Film Club's favorite movies of 2021
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...
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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...
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20 of 94 episodesLooking back on our favorite movies of 2001
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...
The films of Paul Thomas Anderson (4): The Master & Inherent Vice
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...
Where does Licorice Pizza rank in Paul Thomas Anderson's filmography?
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...
The films of Paul Thomas Anderson (3): There Will Be Blood & Phantom Thread
What happens when the reigning Method actor of our time joins forces with one of America’s most celebrated filmmakers? On the third installm...
The films of Paul Thomas Anderson (2): Magnolia & Punch Drunk Love
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...
The films of Paul Thomas Anderson (1): Boogie Nights & Hard Eight
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...
The year in horror
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...
Let's talk about Dune, The French Dispatch, and Last Night In Soho
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...
Revisiting 40 years of Halloween movies
This weekend, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield and to theaters with Halloween Kills , a follow-up to David Gordon Green’s 2018 “legacy s...
How does Halloween Kills compare to the slasher movies before it?
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...
Our James Bond marathon covers six eras of 007
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...
We're recapping Fantastic Fest
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...
The best and worst of TIFF 2021
North America’s largest and most prominent film festival winds down this weekend. Experienced in person or virtually, the fest was a typical...
Why turning books into movies is such a challenge
For almost as long as there have been movies, there have been movies based on literature. Even in the age of superhero spectaculars, novels...
Shang-Chi and Candyman go head-to-head
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...
On the highs and lows Netflix's Fear Street trilogy
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...
On the art (and ethics) of writing negative reviews
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...
Discussing The Suicide Squad, The Green Knight, and Old
Late summer is not, normally speaking, a time to expect exceptional cinema; by the onset of August, blockbuster season is winding down and a...
Dissecting M. Night Shyamalan's career
M. Night Shyamalan is one of the few Hollywood directors working today who qualifies as a household name. But what reputation does that name...