Skip to the content
-
A Jacques Demy collection and one of 2014’s best movies arrive on Blu-ray
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 22, 2014 | 4:00pm
-
Phillip Noyce on the road from underground films to Tom Clancy adaptations to The Giver
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
-
One of Jim Carrey’s best performances is also one of his least seen
By Jesse Hassenger July 21, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Smarter, but at a price: 11 consequences of using 100 percent of your brain
By A.A. Dowd, Tasha Robinson, Molly Eichel, Samantha Nelson, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Dennis Perkins, Mike Vago July 21, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Richard Linklater on his “crazy undertaking,” the ambitious Boyhood
By A.A. Dowd July 21, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: July 18 - July 20
By AV Club Staff July 20, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Sometimes it’s okay to not show the masturbation by crucifix
By A.A. Dowd July 18, 2014 | 5:00pm
-
The doll is inside the house in the trailer for The Conjuring spinoff Annabelle
By Katie Rife July 18, 2014 | 4:54pm
-
Focus is key to the most subtly powerful moment in All The President’s Men
By Mike D'Angelo July 18, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Chicago, see Guardians Of The Galaxy early and for free
By Alison Bridges July 17, 2014 | 10:41pm
-
Keira Knightley refuses to grow up in the trailer for Laggies
By Caroline Siede July 17, 2014 | 6:28pm
-
Everything is bigger in Tobe Hooper’s deranged The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
By Jenni Miller July 17, 2014 | 4:00pm
-
10 years on, Garden State and Napoleon Dynamite have aged better than their reputations suggest
By Jesse Hassenger July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
-
I killed At The Movies
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
-
New trailer for Marvel’s Big Hero 6 shows off balloon robot Baymax and his hairy baby
By Sam Barsanti July 17, 2014 | 1:51am
-
The trailer for Ouija is light as a feather, stiff as a board game movie
By Katie Rife July 16, 2014 | 9:03pm
-
Chicago, see Let’s Be Cops in a mobile theater this weekend, for free
By Alison Bridges July 16, 2014 | 8:23pm
-
How often is the fifth entry in a series the best?
By David Ehrlich July 16, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
This week we’re barely putting up with Wish I Was Here
By Amelie Gillette July 16, 2014 | 4:00pm
-
Enter to win a chance to see Monty Python Live (mostly) here in Chicago
By Alison Bridges July 15, 2014 | 8:35pm
-
Here’s the trailer for Horns, the movie where Daniel Radcliffe has horns
By Dan Selcke July 15, 2014 | 6:45pm
-
George Romero and Stephen King offer three macabre tales for the price of one
By Nick Schager July 15, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
The best films of 2014 (so far): A halftime report in superlatives
By A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Josh Modell, Nick Schager, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jenni Miller, Jesse Hassenger July 15, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Chicago, see Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas in July, early and for free
By Alison Bridges July 14, 2014 | 11:05pm
-
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Jurassic Park” was frightening in the dark
By Marah Eakin July 14, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Turns out Frankenstein had a son, and he got into the monster business too
By Jesse Hassenger July 14, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: July 11 - July 13
By AV Club Staff July 13, 2014 | 5:00am
-
How much can you leave out of a story?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 11, 2014 | 5:00pm
-
Reese Witherspoon does heroin and takes a walk in the trailer for Wild
By Mike Vago July 11, 2014 | 2:47pm
-
Chicago, see Woody Allen’s Magic In The Moonlight early and for free
By Alison Bridges July 11, 2014 | 5:20am
-
What’s your favorite movie of the year so far?
