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Tom Hanks helped mythologize a whole generation in the boomer blockbuster Forrest Gump
By Tom Breihan September 4, 2020 | 5:00am
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The Lost City Of Z made Robert Pattinson unrecognizable while illuminating his talent
By Alex McLevy September 3, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The fall movie season begins with Tenet, Mulan, and a Charlie Kaufman mindbender
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, William Hughes September 3, 2020 | 5:00am
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From harsh horror to a Tiny Tim tribute, the Fantasia Film Festival takes The A.V. Club on one last ride
By Katie Rife September 2, 2020 | 8:30pm
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David Cronenberg paved a new career path for Robert Pattinson in two horror stories of wealth
By Beatrice Loayza September 2, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Robert Pattinson became Hogwarts’ martyred golden boy in his first major movie role
By Gwen Ihnat September 1, 2020 | 7:00pm
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John Leguizamo on wearing heels, singing on his knees, and walking away from ER
By Patrick Gomez September 1, 2020 | 11:00am
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Before directing Sandler to a great performance, the Safdies did the same for Robert Pattinson
By Jesse Hassenger August 31, 2020 | 7:00pm
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There’s a reason you’ve never seen Beeper, the 2002 Harvey Keitel film about... a beeper
By Alex McLevy August 31, 2020 | 5:00am
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Killer jeans, organ traffickers, and sex with a carnival ride at the Fantasia Film Festival
By Katie Rife August 29, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on changing the way the world says "Socrates"
By Marah Eakin August 28, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Lady Bird meets American Pie in the sweetly innocent sex comedy Yes, God, Yes
By Katie Rife August 28, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The forgotten 1970s romantic comedy that raged against our broken, racist system
By Caroline Siede August 28, 2020 | 4:00pm
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We wrap up our Christopher Nolan series with the epic trio of Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk
By Katie Rife, A.A. Dowd August 28, 2020 | 12:00pm
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One of the best horror movies of the year is, of course, about a haunted Zoom chat
By Randall Colburn August 27, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The One And Only Ivan screenwriter Mike White on taking the book from page to screen
By Marah Eakin August 27, 2020 | 5:30pm
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There are shades of Parasite—and a big twist—in this gory Elijah Wood comedy
By Noel Murray August 26, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Director Thea Sharrock walks us through the process of bringing The One And Only Ivan to life
By Cameron Scheetz August 26, 2020 | 3:30pm
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This year, Brian Dennehy left us with a beautiful reminder of his gifts as a character actor
By Roxana Hadadi August 25, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The New Mutants finally opens this week. Here’s why we’re not reviewing it
By A.A. Dowd August 25, 2020 | 3:47pm
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Hugh Laurie on mental illness, distraction, and Dickens
By Marah Eakin August 25, 2020 | 3:30pm
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From Deliverance to Ani DiFranco, Bring It On’s filmmakers reveal the influences behind its most memorable scenes
By Cameron Scheetz August 25, 2020 | 5:00am
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Looking for a good romantic comedy? Here’s one that’s Straight Up great
By Jesse Hassenger August 24, 2020 | 7:00pm
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A Hong Kong legend and a different type of troll hunter kick off Fantasia 2020
By Katie Rife August 22, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Mya Taylor and Jackie Beat discuss Stage Mother and plan their post-quarantine road trips
By Cameron Scheetz August 22, 2020 | 5:00am
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Would the real Tom Ripley please stand up?
