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Michelle Pfeiffer fears What Lies Beneath
By Sam Adams July 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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There’s more than grief haunting George C. Scott in 1980’s The Changeling
By Nick Schager July 15, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Sling Blade begins with a great monologue—but not from the character you’d expect
By Mike D'Angelo July 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: July 12-July 14
By AV Club Staff July 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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Conversations With Other Women puts a stylistic gimmick to good use
By A.A. Dowd July 12, 2013 | 5:00pm
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What have been the best movies of the year?
By John Semley, Kevin McFarland, Noah Cruickshank, Steve Heisler, A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Josh Modell, Carrie Raisler, Pilot Viruet, Scott MacDonald, Phil Dyess-Nugent, David Sims, Emily St. James, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Mike Vago July 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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Scott Aukerman’s ultimate 24-hour comedy marathon
By Erik Adams July 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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Griffin Dunne has a nightmarish night to remember in After Hours
By Mike D'Angelo July 11, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The bleak poverty drama Rosetta pulled one of the biggest upsets in recent Cannes history
By A.A. Dowd July 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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25th Hour is a day-in-the-life drama that doubles as a love letter to America
By Scott MacDonald July 10, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Pacific Rim
By Amelie Gillette July 10, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Terence Stamp on accents, first takes, and playing a transsexual
By Sam Adams July 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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Nuclear war can’t stand between Anthony Edwards and love in Miracle Mile
By Nick Schager July 9, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Ethan Hawke loses his innocence in Training Day
By Eric Thurm July 8, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: July 5-July 7
By AV Club Staff July 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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Never leave the cave without it: 13 good performances in terrible movies
By Kevin McFarland, Noah Cruickshank, A.A. Dowd, David Anthony, Joel Keller, Rowan Kaiser, David Sims, Michelle Welch July 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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With Osmosis Jones, the Farrelly brothers invent a new genre: the body-cop comedy
By A.A. Dowd July 5, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost pay hilarious homage to Bad Boys II and its ilk in Hot Fuzz
By Eric Thurm July 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with the Jobs trailer
By Amelie Gillette July 3, 2013 | 4:00pm
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The Hidden puts a thrilling sci-fi twist on buddy-cop conventions
By Mike D'Angelo July 3, 2013 | 4:00pm
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“Do you ever get the feeling everything in America is completely fucked up?”: 11 anti-American sentiments in movies and TV
By John Semley, Evan Rytlewski, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Scott Von Doviak, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Rowan Kaiser, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk July 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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James Caan and Alan Arkin run roughshod over San Francisco in Freebie And The Bean
By Scott MacDonald July 2, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin take a brilliantly bickering road trip in Midnight Run
By Nick Schager July 1, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: June 28-June 30
By AV Club Staff July 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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Old cinema can still feel new, as a key scene from The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari demonstrates
By Mike D'Angelo July 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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6-foot-8, weighs a fucking ton: 22 truly badass pop-culture presidents
By John Semley, Kenny Herzog, Noah Cruickshank, Eric Thurm, A.A. Dowd, David Anthony, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Oliver Sava, Claire Zulkey July 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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James Gandolfini brings the pain, and the menace, to True Romance
By Sam Adams June 28, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Does Before Midnight dodge the hardest part of relationships?
