• aux Like its cursed hero, Stephen King’s Elevation is bizarrely thin By Ryan Vlastelica October 29, 2018 | 3:00pm
• film The Social Network is a masterpiece—does it matter that it bent the truth? By Ryan Vlastelica October 4, 2018 | 9:00pm
• aux The first biography of Fred Rogers is touching, but treats its subject with kid gloves By Ryan Vlastelica September 3, 2018 | 3:00pm
• film With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee turns a dull memoir into an energetic crowd-pleaser By Ryan Vlastelica August 14, 2018 | 11:00am
• film Spielberg’s Jaws adaptation cut the mafia and sex subplots—and made movie history By Ryan Vlastelica July 17, 2018 | 2:00pm
• aux Introducing the Marvel Curriculum: A look at film history via the MCU By Ryan Vlastelica July 5, 2018 | 4:00pm
• aux The A.V. Club’s favorite books of 2018 so far By The A.V. Club, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Ryan Vlastelica, Rien Fertel, Samantha Nelson June 25, 2018 | 12:00pm
• aux Bill Clinton’s thriller The President Is Missing is incredibly, almost charmingly, silly By Ryan Vlastelica June 11, 2018 | 2:25pm
• aux Stephen King’s The Outsider is an It for the Trump era By Ryan Vlastelica May 21, 2018 | 3:00pm
• film Scary Movie was ground zero for some of the worst comedy of all time By Ryan Vlastelica May 10, 2018 | 11:00am
• aux The Elizas is a belly flop of a thriller from the author of Pretty Little Liars By Ryan Vlastelica April 9, 2018 | 7:00pm
• film In A.I., Steven Spielberg (and Stanley Kubrick) turned an eye to loneliness By Ryan Vlastelica March 27, 2018 | 11:00am
• aux The founder of Christian rock music would've hated what it's become By Ryan Vlastelica March 19, 2018 | 3:00pm
• film Neither Death Wish film dares to grapple with the anti-vigilante stance of the novel By Ryan Vlastelica March 6, 2018 | 4:00pm
• aux Ben Dolnick delivers compulsive readability, if not scares, in The Ghost Notebooks By Ryan Vlastelica February 23, 2018 | 7:30pm
• aux An attempt to thwart Hitler through diplomacy is at the heart of the timely Munich By Ryan Vlastelica January 22, 2018 | 4:00pm
• film The novel that inspired Die Hard has its structure, but none of its holiday spirit By Ryan Vlastelica December 11, 2017 | 12:00pm
• aux The first novel from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is perplexingly bad By Ryan Vlastelica November 6, 2017 | 2:15pm
• film The Thing shows how non-metaphoric monster movies come down to craft By Ryan Vlastelica October 25, 2017 | 11:00am
• film Blade Runner translated Philip K. Dick’s sparse mindfuck into Ridley Scott’s overwhelming vision By Ryan Vlastelica October 2, 2017 | 11:00am
• aux The last page: Heather, The Totality By Ryan Vlastelica October 1, 2017 | 2:00pm