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The Informant! turns a tale of corporate whistle-blowing into zany comedy
By Sam Adams February 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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Death Becomes Her casts Bruce Willis as the helpless rope in a tug-of-war
By Tasha Robinson February 15, 2013 | 6:00am
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Regrettably unattainable art
By Nathan Rabin, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Steve Heisler, Joel Keller, Vadim Rizov, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson, John Teti February 15, 2013 | 6:00am
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Safe Haven
By Scott Tobias February 14, 2013 | 6:01am
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Beautiful Creatures
By Tasha Robinson February 14, 2013 | 6:00am
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Mortal Thoughts gives an abuser’s murder the Rashomon treatment
By Scott Tobias February 14, 2013 | 6:00am
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C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T.
By Will Harris February 13, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The notorious flop Hudson Hawk goes places no other studio action vehicle would dare
By Mike D'Angelo February 13, 2013 | 6:00am
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“Is that one thing?”: 5 pop-culture life coaches who can’t count
By Tasha Robinson February 13, 2013 | 6:00am
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Miley Cyrus struggles to grow up in the non-amazeballs So Undercover
By Nathan Rabin February 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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Color Of Night takes the erotic thriller far beyond the point of absurdity
By Nathan Rabin February 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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The commentary for Alex Cross is just as numbingly generic as its film
By Scott Tobias February 11, 2013 | 6:00pm
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What Just Happened turns a producer’s real-life experiences into comedy
By Noel Murray February 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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1936’s My Man Godfrey is a Depression-era fantasy needling the rich
By Tasha Robinson February 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney talks the Catholic sex scandals
By Emily St. James February 7, 2013 | 7:30pm
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Side Effects
By Scott Tobias February 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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Zoolander refuses to let satire interfere with its inspired silliness
By Scott Tobias February 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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The classic cross-dressing farce Tootsie tackles gender roles on-screen and off
By Nathan Rabin February 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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Matt Damon’s signature performance is the chameleon at the center of The Talented Mr. Ripley
By Scott Tobias February 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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Catch Me If You Can emphasizes the “confidence” part of “con game”
By Noel Murray February 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Mac & Devin Go To High School manages to give rapsploitation movies a bad name
By Nathan Rabin February 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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In Hunk, a computer nerd sells his soul for some sweet “v-ball” skills
By Noel Murray February 4, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Stop Making Sense’s opening number establishes it as a concert film like no other
By Mike D'Angelo February 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Alec Baldwin excels as a robber who robs robbers in the crime comedy Miami Blues
By Mike D'Angelo February 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Hold for some minor retooling: 14-plus entertainments altered due to historical events
By Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sam Adams February 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Walter Hill on the anti-buddy movie and the evolution of the action film
By Scott Tobias February 1, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Warm Bodies
By Tasha Robinson January 31, 2013 | 6:00am
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The wacky murder-musical The Happiness Of The Katakuris redefines Takashi Miike
By Tasha Robinson January 31, 2013 | 6:00am
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The “gentleman’s F” and the scourge of deliberate mediocrity
By Scott Tobias January 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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The macabre Beetlejuice is a reminder of the dazzling Tim Burton of old
By Nathan Rabin January 30, 2013 | 6:00am
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The surreally incompetent Not Another Not Another Movie is beneath contempt
By Nathan Rabin January 29, 2013 | 6:00am
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How The Return Of The Living Dead thumbs its nose at traditional zombie lore
By Noel Murray January 29, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Order’s commentary track is so dull, it almost invalidates the form
By Nathan Rabin January 28, 2013 | 6:00pm
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An obscure H.P. Lovecraft story gets twisted into a hilarious gore comedy in Re-Animator
By Mike D'Angelo January 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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Hollywood’s trash, our treasure: 17 salvageable flops from the late-winter dumping ground