By Caroline Siede, Noah Cruickshank, A.A. Dowd, Joshua Alston, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Caroline Framke, Brandon Nowalk, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, Alasdair Wilkins, Marah Eakin, Dennis Perkins, Mike Vago July 11, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Trailer for The Dardenne Bros.’ Two Days, One Night is appropriately sparse
By David Anthony July 10, 2014 | 8:03pm
-
Come for the gentle rural romance, stay for the talking baboon
By Mike D'Angelo July 10, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Chicago, see I Origins early and for free
By Alison Bridges July 10, 2014 | 3:34pm
-
Winter Sleep was the favorite to win Cannes before anyone had even seen it
By A.A. Dowd July 10, 2014 | 5:00am
-
The trailer for Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods And Kings suggests a whitewashed Prince Of Egypt
By Caroline Siede July 9, 2014 | 8:05pm
-
It’s dueling propagandists in the second Hunger Games: Mockingjay teaser
By Caroline Siede July 9, 2014 | 6:53pm
-
One of the most acclaimed films of all time is a mystery without a resolution
By Brandon Nowalk July 9, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
The sex and the music is real; the characters are not
By Jesse Hassenger July 8, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Here’s a 72-minute trailer for Ambiancé, a 720-hour film
By Kayla Reed July 8, 2014 | 5:05pm
-
No one can be trusted in the new Gone Girl trailer
By Kayla Reed July 7, 2014 | 9:24pm
-
Six rich dicks try to have dinner in a classic of French surrealism
By Nick Schager July 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: July 4 - July 6
By AV Club Staff July 6, 2014 | 5:00am
-
How big breasts led Roger Ebert to discover a great filmmaker
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 4, 2014 | 5:00am
-
André 3000’s Jimi Hendrix biopic sets its first trailer on fire
By Sam Barsanti July 3, 2014 | 11:54pm
-
Ebert fell in love with the movie; the world fell in love with Amy Adams
By A.A. Dowd July 3, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
127 Hours shouldn’t have worked, but here’s why it does
By Mike D'Angelo July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Channing Tatum wants to beat people up for America in new Foxcatcher teaser
By Sam Barsanti July 3, 2014 | 2:06am
-
Roger Ebert introduced readers to a late masterpiece of Japanese cinema
By David Ehrlich July 2, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Horrible Bosses 2 trailer promises more charming felonies
By Sean O'Neal July 2, 2014 | 5:07pm
-
Bill Murray is a drunken role model with a weird accent in this trailer for St. Vincent
By Sam Barsanti July 2, 2014 | 12:44am
-
The sci-fi noir Dark City pulls from cinema’s past and anticipates its future
By Jesse Hassenger July 1, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Chicago, see The Purge: Anarchy early and for free
By Alison Bridges June 30, 2014 | 9:19pm
-
To Be Takei trailer celebrates the eclectic career of George Takei
By Caroline Siede June 30, 2014 | 8:54pm
-
Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader play siblings in The Skeleton Twins trailer
By Caroline Siede June 30, 2014 | 8:07pm
-
The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby trailer tells the same story two ways
By Caroline Siede June 30, 2014 | 7:15pm
-
Our week of Ebert favorites begins with a classic “poverty row” noir
By Nick Schager June 30, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
David Wain on his death row media picks, from Let’s Get Small to Twin Peaks
By Marah Eakin June 30, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: June 27 - June 29
By AV Club Staff June 29, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Vampires meet Game Of Thrones in trailer for Dracula Untold
By Sam Barsanti June 28, 2014 | 9:53pm
-
“You love the Sox. But have they ever loved you back?”
By A.A. Dowd June 27, 2014 | 5:00pm
-
Aubrey Plaza is a zombie in the trailer for Life After Beth
By Caroline Siede June 26, 2014 | 7:46pm
-
Chicago, see Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes early and for free
By Alison Bridges June 26, 2014 | 6:31pm
-
The J-Lo vehicle Maid In Manhattan is an exceptionally well-directed rom-com
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 26, 2014 | 4:00pm
-
American Pie’s heart was never really in the pastry poking
By A.A. Dowd June 26, 2014 | 5:00am
-
The trailer for Brad Pitt’s WWII movie Fury hits all the war-movie tropes
By Caroline Siede June 25, 2014 | 7:30pm
-
Dirty Dancing meets the boyfriend experience
By Jenni Miller June 25, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
President Snow sends a warning in the first teaser for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
By Caroline Siede June 25, 2014 | 4:19pm
-
Ryan Reynolds woos three beautiful women and it’s not the worst thing ever
By Jesse Hassenger June 24, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Give the trailer for the unauthorized Raging Bull 2 a cheap stage where it can unconvincingly rage
By Sean O'Neal June 23, 2014 | 9:26pm
-
Before the McConaissance, the shirtless Texan spoofed his own lothario image
By Nick Schager June 23, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Chicago, see Melissa McCarthy in Tammy early and for free
By Alison Bridges June 23, 2014 | 3:25pm
-
A century later, why does Chaplin still matter?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 23, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Reese Witherspoon tries to find her blind side in trailer for The Good Lie
By Sam Barsanti June 21, 2014 | 9:12pm
-
The new trailer for Dear White People is pretty funny, pretty provocative
By Marah Eakin June 20, 2014 | 8:55pm
-
Judy Garland and the Oscar fuck-up of 1954
By Andrea Battleground June 20, 2014 | 5:00pm
-
Final Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes trailer has so many goddamn apes
By Emily St. James June 20, 2014 | 2:00pm
-
Remember when audiences had to imagine a face getting brutally scalded?
