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Scarier than fiction: 9 genuinely frightening documentaries
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Alex McLevy, Randall Colburn, Patrick Gomez, William Hughes October 26, 2020 | 5:00am
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Bong Joon Ho’s Mother finds a Hitchcock disciple at his most Hitchcockian
By Katie Rife October 23, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The rise of Practical Magic as a spooky season classic
By Caroline Siede October 23, 2020 | 5:03pm
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The best horror movies of 2020
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife October 23, 2020 | 12:00pm
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Charade was the most Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made
By Gwen Ihnat October 22, 2020 | 7:00pm
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After We Collided's stars and creator say movies just can't ignore young, female fans anymore
By Marah Eakin October 22, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Let's revisit the "explosion of excrement" that was David Letterman hosting the 1995 Oscars
By Patrick Gomez October 22, 2020 | 1:30pm
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Rebecca has now twice shown there’s no improving on the original
By Gwen Ihnat October 22, 2020 | 5:00am
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Mark Rylance loves the incredible life story of the Chicago 7's lawyer
By Marah Eakin October 21, 2020 | 8:50pm
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With Body Double, Brian De Palma trolled everyone who called him a Hitchcock wannabe
By Craig D. Lindsey October 21, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Ann Dowd on Rebecca, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the decision that changed her career
By Cameron Scheetz October 21, 2020 | 5:00am
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France’s answer to Hitchcock earned the comparisons with an all-time-great thriller
By Mike D'Angelo October 20, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Adam Brody on lost youth, shocking endings, and kid detectives
By Marah Eakin October 20, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Park Chan-wook does Hitchcock by way of De Palma in the stylish Stoker
By Jesse Hassenger October 19, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Movies with legs: 11 unexpected cinematic spider infestations
By Gwen Ihnat, Randall Colburn, Alex McLevy, William Hughes October 19, 2020 | 2:42pm
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In Cold Pursuit, Liam Neeson critiqued his “angry old man” screen persona
By Noel Murray October 16, 2020 | 7:00pm
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What horror movie scares you the most?
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife October 16, 2020 | 12:00pm
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At the height of the cynical ’90s, Titanic’s heartfelt spectacle became king of the world
By Tom Breihan October 16, 2020 | 5:00am
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The Commuter proved how good Liam Neeson is at playing screwups rising to the occasion
By A.A. Dowd October 15, 2020 | 8:25pm
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An old-school noir with modern thrills captures the essence of Liam Neeson’s appeal
By Alex McLevy October 14, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Aaron Sorkin on America's misguided tendency to course correct
By Marah Eakin October 14, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Non-Stop took the Liam Neeson thriller to new heights of dumb-smart fun
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 13, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Laura Dern and Pete Souza discuss The Way I See It and the Laura Dern Sitting Challenge
By Cameron Scheetz October 13, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Shithouse’s Dylan Gelula says it’s high time celebrities stopped dressing up for Halloween
By Cameron Scheetz October 13, 2020 | 5:00am
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Liam Neeson began his best action-movie collaboration with the Hitchcockian Unknown
By Jesse Hassenger October 12, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The Forty-Year-Old Version’s Radha Blank on gatekeeping culture and being her own mentor
By Shannon Miller October 12, 2020 | 4:20pm
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Jeremy Strong did a hell of a lot of research to play Jerry Rubin in The Trial Of The Chicago 7
By Marah Eakin October 12, 2020 | 3:00pm
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The New York Film Festival makes its French exit with a labored comedy and more Steve McQueen
By A.A. Dowd October 11, 2020 | 2:00am
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There’s a touch of Oliver Stone and ’80s action excess in this ode to the Black Panthers
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 9, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Noah Schnapp, Karan Brar, and Paris Berelc reveal their biggest fears
By Marah Eakin October 9, 2020 | 6:30pm
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Halloween isn’t canceled: What to stream from Nightstream, Salem Horror, and Fantastic Fest 2020
By Katie Rife October 9, 2020 | 5:00pm
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John Reynolds and Sunita Mani on finding hope and high-maintenance pouffes in Save Yourselves!
By Cameron Scheetz October 9, 2020 | 3:30pm
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What horror classic have you never seen?