By Nathan Rabin, John Semley, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Vadim Rizov, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Noel Murray, Tasha Robinson January 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
By Tasha Robinson January 25, 2013 | 9:49pm
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Day Eight wraps up an exceptionally good Sundance with a late-breaking entry to round out the Top Five list
By Sam Adams January 25, 2013 | 8:22pm
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Neil Jordan’s The Company Of Wolves gives “Little Red Riding Hood” a lush, alluring storybook grandeur
By Scott Tobias January 25, 2013 | 6:00am
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Unpacking the short but prickly filmography of Elaine May
By Nathan Rabin January 24, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Documentaries on Pussy Riot, FAME Studios and Sound City highlight an all-music Day Seven at Sundance
By Sam Adams January 24, 2013 | 5:40pm
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Reese Witherspoon is a badass Little Red Riding Hood in the sordid, sleazy Freeway
By Nathan Rabin January 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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Day Six at Sundance tackles the Beltway Sniper killings and a second go-around for Michael Cera and Sebastían Silva
By Sam Adams January 23, 2013 | 3:48pm
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Extra terror, hold the gore: 8 truly scary PG-13 horror movies
By Nathan Rabin, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias January 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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With Into The West, a Harry Potter director honed his skill with magic
By Tasha Robinson January 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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Day Five at Sundance is all about the perplexing, overwhelming, heart-stoppingly beautiful Upstream Color
By Sam Adams January 22, 2013 | 5:30pm
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Guns, Girls And Gambling is 15 years late for the era of Tarantino knockoffs
By Nathan Rabin January 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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Bluebeard filters folktale through one of filmmaking’s most provocative sensibilities
By Noel Murray January 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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1972’s Blood Of Ghastly Horror roughly mated zombie horror and a heist film
By Tasha Robinson January 21, 2013 | 7:30pm
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1985’s Tampopo kicked off the era of death threats for loud moviegoers
By Mike D'Angelo January 21, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Before Midnight, a Terrence Malick homage and Lake Bell's directorial debut top a great Day Four at Sundance
By Sam Adams January 21, 2013 | 2:33pm
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The Red Shoes skips the fairy tale’s severed feet and meditates on love instead
By Mike D'Angelo January 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Day Three at Sundance offers a thrillingly subversive, extralegal tour of Disney's Magic Kingdom
By Sam Adams January 20, 2013 | 6:19pm
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Day Two at Sundance brings Joseph Gordon-Levitt's risible directorial debut and a triumphant follow-up to Smashed
By Sam Adams January 19, 2013 | 6:40pm
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Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights relocates the auteur’s lyrical vision to the United States
By Nathan Rabin January 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Day One at Sundance sends Michael Cera on a wild, drug-filled odyssey through Chile
By Sam Adams January 18, 2013 | 1:38pm
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West Of Memphis subject Damien Echols on his murder conviction, release, and closure
By Josh Modell January 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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Mama
By Tasha Robinson January 17, 2013 | 6:10am
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Pump Up The Volume offers a punk twist on the John Hughes formula
By Scott Tobias January 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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Pinning down Kathryn Bigelow’s fascinating, elusive filmography
By Scott Tobias January 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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Amadeus director Milos Forman started small, with the counterculture comedy Taking Off
By Tasha Robinson January 17, 2013 | 6:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with The Last Stand
By Amelie Gillette January 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Fritz Lang’s Fury sympathizes with a persecuted innocent
By Sam Adams January 16, 2013 | 6:00am
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A Beginner’s Guide To Endings is so oppressively wacky, even its quirks have quirks
By Nathan Rabin January 15, 2013 | 6:00am
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With Model Shop, French director Jacques Demy brought his swooning sensibility to hippie-era L.A.
By Noel Murray January 15, 2013 | 6:00am
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Safe’s director commentary is much smarter than the film
By Tasha Robinson January 14, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The darkly comic Barfly slips every cliché of inebriation
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Zero Dark Thirty’s lone-wolf protagonist makes it more conventional than it seems
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2013 | 6:00am
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Can an exploitation movie be a great movie?
By Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias January 11, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Peter Fonda’s acid Western The Hired Hand reflects the addled headspace of its creator
By Scott Tobias January 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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Favorite musical sequences in musicals
By AV Club Staff January 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Least Wonderful Time Of The Year: 2013 winter movie preview
By Nathan Rabin, Noel Murray, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias January 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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What we’re rooting for at the Oscars
By AV Club Staff January 10, 2013 | 6:52pm
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Quartet
By Scott Tobias January 10, 2013 | 6:03am
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Gridlock’d finds the hilarity in kicking heroin
By Nathan Rabin January 10, 2013 | 6:00am
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40 years before Django Unchained, The Spook Who Sat By The Door depicted a full-scale black revolution
By Sam Adams January 9, 2013 | 6:00am
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Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, and the challenges of capturing history on film
By Noel Murray January 9, 2013 | 6:00am
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Steve Buscemi drew on his Long Island roots for his funny, affecting directorial debut Trees Lounge
By Noel Murray January 8, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson: A Memory Of Light
By Zack Handlen January 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Letter takes a pretentious, tedious dive into Winona Ryder’s fractured psyche
By Nathan Rabin January 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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A Moonrise Kingdom montage shows the art of compression isn’t dead
By Mike D'Angelo January 7, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The makers of Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son are weirdly proud of themselves
By Nathan Rabin January 7, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The Night Of The Hunter was Charles Laughton’s first, and only, directorial masterpiece
By Mike D'Angelo January 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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Man Bites Dog turns serial murder into mock-documentary entertainment
By Scott Tobias January 4, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Night Of The Living Dead’s indiscriminate killing spree is a handy metaphor for ’60s society
By Noel Murray January 3, 2013 | 7:30pm
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This week we're barely putting up with A Haunted House
By Amelie Gillette January 2, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Wolf Creek heads to the Outback for an exercise in raw terror
By Scott Tobias January 2, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre hit theaters like a grisly piece of outsider art
By Scott Tobias December 31, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 21-23, 2012
By AV Club Staff December 31, 2012 | 6:00am
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Promised Land
By Scott Tobias December 27, 2012 | 6:01am
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Sopranos mastermind David Chase talks process and his debut feature film
By Sam Adams December 27, 2012 | 6:00am
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From The Hallmark Aisle Of The Vast Wasteland Case File #31: New Year’s Eve
By Nathan Rabin December 26, 2012 | 6:00am
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Django Unchained
By Nathan Rabin December 24, 2012 | 6:01pm
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Les Misérables
By Tasha Robinson December 24, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 21-23, 2012
By AV Club Staff December 24, 2012 | 6:00am
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Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries finds regret and peace in aging
By Scott Tobias December 21, 2012 | 7:30pm
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Does the kid-vs.-adults sadism of the Home Alone movies stand the test of time?
By Erik Adams December 21, 2012 | 6:00pm
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It’s A Wonderful Life shows the unending cost of being good
By Emily St. James December 21, 2012 | 6:00am
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The best film scenes of 2012
By Nathan Rabin, Mike D'Angelo, Scott Tobias, Alison Willmore, Noel Murray, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson December 21, 2012 | 6:00am
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Bill Murray’s wealthy lothario takes baby steps to maturity in Broken Flowers
By Nathan Rabin December 20, 2012 | 7:30pm
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Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales
By Sam Adams December 20, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Gremlins is a perfect holiday movie for those all out of Christmas cheer
By Zack Handlen December 20, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Jack Reacher
By Tasha Robinson December 20, 2012 | 3:55pm
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Comedy auteur Judd Apatow talks about his crisis-comedy This Is 40
By Scott Tobias December 20, 2012 | 6:00am
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[REC]’s use of confinement makes it a paragon of the found-footage genre
By Scott Tobias December 20, 2012 | 6:00am
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The worst films of 2012
By Nathan Rabin, Mike D'Angelo, Scott Tobias, Alison Willmore, Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson December 20, 2012 | 6:00am
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The holidays are for family fighting in A Christmas Tale
By Scott Tobias December 19, 2012 | 7:30pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Les Misérables
By Amelie Gillette December 19, 2012 | 6:00pm
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Was Akira Kurosawa’s final film a tribute to his career, or someone else’s?
By Tasha Robinson December 19, 2012 | 6:00pm
