Bombshell
The film is likely to get less credit, overall, than it deserves on the merits.
Movies
Reviews: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and The Assistant
Women on top and trapped at the bottom.
Review: The Rhythm Section
Blake Lively and Jude Law overqualified for an unexciting spy flick.
At This Year's Vegas Porn Expo, Everything People Think They Know About the Internet and Adult Entertainment Is Wrong
The internet has turned adult performers into media entrepreneurs.
In Little Women, Jo March Listens to Markets, Not Just Moralists
In Greta Gerwig's new adaptation, Amy finally gets some credit but Jo's hustle gets short shrift.
Ricky Gervais Slams Woke Hollywood's Sanctimony in Golden Globes Speech
"You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world."
No Adults in the Room: From Election to The Politician
What do hotly contested high school class presidency elections—set 20 years apart—teach us about our attitudes toward politics?
Review: Little Women
Greta Gerwig directs Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh in a dazzling new take on the classic tale.
The Rise of Skywalker Shows It's Time for J.J. Abrams To Be Impeached From Star Wars
The final film in the Disney-era trilogy is a pointless, abysmal letdown that won't fully satisfy anyone.
Tide Pods, Nazis, and Bees: The Top 10 Moral Panics of the 2010s
We found a lot of things to worry about over the past 10 years.
Richard Jewell Shows What a Conservative Hollywood Would Look Like
Clint Eastwood's masterful true-life drama about a wrongly accused American hero doubles as an awkward brief for Trump.
Review: Uncut Gems and Bombshell
A new kind of Adam Sandler flick and a predictably Hollywoodian Fox News takedown with a major star turn by Charlize Theron.
Review: Marriage Story
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are unforgettably good in this devastating (and funny) divorce chronicle.
Review: Knives Out
Schemes abound in this ridiculously complicated country manor murder mystery.
Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Some quality time with Tom Hanks’s Mister Rogers.
Ford v Ferrari Is Thrilling, Excellent, and Not a Superhero Movie
Martin Scorsese says superhero movies are crowding out cinema. But plenty of great non-comic-book films still exist.
Review: Charlie's Angels
Kristen Stewart in another reboot of the venerable action franchise.
Oscar-Winner Errol Morris on American Dharma, Steve Bannon, and Cancel Culture
"They wanted to deplatform me," says the legendary filmmaker, for the mortal sin of engaging former Trump adviser and Breitbart.com head.
Doctor Sleep Is an Awkward Hybrid of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King
Director Mike Flanagan has made a Shining sequel that struggles to combine its two major influences.
Errol Morris on Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, Theranos, and Cancel Culture
Outrage mobs kept his new movie "American Dharma" out of theaters for a year.
Monty Python Meets the Bishop
Friday A/V Club: The 40th anniversary of Life of Brian's British debut—and of a legendary TV debate
Review: One Child Nation
A quietly horrifying look back at China’s disastrous, 35-year-long national birth-control program.
Martin Scorsese Is a Grumpy Old Fart—and Wrong About the State of 'Cinema'
As his $159 million new movie, The Irishman, hits theaters, the legendary director avers today is "brutal and inhospitable to art."
The Other '80s Blade Runner Movie
Friday A/V Club: Ridley Scott wasn't the only director who filmed a Blade Runner in the Reagan years.
Reviews: The Irishman and Terminator: Dark Fate
De Niro, Pesci and Pacino in Scorsese’s most melancholy mob drama, and Schwarzenegger returns in the latest installment of a super-played-out franchise.
Review: The Current War: Director's Cut
Lighting up with Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon.
Reviews: Zombieland: Double Tap and The Lighthouse
Undead again with Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone, and some dark and stormy nights with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
Gemini Man Is an Extended Visit to the Uncanny Valley
Will Smith fights his younger clone in this ambitious but underwhelming action thriller.
Everyone Is Getting Joker Wrong
Plus: sex discrimination before SCOTUS today, Warren stands by pregnancy firing claim, and more...
Joker Director Todd Phillips Says Woke Scolds and Twitter Mobs Killed Comedy
"Go try to be funny nowadays with this woke culture."
Reviews: Ad Astra and One Cut of the Dead
Brad Pitt’s outer-space daddy issues and a look behind the scenes at the zombie apocalypse.
Review: It Chapter Two
Bill Hader and Jessica Chastain in a very long and crowded horror sequel.
