With the New Year upon us, it’s time for our annual tradition of looking at the cinematic horizon. Having highlighted the films we guarantee are worth seeing in 2026 and those we hope get U.S.

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 ...

Rob Reiner may not have been an auteur on the level of contemporaries like Martin Scorsese or Steven Spielberg, but you’d be hard pressed to find a director whose filmography had a bigger, broader ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Rob Reiner was born into the lineage of comedy thanks to his father, television pioneer Carl Reiner, and he first ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

It’s hard to look at the astounding box-office and critical success of Sinners and Weapons and say 2025 was not a great year for horror. And yet, here I am, bravely doing it anyway: 2025 was not a ...

Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key ...

Falling in love with rom-coms is easy. All you need is some laughs, some romance, some likable characters, and some superb direction to fall head over heels with the genre. There are not many things ...

From genocidal aliens to aimless bromances, the best films of the year were audacious enough to reach a hand into the shadowy corners of our collective unrest, unafraid of what they might bring back ...

“My favorite movie of the year is a disagreeable but highly entertaining tale as exhausting as today’s politics with characters nobody could possibly root for.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: ...