The A.V. Club is Paste Magazine‘s source for TV and film coverage. The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood ...

It’s the end of an era for the Sundance Film Festival. After the beloved showcase’s upcoming 2026 edition—scheduled to run from January 22 to February 1—it will be leaving Park City, Utah, its home ...

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 ...

It was 1956 when Brigitte Bardot burst into global fame with And God Created Woman, a film directed by her then-husband, Roger Vadim. Though not her first film, it was the one where everything changed ...

As the year closes on another fantastic slate of films, it's time to look ahead to 2026, where new projects from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Greta Gerwig, Denis Villeneuve, and Christopher Nolan ...

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 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 ...

Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what ...

Film stills clockwise from top left: "Peter Hujar's Day" (Courtesy of Janus Films); "It Was Just an Accident" (Courtesy NEON); "One Battle After Another" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures); "Blue Moon" ...

In my final year of college, I took a class called “CINEMETA,” a hybrid of film and philosophy that treated movies like living thought experiments. The syllabus was deeply curated and delightfully ...

As studios and streamers decamp for the Toronto Film Festival, where they will premiere or screen many of the films that they hope will dominate awards season, they’ll also be on the hunt for some ...