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The commentary of Cougars, Inc. finds artfulness in a generic sex comedy
By Scott Tobias April 1, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is a bleary indictment of society’s ills
By Noel Murray April 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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A lunatic drummer, Steve Coogan, and 3 more pop-culture musts
By Nathan Rabin, Josh Modell, Scott Tobias, Emily St. James, John Teti March 29, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Best Worst Movie uncovers the heartbreaking psychodrama in a memorably insane B-movie
By Nathan Rabin March 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Host
By Tasha Robinson March 28, 2013 | 5:08am
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Burden Of Dreams reveals the madness behind a Werner Herzog madness epic
By Tasha Robinson March 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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Lost In La Mancha chronicles the unmaking of Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film
By Mike D'Angelo March 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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Tommy And The Cool Mule stars the voice of Ice-T and is a real movie
By Nathan Rabin March 26, 2013 | 5:00am
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American Movie tracks the cinematic dreams of the ultimate Hollywood outsider
By Scott Tobias March 26, 2013 | 5:00am
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What Quiz Show proves about film directing and Argo’s Best Director snub
By Mike D'Angelo March 25, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: March 22-24
By AV Club Staff March 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Hearts Of Darkness goes downriver with the creators of Apocalypse Now
By Noel Murray March 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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No training, no medical license, no problem!: 20 scenes where civilians perform surgery
By John Semley, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Marc Hawthorne, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski March 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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“Shitty miracles”
By Nathan Rabin, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Scott Tobias, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sonia Saraiya, Tasha Robinson March 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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Harmony Korine on dynamiting the zeitgeist with the druggy Spring Breakers
By Sam Adams March 21, 2013 | 5:00pm
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My Own Private Idaho is a personal statement and a River Phoenix memorial
By Scott Tobias March 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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Four Lions finds the lighter side of terrorism, while avoiding cheap shots
By Tasha Robinson March 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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A beginner’s guide to comedy legend Harold Ramis
By Nathan Rabin March 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with Olympus Has Fallen
By Amelie Gillette March 20, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Julia Loktev’s Day Night Day Night follows a suicide bomber to Times Square
By Mike D'Angelo March 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Want to know that kind of watch Mark Wahlberg wears? There's an app for that
By Marah Eakin March 19, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Indie upstarts the Polish brothers wandered off the map with Smell Of Success and Stay Cool
By Nathan Rabin March 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle Of Algiers is the standard by which all movies about terrorism are judged
By Scott Tobias March 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Day Of The Jackal meticulously tracks an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle
By Noel Murray March 18, 2013 | 5:01am
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Ingmar Bergman’s overlooked The Magician proved he was a master illusionist
By Scott Tobias March 15, 2013 | 5:01am
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Upside Down
By Tasha Robinson March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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Orson Welles’ F For Fake orchestrates a film-length work of cinematic magic
By Nathan Rabin March 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with The Call
By Amelie Gillette March 13, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Two magic legends screw with viewers and each other in Penn & Teller Get Killed
By Mike D'Angelo March 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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Triplets Of Belleville’s director adapted a Jacques Tati screenplay into a deft homage
By Noel Murray March 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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A Talking Cat!?! is The Room of anthropomorphic animal movies featuring Eric Roberts
By Nathan Rabin March 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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The commentary track for The Coalition celebrates its own superficiality
By Genevieve Koski March 11, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Stacy Keach on Mike Hammer, John Huston, and his one irredeemable character
By Will Harris March 11, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The mastery of Brick’s opening (annotated by writer-director Rian Johnson)
By Mike D'Angelo March 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige uses dueling magicians to put one over on the audience
By Tasha Robinson March 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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The slinky vagabond: 15 notable David Bowie cameos
By Nathan Rabin, Josh Modell, Noah Cruickshank March 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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Dig! the divergent fortunes of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols
By Scott Tobias March 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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If documentaries want to be treated like movies, they need to behave like them
By Scott Tobias March 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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Michael Rapaport finds the dysfunction behind A Tribe Called Quest’s mellow vibes
By Nathan Rabin March 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with Oz The Great And Powerful
By Amelie Gillette March 6, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Tom Sizemore on Point Break, True Romance, and getting yelled at by Pete Rose
By Nathan Rabin March 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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A documentary about Wilco found the band—and the music world—on the brink
By Mike D'Angelo March 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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Small Apartments finds humanity in sleaze
By Nathan Rabin March 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Metallica enters therapy in Some Kind Of Monster
By Sam Adams March 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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1987’s Devil Dynamite has it all: vampires, ninjas, and vampire ninjas
By Tasha Robinson March 4, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The inspiration and heartbreak of the Minutemen story comes through in We Jam Econo
By Noel Murray March 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Want to do spring break properly? These movies have some advice
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson March 1, 2013 | 6:00pm
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A 400-year-old shaman manifests as a neck tumor in The Manitou
By Scott Tobias March 1, 2013 | 6:00am
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Tom Colicchio on solving the hunger problem in America
By Scott Tobias February 28, 2013 | 6:00pm
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John Woo’s Hard Target added signature flair to a generic Hollywood premise
By Scott Tobias February 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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Stoker
By Tasha Robinson February 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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Seed Of Chucky finds the absurdity in the familial dysfunction of possessed demon toys
By Nathan Rabin February 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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Supermarket Brands Sponsored Case File #34: Foodfight!
