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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
Paul Thomas Anderson rockets Thomas Pynchon into the present
By Alex Lei
October 2, 2025 | 11:00am
Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile
writes a damning birthday note to the true-crime industry
By Jacob Oller
October 1, 2025 | 4:00pm
The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in October 2025
By Jacob Oller
October 1, 2025 | 9:00am
October film preview: Dwayne Johnson's
Smashing Machine
wrestles Guillermo del Toro's
Frankenstein
By Matt Schimkowitz
September 30, 2025 | 7:00am
How
Good Boy
director Ben Leonberg made his own dog into a horror star
By Matt Schimkowitz
September 29, 2025 | 2:00pm
Paul Thomas Anderson's latest wages
One Battle After Another
with white supremacy
By Matt Schimkowitz
September 29, 2025 | 10:00am
Paul Thomas Anderson was ahead of the curve with Philip Seymour Hoffman until the end
By Jesse Hassenger
September 25, 2025 | 2:00pm
Chain Reactions
arms film criticism with a chainsaw
By Jacob Oller
September 23, 2025 | 2:00pm
MegaDoc
is the Rosetta Stone for appreciating (if not understanding)
Megalopolis
By Jacob Oller
September 23, 2025 | 7:00am
Through two
Alien
films, Ripley turned '70s and '80s action filmmaking on its head
By Caroline Siede
September 22, 2025 | 2:00pm
Spoiler Space: The Biblical scapeGOAT in
Him
By Matt Schimkowitz
September 22, 2025 | 12:00pm
Writing a love letter to the fans undermines what made
Downton Abbey
great
By Anna McKibbin
September 19, 2025 | 3:00pm
Earth, Wind & Fire became Blaxploitation legends playing
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
By Craig D. Lindsey
September 18, 2025 | 1:00pm
Robert Redford weaponized his good looks to disarm us in every genre
By Chloe Walker
September 18, 2025 | 10:00am
Cult Of Criterion:
Born In Flames
By Jacob Oller
September 17, 2025 | 7:00am
Spinal Tap II
, like so many comedy sequels, succumbs to nostalgic respectability
By Matt Schimkowitz
September 16, 2025 | 10:00am
Spoiler Space:
The Long Walk
's feel-bad ending is even bleaker than the book's
By Jacob Oller
September 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
Battles royale: 11 pop culture contests where you win or you die
By James Grebey
September 9, 2025 | 7:00am
Paranormal hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren get a send-off they don't deserve
By Matt Schimkowitz
September 8, 2025 | 4:00pm
Riefenstahl
makes for a timely portrait of a monster "just following orders"
By Kayleigh Donaldson
September 5, 2025 | 3:00pm
Is
Mad Max
or
Police Story
the greatest action franchise of all time?
By Jacob Oller
September 5, 2025 | 12:00pm
A
Mission: Impossible
choice confronts the fourth round of our action franchise tournament
By Jacob Oller
September 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
James Bond enters
The Matrix
in round three of our action franchise tournament
By Jacob Oller
September 3, 2025 | 12:01pm
The under-the-radar movies you can't miss at Toronto International Film Festival 2025
By Jacob Oller
September 3, 2025 | 9:00am
What's the greatest action franchise? The tournament enters round two
By The A.V. Club
September 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
What's the greatest action franchise of all time?