By Mike D'Angelo June 20, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Funny young people get serious in official trailer for About Alex
By Sam Barsanti June 19, 2014 | 10:18pm
-
Is Summer Phoenix an awkward actress playing a great actress, or vice versa?
By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Life’s a stage, and its players wield fans with razors in them
By David Ehrlich June 18, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
“Make ’Em Laugh” is “100 percent plagiarism”—but the message holds up
By Erik Adams June 18, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Chicago, see Begin Again early and for free
By Alison Bridges June 18, 2014 | 5:40pm
-
Oscar upset aside, Shakespeare In Love is not empty awards bait
By Jesse Hassenger June 17, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
A French classic reveals the beauty of theatrical and cinematic performance
By Nick Schager June 16, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Luc Besson kickstarted his career with a striking, wordless doomsday movie
By A.A. Dowd June 13, 2014 | 5:00pm
-
Franco and Rogen try to assassinate Kim Jong-Un in The Interview trailer
By Mike Vago June 13, 2014 | 2:46pm
-
Sony shows off first trailer for the Ratchet And Clank movie
By Sam Barsanti June 13, 2014 | 2:33am
-
Russians ruin Denzel Washington’s reading time in The Equalizer trailer
By Sean O'Neal June 12, 2014 | 10:39pm
-
The trailer for Birdman imagines crazy world where Michael Keaton once played a superhero
By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2014 | 10:00pm
-
Paddington is still creepy in his first full-length trailer
By Caroline Siede June 12, 2014 | 6:46pm
-
“Who run Bartertown?”
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Spoiler space: The Signal
By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Things are pretty black and white in this Sin City: A Dame To Kill For trailer
By Sam Barsanti June 12, 2014 | 12:45am
-
When mankind faces extinction, will its petty prejudices and taboos survive?
By A.A. Dowd June 11, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Hey guys! Dumb And Dumber To trailer, huh? All right! Well, see you later
By Sean O'Neal June 11, 2014 | 3:22pm
-
Chicago, rock out with We Are The Best! early and for free
By Alison Bridges June 10, 2014 | 7:13pm
-
Michael Haneke’s doomsday vision is a little less bleak than expected
By A.A. Dowd June 10, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
If The Walking Dead featured vampires instead of zombies…
By Nick Schager June 9, 2014 | 4:00pm
-
Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: June 6 - June 8
By AV Club Staff June 9, 2014 | 5:00am
-
The first stand-up movie is also the best
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 6, 2014 | 5:00pm
-
Jenny Slate answers our 11 questions
By Marah Eakin June 6, 2014 | 5:00am
-
Saturday Night Fever’s most iconic scene demonstrates the power of editing
By Mike D'Angelo June 6, 2014 | 5:00am
-
The trailer for Matthew Weiner’s Are You Here (formerly You Are Here) is here
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2014 | 8:14pm
-
Eddie Murphy didn’t always need a fat suit to play multiple characters
By A.A. Dowd June 5, 2014 | 4:00pm
-
Steven Wright’s act hasn’t changed much in 30 years, and that’s fine
By Josh Modell June 4, 2014 | 6:00pm
-
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen try to lose their virginity in the Very Good Girls trailer
By William Hughes June 3, 2014 | 9:08pm
-
Sarah Silverman savages PC sensibilities with a sunny smile
By Nick Schager June 3, 2014 | 4:00pm
