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Welcome to Film Club, the A.V. Club’s movie discussion series. Each week, A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife (and occasionally some special guests) will gab about the week's new releases, explore vari...
December is fast winding down, and here at The A.V. Club , that means one thing: We’re looking back on the pop-culture we loved these past 1...
Last week was 2001 Week at The A.V. Club , and as part of this multi-day retrospective of the pop-culture of two decades ago, we voted on th...
Last week, Film Club dived into the two Paul Thomas Anderson movies starring Daniel Day-Lewis. This week, in the final installment of our fo...
Over this past month, Film Club has been revisiting the films written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It’s all been in anticipation of...
What happens when the reigning Method actor of our time joins forces with one of America’s most celebrated filmmakers? On the third installm...
Our four-part series on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson continues this week on Film Club , as A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife look back on what c...
Every new movie from Paul Thomas Anderson is an event. That’s certainly how we’ve treating Licorice Pizza , the writer-director’s latest pic...
It’s a scary time to be alive, and to go to the movies. But have the movies themselves been scary? With Halloween coming this weekend, criti...
The fall movie season is in full swing, and that means we’re getting a look at some of the most buzzed-about movies of the rest of 2021. On...
This weekend, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield and to theaters with Halloween Kills , a follow-up to David Gordon Green’s 2018 “legacy s...
Halloween the holiday is still two weeks away. But the movie franchise named after it is back this very weekend. On a special bonus episode...
This weekend, No Time To Die brings to an end the Daniel Craig era of James Bond, putting a lid on a story that began 15 years ago with the...
Now in its 16th year, Fantastic Fest is probably the biggest and more prominent genre-centric film festival in America. But it offers a lot...
North America’s largest and most prominent film festival winds down this weekend. Experienced in person or virtually, the fest was a typical...
For almost as long as there have been movies, there have been movies based on literature. Even in the age of superhero spectaculars, novels...
Labor Day is traditionally thought of as the unofficial end of the summer movie season. It’s also generally a dead zone for new Hollywood re...
As summer begins to wind down and the crisp breezes and scented candles of autumn beckon, we’re taking a week to circle back and talk about...
Negative reviews are fun to read—just asks the scores of film fans that have purchased Roger Ebert’s bestselling collection of them, I Hated...
Late summer is not, normally speaking, a time to expect exceptional cinema; by the onset of August, blockbuster season is winding down and a...
M. Night Shyamalan is one of the few Hollywood directors working today who qualifies as a household name. But what reputation does that name...
On this week’s Film Club , our critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife are creating a new tradition with the second annual edition of what we like...
Today ends a two-year hiatus for the biggest franchise in movie history. Black Widow , new to theaters and Disney+, is the first Marvel movi...
One year later than scheduled—and after years of fan demand—Marvel has finally released a starring vehicle for the most opaque of its Avenge...
From its origins 20 years ago as a humble Point Break ripoff featuring fast cars, tough guys, and stolen DVD players, The Fast & The Furious...
At this point, Pixar’s legacy as the most beloved of American animation houses is probably secure: No other studio so regularly earns the ad...
For the second time in six months, Pixar has released a new movie directly to Disney+. But unlike the existentially minded Soul , the new Lu...
This week’s for the theater kids, as Film Club’ s A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife welcome When Romance Met Comedy columnist and self-described musi...
This weekend, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It . The film is the t...
After a brief spring break, Film Club returns this week to check in on the state of one of our critics’—and, presumably, our listeners’—favo...
Our main reviewer didn’t much care for the new Mortal Kombat movie. Actually, he basically died from boredom watching it. But depending on y...
Last week, a new movie based on the popular fighting game series Mortal Kombat made its way to theaters and HBO Max. And though the action i...
The Academy Awards finally air this Sunday, some 14 months after last year’s ceremony and Parasite ’s big win. To put a lid on this protract...
With the Academy Awards ceremony roughly a week away, we’re closing in on the end of this unusual and unusually long awards season. On the t...
This year’s Academy Awards are still a few weeks off. Leading up to Hollywood’s biggest night, Film Club is taking a close look at each of t...
Thanks to the ongoing pandemic, this year’s Academy Awards have been pushed to the late date of April 25. That gives us another whole month...
In just a few days, moviegoers and HBO Max subscribers alike will be treated to the title-fight rematch of the year, as Japan’s most famous...
By popular and very persistent demand, this week saw the improbable release of a kind of holy grail of superhero-cinema fandom: the fabled,...
On this week’s full episode of Film Club , A.A. Dowd and fellow A.V. Club staffer Alex McLevy discuss the DCEU—its origins and evolution, it...
The Criterion Collection is set to release a new box set collecting seven films by the celebrated Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai on March 23....
It’s still not especially safe to go to a movie theater in America. Fortunately, those looking for the comfort food of a new new Hollywood c...
Last week, The A.V. Club put out a call for questions from you, readers of the site and loyal listeners of our weekly podcast, Film Club . T...
Valentine’s Day is Sunday, and to celebrate this annual rush for florists, chocolatiers, and greeting-card magnates, The A.V. Club has rolle...
Every January, thousands of people fly into Utah and then descend on the sleepy ski town of Park City for the annual movie-lover summit that...
This episode comes with a warning up top, but don’t worry: All the classic films whose big twists are revealed on this week’s episode of Fil...
An extended eligibility window for a pandemic Oscars means that this year, awards season will extend well into the spring. But for their fir...
Yesterday, The A.V. Club posted its list of the best movies of 2020 . That was, of course and as it always is, a group effort—a picture of t...
It’s mid-December, and for many people, that means the Christmas season is in full swing. Far be it from us at The A.V. Club to deny anyone...
Once upon a time, movies and television were mortal enemies, and pretty easy to tell apart, too. But the lines that once separated these two...
It seems that the Academy Awards are still happening next year, just a little later than usual. What that means is that an abnormally long a...
Werewolves had a moment in 1981. Excluding Wolfen , whose killer canines technically don’t fit the species description, Hollywood produced n...