Louis-Dreyfus movies
By Emma Keates June 24, 2024 | 5:30pm
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The Terminal at 20: Steven Spielberg's American limbo
By Tomris Laffly June 18, 2024 | 3:00pm
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As a multiverse melodrama, Run Lola Run was ahead of its time 25 years ago
By Jarrod Jones June 18, 2024 | 1:30pm
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June Squibb talks Thelma, Nebraska, and finally being number one on the call sheet
By Tara Bennett June 17, 2024 | 4:05pm
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Film Trivia Fact Check: The Exorcist's cursed injury report
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Cora Bora's Meg Stalter talks finding the reality in crazy
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Every Pixar film, ranked from worst to best
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What’s next for Netflix Animation?
By Cindy White June 13, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Beyond Buffy: I Saw The TV Glow channels the melancholy magic of The Adventures Of Pete & Pete
By William Hughes June 12, 2024 | 4:00pm
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The South Park movie took on Tarzan and signaled the end of the Disney Renaissance
By Kayleigh Donaldson June 12, 2024 | 1:00pm
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"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is bad. The movie that introduced it to the world is worse
By Jacob Oller June 10, 2024 | 2:30pm
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10 hitmen in film who are really bad at their jobs
By Jen Lennon, Jim Vorel June 8, 2024 | 1:00pm
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12 of the best filmmakers who got their start in music videos
By Emma Keates June 7, 2024 | 4:30pm
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Richard Linklater discusses the cinematic myth of hired guns and channeling “good old '80s sex” in Hit Man
By Natalia Keogan June 7, 2024 | 2:50pm
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Small-town gossip complicates the case in Richard Linklater’s Bernie
By Matt Schimkowitz June 6, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Young Woman And The Sea is a winning biopic, so why does it feel like Disney's trying to sink it?
By Cindy White June 5, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Why is Disney+ the place where AAA documentary subjects go to die?
By Jen Lennon June 3, 2024 | 6:05pm
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Streets Of Fire's rockin' soundtrack backed up its macho madness in style
By Craig D. Lindsey June 3, 2024 | 4:00pm
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Aggro Dr1ft makes perfect sense
By Drew Gillis May 31, 2024 | 1:00pm
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In A Violent Nature special effects lead Steven Kostanski on juicing up the kills
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In A Violent Nature director Chris Nash on getting the slasher details right
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The Crow's chart-topping soundtrack was just as influential as the movie itself
By Craig D. Lindsey May 28, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Is there any point in trying to make sense of Mad Max’s timeline?
By Cindy White May 27, 2024 | 1:32pm
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The world of Mad Max keeps ending and its characters keep driving towards salvation
By Jesse Hassenger May 24, 2024 | 2:00pm
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George Miller in the Thunderdome: Ranking his movies, from Fury Road to Happy Feet
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Film Trivia Fact Check: The feminist origins of Mad Max: Fury Road
By Matt Schimkowitz May 23, 2024 | 6:05pm
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An oral history of Roger Corman's unreleased Fantastic Four movie
By Shaurya Thapa May 22, 2024 | 6:00pm
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Francis Ford Coppola’s late era trilogy reveals an artist reclaiming his passion
By Rory Doherty May 20, 2024 | 2:00pm
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Skip Back To Black and watch Amy instead
By Kayleigh Donaldson May 20, 2024 | 12:00pm
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How The Crow captured the angst of the 1990s
By Charles Moss May 17, 2024 | 7:58pm
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No one has done more to rehabilitate The Phantom Menace than Dave Filoni
By Cindy White May 17, 2024 | 3:30pm
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What's your favorite moment from the Star Wars prequels?
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How The 40-Year-Old Virgin became Hollywood's last great comedy poster
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Revisiting Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, director John Krasinski’s first pancake of a film
By Cindy White May 15, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace marked a beginning for more than Star Wars
By Jesse Hassenger May 14, 2024 | 2:00pm
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The Phantom Menace's podrace grew out of George Lucas’ neverending need for speed
By Jarrod Jones May 13, 2024 | 1:30pm
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How The Fall Guy is leading the charge to add an Oscar category for stunts
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What movie feels like summer to you?