By Nathan Rabin February 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Session 9 turns an abandoned asylum and digital video’s limits into assets
By Noel Murray February 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Freaky Deaky’s minor funky pleasures can’t make up for its jarring tonal shifts
By Nathan Rabin February 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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Ignored by Oscar, Steve Martin gave 1984’s best lead performance in All Of Me
By Mike D'Angelo February 26, 2013 | 6:00am
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Paycheck’s commentary finds John Woo defending the film that stalled his Hollywood career
By Noel Murray February 25, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: February 15-17, 2013
By AV Club Staff February 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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The German drama Requiem raises questions about a famous demon-possession case
By Scott Tobias February 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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How Oscar’s Best Picture nominees rub viewers’ noses in America’s dark past
By Emily St. James February 22, 2013 | 6:20pm
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A bloody good crime film, a stellar horror comic, and 3 more can’t-miss entertainments
By Sean O'Neal, Emily St. James, Scott Tobias, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski February 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The Friends Of Eddie Coyle gives a late-career Robert Mitchum an extra set of knuckles
By Scott Tobias February 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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A corporate whistleblower’s daily life lends dimension to the fact-based Silkwood
By Mike D'Angelo February 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with The Academy Awards
By Amelie Gillette February 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Jeffrey Combs on Re-Animator’s endurance, playing H.P. Lovecraft, and more
By Nathan Rabin February 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Donnie Brasco features Al Pacino as a Willy Loman-esque sad sack
By Nathan Rabin February 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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Here are some scary movie characters you wouldn't want in your family
By AV Club Staff February 19, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Al Pacino’s integrity costs him in the undercover-cop classic Serpico
By Noel Murray February 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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The singularly insane Branded is a case study in good intentions gone astray
By Nathan Rabin February 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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Eric Roberts on The Dark Knight, Shelley Winters, John Waters, and more
By Will Harris February 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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The audacious Odd Man Out turns Britain’s biggest star into furniture in his own film
By Mike D'Angelo February 18, 2013 | 6:00pm
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White House Madness is the Kentucky Fried Movie of alt-history Nixon comedies
By Nathan Rabin February 18, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: February 15-17, 2013
By AV Club Staff February 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Informant! turns a tale of corporate whistle-blowing into zany comedy
By Sam Adams February 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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Death Becomes Her casts Bruce Willis as the helpless rope in a tug-of-war
By Tasha Robinson February 15, 2013 | 6:00am
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Regrettably unattainable art
By Nathan Rabin, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Steve Heisler, Joel Keller, Vadim Rizov, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson, John Teti February 15, 2013 | 6:00am
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Safe Haven
By Scott Tobias February 14, 2013 | 6:01am
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Beautiful Creatures
By Tasha Robinson February 14, 2013 | 6:00am
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Mortal Thoughts gives an abuser’s murder the Rashomon treatment
By Scott Tobias February 14, 2013 | 6:00am
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C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T.
By Will Harris February 13, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The notorious flop Hudson Hawk goes places no other studio action vehicle would dare
By Mike D'Angelo February 13, 2013 | 6:00am
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“Is that one thing?”: 5 pop-culture life coaches who can’t count
By Tasha Robinson February 13, 2013 | 6:00am
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Miley Cyrus struggles to grow up in the non-amazeballs So Undercover
By Nathan Rabin February 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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Color Of Night takes the erotic thriller far beyond the point of absurdity
By Nathan Rabin February 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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The commentary for Alex Cross is just as numbingly generic as its film
By Scott Tobias February 11, 2013 | 6:00pm
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What Just Happened turns a producer’s real-life experiences into comedy
By Noel Murray February 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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1936’s My Man Godfrey is a Depression-era fantasy needling the rich
By Tasha Robinson February 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney talks the Catholic sex scandals
By Emily St. James February 7, 2013 | 7:30pm
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Side Effects
By Scott Tobias February 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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Zoolander refuses to let satire interfere with its inspired silliness
By Scott Tobias February 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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The classic cross-dressing farce Tootsie tackles gender roles on-screen and off
By Nathan Rabin February 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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Matt Damon’s signature performance is the chameleon at the center of The Talented Mr. Ripley
By Scott Tobias February 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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Catch Me If You Can emphasizes the “confidence” part of “con game”
By Noel Murray February 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Mac & Devin Go To High School manages to give rapsploitation movies a bad name
By Nathan Rabin February 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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In Hunk, a computer nerd sells his soul for some sweet “v-ball” skills
By Noel Murray February 4, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Stop Making Sense’s opening number establishes it as a concert film like no other
By Mike D'Angelo February 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Alec Baldwin excels as a robber who robs robbers in the crime comedy Miami Blues
By Mike D'Angelo February 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Hold for some minor retooling: 14-plus entertainments altered due to historical events
By Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sam Adams February 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Walter Hill on the anti-buddy movie and the evolution of the action film
By Scott Tobias February 1, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Warm Bodies
By Tasha Robinson January 31, 2013 | 6:00am
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The wacky murder-musical The Happiness Of The Katakuris redefines Takashi Miike
By Tasha Robinson January 31, 2013 | 6:00am
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The “gentleman’s F” and the scourge of deliberate mediocrity
By Scott Tobias January 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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The macabre Beetlejuice is a reminder of the dazzling Tim Burton of old
By Nathan Rabin January 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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The surreally incompetent Not Another Not Another Movie is beneath contempt
By Nathan Rabin January 29, 2013 | 6:00am
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How The Return Of The Living Dead thumbs its nose at traditional zombie lore
By Noel Murray January 29, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Order’s commentary track is so dull, it almost invalidates the form
By Nathan Rabin January 28, 2013 | 6:00pm
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An obscure H.P. Lovecraft story gets twisted into a hilarious gore comedy in Re-Animator
By Mike D'Angelo January 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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Hollywood’s trash, our treasure: 17 salvageable flops from the late-winter dumping ground
By Nathan Rabin, John Semley, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Vadim Rizov, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Noel Murray, Tasha Robinson January 28, 2013 | 6:00am