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife October 9, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Dirty Dancing spoke its conscience with its hips
By Caroline Siede October 9, 2020 | 5:30am
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A decade after the dream of the ’60s died, Hair joyously revived it
By Gwen Ihnat October 8, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Maya Rudolph and Tim Meadows on the times Adam Sandler has made them laugh the hardest
By Marah Eakin October 8, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Let's revisit the train wreck that was the 1989 Academy Awards
By The A.V. Club October 8, 2020 | 2:30pm
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One of the great underseen movies about labor and race almost didn’t get made
By Charles Bramesco October 7, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Red Death, White House: A Roger Corman-Vincent Price classic makes a fortuitous return
By Katie Rife October 7, 2020 | 11:00am
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With Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts gave the legwork of activism a brassy makeover
By Mike D'Angelo October 6, 2020 | 7:00pm
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June Squibb loves a good dirty joke as much as anyone
By Marah Eakin October 6, 2020 | 3:00pm
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The Times Of Harvey Milk documented the early days of a still-raging culture war
By Noel Murray October 5, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Adam Sandler on the through line between Canteen Boy and Hubie Halloween
By Marah Eakin October 5, 2020 | 2:00pm
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We sing the praises of 17 musical moments from non-musical movies
By Patrick Gomez, Randall Colburn, Alex McLevy, Gwen Ihnat, Laura Adamczyk, Sam Barsanti, Erik Adams, Katie Rife, Danette Chavez, Cameron Scheetz October 5, 2020 | 5:00am
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Three major directors work in the shadow of their past triumphs at the New York Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd October 2, 2020 | 11:45pm
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Sherman’s March gives self-indulgence a good name
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 2, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Charlie Carver on filming The Batman through COVID-19 and finding gay family in Boys In The Band
By Patrick Gomez October 2, 2020 | 2:00pm
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On the popularity of and backlash to elevated horror
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife October 2, 2020 | 12:00pm
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw on Misbehaviour, “San Junipero,” and becoming a pop star for Beyond The Lights
By Cameron Scheetz October 2, 2020 | 11:00am
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For better or worse, Independence Day supersized the blockbuster spectacle
By Tom Breihan October 2, 2020 | 5:00am
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50 years later, David Holzman’s Diary plays like the proto YouTube video
By Vikram Murthi October 1, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Julianne Moore and Lorraine Toussaint on Gloria Steinem and the movies of their lives
By Marah Eakin October 1, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, and a whole lot of horror movies are coming this October
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, William Hughes, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger October 1, 2020 | 11:00am
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Sarah Polley solves the mystery of her own parentage in the slippery, poignant Stories We Tell
By Jason Shawhan September 30, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Dementia clouds a brilliant mind in the artful, brutally candid First Cousin Once Removed
By Mike D'Angelo September 29, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Gloria Steinem and Julie Taymor on activism, optimism, and film
By Marah Eakin September 29, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Memories crash ashore in a moving auto-portrait from the late, great Agnès Varda
By Beatrice Loayza September 28, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Why do we love to watch comedians fall down? Jason Sudeikis, Natalie Morales, Steve-O and more discuss
By Marah Eakin September 28, 2020 | 2:30pm
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Who wants to watch Jaime Lannister kill himself very, very slowly?
By Alex McLevy September 28, 2020 | 5:00am
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The best movies on Showtime
By The A.V. Club September 27, 2020 | 7:41pm
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It’s suspense as well as dark comedy that Blue Ruin borrows from the Coen brothers
By A.A. Dowd September 25, 2020 | 9:30pm
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Our critics review 2 very different family dramas, The Nest and The Devil All The Time
By Katie Rife, A.A. Dowd September 25, 2020 | 12:00pm
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Before Wonder Woman soared into theaters, the hacky My Super Ex-Girlfriend plummeted to Earth
By Caroline Siede September 25, 2020 | 5:00am
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Logan Lucky is the Steven Soderbergh version of a Coen brothers caper
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 24, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Evan Rachel Wood on the origins of Kajillionaire's big dance scene
By Marah Eakin September 24, 2020 | 4:30pm
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A wordless Babe and the year’s wordiest drama spar for attention at the New York Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd September 23, 2020 | 7:30pm
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With A Simple Plan, Coen brothers pal Sam Raimi made his own snowy Minnesota crime thriller
By Noel Murray September 23, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Lulu Wang speaks out against tapping Ron Howard as director of pianist Lang Lang's biopic
By Shannon Miller September 23, 2020 | 4:16pm
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Before they went to Marvel, the Russo brothers made a crime comedy in the Coens mold
By Mike D'Angelo September 22, 2020 | 7:00pm
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A one-time Coen collaborator imitates their sillier movies in the star-studded Big Trouble
