With Age Of Heroes, Tom Breihan picks the most important superhero movie of every year, starting with the genre’s early…
Coming to America: 19 movies about U.S. immigration
We thought it was a good time to revisit some of the movies that have brought the American immigrant experience…
The best movies of 1998
We’ve singled out the 20 best movies that opened in American theaters in 1998, from the multiplex hits to the…
Not ’Zilla: 12 giant monster movies that break the Toho mold
While the Japanese film studio Toho arguably still dominates the kaiju market, you can’t copyright the overall concept of a…
90 years, 90 movies that should have been nominated for Best Picture
The A.V. Club has singled out 90 important, terrific, even canonical movies that weren’t nominated—one for every Best Picture lineup…
A History Of Violence: the most important action movie of every year
With A History Of Violence, Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s…
16 worthwhile found-footage horror movies since The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project wasn’t the first thriller to present itself as the raw video recordings of a doomed camera…
11 films that prove you can do sci-fi without special effects
More so than any genre except for horror, science fiction is defined by its special effects.
The 25 scariest opening scenes in horror-movie history
The A.V. Club is counting down the scariest, creepiest, and most nerve-shredding opening scenes in horror-movie history.
The scenes themselves…
The MCU, ranked
Conventional critical wisdom holds that the floor and the ceiling of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are not so far apart—that…
The 50 greatest special effects movies of all time
The A.V. Club has picked the highlights from a whole history of cinematic illusion, from the Méliès “trick films” of…
What films deserved to make our “best of 1999” list?
For The A.V. Club's 1999 Week, our film writers carefully compiled and voted on a list of the 25 best…