When The A.V. Club film writers sat down to discuss what 2006 had to offer, we quickly discovered a remarkable amount of overlap between our lists. We could immodestly claim that great minds think ...

Did 2006 feel to you like one of the most significant movie years in recent history? It did to me, but paradoxically or not, that didn’t have a tremendous amount to do with the films that came out.

This year may be remembered as one that blurred the lines between reality and fiction. "Borat" wasn't just the funniest movie of the year, but the most controversial, fudging the divide between comedy ...

Film Director Stephen Frears; Films of 2006In the first part of the hour, Forum talks with British director Stephen Frears. His most recent film, "The Queen," is currently in theaters. And at 9:30, ...

It wasn’t that long ago that pundits throughout the entertainment industry were clamoring about a potentially seismic shift in the habits of moviegoers — a shift that threatened the very foundation of ...

When it comes to movies (and television, too, come to think of it), 2006 was a year of heroes — heroes of varying shapes, sizes and abilities. From the erect (“X-Men 3: The Last Stand”) to the flaccid ...

Iremember being infuriated by a teacher in film school who used to say that she only liked “independent and foreign films.” To which I always felt like responding, “Even the lousy ones?” It’s the same ...

(1) Army of Shadows France’s checkered history with the Nazis shows its heroic side in Jean-Pierre Melville’s brilliant 1969 story of a Resistance fighter, played with minimalist finesse by the ...

War. What is it good for? Well, this past year it was good for the movie industry. Yes, I know it was good for a lot of people in Washington, D.C., too, but our concern today is Hollywood, not ...

Films of 2006 — Forum looks at the films of 2006 — the best, the worst, and those still to come this holiday season — with Gary Meyer, owner and operator of the Balboa Theater in San Francisco, ...