By The A.V. Club
September 1, 2025 | 12:00pm
The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in September 2025
By Jacob Oller
September 1, 2025 | 9:00am
Ron Howard has a biopic problem
By Rory Doherty
August 27, 2025 | 6:00am
Primer: The provocations of Darren Aronofsky
By Luke Hicks
August 26, 2025 | 11:00am
September film preview: Leonardo DiCaprio endures
One Battle After Another
By Matt Schimkowitz
August 26, 2025 | 7:00am
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
Nobody gives Delroy Lindo more than Spike Lee
By Jesse Hassenger
August 19, 2025 | 7:00am
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
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
March Of The Penguins
caused a sensation with simplicity
By Jacob Oller
August 15, 2025 | 1:00pm
The best movies of 2005
By The A.V. Club
August 14, 2025 | 5:00am
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
got lost in translation after its 2005 release
By Jen Lennon
August 13, 2025 | 6:00am
America weaponizes children, and
Weapons
follows suit
By Matthew Jackson
August 12, 2025 | 3:00pm
With
The Squid And The Whale
, Noah Baumbach dove deep and made his masterpiece
By Tim Lowery
August 12, 2025 | 1:00pm
In 2005, Steven Spielberg brought the wars of the world to the big screen
By Matt Schimkowitz
August 11, 2025 | 4:00pm
Spoiler Space: Tragedy doesn't actually bring anyone together in
Weapons
By Matt Schimkowitz
August 11, 2025 | 12:00pm
Is Amazon's
War Of The Worlds
the perfect media imagined by Jeff Bezos? An investigation
By Jacob Oller
August 9, 2025 | 8:00am
Sunset Boulevard
is 75 and the pictures are smaller than ever
By Matthew Jackson
August 8, 2025 | 10:00am
Cult Of Criterion:
A Confucian Confusion
By Jacob Oller
August 7, 2025 | 12:00pm
Spoofs haven't defined Liam Neeson's career, which makes him perfect for them
By Jesse Hassenger
August 5, 2025 | 9:00am
Even
The Naked Gun
has had enough with the manosphere
By Matt Schimkowitz
August 4, 2025 | 10:00am
The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in August 2025
By Jacob Oller
August 1, 2025 | 6:00am
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
' boldest choice is a pregnant Sue Storm
By Caroline Siede
July 30, 2025 | 4:00pm
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
introduced the new MCU's most important character
By Matthew Jackson
July 29, 2025 | 12:00pm
August film preview: More
Freaky
bodyswaps, Dakota Johnson relationship comedies, and
Bad Guys
By Matt Schimkowitz
July 29, 2025 | 6:00am
Spoiler Space:
Fantastic Four
's mid-credits stinger is desperate, but necessary
By Matt Schimkowitz
July 28, 2025 | 11:00am
Eddington
breaks COVID cinema out of quarantine
By Kayleigh Donaldson
July 24, 2025 | 12:00pm
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
Spoiler Space:
I Know What You Did Last Summer
knows exactly why it exists
By Drew Gillis
July 22, 2025 | 7:00am
Arnold Schwarzenegger played second fiddle to
Red Sonja
40 years ago
By Caroline Siede
July 21, 2025 | 2:00pm
Spoiler Space: In
Eddington
, your outrage is its villains' payday
By Matt Schimkowitz
July 21, 2025 | 12:00pm
"This is a restaurant, not a fucking school":
Big Night
,
The Bear
, and art vs. commerce
By Tim Lowery
July 19, 2025 | 10:00am
Tyler Perry continues building his empire on Black pain
By Craig D. Lindsey
July 18, 2025 | 11:00am
Ari Aster is just asking questions, like "How the hell do we get off this thing?"
By Jacob Oller
July 16, 2025 | 2:00pm
Exit Poll: Does James Gunn set up a DC Universe worth investing in?
By The A.V. Club
July 16, 2025 | 8:00am
Whisper Of The Heart
left a lo-fi legacy unique to Studio Ghibli
By Autumn Wright
July 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
Cult Of Criterion:
Barry Lyndon
By Jacob Oller
July 15, 2025 | 10:00am
James Gunn's
Superman
launches a universe, not a character
By Caroline Siede
July 15, 2025 | 6:00am
Primer: An eerie road through the disaffected world of Kiyoshi Kurosawa
By Rory Doherty
July 14, 2025 | 3:00pm
The Supreme Court failed trans people, but
Heightened Scrutiny
reveals how the media targeted them
By Jacob Oller
July 14, 2025 | 1:00pm
Spoiler Space: In
Superman
, the Man Of Steel squares off against
Man Of Steel
By Matt Schimkowitz
July 14, 2025 | 10:00am
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
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
