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The A.V. Club’s list of 2016’s best television came together with contributions from 25 writers, who nominated 99…

Two months ago, ESPN’s 30 For 30 offered a counter-narrative to its own “Survive And Advance” with the episode “Phi…

Even at their most cohesive, movies are still collections of individual moments. And any movie, no matter how bad or…

Raoul Peck’s docu-essay I Am Not Your Negro is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, speaking in a voice so low and…

Hundreds of movies come to American theaters every year. Sometimes they arrive at a rate of 20 per week, at least in…

The revolution will not be televised

When it comes to both the daily news and the history books, a proper definition can be everything, affecting how we…

Given that the Toshiro Mifune biographical documentary Mifune: The Last Samurai is only 80 minutes long, it’s a bold…

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…

Back in 2011, director Joe Swanberg made perhaps his most minimalist mumblecore film to date with Uncle Kent, a…

Part Robinson Crusoe, part All Is Lost, and part Heavy Metal, the animated feature The Red Turtle applies a…

One week a month, Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This…

When is an album not an album? In 1978, the American independent label PVC Records released a Big Star LP called 3rd,…

One of the great lessons of the TV series Cops is that the vast majority of American crime is mundane. Police…

Given that 30 For 30 aired the sprawling five-part documentary masterpiece “O.J.: Made In America” just a few months…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. Because it’s…

“There was nothing in Al Capone’s vault / But it wasn’t Geraldo’s fault.”
—Homer Simpson

At least a half-hour passes in Psycho before Marion Crane takes that fateful shower. Even more running time elapses…

The Whole Truth is a moderately clever, reasonably entertaining courtroom drama, which is only a problem given the…