Episodes
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.
Published 12/17/21
Mulholland Drive and The Royal Tenenbaums still shine 20 years later
Published 12/10/21
Joaquin Phoenix brought out the mysterious, ambiguous side of Paul Thomas Anderson
Published 11/26/21
We cap our four-part Paul Thomas Anderson series with a conversation about his latest: Licorice Pizza
Published 11/26/21
Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson are a match made in obsessive heaven
Published 11/19/21
Is Magnolia brilliant, exhausting, or both? Film Club's four-part series on Paul Thomas Anderson continues with Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love
Published 11/12/21
In the run-up to Licorice Pizza, A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife are revisiting Paul Thomas Anderson's entire filmography, starting with Boogie Nights and Hard Eight.
Published 11/05/21
A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife discuss the year in horror movies
Published 10/29/21
On this week’s episode of Film Club, critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife review three of October’s major auteur works.
Published 10/21/21
Film Club is taking a deep dive into the whole Halloween franchise, looking back on a dozen slasher movies (and one weird magic-mask outlier) released over the last 40-plus years.
Published 10/15/21
A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife discuss the latest entry in this undying slasher saga, the middle entry in David Gordon Green’s reboot trilogy, Halloween Kills.
Published 10/15/21
We’ve programmed a prospective marathon of 007 adventures, selecting one movie for each of the six actors that have played the superspy.
Published 10/08/21
Zombies, car sex, and more at America's leading genre film festival, Fantastic Fest
Published 10/01/21
Let's discuss Dear Evan Hansen, Dashcam, and more of the titles that played TIFF over the last week
Published 09/17/21
On the tricky art of adaptation and moving a story from page to screen
Published 09/10/21
Should you spend Labor Day weekend with Shang-Chi or the Candyman?
Published 09/03/21
A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife dig in to the Netflix's buzzy, teen-centric horror series, Fear Street
Published 08/13/21
On a very inside-baseball episode of Film Club, critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife discuss how to write about bad movies right.
Published 08/06/21
On the brink of August, Film Club discusses some event movies that are actually worth your time: M. Night Shyamalan’s Old; David Lowery’s The Green Knight; and James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.
Published 07/30/21
There's so much more to M. Night Shyamalan than a collection of twist endings
Published 07/23/21
From Roy Andersson to Zola, our critics salute the best films of 2021 so far
Published 07/16/21
We finally have a starring vehicle for Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow
Published 07/09/21
With the release of Black Widow, our critics go back through the biggest movie franchise of them all
Published 07/09/21
Gather the family, open a Corona, and tune in as we trace the evolution of The Fast Saga
Published 06/25/21