Film Features
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 How can you shock audiences in 2025? Some filmmakers turn to AI By Katie Rife November 3, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in November 2025 By Jacob Oller November 3, 2025 | 8:00am
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 24 hours of horror with Oz Perkins By Matthew Jackson October 31, 2025 | 6:00am
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 Bollywood's first Stephen King adaptation was so trippy it became its last By Saloni Gajjar October 30, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has no idea why Nebraska is a great album By Alex Lei October 29, 2025 | 4:00pm
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 Stephen King's despairing alter ego has finally found a home in 2025 By Jacob Oller October 28, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 November film preview: Zootopia, Predator, and Wicked return for sequel-heavy Thanksgiving By Matt Schimkowitz October 28, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 We keep building Frankenstein's monster to keep from being alone By Matt Schimkowitz October 24, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 Exciting debuts and Radu Jude fill the Chicago International Film Festival By Jacob Oller October 22, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Sydney Pollack found a New Hollywood comfort zone for Robert Redford By Jesse Hassenger October 21, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Revenge is never simple—neither is the legacy of Kill Bill By Caroline Siede October 20, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 Spoiler Space: Like the retro slashers it cribs from, the supernatural sequel curse afflicts Black Phone 2 By Matt Schimkowitz October 20, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 Blacula unleashed a Black horror wave with a funky, Hitchcock-infused soundtrack By Craig D. Lindsey October 16, 2025 | 8:00am
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 Cult Of Criterion: Altered States By Jacob Oller October 15, 2025 | 8:00am
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 The Tron franchise is always at its best when music does the talking By Matt Schimkowitz October 14, 2025 | 4:00pm
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 Roofman director Derek Cianfrance is "always going to choose love over money" By Isaac Feldberg October 13, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 It's been 75 years since All About Eve and its feminism is still sadly extraordinary By Caroline Siede October 13, 2025 | 11:00am
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 After a decade of change, #MeToo cinema is being shown the door By Kayleigh Donaldson October 10, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 There's only one movie you need to understand The Smashing Machine's Mark Kerr By Jacob Oller October 6, 2025 | 8:00am
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 Paul Thomas Anderson rockets Thomas Pynchon into the present By Alex Lei October 2, 2025 | 11:00am
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 Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile writes a damning birthday note to the true-crime industry By Jacob Oller October 1, 2025 | 4:00pm
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 The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in October 2025 By Jacob Oller October 1, 2025 | 9:00am
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 October film preview: Dwayne Johnson's Smashing Machine wrestles Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein By Matt Schimkowitz September 30, 2025 | 7:00am
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 How Good Boy director Ben Leonberg made his own dog into a horror star By Matt Schimkowitz September 29, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Paul Thomas Anderson's latest wages One Battle After Another with white supremacy By Matt Schimkowitz September 29, 2025 | 10:00am
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 Paul Thomas Anderson was ahead of the curve with Philip Seymour Hoffman until the end By Jesse Hassenger September 25, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Chain Reactions arms film criticism with a chainsaw By Jacob Oller September 23, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 MegaDoc is the Rosetta Stone for appreciating (if not understanding) Megalopolis By Jacob Oller September 23, 2025 | 7:00am
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 Through two Alien films, Ripley turned '70s and '80s action filmmaking on its head By Caroline Siede September 22, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Spoiler Space: The Biblical scapeGOAT in Him By Matt Schimkowitz September 22, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 Writing a love letter to the fans undermines what made Downton Abbey great By Anna McKibbin September 19, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 Earth, Wind & Fire became Blaxploitation legends playing Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song By Craig D. Lindsey September 18, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 Robert Redford weaponized his good looks to disarm us in every genre By Chloe Walker September 18, 2025 | 10:00am
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 Cult Of Criterion: Born In Flames By Jacob Oller September 17, 2025 | 7:00am
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 Spinal Tap II, like so many comedy sequels, succumbs to nostalgic respectability By Matt Schimkowitz September 16, 2025 | 10:00am
