Paul Schrader will kick your ass at Words With Friends
Paul Schrader made one of the year’s best films in First Reformed, a searing, contemplative exploration of religious…
A24’s film library is available on a streaming service you can already get for free
A24, the little film studio that is kicking an unholy amount of ass these days, has a roster of recent films that would…
Julianne Moore lives, laughs, loves, and dances in the Gloria Bell trailer
A single woman meets a man. They flirt, they kiss, they have sex. Sound familiar? Of course, it’s every rom-com ever.…
A Ghost Story director David Lowery making a "fantasy epic" for A24
David Lowery is still early in his career, but the young director has already racked up an intriguingly diverse oeuvre.…
A24 is releasing new Alexander Skarsgard movie called The Kill Team
Alexander Skarsgard, who made viewers clutch their pearls on HBO’s Big Little Lies, will star in the latest film to…
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It’s big trouble for Lil Chano in the wacky fast-food horror-comedy Slice
Making movies is grueling, expensive, and time-consuming work. But, under the right circumstances, it can also be a lot…
Chance the Rapper and Zazie Beetz go monster-hunting in the Slice trailer
“I’m gonna tell you a story about a ghost, a werewolf, and a pretty shitty pizza place.” Thus begins the first real trai…
Eighth Grade to screen for actual eighth graders, for free
Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade has quickly proven itself to be one of our favorite teen movies in years, a sympathetic,…
What makes A24 movies special?
Most of us seek out new movies by genre or actor or filmmaker. Every now and then, though, a production studio emerges…
Jonah Hill's directorial debut Mid90s has a trailer for all you punk-ass kids
Once upon a time, Jonah Hill was just the guy from Superbad. He’s good in Superbad! But now we are living in a world…
The team behind Hereditary says making the film was “therapeutic”—even if watching it won’t be
At this point, just two days away from the film’s wide release, the Hereditary hype train is at full steam. Our own…
America, let Hereditary shake your very soul early and for free
Hype can be especially lethal when it’s applied to horror movies, but now that three separate members of the A.V. Club…
John Early finally presents Toni Collette with a collage he made for her as a teenager
The A.V. Club’s own A.A. Dowd said that the upcoming horror movie Hereditary steps past being “scary” and becomes…
Lean On Pete’s Charlie Plummer and Andrew Haigh on the ease of working with horses on set
Lean On Pete, the heartbreaking new film from A24 and director Andrew Haigh, is an unconventional boy-and-his-horse…
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Don't expect any Black Stallion magic from Lean On Pete's shatteringly sad boy-and-his-horse story
Just about every scene in Lean On Pete, the sensitive, unvarnished, at times powerfully sad new drama from…
Moonlight's Ashton Sanders is in talks to star in a film adaptation of Richard Wright's Native Son
A24 acquired the film rights to a classic novel of racial alienation and oppression this week, with THR reporting that…
A24 is promoting Hereditary by leaving creepy dolls on people's doorsteps
One of the best times to scare someone is immediately after they’ve seen a scary movie, when they’re still a bit on…
"Cat Person" author Kristen Roupenian has sold a new horror script to A24
Okay, quick show of hands: Who remembers “Cat Person”? The short story? Published in The New Yorker by author Kristen…
From prestige film to trashy teen magazines, Podmass sates every pop culture appetite
In Podmass, The A.V. Club sifts through the ever-expanding world of podcasts and recommends the previous week’s best…
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A quirky Bill Pullman lights up the ho-hum Western The Ballad Of Lefty Brown
Montana, 1889. A dying man staggers out of a saloon and keels into the rainy mud. Into frame step two figures in long…