5/13/22Conan The Barbarian at 40: An early Arnold star turn pumps up a Nietzschean supermanJohn Milius' self-serious, social-Darwinist effort remains the best take on Robert E. Howard's iconic character,…
5/12/22The Innocents finds horror in super-powered childrenTurns out an empowered 9-year-old with no empathy can be way scarier than a Multiverse of Madness
5/5/2216 summer movies that serve as perfect blockbuster counterprogrammingExperiencing superhero fatigue? Ask your doctor what these original offerings can do for you
5/3/22The Twin wishes it were identical to better horror filmsTaneli Mustonen's genre project evokes the work of contemporaries like Ari Aster, but without their originality or…
5/2/22Gaspar Noé's splendid Vortex explores a more conventional, but no less harrowing horror—old ageThe film takes an unflinching look at a couple, played by Francoise Lebrun and legendary Italian director Dario…
5/2/2220 of this summer's most anticipated filmsFrom a pair of Marvel sequels to a high-flying Top Gun comeback, here's every popcorn movie we can't wait to see…
4/27/22Despite a gifted cast, Memory only evokes better filmsIf only the forgettable nature of this hitman film featuring Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, and Monica Bellucci was…
4/22/22Massive Talent filmmakers reveal their choice to play Nicolas Cage if Cage had said noDirector Tom Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten also talk about convincing the icon, Cage films that didn't make the…
4/21/22The Bad Guys is just good enoughLed by Sam Rockwell, DreamWorks’ latest cartoon crew delivers anarchic fun and at least one superfluous musical…
4/15/22Chariot aspires to Lynchian surrealism, but falls shortThomas Mann and Rosa Salzar try to make sense of recurring dreams and neighborly romances while John Malkovich holds…
4/12/22Nicolas Cage rises to the Unbearable Weight of fan expectationsCage embraces—and surpasses—the viral meme version of himself in this meta-movie celebration of his 'nouveau…
4/11/22(Almost) Every Nicolas Cage movie reference—and more—in The Unbearable Weight Of Massive TalentFrom film clips to more oblique references to his rich body of work, The A.V. Club has catalogued as many Nicolas…
4/7/22In All The Old Knives, Chris Pine's spy lacks Jack Ryan's edgeAmazon Prime's geopolitical thriller can't match Tom Clancy's franchise, despite a sexual charge from the pairing of…
4/4/22a-ha: The Movie takes on much more than the one song you knowThe ubiquitous hit “Take On Me” is just a starting point in a deeper documentary about the perfectionist ’80s band
4/3/22Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman traces his career from Squeeze Play! to Shakespeare's ShitstormThe schlock peddler and showman goes deep on "devil-worshipping conglomerates," more than 50 years of cult…
3/31/22Judd Apatow’s The Bubble traps fictional A-listers—and his audience—in a pandemic-era film productionThe usually empathetic director offers up a Netflix comedy as soulless as the industry impulses it’s spoofing
3/29/22You Won’t Be Alone asks women, which witch are you?In Goran Stolevski’s feature debut, generational hatred and empathetic feminism fuel this mix of Malick and the…