By Scott MacDonald June 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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Pop pilgrimages 2.0
By Cory Casciato, Evan Rytlewski, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Annie Zaleski, Scott Von Doviak, Josh Modell, Joel Keller, Marc Hawthorne, Erik Adams, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Laura M. Browning June 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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He doesn’t last long, but James Gandolfini makes an impression in The Man Who Wasn’t There
By Nick Schager June 27, 2013 | 4:00pm
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What the much-maligned Superman Returns got right
By David Sims June 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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Mireille Enos on fighting zombies, playing twins, and getting her SAG card
By Will Harris June 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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James Gandolfini is the rotted-out heart of Killing Them Softly
By Scott MacDonald June 26, 2013 | 4:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with The Lone Ranger
By Amelie Gillette June 26, 2013 | 3:00pm
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As a conflicted gay hitman, James Gandolfini owns the offbeat comedy The Mexican
By Mike D'Angelo June 25, 2013 | 4:00pm
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24 hours of inspiration: The Heat director Paul Feig talks us through some of his comedy favorites
By Marah Eakin June 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Where The Wild Things Are is a moving showcase for James Gandolfini’s vocal talents
By A.A. Dowd June 24, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: June 21-June 23
By AV Club Staff June 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Rupert Everett plays an undertaker-cum-zombie slayer in Cemetery Man
By A.A. Dowd June 21, 2013 | 5:00pm
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That werewolf movie with E.T.’s mom and a bunch of new music
By A.A. Dowd, David Anthony, Josh Modell, Marah Eakin June 21, 2013 | 3:00pm
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James Caan on The Godfather, John Wayne, and all the roles he’s done as favors
By Will Harris June 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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I Walked With A Zombie is a moody melodrama, not the silly monster movie its title suggests
By Sam Adams June 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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World War Z
By A.A. Dowd June 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Why is it so hard to make a good Superman movie?
By Oliver Sava June 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Wes Craven’s The Serpent And The Rainbow returns zombies to their Haitian roots
By Mike D'Angelo June 19, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we’re barely putting up with Man Of Steel
By Amelie Gillette June 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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White Zombie is the granddaddy of all zombie flicks
By Nick Schager June 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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In Heat, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro face off—though not in the way audiences expected
By Mike D'Angelo June 17, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Planet Terror pays gleeful tribute to B zombie movies
By Eric Thurm June 17, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Ayn Rand, @DadBoner, and David Cross: The A.V. Club recaps Just For Laughs 2013
By Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Kevin McFarland, Marah Eakin June 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: June 14-June 16
By AV Club Staff June 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Amer offers all the formal pleasures, and none of the clunky narrative filler, of your average giallo
By Mike D'Angelo June 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Michael Shannon on General Zod, the NSA, and the genius of David Letterman
By Marah Eakin June 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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A few drops of humor distinguish Stage Fright from its fellow giallos
By A.A. Dowd June 13, 2013 | 4:00pm
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The first Palme D’Or winner, Marty, is also one of the most modest
By A.A. Dowd June 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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Man Of Steel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2013 | 8:26pm
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This Is The End
By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2013 | 8:10pm
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Don’t Torture A Duckling is an uneven but memorable addition to the giallo canon
By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2013 | 6:00pm
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How Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg turned their fear of Jesus into an ensemble comedy
By Kyle Ryan June 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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“No Such Agency”: 11 movies that tried to warn us about the NSA
By Kyle Ryan, Josh Modell, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Marah Eakin June 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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Our week of giallo continues with Dario Argento’s seductively menacing Deep Red
By Nick Schager June 11, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Clive Owen talks about playing an MI5 agent in Shadow Dancer
By Christopher Kompanek, Chris Kompanek June 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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Twitch Of The Death Nerve has as many bravura murder scenes as alternate titles
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 10, 2013 | 6:00pm
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We venture once again to the Sweets & Snacks Expo
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Josh Modell, David Anthony, Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning June 10, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton act out a wacky feminist revenge fantasy in 9 To 5
By Eric Thurm June 7, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Crunchy brownies, tiny stories, Before Midnight, a cult, and a character actor
By Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Kyle Ryan, Marah Eakin June 7, 2013 | 3:00pm
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What piece of art would you want to memorize in order to pass it on to the members of a future generation?
