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This week on Film Club—now available in both video and podcast form—we’re talking about the twisty, but surprisingly…

No horror movie this year offered a hit of unease as quick and pure as what Kelvin Harrison Jr. provokes with a…

Ever since Saving Private Ryan turned the invasion of Normandy into a you-are-there spectacle of death and panic,…

Benoit Blanc, the wonderfully Southern-fried private eye Daniel Craig plays to a hilt in Knives Out, has a way with…

Welcome back to Film Club, The A.V. Club’s weekly movie discussion series, now available in both video and podcast…

Earlier this week, The A.V. Club published its list of the 100 best movies of the 2010s. As expected, it’s prompted…

It’s a funny thing to say about someone who exuded wholesomeness with every breath he took, but Fred Rogers was,…

Six years ago, Disney released what would become not just the biggest hit in its long history of theatrical cartoons…

Promptly fulfilling the promise of its title, Noah Baumbach’s profound and perspicacious Marriage Story begins with…

The Overlook plays what you might call a supporting role in Doctor Sleep. Aside from some fleeting flashbacks to a…

The Irishman, a three-and-a-half-hour crime epic about the rise and ignoble decline of a mob hitman, may be the very…

There isn’t too much genuine fright fare hitting theaters this Halloween season. That’s good news for Countdown, a…

Jojo Rabbit is the feel-good Holocaust movie of the year, and however uncomfortable that description might make you,…

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe have the kind of faces Norma Desmond waxed nostalgic about in Sunset Boulevard.…

Final numbers are still rolling in, but it seems safe to say that Gemini Man is not the hit anyone involved might…

The last time Bong Joon Ho made a parable of class warfare, he set it aboard one hell of a moving metaphor: a train…

One of the more fiendishly clever choices Christopher Nolan made in his magisterial middle Batman movie, The Dark…

Movies ripped from the headlines often play fast and loose with the real-life events they’re reenacting. But it’s…

Standing on the stage of the Walter Reade Theater this afternoon, Kent Jones issued a plea: “Let’s stick to…

Heist comedies of honor among thieves, psych-ward thrillers that double as indictments of the medical industry,…