If there was any film obsessive whose ideas about what constitutes a perfect movie are worth taking seriously, it's probably Quentin Tarantino, who's long been one of the culture's most beloved ...

As far as a wide-angle view of the industry is concerned, the trends you’ve heard about continued to gather steam. Hollywood is in all sorts of financial trouble, especially when it comes to original ...

The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

The latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson follows Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ageing hippie hero and a relic of a fictional noughties brigade, the French 75. Led by his lover Perfidia ...

The state of digital media may be more volatile than the film world, but that only makes it more heartening that The A.V. Club‘s regular film critics are back in full force for another year of ...

Still from Peter Hujar's Day (2025), dir. by Ira Sachs (image courtesy Janus Films) A day in the life of Peter Hujar, a bungled museum heist, Meredith Monk's 60-year career — these subjects brought to ...

Across the span of his decades-long career in Hollywood, Rob Reiner directed a host of beloved films—the kind you watch again and again, finding something new in them each time. As we mourn the tragic ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Rob Reiner was born into the lineage of comedy thanks to his father, television pioneer Carl Reiner, and he first ...

From genocidal aliens to aimless bromances, the best films of the year were audacious enough to reach a hand into the shadowy corners of our collective unrest, unafraid of what they might bring back ...

Our film critics watch a lot of movies in a year. By December, their viewing slates span international standouts, festival favorites, studio blockbusters, and plenty more in between. Below, Justin ...

John Waters ranks his top 10 films of 2025. Strand Releasing/Courtesy Everett Collection/Richard Foreman/A24/Courtesy Everett Collection/Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection As a new year of films ...

Producing and starring in a buzzy documentary about her prominent yet under-the-radar life was just the beginning for Melania Trump, who has now launched her own production company. The first lady ...