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Feb. 29, 2:41 PM

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Guillermo Del Toro and Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills trailer translates to real-world chills

Feb. 29, 2:15 PM

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend gives us three Rebeccas for the price of one

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Despite its unique setting, Songs My Brothers Taught Me is pretty ordinary

B-

Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Chloé Zhao
B+

Wyatt Cenac

Furry Dumb Fighter
A

Ten Days A Madwoman

Deborah Noyes
B+

Pieces

Juan Piquer Simón
A-

I Knew Her Well

Antonio Pietrangeli
B

The Mermaid

Stephen Chow
B-

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword Of Destiny

Yuen Woo-Ping
B+

Mount Moriah

How To Dance
B

The 1975

I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
C+

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

This Unruly Mess I've Made
B

Santigold

99¢
C

Gods Of Egypt

Alex Proyas

Despite its unique setting, Songs My Brothers Taught Me is pretty ordinary

B-

Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Chloé Zhao
B+

Pieces

Juan Piquer Simón
A-

I Knew Her Well

Antonio Pietrangeli
B

The Mermaid

Stephen Chow
B-

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword Of Destiny

Yuen Woo-Ping
C

Gods Of Egypt

Alex Proyas
B-

Triple 9

John Hillcoat
B-

Eddie The Eagle

Dexter Fletcher
C

Marguerite & Julien

Valérie Donzelli
C+

Tricked

Paul Verhoeven
C

A Country Called Home

Anna Axster
A

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

Mount Moriah’s country rock lopes off to a beautifully mysterious place

B+

Mount Moriah

How To Dance
B

The 1975

I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
C+

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

This Unruly Mess I've Made
B

Santigold

99¢
B

Ra Ra Riot

Need Your Light
B

Lake Street Dive

Side Pony
B

Animal Collective

Painting With
A

Kanye West

The Life of Pablo
A-

Dr. Dog

The Psychedelic Swamp
B+

Sia

This Is Acting
B+

Rihanna

Anti
C+

Wet

Don't You

Wyatt Cenac’s latest album finds the funny in world-weariness

B+

Wyatt Cenac

Furry Dumb Fighter
A-

Hannibal Buress: Comedy Camisado

Lance Bangs
B+

Marc Maron: More Later

Bobcat Goldthwait
B-

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David Paul Meyer
B+

Amy Schumer Live At The Apollo

Chris Rock
A-

Paul F. Tompkins: Crying And Driving

Marcus Raboy
B

Anjelah Johnson: Not Fancy

Jay Karas
A-

Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted

Tig Notaro, Jay Karas
B+

Eugene Mirman: Vegan On His Way To The Complain Store

Bobcat Goldthwait
B-

Taylor Negron

UnCabaret Presents Taylor Negron
C

Lisa Lampanelli: Back To The Drawing Board

Jay Chapman

Ten Days A Madwoman tells the overlooked story of an early American badass

A

Ten Days A Madwoman

Deborah Noyes
A-

Lovecraft Country

Matt Ruff
A-

The Widow

Fiona Barton
B

The Secret Life Of The American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built

Jack Viertel
B+

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout
C

Eleanor

Jason Gurley
A-

The Man Without A Shadow

Joyce Carol Oates
A-

Navel Gazing: True Tales Of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird)

Michael Ian Black
C+

After The Crash

Michel Bussi
B+

Groucho Marx: The Comedy Of Existence

Lee Siegel
B-

Mad Men Unzipped: Fans On Sex, Love, And The Sixties On TV

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B-

Ten Billion Tomorrows

Brian Clegg

ABC’s abduction drama The Family plays a risky game with a solid team

B

The Family

Season 1
B

Mavis!

Jessica Edwards
A-

Prey

Season 1
D

Fuller House

Season 1
B-

Becoming Mike Nichols

Douglas McGrath
B-

Cooked

Season One
A-

Love

Season 1
B+

The New Yorker Presents

Alex Gibney
A-

Better Call Saul

Season 2
B

11.22.63

Season 1
B+

Vinyl

Season 1
B+

Those Who Can't

Season 1

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Andy Garcia is the anti-Rock in the trailer for Ballers season two

Feb. 29, 2:13 PM

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Where’s Waldo? gets a 360-degree makeover in this interactive video

Feb. 29, 1:36 PM

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One bleak day gives way to another in Joy Division’s “24 Hours”

Feb. 29, 1:00 PM

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It’s “Die Hard on the president’s airplane”

Feb. 29, 1:00 PM

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Celebrate Leap Day with 30 Rock’s creepy Leap Dave Williams

Feb. 29, 12:54 PM

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Bruce Springsteen has been traveling down “Thunder Road” for 41 years

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50 years after his musical heyday, political satirist Tom Lehrer is as important as ever

Feb. 29, 10:56 AM

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Compare two versions of the same film as they run side-by-side

Feb. 29, 10:28 AM

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Feb. 29, 9:00 AM

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Feb. 29, 9:00 AM

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Feb. 29, 12:00 AM

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Feb. 29, 12:00 AM

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Feb. 29, 12:00 AM

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Mavis! soars because of its lovely, legendary subject

Feb. 29, 12:00 AM

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Feb. 29, 12:00 AM

Live Chat

The A.V. Club’s 2016 Oscars liveblog

Feb. 28, 6:00 PM

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