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The rebooted Planet Of The Apes series looks perpetually forward to an uncertain future
By Jesse Hassenger May 10, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Daylight horror: 12 movies that are still scary with the lights on
By Cindy White May 7, 2024 | 4:00pm
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It’s a great time to revisit Tarsem’s divisive 2006 masterpiece, The Fall
By Emma Keates May 7, 2024 | 12:30pm
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10 movies to check out on Prime Video this May
By Robert DeSalvo May 7, 2024 | 12:00pm
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The Fall Guy's end-credits stunt reel is so cool, we're not sure why they bothered with the rest of the movie
By William Hughes May 6, 2024 | 5:00pm
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No one understands internet kids quite like Jane Schoenbrun
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Gaslight at 80, or his and hers realities
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11 movies to check out on Netflix this May
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11 haunted objects in film ranked by how dumb you’d have to be to mess with them
By Jen Lennon, Saloni Gajjar, Emma Keates, Jim Vorel May 3, 2024 | 12:00pm
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11 movies to check out on Hulu this May
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Chicago Critics Film Festival 2024: Five movies you shouldn't miss
By Jacob Oller May 1, 2024 | 2:15pm
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A Tracy Flick doesn't come around every four years
By Drew Gillis April 30, 2024 | 7:29pm
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Halfway to Halloween: The 13 best horror films of the year (so far)
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Summer 2024 movie preview: everything else worth paying attention to
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Summer 2024 movie preview: 15 films to watch (or avoid)
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12 great original film scores from rock musicians who became composers
By Cindy White April 26, 2024 | 8:44pm
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May 2024 film preview: Light month brings a few heavy hitters
By Matt Schimkowitz April 26, 2024 | 2:00pm
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The Challengers trio gets into the churros, hot dogs, and cigarettes
By Drew Gillis April 26, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Abigail's marketing spoils its only twist
By Matt Schimkowitz April 24, 2024 | 8:25pm
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Gentlemanly warfare: Guy Ritchie's gangster etiquette in 8 films and 2 TV shows
By Cindy White April 23, 2024 | 7:48pm
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Humane nature: Director Caitlin Cronenberg and Jay Baruchel talk about finding dark humor in a time of extremes
By Brent Simon April 22, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Hundreds Of Beavers director Mike Cheslik on reviving the slapstick genre in the frozen Midwestern wilderness
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Does it still shimmer? The A.V. Club revisits Annihilation
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The art of the training montage
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Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead offered a dose of reality in the Nickelodeon '90s
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Have no fear, little one: It's only 14 of horror’s most miserable little children
By Matt Schimkowitz, Saloni Gajjar, Tim Lowery, William Hughes, Jen Lennon April 17, 2024 | 1:00pm
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John Early and Theda Hammel psychoanalyze the sordid characters in Stress Positions
By Drew Gillis April 17, 2024 | 12:00pm
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AVQ&A: What’s your favorite debut feature from an actor turned director?
By Mary Kate Carr, Saloni Gajjar, Drew Gillis, William Hughes, Matthew Jackson, Jarrod Jones, Emma Keates, Jacob Oller, Matt Schimkowitz, Cindy White April 12, 2024 | 4:00pm
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CinemaCon 2024 dispatch: The view from the cheap seats at the annual gathering of movie theater moguls
By Brent Simon April 12, 2024 | 3:00pm
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Gorgo x Konga x Anne Hathaway? 12 Godzilla knock-offs that are almost as good as the originals
By Cindy White April 10, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Intellectual property damage: 7 franchise outliers that gave Hollywood a copyright and a left
By Matt Schimkowitz April 9, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Isabella Rossellini talks La Chimera, Blue Velvet, being a meme, and arguing with Jeff Bridges
By Brent Simon April 8, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Dominic Sessa dominates, Succession actors are staying booked, and more casting news of the week
By Saloni Gajjar, Matt Schimkowitz, Emma Keates April 5, 2024 | 10:47pm
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Madame Web is not the kind of bad you think it is
By Drew Gillis April 4, 2024 | 2:00pm
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13 revenge thrillers that take vengeance off the beaten path
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10 movies to check out on Prime Video this April
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Taking the comics and comedy universe hostage with The People’s Joker, Vera Drew
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11 movies to check out on Hulu this April
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11 movies to check out on Netflix this April
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Jerry Seinfeld's Pop-Tart opus, Ghostbusters nostalgia, and more from this week in film
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Beyond the Dunes: 5 other great "unfilmable" sci-fi novels someone should probably film
By William Hughes March 29, 2024 | 3:00pm
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Bustin’ used to make me feel good
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Is The End Of Evangelion an undeniable masterpiece or nonsense for nonsense's sake?
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Late Night With The Devil, nostalgic ghost bustin', and more from this week in film
By The A.V. Club Bot March 23, 2024 | 1:00pm
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The March canon: What is it with that month and high-stakes, high-concept love stories?
By Sam Barsanti March 22, 2024 | 4:00pm
