As Sundance 2025 gave us the weekend to continue watching films online after announcing its prizewinners, I took the opportunity to cram in some last-minute movies to my festival deep dive. Though ...

With the summer movie season now quietly winding down, fall is upon us. As we do each year, after highlighting the best films offered thus far, we’ve set out to provide an overview of the titles that ...

Films directed by Sean Baker, Coralie Fargeat, Luca Guadagnino, Payal Kapadia, and Robert Eggers dominated critics’ top 10s, but what were their 2024 favorites? There remains one group we’ve yet to ...

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Christopher Nolan, Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, Theo Angelopoulos, Lynne Ramsay, Tsai Ming-liang, Michael Haneke, Lee Chang-dong, Terence Davies, Shōhei Imamura, Bi Gan, Hou ...

After a year of big changes, The A.V. Club’s roster of film critics has added a slew of new faces and brought back some old favorites. That state of flux—a net positive to be sure—means our final ...

Last year’s Cannes Film Festival competition was the strongest in recent memory. I remember it, perhaps a touch rosily, as an almost ceaseless parade of triumphs: this was where we caught our first ...