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 Spoiler Space: The Long Walk's feel-bad ending is even bleaker than the book's By Jacob Oller September 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 Battles royale: 11 pop culture contests where you win or you die By James Grebey September 9, 2025 | 7:00am
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 Paranormal hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren get a send-off they don't deserve By Matt Schimkowitz September 8, 2025 | 4:00pm
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 Riefenstahl makes for a timely portrait of a monster "just following orders" By Kayleigh Donaldson September 5, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 Is Mad Max or Police Story the greatest action franchise of all time? By Jacob Oller September 5, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 A Mission: Impossible choice confronts the fourth round of our action franchise tournament By Jacob Oller September 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 James Bond enters The Matrix in round three of our action franchise tournament By Jacob Oller September 3, 2025 | 12:01pm
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 The under-the-radar movies you can't miss at Toronto International Film Festival 2025 By Jacob Oller September 3, 2025 | 9:00am
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 What's the greatest action franchise? The tournament enters round two By The A.V. Club September 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 What's the greatest action franchise of all time? By The A.V. Club September 1, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in September 2025 By Jacob Oller September 1, 2025 | 9:00am
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 Ron Howard has a biopic problem By Rory Doherty August 27, 2025 | 6:00am
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 Primer: The provocations of Darren Aronofsky By Luke Hicks August 26, 2025 | 11:00am
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 September film preview: Leonardo DiCaprio endures One Battle After Another By Matt Schimkowitz August 26, 2025 | 7:00am
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 Even with a documentary's worth of hindsight, the Jussie Smollett case is still a Rorschach test mess By Jacob Oller August 22, 2025 | 4:00pm
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 Nobody gives Delroy Lindo more than Spike Lee By Jesse Hassenger August 19, 2025 | 7:00am
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 The Woman King found something radical not in its history, but in the history of its genre By Caroline Siede August 18, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 Sidney Poitier's debut, No Way Out, is more perceptive about race than some of his classics By Chloe Walker August 18, 2025 | 7:00am
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 March Of The Penguins caused a sensation with simplicity By Jacob Oller August 15, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 The best movies of 2005 By The A.V. Club August 14, 2025 | 5:00am
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 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo got lost in translation after its 2005 release By Jen Lennon August 13, 2025 | 6:00am
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 America weaponizes children, and Weapons follows suit By Matthew Jackson August 12, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 With The Squid And The Whale, Noah Baumbach dove deep and made his masterpiece By Tim Lowery August 12, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 In 2005, Steven Spielberg brought the wars of the world to the big screen By Matt Schimkowitz August 11, 2025 | 4:00pm
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 Spoiler Space: Tragedy doesn't actually bring anyone together in Weapons By Matt Schimkowitz August 11, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 Is Amazon's War Of The Worlds the perfect media imagined by Jeff Bezos? An investigation By Jacob Oller August 9, 2025 | 8:00am
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 Sunset Boulevard is 75 and the pictures are smaller than ever By Matthew Jackson August 8, 2025 | 10:00am
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 Cult Of Criterion: A Confucian Confusion By Jacob Oller August 7, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 Spoofs haven't defined Liam Neeson's career, which makes him perfect for them By Jesse Hassenger August 5, 2025 | 9:00am
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 Even The Naked Gun has had enough with the manosphere By Matt Schimkowitz August 4, 2025 | 10:00am
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 The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in August 2025 By Jacob Oller August 1, 2025 | 6:00am
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 The Fantastic Four: First Steps' boldest choice is a pregnant Sue Storm By Caroline Siede July 30, 2025 | 4:00pm
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 The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduced the new MCU's most important character By Matthew Jackson July 29, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 August film preview: More Freaky bodyswaps, Dakota Johnson relationship comedies, and Bad Guys By Matt Schimkowitz July 29, 2025 | 6:00am
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 Spoiler Space: Fantastic Four's mid-credits stinger is desperate, but necessary By Matt Schimkowitz July 28, 2025 | 11:00am