By Danny Gallagher, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin June 7, 2013 | 5:00am
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Savage satire and show tunes mix remarkably well in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
By Mike D'Angelo June 5, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Kanye West's Yeezus
By Amelie Gillette June 5, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Work is hell for the beleaguered temps of Clockwatchers
By Sam Adams June 4, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Ron Perlman on Clay Morrow, Hellboy, and his crush on Ryan Gosling
By Marah Eakin June 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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Personal and professional tensions collide in Broadcast News
By Nick Schager June 3, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: May 31-June 2
By AV Club Staff June 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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A simple smile provokes major heebie-jeebies in Deathdream
By Mike D'Angelo June 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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Die Hard 2 loses the soul of the original, but succeeds as dumb fun
By Kyle Ryan May 31, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Zack Snyder delivers a passion project with Sucker Punch
By Sam Adams May 30, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Now You See Me
By A.A. Dowd May 30, 2013 | 5:05am
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The Lost Boys is a lovably cheesy teen horror flick
By Nick Schager May 29, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Fast & Furious 6
By Amelie Gillette May 29, 2013 | 4:00pm
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“I learned it from you, Dad”: 15 father-son acting pairs and the movies they appeared in together
By Josh Modell, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Kevin McFarland, Marah Eakin May 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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Soldier’s sci-fi Western is inadvertent B-movie poetry
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 28, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: May 24-27
By AV Club Staff May 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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“How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?”: 14 unnatural movie sequels
By Cory Casciato, John Semley, Kevin McFarland, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Marah Eakin May 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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Cannes 2013, Day Ten: The big wrap-up, including Jim Jarmusch's fantastic vampire film
By Mike D'Angelo May 25, 2013 | 11:45pm
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The wages and the fear remain high in William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
By A.A. Dowd May 24, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Nine: James Gray and Joaquin Phoenix reteam for a compelling period drama
By Mike D'Angelo May 24, 2013 | 4:13pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Eight: Blue Is The Warmest Color captures a relationship’s rawness and beauty
By Mike D'Angelo May 23, 2013 | 4:20pm
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Vanishing Point caters to car nuts and existentialists alike
By Sam Adams May 23, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Ronin is a triumph of crime-flick economy
By Nick Schager May 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Cannes, Day Seven: J.C. Chandor makes good, Nicolas Winding Refn goes bad, and Claire Denis gets ugly
By Mike D'Angelo May 22, 2013 | 4:51pm
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This week we're barely putting up with The Hangover Part III
By Amelie Gillette May 22, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Thunder Road is one of the first, and finest, automotive action movies off the Hollywood lot
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 21, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Six: Michael Douglas plays Liberace in Steven Soderbergh’s swan song, Behind The Candelabra
By Mike D'Angelo May 21, 2013 | 5:28pm
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Walter Hill’s The Driver is all about work done well
By Nick Schager May 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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A pint glass nicked from Forks, Washington, a.k.a. “Twilight, U.S.A.”
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling
By Mike D'Angelo May 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Five : Takashi Miike schlocks it up, in a good way
By Mike D'Angelo May 20, 2013 | 3:37pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: May 17-19
By AV Club Staff May 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Cannes 2013, Day Four: The Coen brothers return to the festival with a folk-rock flashback
By Mike D'Angelo May 19, 2013 | 7:39pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Three: Cheers for the young stars of The Selfish Giant, jeers for the new films by Hirokazu Kore-eda and Arnaud Desplechin
By Mike D'Angelo May 18, 2013 | 3:17pm
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With Beavis And Butt-head Do America, Mike Judge skewered the idiocy of cinematic adventures
By Mike D'Angelo May 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Two: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi chases A Separation with another stunning drama
By Mike D'Angelo May 17, 2013 | 3:38pm
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Sarah Polley on laying her family history bare in the new documentary Stories We Tell
By A.A. Dowd May 17, 2013 | 3:00pm
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What are your favorite and least favorite cultural baits and switches?
By Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, David Anthony, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Sonia Saraiya, John Potter May 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Star Trek Into Darkness
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2013 | 5:36pm
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Cannes 2013, Day One: Sofia Coppola offers the first misfire of the festival
By Mike D'Angelo May 16, 2013 | 4:15pm
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Laura Palmer lives—however briefly—in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
By Eric Thurm May 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Noah Baumbach on how Frances Ha helped him see New York City with new eyes
By Drew Fortune May 16, 2013 | 5:00am