By Jesse Hassenger September 21, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Miranda July on Kajillionaire and the art of parenting
By Marah Eakin September 21, 2020 | 3:00pm
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It’s the quiet ones you need to watch out for, and The Eyes Of My Mother was no exception
By Katie Rife September 18, 2020 | 10:00pm
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The best films of Toronto 2020
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife September 18, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Let's talk about the major movies at this year's Toronto International Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife September 18, 2020 | 2:00pm
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There’s no outgrowing Toy Story
By Tom Breihan September 18, 2020 | 5:00am
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Road tripping with Werner Herzog as TIFF meanders to the finish line
By Katie Rife September 17, 2020 | 11:40pm
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Widows director Steve McQueen kicks off the New York Film Festival with dance and romance
By A.A. Dowd September 17, 2020 | 10:15pm
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Netflix’s latest horror sensation doesn’t believe in itself
By Alex McLevy September 17, 2020 | 8:55pm
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Two brothers embark on an arduous funeral march in the elemental Two Gates Of Sleep
By A.A. Dowd September 17, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Mark Wahlberg, of all stars, marches for tolerance in the maudlin TIFF premiere Good Joe Bell
By A.A. Dowd September 17, 2020 | 2:20am
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Chloë Grace Moretz goes to war and a revenge thriller goes to the extreme at Midnight Madness
By Katie Rife September 17, 2020 | 12:15am
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Elizabeth Olsen made her big debut as frazzled cult survivor Martha Marcy May Marlene
By Laura Adamczyk September 16, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Frederick Wiseman and a portrait of Martin Luther King lead TIFF’s documentary slate
By A.A. Dowd September 16, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Chris Messina still has a lot of anarchy left in him
By Shannon Miller September 16, 2020 | 11:00am
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Idris Elba saddles up and Rosamund Pike works a long con in two true-ish stories out of TIFF
By Katie Rife September 15, 2020 | 11:47pm
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The quintessential YouTube movie arrived way back in 2008
By Mike D'Angelo September 15, 2020 | 7:00pm
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In James White, Christopher Abbott gave us one of indie film’s most indelible pricks
By Randall Colburn September 14, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Pieces Of A Woman puts Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf through every parent’s worst nightmare
By A.A. Dowd September 14, 2020 | 1:00pm
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A sex-positive shiva, a Native coming-of-age story, and a grim Appalachian indie at TIFF 2020
By Katie Rife September 14, 2020 | 12:30am
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Newly christened Venice winner Nomadland might be the American movie of the season
By A.A. Dowd September 13, 2020 | 1:00am
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Disciples, domestic drama, and a Lanthimos spawn travel from Venice to Toronto
By A.A. Dowd September 12, 2020 | 7:00am
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What’s a movie you enjoyed, but never want to see again?
By The A.V. Club, William Hughes, Alex McLevy, Cameron Scheetz, Patrick Gomez, Katie Rife, Gwen Ihnat, Laura Adamczyk, Randall Colburn September 12, 2020 | 5:00am
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Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan fall into a seaside romance in the explicit but bloodless Ammonite
By Katie Rife September 12, 2020 | 3:15am
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Regina King assembles a supergroup of historical Black icons in One Night In Miami...
By Katie Rife September 11, 2020 | 8:45pm
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Jonathan Demme got his start grinding out a women-in-prison flick for Roger Corman
By Katie Rife September 11, 2020 | 7:00pm
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His Girl Friday redefined the screwball comedy at 240 words per minute
By Caroline Siede September 11, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira made a road trip comedy about abortion
By Marah Eakin September 11, 2020 | 3:30pm
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Spike Lee kicks off TIFF with an electrifying spiritual sequel to Stop Making Sense
By A.A. Dowd September 11, 2020 | 1:05am
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Michelle Rodriguez came out swinging in Karyn Kusama’s powerhouse Girlfight
By Roxana Hadadi September 10, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Paris Hilton says making the This Is Paris documentary was like therapy
By Cameron Scheetz September 10, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Almost every coming-of-age movie since owes a debt to the wistful, personal The 400 Blows
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 9, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Why virtual screenings should be a permanent fixture of the film festival experience
By Mike D'Angelo September 9, 2020 | 5:00am
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Kathryn Bigelow launched her career with an arty, intoxicating biker drama
By Noel Murray September 8, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Before Parasite, Bong Joon-ho debuted with another vicious upstairs-downstairs comedy
By Charles Bramesco September 7, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The Rover mutated Robert Pattinson into a grimy, twitchy character actor
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 4, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Let’s talk about the ending of Charlie Kaufman’s new movie, I’m Thinking Of Ending Things
By A.A. Dowd September 4, 2020 | 5:30pm
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Rachael Leigh Cook once passed out while leaping off a building during filming
By Alex McLevy September 4, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Our critics get back in the new-movie groove with Tenet and I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
By Katie Rife, A.A. Dowd September 4, 2020 | 12:00pm
