Amy Nicholson On Film

Welcome to the Bentonville Film Festival, where corporate feminism, Walmart, and a mostly pro-Trump audience are working to put more women…

An excellently directed, action-adventure superhero movie with feminism at its heart

This Friday, Netflix premieres two experimental films about notorious ’90s crimes, accidental fame, and the ‘villains’ behind the headlines

The story of real-life explorer Percival Fawcett steps outside of summer blockbuster season

Nacho Vigalondo’s monster comedy is the best self-aware joke you’ll watch all year

A list of six movies with six fictional oppressors — most of whom we’d take over Trump any day

‘Kong’ is a charming, popcorn-chomping adventure that could fit in at any movie theater in 1973

Ry Russo-Young’s teen melodrama is an almost-captivating ‘Mean Girls’ meets ‘Groundhog Day’

Anne Heche and Sandra Oh on dressing themselves, dressing each other, and playing women who truly don’t give a damn

James Mangold’s ‘Logan’ is a phenomenal, throat-slashing, gut-stabbing superhero movie

The beloved movie star, music fiend, and set decorator on how a small-town Texas kid arrived on a sunny beach in Cannes

Jordan Peele’s haunting first horror movie taps into the bleak fear of seeing a disaster coming from a mile away, and still being unable to…

The second installment in the ‘50 Shades’ trilogy is so brilliantly bad it’s genius

The action movie action movies desperately need

Sure, Ben Affleck’s Prohibition-era ‘outlaw’ flick isn’t really necessary, but in 2017 it sure feels good to watch a gangster battle the…

The salute to the black female mathematicians of NASA’s early space program may be sticky-sweet, but that doesn’t mean it won’t make you…

From Kate McKinnon’s ghostbusting antics to Royalty Hightower’s cinematic coming-out party, these were the star turns that made us take…

Director Vikram Gandhi’s nuanced portrait of the young Barack Obama is one of the best films of the year

From a farting corpse to faith-questioning sausages to a lonely lobster, these are MTV chief film critic Amy Nicholson’s picks for the best…

Emma Stone’s brilliant, but this big-screen musical is way too eager to please