Dec 3 2019
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Just think: There was a time long, long ago when fans were begging for a stand-alone Black Widow film. As one of the…
Oct 28 2019
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Portraying one of the most beautifully iconic women ever to grace the big screen is a daunting prospect. But Rachel…
Apr 3 2019
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Stranger Things favorite David Harbour gets to claim another pretty major square on his bingo card of comic books-rel…
Nov 20 2018
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Yorgos Lanthimos loves to make his audiences uncomfortable. Not to punish them; he’s not Lars von Trier. But the…
Sep 4 2018
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“As it turns out, I am capable of much unpleasantness,” Emma Stone’s Abigail says in the new trailer for Yorgos…
Jul 9 2018
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Arthouse provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos has given us some of the most thrillingly unusual cinema of the 21st century,…
Apr 25 2018
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Disobedience, the English-language debut of the Chilean writer-director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria),…
Jun 8 2017
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…
Jun 8 2017
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There is a masterpiece of a movie waiting to be made from Daphne Du Maurier’s pointedly ambiguous 1951 Gothic novel M…
Jan 25 2017
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Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 novel My Cousin Rachel is a mystery-filled romance, with upper-class British people…
Sep 29 2016
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Denial tells a fact-based story that should be a footnote, but holds a disturbing degree of present-day resonance.…
Sep 1 2016
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More movies should take a lighthouse as their setting. For one thing, it assures some automatically striking…
Aug 24 2016
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The first six minutes of Complete Unknown constitute the most arresting, confounding opening sequence in recent…
May 12 2016
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The demented deadpan comedy The Lobster takes place in an alternate reality where all adults have just 45 days to…
Feb 24 2016
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The Light Between Oceans, Derek Cianfrance’s adaptation of the eponymous M.L. Stedman novel, recently got a fall…
Dec 3 2015
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More than any other director currently working, with the possible exception of Terrence Malick, Italy’s Paolo…
Sep 3 2015
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The A.V. Club’s own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky called the The Lobster, the latest surreal, darkly comedic film from Dogtoot…
Aug 26 2015
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“You say emotions are overrated,” a white-haired Harvey Keitel says sadly. “Emotions are all we’ve got.” That’s the…
Jun 17 2015
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In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one…
Jun 24 2014
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: While…