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Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is a prequel, sequel, and undeniably unique TV-to-film adaptation
By Matt Schimkowitz February 20, 2026 | 10:00am
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Robert Duvall's strength was finding the blood in stony men
By Alex Lei February 19, 2026 | 4:00pm
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Death isn't the scary part in the Czech political horror The Cremator
By Jacob Oller February 19, 2026 | 7:00am
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Glen Powell does more of the same in crime-comedy How To Make A Killing
By Jacob Oller February 18, 2026 | 9:00am
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James Brown dubbed himself "The Godfather Of Soul" in Black Caesar
By Craig D. Lindsey February 18, 2026 | 6:00am
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Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights remains the novel's truest adaptation
By Brogan Morris February 17, 2026 | 4:00pm
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Frederick Wiseman understood the subtle architecture of humanity
By Katie Rife February 17, 2026 | 1:00pm
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Heat clones like Crime 101 always cop out on the ending
By Matt Schimkowitz February 17, 2026 | 7:00am
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Catwoman wasn't in on the joke, leaving Halle Berry in the lurch
By Caroline Siede February 16, 2026 | 3:00pm
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Yes, there actually is some substance to Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights
By Caroline Siede February 16, 2026 | 11:00am
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Here's to the film romances that capture the indecision of the human heart
By Caroline Siede February 12, 2026 | 3:00pm
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Slasher anti-franchise The Strangers remains unknowable five films later
By Jesse Hassenger February 11, 2026 | 3:00pm
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Refreshingly mature genre exercise Crime 101 is more than a cops-and-robbers intro course
By Jarrod Jones February 11, 2026 | 11:00am
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Cult Of Criterion: The Man Who Wasn't There
By Jacob Oller February 11, 2026 | 7:00am
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Melania's budget could've paid the salaries of every fired Washington Post employee, three times over
By Matt Schimkowitz February 10, 2026 | 5:00pm
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Pillion's Harry Lighton on his coming-of-kink film's "high-school transformation"
By Kyle Turner February 10, 2026 | 4:00pm
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Join us: The A.V. Club is hiring a Film Critic
By Danette Chavez February 9, 2026 | 4:41pm
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Pillion is the sweetest S&M movie since Secretary
By Kayleigh Donaldson February 9, 2026 | 7:00am
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The History Of Concrete is the best episode of How To With John Wilson that never was
By Jacob Oller February 7, 2026 | 9:00am
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House Party helped kick off New Jack Cinema in style
By Craig D. Lindsey February 6, 2026 | 8:00am
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Melania is a case study in how not to sell a fascist regime
By B. Panther February 5, 2026 | 2:00pm
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Salman Rushdie became a martyr, but Knife makes him human again
By Siddhant Adlakha February 4, 2026 | 10:00am
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The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in February 2026
By Jacob Oller February 3, 2026 | 2:00pm
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Going broad and selling out, The Moment imagines the end of an Eras Tour
By Drew Gillis February 3, 2026 | 12:00pm
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The best films of Sundance 2026
By Jacob Oller February 2, 2026 | 3:00pm
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Spoiler Space: Sam Raimi delivers another grim punchline with Send Help
By Matt Schimkowitz February 2, 2026 | 11:00am
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Inside the hideous, exploitative, but still addictive world of vertical dramas
By Jim Vorel January 31, 2026 | 9:00am
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The Monkees' psychedelic Head trip revolutionized the pop-star ego death
By Matt Schimkowitz January 30, 2026 | 1:00pm
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Netflix fell backwards into KPop Demon Hunters' success
By Simon Abrams January 30, 2026 | 6:00am
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Unpacking the shared survival kit of the desert island movie
By Chloe Walker January 29, 2026 | 3:00pm
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William Greaves died a decade ago, and he just released one of the best movies at Sundance
By Jacob Oller January 29, 2026 | 1:00pm
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February film preview: A bloody Valentine's courtesy of Sam Rockwell, Margot Robbie, and a baller goat
By Matt Schimkowitz January 27, 2026 | 6:00am
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Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone somehow made each other Oscar darlings
By Jesse Hassenger January 23, 2026 | 4:00pm
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A timely Sundance doc is an ICE-breaker around community action
By Jacob Oller January 23, 2026 | 2:00pm
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Sinners' historic Oscar breakthrough spotlights an evolved Academy
By Matt Schimkowitz January 22, 2026 | 5:51pm
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Our most anticipated films of Sundance 2026
By Jacob Oller January 22, 2026 | 2:00pm
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New Platform Coresee Looks to Redefine the Way Production and Creative Teams Work
By Contributor Content January 22, 2026 | 10:00am
