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December film preview: Avatar and Marty Supreme play ping-pong for the holiday crowd
By Matt Schimkowitz November 25, 2025 | 6:00am
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Spoiler Space: Was Wicked changed for good?
By Caroline Siede November 24, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Reluctant revolutionary Katniss Everdeen ignited a generation
By Caroline Siede November 24, 2025 | 7:00am
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Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
By Alex Lei November 21, 2025 | 4:00pm
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Train Dreams stakes a complex claim in the Pacific Northwest cinematic canon
By Chase Hutchinson November 21, 2025 | 11:00am
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Quincy Jones was at his peak when he gave The Wiz its soul
By Craig D. Lindsey November 20, 2025 | 11:00am
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A new documentary finds the limits of laughing at the school-shooter industrial complex
By Jacob Oller November 18, 2025 | 3:00pm
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It's pretty damn ironic that Paramount is behind The Running Man
By Jacob Oller November 17, 2025 | 11:00am
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Lynne Ramsay makes traumatic films you can reach out and touch
By Kayleigh Donaldson November 13, 2025 | 3:00pm
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The scariest scene in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein isn't about the Creature
By Matthew Jackson November 12, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Cult Of Criterion: Él
By Jacob Oller November 12, 2025 | 11:00am
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Predator: Badlands pits the Killer Of Killers against his most formidable foe: corporations
By Matt Schimkowitz November 10, 2025 | 3:00pm
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In a year of prickly movies about parents, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein sides with one's Creation
By Drew Gillis November 10, 2025 | 7:00am
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Like their prey, the Predator movies have evolved in order to survive
By Jesse Hassenger November 7, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Diane Lane on the cautionary Anniversary, the slept-on Rumble Fish, and panicking on live TV
By Will Harris November 6, 2025 | 2:00pm
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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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Jet Lag: The Game and Seeing the World as a Playground
By Diego Nicolás Argüello August 15, 2025 | 11:45am
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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