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 Eddington breaks COVID cinema out of quarantine By Kayleigh Donaldson July 24, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 The Southern lowlifes of Hustle & Flow and The Devil's Rejects were bonded by their influential soundtracks By Craig D. Lindsey July 22, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 Spoiler Space: I Know What You Did Last Summer knows exactly why it exists By Drew Gillis July 22, 2025 | 7:00am
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 Arnold Schwarzenegger played second fiddle to Red Sonja 40 years ago By Caroline Siede July 21, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Spoiler Space: In Eddington, your outrage is its villains' payday By Matt Schimkowitz July 21, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 "This is a restaurant, not a fucking school": Big Night, The Bear, and art vs. commerce By Tim Lowery July 19, 2025 | 10:00am
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 Tyler Perry continues building his empire on Black pain By Craig D. Lindsey July 18, 2025 | 11:00am
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 Ari Aster is just asking questions, like "How the hell do we get off this thing?" By Jacob Oller July 16, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Exit Poll: Does James Gunn set up a DC Universe worth investing in? By The A.V. Club July 16, 2025 | 8:00am
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 Whisper Of The Heart left a lo-fi legacy unique to Studio Ghibli By Autumn Wright July 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 Cult Of Criterion: Barry Lyndon By Jacob Oller July 15, 2025 | 10:00am
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 James Gunn's Superman launches a universe, not a character By Caroline Siede July 15, 2025 | 6:00am
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 Primer: An eerie road through the disaffected world of Kiyoshi Kurosawa By Rory Doherty July 14, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 The Supreme Court failed trans people, but Heightened Scrutiny reveals how the media targeted them By Jacob Oller July 14, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 Spoiler Space: In Superman, the Man Of Steel squares off against Man Of Steel By Matt Schimkowitz July 14, 2025 | 10:00am
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 10 years and 15 superhero movies weren't enough to fight the DCEU out of second place By Jesse Hassenger July 10, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Come And See is a poster child for shock films, but its reputation misses what it's really about By Alex Lei July 9, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 The bigger the mutant dinosaurs get, the emptier the Jurassic World films are By Jacob Oller July 7, 2025 | 10:00am
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 Spoiler Space: Jurassic World Rebirth once again makes dinosaurs everyone's problem By Jacob Oller July 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 Spinal Tap defined a real genre with a fake band By Jason Gorber July 3, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 July film preview: Superheroes, Sandler, and Smurfs infiltrate summer movie season By Matt Schimkowitz July 1, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in July 2025 By Jacob Oller July 1, 2025 | 10:00am
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 F1 The Movie transforms the sport into just another piece of intellectual property By Alex Lei June 30, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 28 styles later: Consumer tech is the innovative bedrock of a horror trilogy By Luke Hicks June 27, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 Laughing in the face of helplessness: The Gold Rush celebrates a century of defiance By Kathy Michelle Chacón June 26, 2025 | 2:00pm
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 The best films of 2025 (so far) By The A.V. Club June 25, 2025 | 6:00am
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 A death-obsessed Britain serves as the bloody spine of 28 Years Later By Rory Doherty June 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 10 movies that wouldn't exist without the Sundance Directors Lab By Jacob Oller June 24, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 Spoiler Space: The side characters that turn 28 Years Later into an infectious odyssey By Matt Schimkowitz June 23, 2025 | 4:00pm
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 In Charlie's Angels, girls just wanna have fun By Caroline Siede June 23, 2025 | 12:00pm
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 Shark movies existed before Jaws, but they were never the same after it arrived By Natalia Keogan June 20, 2025 | 7:00am
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 Ernest Dickerson and Jada Pinkett transcended clichés From The Crypt with Demon Knight By Matt Schimkowitz June 19, 2025 | 11:00am
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 To Materialists director Celine Song, a "great act of bravery is saying yes to love" By Tara Bennett June 18, 2025 | 7:00am
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 28 movies that owe it all to 28 Days Later By The A.V. Club June 17, 2025 | 7:00am
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 Growing up and falling out couldn't keep Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor apart By Jesse Hassenger June 16, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 Materialists roots its modern numbers game in timeless rom-com tradition By Mary Kate Carr June 13, 2025 | 1:00pm
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 Music soothes, satirizes, and distracts in Robert Altman's sprawling epic Nashville By Craig D. Lindsey June 11, 2025 | 3:00pm
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 Cult Of Criterion: Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser By Jacob Oller June 11, 2025 | 9:00am