By A.A. Dowd August 21, 2020 | 7:00pm
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All the reasons Chaka Khan says she's just like a chicken
By Marah Eakin August 21, 2020 | 3:30pm
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Christopher Nolan bookended Batman with two very different thrillers, Insomnia and The Prestige
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife August 21, 2020 | 12:00pm
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Pat Healy on Werner Herzog, Spielberg, and tossing a naked stuntman into the snow
By Alex McLevy August 21, 2020 | 11:00am
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Jurassic Park gave the whole world the Spielberg Face
By Tom Breihan August 21, 2020 | 5:00am
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Joan Crawford elevated noir into a moving portrait of mental illness
By Gwen Ihnat August 20, 2020 | 7:00pm
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RZA on comics, meditation, and Katrina-related conspiracy theories
By Marah Eakin August 20, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Ben Kingsley traded the saintliness of Gandhi for the vulgar gangster menace of Sexy Beast
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 19, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Bryan Cranston on working with a CGI gorilla and 20 years of Malcolm In The Middle
By Cameron Scheetz August 19, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Nicole Kidman rose to stardom in a savage comedy ripped from the headlines
By Charles Bramesco August 18, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Helen Mirren says she isn't nearly as impeccable as you might think
By Marah Eakin August 18, 2020 | 5:30pm
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Please don’t go to a movie theater: “It’s just about the last thing I’d do right now,” says expert
By Patrick Gomez August 18, 2020 | 2:50pm
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Jacki Weaver on Animal Kingdom’s 10th anniversary, crabby snacks, and being a gay icon
By Cameron Scheetz August 18, 2020 | 5:00am
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James Cagney returned to gangster movies more psychotic than ever in White Heat
By Jesse Hassenger August 17, 2020 | 7:00pm
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They cheer and they lead: Bring It On ushered cheer culture into the mainstream
By Shannon Miller August 16, 2020 | 5:05am
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"We're uncool": Almost Famous and High Fidelity celebrate music—but they're warnings, too
By Erik Adams August 15, 2020 | 5:00pm
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Lossy, translated: Why filmmakers embraced digital video in 2000
By Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 9:45pm
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A subterranean subculture comes to light in the eye-opening documentary Dark Days
By Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 8:25pm
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Revisiting the Dark Knight trilogy and its impact on the evolving style of Christopher Nolan
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 12:00pm
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Edward Norton made his directorial debut by walking a priest, a rabbi, and a Dharma into a Y2K rom-com
By Caroline Siede August 14, 2020 | 5:00am
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Björk crooned her way to victory at the greatest Cannes Film Festival of all time
By A.A. Dowd August 13, 2020 | 11:00pm
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The Broken Hearts Club said gay love stories didn’t need to be tragedies anymore
By Patrick Gomez August 13, 2020 | 4:36pm
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Don’t overlook Hollow Man, Paul Verhoeven’s prescient slasher about male entitlement
By Vikram Murthi August 12, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The best movies of 2000
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Allison Shoemaker, Lawrence Garcia, Vikram Murthi, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Roxana Hadadi, Jesse Hassenger, Mike D'Angelo, Beatrice Loayza, Noel Murray, Charles Bramesco, Caroline Siede August 12, 2020 | 1:45pm
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Shanghai Noon made perfect use of its mismatched stars, Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson
By Noel Murray August 11, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis bid a fond farewell to the 20th century with Cast Away
By Jesse Hassenger August 10, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Summer was the season of temptation in the breezy gabfests of Éric Rohmer
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 7, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Is Memento as good as we remember?
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife August 7, 2020 | 12:00pm
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Loaded with Robin Williams riffs and killer songs, Aladdin was a whole new world for animated movies
By Tom Breihan August 7, 2020 | 5:00am
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The Sandlot is at once nostalgic and aspirational, depending on your age
By Patrick Gomez August 6, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, and Jordan Fisher on recitals, moonwalks, and Magic Mike
By Marah Eakin August 6, 2020 | 4:30pm
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This August brings The New Mutants to theaters (maybe) and two Seth Rogens to your living room
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Jesse Hassenger, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, William Hughes August 6, 2020 | 5:00am
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Summer School is surprisingly good-natured (and gory!) for an ’80s classroom comedy
By Randall Colburn August 5, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Seth Rogen, star of An American Pickle, doesn't actually eat that many pickles
By Marah Eakin August 5, 2020 | 3:30pm
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Finally, a coming-of-age film that captures how damn boring summer can be
By Vikram Murthi August 4, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, and Jerry O'Connell take our "Secret" quiz
By Marah Eakin August 4, 2020 | 5:30pm
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Sandra Dee was lousy with virginity in A Summer Place
By Gwen Ihnat August 3, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The Annabelle doll sure is bored with nobody at the New Line office to kill
By Sam Barsanti August 2, 2020 | 8:33pm
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Kerry Washington on why she made a documentary about the ACLU
By Marah Eakin July 31, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Ever seen a vampire bowl? You will in Fright Night Part 2
By Katie Rife July 31, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Our critics pick their favorite movies, performances, and scripts of the year so far
