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Following its theatrical run, Mea Maxima Culpa debuts tonight on HBO at 9 p.m. Eastern. This review previously ran…

Every year provides plenty of films worth cherishing, but there are isolated scenes and moments, too, that are…

So far, The A.V. Club has looked at the best films of 2012 and put a spotlight on the films we consider to be the…

From the gut-wrenching, step-by-step chronology of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad to…

1. Alien (1979): “In space, no one can hear you scream.”
There’s some consensus that Alien has the single greatest…

Loving the work artists produce doesn’t guarantee feeling the same way about their choices or personalities. It’s…

Blending old-school kung-fu elements with a touch of noir and a plot that recalls A History Of Violence, Peter…

It feels unfair to call King Kelly a found-footage movie—its title character, who frequently turns the camera on…

Whether or not audiences are already familiar with the Catholic Church’s mishandling of sexual-abuse cases, Mea…

The brisk, earnest Chasing Ice documents nature photographer James Balog as he creates the Extreme Ice Survey, an…

Adolf Hitler didn’t have any officially recognized direct descendants, but the subjects of Hitler’s Children, a…

Pornographers and young-adult novelists alike would slap their foreheads in exasperation over Jack & Diane, the…

Josh Schwartz is the man behind the primetime teen soap-operatics of The O.C. and Gossip Girl, but his big-screen…

Last week, The A.V. Club took a look at the best films of the 1990s (a look that proved unexpectedly controversial).…

There’s an irresistible cinematic appeal to watching kids dedicate themselves to fundamentally non-kid-like…

Ponderous and heavy with its own importance, Simon And The Oaks is the kind of film that’s made for awards—it nabbed…

Christophe Barratier, director of the sentimental hit The Chorus, returns with another tale of loveable Gallic…

Everyone plays against type in 3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom, none more so than Ron Perlman, who has a small role as a…

Getting eight critics with disparate tastes to come together for our Best Films Of The ’90s list wasn’t easy, and it…

On Monday, we started counting down our top 50 films of the 1990s, which we tabulated by blind votes among the…