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Yeardley Smith and the cast of All Square aren’t sure whether Trump will last the full term
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 6, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Self-realization before sunrise: 18 movies about coming of age in under 24 hours
By The A.V. Club, A.A. Dowd, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez, Gwen Ihnat, William Hughes June 6, 2018 | 11:00am
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The unclassifiable Kill List is an unsettling odyssey to the dark side
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2018 | 7:00pm
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John Cusack is the worst planet-destroying AI robot in history
By Alex McLevy June 4, 2018 | 11:00am
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Chow Yun-fat rose to stardom as a scene-stealing rogue in an early John Woo classic
By Katie Rife June 1, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Haifaa al-Mansour hopes to inspire women with the story of Mary Shelley
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 1, 2018 | 6:30pm
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American Animals director Bart Layton talks making the jump from documentary film
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin June 1, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Can marijuana help treat cancer? The team behind Weed The People thinks so
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 31, 2018 | 8:30pm
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You don't get a bead on Drug War's snitch until the electrifying final shootout
By Clayton Purdom May 31, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The cast of American Animals has some thoughts on social media addiction
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 31, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Ocean’s 8, an Incredible family, and a whole Jurassic World of dinosaurs invade theaters this June
By A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Sean O'Neal, Katie Rife, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy May 31, 2018 | 11:00am
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Barbara Stanwyck is a grifter who swipes hearts in The Lady Eve
By Gwen Ihnat May 30, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The director and stars of American Animals talk the challenges of portraying real people on film
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 30, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Director Susanna White brought her love of Westerns to Woman Walks Ahead
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 30, 2018 | 3:00pm
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In Out Of Sight, Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney made a perfect couple on opposite sides of the law
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Director Susanna White recreated Sitting Bull's cabin for the new biopic, Woman Walks Ahead
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 29, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Solo scores the softest debut for a Star Wars movie in more than a dozen years
By A.A. Dowd May 29, 2018 | 5:53pm
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Space Jam vs. He Got Game: Baron Davis gushes over his favorite basketball movies
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 28, 2018 | 3:15pm
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Somewhere in the Super Mario Bros.
movie is a vision
that’s weird enough to work
By Matt Gerardi May 28, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Solo provides the easy fan service that The Last Jedi daringly denied us
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 25, 2018 | 8:35pm
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What you may want spoiled about Solo's big reveal if you're a typical adult
By Sean O'Neal May 25, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Why even Deadpool 2 seems to think its creator sucks
By Alex McLevy May 25, 2018 | 5:19pm
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Will Smith’s lone rom-com muddled its message about pickup artists and romance
By Caroline Siede May 25, 2018 | 11:00am
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Mary Shelley's Haifaa Al-Mansour isn't sweating the title of "first female Saudi film director"
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 24, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas captured the fading myth of the rebel writer
By Sean O'Neal May 24, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Han Severals: 16-plus characters who smuggled inspiration from Han Solo
By The A.V. Club, Danette Chavez, Alex McLevy, Sam Barsanti, Gwen Ihnat, William Hughes, Clayton Purdom, Matt Gerardi May 23, 2018 | 11:00am
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Deadpool 2 clowns on death and finality in the superhero genre
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 21, 2018 | 9:15pm
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From Fargo to Napoleon Dynamite: Haifaa Al-Mansour picks the 5 films that influenced her the most
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 21, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Investigating classic gangster movies around the world
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 19, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Simon Pegg and Vaughn Stein’s new film Terminal draws influence from Blade Runner and 1984
By Baraka Kaseko, Leonardo Adrian Garcia May 18, 2018 | 8:30pm
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After Face/Off, John Woo and Nicolas Cage reunited for an earnest war movie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 18, 2018 | 7:45pm
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The best movies of Cannes 2018, plus a serious Palme D’Or threat at the end of the festival
By A.A. Dowd May 18, 2018 | 6:35pm
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Elle Fanning and the cast of Mary Shelley didn’t know much about the author before reading the script
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 18, 2018 | 6:30pm
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The Phantom paid tongue-in-cheek homage to old-timey do-gooders but never got its due
By Tom Breihan May 18, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Chronicles Of Riddick barely makes sense, and that doesn’t matter in the slightest
By Alex McLevy May 17, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Director Haifaa al-Mansour spent most of her childhood watching American films with her dad
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 17, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Han Solo brings not enough fun to Cannes, while a superb film makes its late-festival premiere
By A.A. Dowd May 17, 2018 | 4:50pm
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Lars von Trier doesn’t need a press conference to shock the hell out of the Cannes Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2018 | 6:20pm
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The paranoid late ’90s thriller Arlington Road hides a cruel twist in plain sight
By Mike D'Angelo May 15, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Emily Mortimer on singing with Lin-Manuel Miranda, and telling fart jokes with Elaine Stritch
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 15, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Spike Lee teams up with Jordan Peele for the funny, pointed, uneven BlacKkKlansman
By A.A. Dowd May 15, 2018 | 4:10pm
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Alien³ is so much better than David Fincher and its reputation insists
By A.A. Dowd May 14, 2018 | 8:00pm
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What if Gaspar Noé threw a party and everyone lost their minds?
