The A.V. Club is Paste Magazine‘s source for TV and film coverage. The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood ...

If there was any film obsessive whose ideas about what constitutes a perfect movie are worth taking seriously, it's probably Quentin Tarantino, who's long been one of the culture's most beloved ...

'Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle’ (Crunchy Roll) What do we do when we start making a movie? We yell “action!” because that’s what this medium is all about. On a basic, ...

As the year closes on another fantastic slate of films, it's time to look ahead to 2026, where new projects from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Greta Gerwig, Denis Villeneuve, and Christopher Nolan ...

The latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson follows Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ageing hippie hero and a relic of a fictional noughties brigade, the French 75. Led by his lover Perfidia ...

148 critics from six different continents voted on the best films of the year. These films were their 50 favorites. As the credits roll on 2025, we’re left with a slate of movies that will almost ...

Google's rich ecosystem of apps and services is a big advantage for the Gemini AI experience. The chatbot can act as an assistant ready to provide information on the fly about all sorts of topics, ...

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 ...

Google Labs today announced a “new experimental AI productivity agent” called “CC.” It will generate and send a “Your Day Ahead” briefing to your inbox every morning. CC “synthesizes your schedule, ...

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 ...

Across the span of his decades-long career in Hollywood, Rob Reiner directed a host of beloved films—the kind you watch again and again, finding something new in them each time. As we mourn the tragic ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2025. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...