There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, and The Dark Knight are all among the very best, most perfect movies of the last 20 years.

Trent Berchtold is a screenwriter with a degree in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University. Highly passionate about film, he has spent years honing his writing skills so that he may contribute to ...

After a year of big changes, The A.V. Club’s roster of film critics has added a slew of new faces and brought back some old favorites. That state of flux—a net positive to be sure—means our final ...

The best films of 2024 were released during a time of increasing polarization in the film industry. Tentpoles got bigger, more unwieldy, more uneven, more likely to crash and burn. On the other side ...

Filmmaking is like having endless chains holding together a project; one bad link can break everything. Sometimes, you might enjoy a movie, but a particular performance leaves you wondering: "Why did ...