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Last century’s Batman films now look like blockbusters from another dimension

Unlike Christopher Nolan’s mostly faithful comic-book adaptations, the first run of Batman movies don’t cater to the fans → Read More

Every big-screen Batman villain, ranked from worst to best

From cackling Cesar Romero to a riddling Paul Dano, we look back on a history of Gotham heavies → Read More

The Batman is a flawed but striking pop-noir blockbuster

Robert Pattinson goes goth in a superhero movie that's at least one great villain shy of greatness → Read More

Okay, yes, I was too hard on Iron Man 3

Our chief film critic A.A. Dowd revisits the one C+ he's never lived down → Read More

Netflix massacres Texas Chainsaw with a lousy legacy sequel

Old Man Leatherface chases some kids off his lawn in this Halloween-biting revival → Read More

The Playground is a battlefield in this harrowing drama about grade-school bullying

Matt Groening had it right after all: School is hell → Read More

Death On The Nile takes a criminally long time getting to the crime

Kenneth Branagh’s chintzy whodunit sequel is short on stars, extravagance, and fun → Read More

The Worst Person In The World is an exciting drama about how damn confusing your 30s are

There’s a love triangle, too, in this award-winner from Joachim Trier → Read More

The best films of Sundance 2022

Our critics' favorites of the fest include Happening, After Yang, and Emily The Criminal → Read More

After Yang brings some robot soul to Sundance

We chase the sci-fi tearjerker with a dark cloning comedy and an even darker thriller → Read More

John Boyega's hostage drama brings some '90s-Hollywood-style thrills to Sundance

But the real highlight of the festival so far is a nightmarish gauntlet of social discomfort → Read More

Three-part Netflix doc jeen-yuhs offers an incomplete telling of the Kanye West story

There are some big gaps in this Hoop Dreams-style portrait of the rapper's life and career → Read More

Opening night of Sundance was all about Princess Diana and a twisty Sebastian Stan thriller

We open this virtual edition of the festival with thoughts on The Princess, A Love Song, and Fresh → Read More

25 more movies we hope to see in 2022

Martin Scorsese. David Cronenberg. Claire Denis. All have projects on the horizons. But will they open this year? → Read More

Seduction is conversion in the frictionless faith-based romance Redeeming Love

There's no chemistry, just icky power imbalance, in this adaptation of the Christian bestseller → Read More

Discussing our favorite movies of 2021

Ahead of The A.V. Club's list of the best films of the year, critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife talk about the ones that mattered to them most. → Read More

Spider-Man takes on a cross-franchise rogues gallery in the greatest-hits sequel No Way Home

From the Spider-Verse tumbles a sinister five of Sam Raimi and Marc Webb villains. → Read More

Squid Game and Annette are among the only Golden Globe surprises

Did the Hollywood Foreign Press Association make any truly unexpected calls? → Read More

Looking back on our favorite movies of 2001

Mulholland Drive and The Royal Tenenbaums still shine 20 years later → Read More

Red Rocket scores huge, tricky laughs from the foibles of a parasitic porn star

One-time MTV star Simon Rex is a revelation in Sean Baker's pointed new comedy → Read More