By A.A. Dowd May 14, 2018 | 1:50pm
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#MeToo looms over a Cannes contender, while Michael B. Jordan flames out in Fahrenheit 451
By A.A. Dowd May 14, 2018 | 1:50am
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Jean-Luc Godard returns to Cannes to make a dunce out of our correspondent
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2018 | 2:40pm
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Toward the end of his career, a movie innovator turned to theater for inspiration
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 11, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Mads Mikkelsen endures a cold crucible, but it’s Cold War that could win big at Cannes
By A.A. Dowd May 11, 2018 | 4:47pm
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My Best Friend’s Wedding rewrote the rom-com happy ending
By Caroline Siede May 11, 2018 | 11:00am
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This Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd thriller gets so intense you have to laugh
By Alex McLevy May 10, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Spending a day on the longest movie in the history of the Cannes Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd May 10, 2018 | 4:50pm
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Scary Movie was ground zero for some of the worst comedy of all time
By Ryan Vlastelica May 10, 2018 | 11:00am
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Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers ad-lib their way through a very loose stage adaptation
By Gwen Ihnat May 9, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz help break Cannes’ opening-night curse
By A.A. Dowd May 9, 2018 | 3:05am
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In Richard Linklater’s SubUrbia, the kids aren’t all right, all right, all right
By Sean O'Neal May 8, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Adam Pally, Rachel Bloom, and the Most Likely To Murder crew reflect on the horrors of high school
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin May 4, 2018 | 6:30pm
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How the hell are we supposed to care about Ant-Man And The Wasp now?
By Alex McLevy May 3, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Han Solo, Deadpool, and Melissa McCarthy dominate the May movie calendar
By A.V. Club, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy, Katie Rife, Sean O'Neal May 3, 2018 | 11:00am
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Let’s talk about the secret villain of Avengers: Infinity War
By Alex McLevy May 1, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Infinity War’s ending packs a wallop, if you don’t think about it too hard
By A.A. Dowd April 30, 2018 | 7:00pm
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An openly gay superhero deserves better than Bruce Vilanch and Soup Nazi cameos
By Alex McLevy April 30, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The rainy, smoky, lovesick world of Alan Rudolph, the last of the romantics
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 27, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Juliette Binoche fakes it so real (or maybe the opposite) in a head- and heartbreaking masterpiece
By A.A. Dowd April 27, 2018 | 7:30pm
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"Here's your 2 dollars": 9 great gags from otherwise tepid comedies
By A.V. Club, Clayton Purdom, A.A. Dowd, Erik Adams, Matt Gerardi, William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Sean O'Neal, Nick Wanserski April 27, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The Overlook Film Festival haunts New Orleans with tigers, punks, and a new Puppet Master
By Katie Rife April 27, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Our critics weigh the strengths and weaknesses of the biggest, busiest Avengers movie yet
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 27, 2018 | 5:00pm
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No one in Marvel's Avengers universe has a character arc that compares to Tony Stark's
By Alex McLevy April 27, 2018 | 4:00pm
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In a sea of unintentionally creepy rom-coms, the original Overboard goes, well, overboard
By Caroline Siede April 27, 2018 | 11:00am
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A bleak love triangle gave Juliette Binoche her big break
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 26, 2018 | 8:50pm
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Virtual reality, cowboy hats, and gonorrhea: Four days at this year's tech-addled Tribeca Film Festival
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 25, 2018 | 11:30pm
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Juliette Binoche plays an enigmatic seductress in an early, captivating role
By Gwen Ihnat April 25, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The Carter Effect director Sean Menard on how Drake got involved with the project
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin April 24, 2018 | 9:30pm
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Michael Haneke's mysterious Caché turns the establishing shot into an act of violence
By Clayton Purdom April 24, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Here’s what you need to know going into Avengers: Infinity War
By Alex McLevy April 24, 2018 | 11:00am
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Forget Chocolat—Juliette Binoche should have earned Oscar love for a different period piece
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The nightmarish world of Andrzej Żuławski
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 21, 2018 | 1:00pm
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There’s over-the-top, and then there’s Brian De Palma’s Phantom Of The Paradise