The bigger the mutant dinosaurs get, the emptier the
Jurassic World
films are
By Jacob Oller
July 7, 2025 | 10:00am
Spoiler Space:
Jurassic World Rebirth
once again makes dinosaurs everyone's problem
By Jacob Oller
July 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
Spinal Tap
defined a real genre with a fake band
By Jason Gorber
July 3, 2025 | 2:00pm
July film preview: Superheroes, Sandler, and Smurfs infiltrate summer movie season
By Matt Schimkowitz
July 1, 2025 | 3:00pm
The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in July 2025
By Jacob Oller
July 1, 2025 | 10:00am
F1 The Movie
transforms the sport into just another piece of intellectual property
By Alex Lei
June 30, 2025 | 2:00pm
28 styles later: Consumer tech is the innovative bedrock of a horror trilogy
By Luke Hicks
June 27, 2025 | 2:00pm
Laughing in the face of helplessness:
The Gold Rush
celebrates a century of defiance
By Kathy Michelle Chacón
June 26, 2025 | 2:00pm
The best films of 2025 (so far)
By The A.V. Club
June 25, 2025 | 6:00am
A death-obsessed Britain serves as the bloody spine of
28 Years Later
By Rory Doherty
June 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
10 movies that wouldn't exist without the Sundance Directors Lab
By Jacob Oller
June 24, 2025 | 1:00pm
Spoiler Space: The side characters that turn
28 Years Later
into an infectious odyssey
By Matt Schimkowitz
June 23, 2025 | 4:00pm
In
Charlie's Angels
, girls just wanna have fun
By Caroline Siede
June 23, 2025 | 12:00pm
Shark movies existed before
Jaws
, but they were never the same after it arrived
By Natalia Keogan
June 20, 2025 | 7:00am
Ernest Dickerson and Jada Pinkett transcended clichés
From The Crypt
with
Demon Knight
By Matt Schimkowitz
June 19, 2025 | 11:00am
To
Materialists
director Celine Song, a "great act of bravery is saying yes to love"
By Tara Bennett
June 18, 2025 | 7:00am
28 movies that owe it all to
28 Days Later
By The A.V. Club
June 17, 2025 | 7:00am
Growing up and falling out couldn't keep Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor apart
By Jesse Hassenger
June 16, 2025 | 3:00pm
Materialists
roots its modern numbers game in timeless rom-com tradition
By Mary Kate Carr
June 13, 2025 | 1:00pm
Music soothes, satirizes, and distracts in Robert Altman's sprawling epic
Nashville
By Craig D. Lindsey
June 11, 2025 | 3:00pm
Cult Of Criterion:
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
By Jacob Oller
June 11, 2025 | 9:00am
Mike Flanagan's particular style of storytelling is honed to a fine point in
The Life Of Chuck
By Matthew Jackson
June 10, 2025 | 2:00pm
Spoiler Space: John Wick makes for an awkward dance partner in
Ballerina
By Matt Schimkowitz
June 9, 2025 | 3:00pm
5 under-the-radar films to see at Tribeca 2025
By Jacob Oller
June 4, 2025 | 1:00pm
The best 4K and Blu-ray releases coming out in June 2025
By Jacob Oller
June 2, 2025 | 11:00am
The future of superhero movies looks to comics' past
By Matt Schimkowitz
May 28, 2025 | 6:00am
Primer: The immediately identifiable comedies of Wes Anderson
By Jacob Oller
May 27, 2025 | 1:00pm
Spoiler Space: Tom Cruise and Ethan Hunt refuse to die
By Rory Doherty
May 26, 2025 | 11:00am
The A.V. Club
's most anticipated movies of summer 2025
By Matt Schimkowitz
May 26, 2025 | 7:00am
The Player
's industry satire stings, now more than ever
By Jacob Oller
May 22, 2025 | 3:00pm
Tom Cruise found his creative soulmate in Christopher McQuarrie, then bent him to his will
By Jesse Hassenger
May 19, 2025 | 4:00pm
Cult Of Criterion:
The Wind Will Carry Us
By Jacob Oller
May 14, 2025 | 10:00am
Final Destination
combined the slasher and disaster genres to become elemental
By Jesse Hassenger
May 13, 2025 | 2:00pm
Primer: Where to start with Jia Zhangke, one of China's greatest living filmmakers
By Alex Lei
May 12, 2025 | 1:00pm
AVQ&A: What's your most visceral experience at the movie theater?
By A.V. Club Staff
May 10, 2025 | 12:00pm
Clown In A Cornfield
director Eli Craig keeps the corn syrup flowing
By Matt Schimkowitz
May 9, 2025 | 2:00pm
Spoiler Space:
Thunderbolts*
' big twist hides deep connections to its comic book roots
By William Hughes
May 7, 2025 | 12:00pm
Music documentaries now carry the torch of the avant-garde
By Luke Hicks
May 6, 2025 | 7:00am
The
Black Widow
movie was too little, too late
By Caroline Siede
May 5, 2025 | 2:00pm
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