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John C. McGinley on 42, Oliver Stone, and missing the Oscars to watch the NCAA championship
By Nathan Rabin April 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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Product misplacement: 20-plus brands given unhelpful movie associations
By John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Tasha Robinson April 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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Before Star Wars, George Lucas was an indie filmmaker
By Noel Murray April 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Kristin Scott Thomas has no time for nonsense
By Sam Adams April 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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John Carpenter’s debut, Dark Star, plays like a parody of the later Alien
By Noel Murray April 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Oblivion
By Tasha Robinson April 18, 2013 | 5:03am
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Why white critics’ fear of engaging Tyler Perry is stifling honest debate
By Joshua Alston April 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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The cerebral sci-fi classic Solaris is for adventurous viewers only
By Mike D'Angelo April 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Not up in smoke: 18-plus heroic movie stoners
By Nathan Rabin, Kyle Ryan, Zack Handlen, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski April 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Universal’s brief indie fling produced great, odd results like Silent Running
By Sam Adams April 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Television icons of the geek world aim for cult status and fail with Sexy Evil Genius
By Nathan Rabin April 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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Nudity, profanity, and music energize Roger Ebert’s raucous Chicago memorial
By Nathan Rabin April 15, 2013 | 5:31pm
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Fantastic Planet turns dreamy alien exotica into a political metaphor
By Tasha Robinson April 15, 2013 | 5:00pm
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William Shatner negotiates with terrorists in The Kidnapping Of The President
By Noel Murray April 15, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: April 12-14
By AV Club Staff April 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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John Sayles’ Eight Men Out pities the plight of the working baseball player
By Tasha Robinson April 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Dominicans in Ballplayer: Pelotero compete on an unequal playing field
By Scott Tobias April 11, 2013 | 6:00pm
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New Cult Canon ends with the end times of Michael Tolkin’s The Rapture
By Scott Tobias April 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with The Big Wedding
By Amelie Gillette April 10, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Bingo Long mashes up ’70s tropes with a story about black indie baseballers
By Noel Murray April 10, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Sugar goes beyond hits and runs in revealing the American immigrant experience
By Nathan Rabin April 9, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Malcolm McDowell’s smirking Satan makes Suing The Devil ridiculous fun
By Nathan Rabin April 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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The cats, not the cast, draw viewers’ eyes in Jean Vigo’s classic L’Atalante
By Mike D'Angelo April 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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Why Bull Durham is the greatest baseball movie ever made
By Mike D'Angelo April 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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Shane Carruth on self-distributing Upstream Color and “life in the pig corral”
By Sam Adams April 5, 2013 | 5:00am
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What did Roger Ebert mean to you?
By Nathan Rabin, John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Joel Keller, Matt Wild, Noel Murray, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson April 5, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Holy Mountain takes viewers on the freakiest of freaky journeys
By Scott Tobias April 5, 2013 | 5:00am
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Danny Boyle on blending Trance’s noir and heist elements with his own sensibility
By Tasha Robinson April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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Trance
By Tasha Robinson April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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In Pink Floyd: The Wall, a rectum sings, children become sausage, and monsters triumph
By Tasha Robinson April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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Where to start with Elvis Presley’s uneven yet charismatic film career
By Noel Murray April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with G.I. Joe: Retaliation
By Amelie Gillette April 3, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Jean Cocteau’s The Blood Of A Poet is a mesmerizingly bizarre feast for the senses
By Mike D'Angelo April 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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7 Faces Of Dr. Lao: Tony Randall as an old Chinese man and a naked, sexy satyr
By Tasha Robinson April 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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Her Master’s Voice is the most profound movie about ventriloquism ever made
By Nathan Rabin April 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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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
