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The Cannes Film Festival opened tonight with a zombie movie, and I can’t be the only American in attendance who felt…

It’s over the course of a single conversation that Julie, the twentysomething protagonist of Joanna Hogg’s The…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…

You could make a very violent, extreme, sensationalistic movie about Ted Bundy, notorious rapist and serial killer. E…

Seth Rogen rose to fame through a Cinderella story for the modern American schlub. The poster for Knocked Up made…

If last week was the calm before the storm on Game Of Thrones, then this week’s episode, “The Long Night,” was both…

Fluctuating temperatures be damned, the summer movie season is unofficially upon us. The next four months will be a…

Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t disclose in our official reviews.…

Note: This review contains minor plot revelations for Avengers: Endgame. It also contains major spoilers for Avengers…

The obvious scene to highlight from last summer’s Avengers: Infinity War is, of course, its haunting and…

Like lots of superhero sequels, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 basically begins with a flurry of action. The…

Claire Denis is one of the world’s greatest filmmakers, but don’t let her hear you say that. She’s not crazy about…

One could be forgiven for assuming, based on title alone, that Dogman is yet another superhero movie. There’s a lot…

In Her Smell, the unfortunately named new drama from Alex Ross Perry, Elisabeth Moss does something you almost never…

It’s hard to envision what the Marvel Cinematic Universe would look like today if it hadn’t kicked off with Iron Man.…

If there’s a scene everyone knows from Pet Sematary, it’s the one where Jud Crandall, wizened voice of New England…

Nearly all of High Life takes place aboard a spacecraft careening across the cosmos at light speed. On the outside,…

As the title character of The Beach Bum, Harmony Korine’s shaggy new comedy of dirtbag decadence, Matthew…

You know you’re in the hands of a natural born filmmaker when you can feel yourself being tugged, as if by invisible…

In more ways than one, and true to its title, Dragged Across Concrete is abrasive. It comes from the mind of S.…