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife July 31, 2020 | 12:00pm
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William Shakespeare invented every romantic comedy trope we love today
By Caroline Siede July 31, 2020 | 11:00am
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Dreamy and atmospheric, The Velvet Vampire added a subversive edge to its sexy slow burn
By Katie Rife July 30, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Blood is a drug in a stylish vampire movie from the director of Bad Lieutenant
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 29, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez first joined forces in the fun, gory From Dusk Till Dawn
By Jesse Hassenger July 28, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Vampire priests have all the fun (and the guilt) in Park Chan-wook’s Thirst
By William Hughes July 27, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Here's what Marco's threat at the end of The Kissing Booth 2 is supposed to mean
By Marah Eakin July 27, 2020 | 3:30pm
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You’d think a movie about Elvis From Outer Space would include some actual comedy
By Alex McLevy July 27, 2020 | 11:00am
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R.I.P. Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning centenarian star of Gone With The Wind
By Gwen Ihnat July 26, 2020 | 4:13pm
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Even The Raid looks tame next to this Netflix orgy of martial arts mayhem
By Alex McLevy July 24, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley on Marie Curie's Polish identity and the chemical symbol for Radium
By Marah Eakin July 24, 2020 | 3:30pm
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Schwarzenegger hit his apex as a movie star and an actor in the record-breaking Terminator 2
By Tom Breihan July 24, 2020 | 11:00am
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The New Mutants’ cast and director talk the film’s “strange” journey and its Breakfast Club comparisons
By Cameron Scheetz July 23, 2020 | 10:30pm
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The reigning champ of direct-to-video action elevates this prison-slugfest sequel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 23, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Radioactive's Marjane Satrapi on the challenges of adapting a life to film
By Marah Eakin July 23, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Alison Brie on making a horror movie: “It’s a high-intensity sport”
By Cameron Scheetz July 23, 2020 | 2:00pm
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Triple Threat is like an Avengers for martial-arts masters, except the explosions are real
By Vadim Rizov July 22, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The queen of DTV action takes cues from The Dead Zone in her boldest, sexiest movie
By Beatrice Loayza July 21, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Only for VOD could they make a Jean-Claude Van Damme sequel this weird, violent, and brilliant
By Charles Bramesco July 20, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Thirty years ago, Akira predicted the chaos of 2020
By Sam Barsanti July 20, 2020 | 11:00am
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The most popular movies on Netflix, reviewed by The A.V. Club
By The A.V. Club July 19, 2020 | 6:03pm
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This box-office flop is the only movie that let Martin Short be Martin Short
By Erik Adams July 17, 2020 | 7:00pm
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After 25 years, Clueless is still our cleverest Jane Austen adaptation
By Caroline Siede July 17, 2020 | 11:00am
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Bill Murray captured the whimsical hostility of New York in his underseen directorial debut
By Jesse Hassenger July 16, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Clueless director Amy Heckerling on how a pessimist created one of cinema’s great optimists
By Katie Rife July 16, 2020 | 11:00am
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Molly Shannon plays the ultimate dog-lover in a downer comedy from the creator of Enlightened
By Beatrice Loayza July 15, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Why didn’t we get more comedies pairing Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn?
By Mike D'Angelo July 14, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Emily Mortimer on the pleasures and torments of making Relic
By Katie Rife July 14, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Maya Rudolph brought low-key humanity to the prenatal antics of Away We Go
By Jesse Hassenger July 13, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Relic’s psychological terror is built into its creepy set design
By Deirdre Crimmins July 13, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Luke Wilson, Rossif Sutherland, and Laysla De Oliveira on eating deep fried rabbit ears
By Marah Eakin July 10, 2020 | 7:30pm
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The most satisfying answer to Clue’s farcical whodunit is “All of them”
By Erik Adams July 10, 2020 | 7:00pm
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J.K. Simmons on Palm Springs and why he loves working with Andy Samberg
By Cameron Scheetz July 10, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Home Alone made a generation of kids cheer—and probably scarred them for life
By Tom Breihan July 10, 2020 | 1:00pm
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A classic “movie about movies” offers escapism behind the scenes
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 9, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Palm Springs' Camila Mendes and Meredith Hagner pick their fave Lonely Island sketches
By Cameron Scheetz July 9, 2020 | 3:30pm
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The best films of 2020 so far
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, Noel Murray, Beatrice Loayza, Lawrence Garcia, Charles Bramesco July 9, 2020 | 11:00am
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David Thewlis and Atom Egoyan on secrets, lies, and food-borne illness
By Marah Eakin July 8, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Being on the clock was never so enjoyable as at the Car Wash
By Katie Rife July 8, 2020 | 7:00pm
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The ultimate Hollywood “women’s picture” was the one that featured no men at all
By Gwen Ihnat July 7, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Danny Trejo on life in quarantine, Animal Crossing, and his new nickname
By Cameron Scheetz July 7, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Drugs, infidelity, and a telekinetic kid aren’t the half of this brash Pedro Almodóvar comedy
By Lawrence Garcia July 6, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti on Palm Springs' deeper resonance during quarantine
By Cameron Scheetz July 6, 2020 | 6:30pm