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 20, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Tragically and fashionably, The Crow turned superhero cinema into a death dance
By Tom Breihan April 20, 2018 | 11:00am
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For pure '80s-meets-'50s rock 'n' roll aesthetics, it's hard to top Streets Of Fire
By Katie Rife April 19, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Final Deadpool 2 trailer takes shots at Cable, Domino, the DCEU, basically everyone
By Danette Chavez April 19, 2018 | 2:24pm
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There’s no better movie about a genderqueer East German glam rocker than Hedwig And The Angry Inch
By Alex McLevy April 18, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Houston, we have problems: A cinematic guide to what can go wrong in space
By The A.V. Club, Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Clayton Purdom, William Hughes, Katie Rife April 18, 2018 | 11:00am
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Music gives you somebody to be in The Who's Quadrophenia
By Sean O'Neal April 17, 2018 | 8:00pm
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A stoned Kirk Douglas fights Harvey Keitel and a robot in the weirdest Alien knockoff of the 1980s
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 13, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Rampage is crazy violent for a movie sort of targeted toward kids
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 13, 2018 | 6:00pm
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The whole family gets super-dysfunctional in the new trailer for Incredibles 2
By Alex McLevy April 13, 2018 | 3:23pm
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Something Borrowed and the phenomenon of rom-coms that hate women
By Caroline Siede April 13, 2018 | 11:00am
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If you don’t want to see a guy get beat up with his own cut-off arm, do you even like action movies?
By Katie Rife April 12, 2018 | 8:30pm
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The Pink Panther series is slapstick fun that accidentally confronts its mortality
By Jesse Hassenger April 12, 2018 | 11:00am
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Brainstorm turned virtual reality into the orgasm machine that keeps on giving
By Clayton Purdom April 11, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Cloak & Dagger is one of the darkest kids movies of the 1980s
By Alex McLevy April 10, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Jason Segel and Lakeith Stanfield talk about the appeal of their new film, Come Sunday
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin April 9, 2018 | 10:00pm
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Real Men is one of the most underrated comedies of the '80s (but don't make a big thing out of it)
By Sean O'Neal April 9, 2018 | 8:00pm
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A Quiet Place, You Were Never Really Here, and the monsters we don't see
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 7, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Our critics sound off on A Quiet Place
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 6, 2018 | 7:00pm
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The trailer for The First Purge looks back on how the endless (legal) murder began
By Alex McLevy April 6, 2018 | 4:02pm
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25 years before Black Panther, a box-office bomb broke ground for black superheroes
By Tom Breihan April 6, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Avengers assemble one week early, plus 32 other movies coming this April
By AV Club Staff, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Sean O'Neal, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy, Katie Rife April 5, 2018 | 11:00am
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Booted from the galaxy far, far away, Colin Trevorrow returns to Jurassic World
By A.A. Dowd March 30, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Our critics plug in to Ready Player One
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 30, 2018 | 4:00pm
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The Big Sick lovingly updated the rom-com formula with a coma and a great 9/11 joke
By Caroline Siede March 30, 2018 | 11:00am
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The 25 best set pieces of Steven Spielberg’s career
By AV Club Staff, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Sean O'Neal, Alex McLevy, Gwen Ihnat, Mike D'Angelo, Jesse Hassenger, Clayton Purdom, Kyle Ryan March 28, 2018 | 5:30pm
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The Justice League Blu-ray is a bizarre exercise in hiding the truth about moviemaking
By Alex McLevy March 27, 2018 | 6:00pm
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In A.I., Steven Spielberg (and Stanley Kubrick) turned an eye to loneliness
By Ryan Vlastelica March 27, 2018 | 11:00am
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Imagine a cross between Game Of Thrones and The Walking Dead, but without any money or talent
By Alex McLevy March 26, 2018 | 2:00pm
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The forgotten ’90s thriller The Assignment took paranoia to another level
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 24, 2018 | 1:00pm
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40 years before Sherlock, Billy Wilder offered a lovelorn, lightly revisionist Holmes
By A.A. Dowd March 23, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Is Isle Of Dogs one of Wes Anderson’s best movies, or just his most overtly political?
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 23, 2018 | 5:35pm
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Pacific Rim: Uprising proves that it is possible to screw up giant robots punching giant monsters
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 22, 2018 | 8:30pm