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The best scene in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a musical war for symbols
By Matthew Jackson January 21, 2026 | 3:00pm
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The Bone Temple's villain makes an existential struggle for survival blandly literal
By Rory Doherty January 20, 2026 | 3:00pm
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G.I. Jane let women star in military propaganda too
By Caroline Siede January 19, 2026 | 1:00pm
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The ending of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple reveals its faith in the humanities
By Matt Schimkowitz January 19, 2026 | 8:00am
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Quincy Jones' hand-selected Blaxploitation heir only ever made a single, great soundtrack
By Craig D. Lindsey January 14, 2026 | 11:00am
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Nothing says "giving up" like letting an AI-generated Sam Altman direct your movie
By Jacob Oller January 13, 2026 | 12:00pm
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There's never been a better time to get in on the guy who makes the world's longest films
By Alex Lei January 9, 2026 | 3:00pm
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Cult Of Criterion: The Dead
By Jacob Oller January 7, 2026 | 11:00am
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The most anticipated films of 2026: Steven Spielberg, Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan, and the Avengers
By Matt Schimkowitz January 6, 2026 | 6:00am
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Steven Soderbergh's year-end lists offer unparalleled insight and endearing humanity
By Leila Jordan January 5, 2026 | 12:00pm
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Two historical Christian musicals are in theaters, but only one seems to have faith
By Luke Hicks January 2, 2026 | 2:00pm
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The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in January 2026
By Jacob Oller January 1, 2026 | 11:00am
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The best of The A.V. Club: Our favorite pieces from 2025
By Danette Chavez December 31, 2025 | 2:43pm
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Yes, The Testament Of Ann Lee is a musical—that's why it works
By Katie Rife December 30, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Women finally took the lead in this year's depression movies
By Caroline Siede December 30, 2025 | 10:00am
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The wounds of America's past bleed into the present-day films of 2025
By Jesse Hassenger December 29, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Only Timothée Chalamet could play Marty Supreme
By Caroline Siede December 29, 2025 | 8:00am
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James Cameron tried to bring the Western into the future, but only went backwards
By Alex Lei December 26, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Avatar: Fire And Ash works best when it gets hot and bothered
By James Grebey December 23, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon finally welcomed the West to romantic action
By Caroline Siede December 22, 2025 | 4:00pm
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Spoiler Space: James Cameron keeps upending what Avatar means
By Matt Schimkowitz December 22, 2025 | 12:00pm
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In memoriam: 2025's cinematic obituaries mourned their losses before our eyes
By Jacob Oller December 22, 2025 | 5:00am
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The best film scenes of 2025
By The A.V. Club December 19, 2025 | 4:00pm
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched the opening salvo of the fan-service culture war
By Autumn Wright December 18, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Pimping ain't easy in the music of Super Fly and The Mack
By Craig D. Lindsey December 17, 2025 | 10:00am
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The best films of 2025: The ballots
By The A.V. Club December 17, 2025 | 4:01am
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The 25 best films of 2025
By The A.V. Club December 17, 2025 | 4:00am
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Bad taste and moral panic are the lasting legacy of Silent Night, Deadly Night
By Greg Cwik December 12, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Cult Of Criterion: Pee-wee's Big Adventure
By Jacob Oller December 10, 2025 | 6:00am
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Hollywood's gateways to horror are crumbling
By Trace Sauveur December 9, 2025 | 3:00pm
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The A.V. Club's guide to the best pop culture gifts of 2025
By A.V. Club Staff December 9, 2025 | 10:00am
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Bryan Fuller on his film debut Dust Bunny: "We've lost our appetite for bite"
By Jacob Oller December 8, 2025 | 9:00am
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is the best and the worst of Quentin Tarantino
By Katie Rife December 5, 2025 | 4:00pm
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The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in December 2025
By Jacob Oller December 1, 2025 | 10:00am
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Spoiler Space: Wake Up Dead Man is a pleasure and (like all Knives Out films) a frustrating mystery
By Rory Doherty November 28, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Hamlet becomes art therapy in the hands of 2025's films
By James Grebey November 28, 2025 | 10:00am
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C'mon Zootopia 2, let's stop with the conspiracy theorist heroes
By Matt Goldberg November 27, 2025 | 10:00am
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It's time to give "On The Nature Of Daylight" a rest
By Kayleigh Donaldson November 27, 2025 | 7:00am
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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
