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There’s one scene in the 1990 Warner Bros. version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches that no impressionable young viewer…

Most people use the terms “horror movie” and “scary movie” interchangeably. But that raises a question: Does a…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…

At this point, Blumhouse isn’t just a production company. Having bankrolled over a dozen years worth of Purges and…

Movies come from all over the globe to play the New York Film Festival every year. 2020’s mostly virtual edition,…

Note: The writer of this review watched Time from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see…

Everybody has classic movies they’ve somehow never seen. On this week’s episode of Film Club, we’re addressing two…

Tsai Ming-liang’s Days (Grade: B+), which premiered in Berlin earlier this year and now plays as part of the New…

It’s tough to pinpoint the exact origins of the expression “elevated horror.” But it was sometime around the middle…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent…

Note: The writer of this review watched Possessor from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see…

With Tenet failing to drum up the kind of business Warner Bros. was hoping for, Hollywood has mostly put the breaks…

As the leaves turn and we all brace ourselves for the deafening roar of noise that will constitute daily life in the…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…

Note: The writer of this review watched On The Rocks from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to…

Last week, The A.V. Club marked the serendipitous release of two new films from Antonio Campos and Sean Durkin with a…

Note: The writer of this review watched The Trial Of The Chicago 7 from home on a digital screener. Before making…

Of all the pleasures that go missing when a film festival goes virtual, true post-movie discussion might be the…

Toronto ends this year not with a check out, a wave through a taxi window, and a short flight home, but with the…

Greetings from the Toronto International Film Festival, a.k.a. our living rooms. Because of COVID, this year’s…