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Watch This The Red Shoes skips the fairy tale’s severed feet and meditates on love instead

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger converted a grim Hans Christian Andersen story into a gorgeous, fevered spectacle.

January 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Outside Satan

French provocateur Bruno Dumont returns to his comfort zone of inexpressive bumpkins wandering a dreary countryside.

January 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The darkly comic Barfly slips every cliché of inebriation

Making his first film in America, director Barbet Schroeder commissioned Charles Bukowski for a black comedy of ill manners.

January 14, 2013 | 10:00am -
For Our Consideration Zero Dark Thirty’s lone-wolf protagonist makes it more conventional than it seems

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s acclaimed thriller is closer to Good Morning, Vietnam than anyone thinks.

January 14, 2013 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes A Moonrise Kingdom montage shows the art of compression isn’t dead

Team America: World Police may have mocked montages into retreat, but not as far as Wes Anderson is concerned.

January 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This The Night Of The Hunter was Charles Laughton’s first, and only, directorial masterpiece

The actor made one of the greatest movies in cinema history, then never made another.

January 7, 2013 | 12:00am -
Best of The best film scenes of 2012

These film scenes epitomized greatness or elevated mediocrity this year.

December 21, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The worst films of 2012

We’ve talked about the best of the year. Here’s the opposite of that.

December 20, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The best films of 2012

Vivid histories, haunted landscapes, and revitalized genre fare defined the year in film.

December 19, 2012 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes Two versions of Bad Santa’s opening scene create different expectations

Chopin in a pretty shitty situation.

December 17, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review Only The Young

All documentary rules go out the window in this dreamy, beautiful portrait of Christian skate punks.

December 6, 2012 | 12:03am -
Scenic Routes A Drugstore Cowboy scene features drug logic at its most inventively deranged

A Matt Dillon tirade proves not all drug-fueled thinking has to go for the cheap laugh.

December 3, 2012 | 11:00am -
Scenic Routes Avanti! illustrates how sometimes falling for a movie is like falling in love

Infatuation and corpses play parts in an odd comedy’s key scene.

November 19, 2012 | 11:00am -
Movie Review In Another Country

Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo (Turning Gate) makes the same movie he always makes. The variation this time: Isabelle Huppert.

November 8, 2012 | 12:04am -
Movie Review This Must Be The Place

The spectacle of Sean Penn as a Robert Smith-like rock star has inspired chuckles. Get over it.

November 1, 2012 | 12:02am -
Scenic Routes Little Shop Of Horrors demonstrates the fine art of setting the scene

One of the last great movie musicals gets off to a stunning start.

October 29, 2012 | 11:30am -
Best of The 10 best films of the 1890s

Ten artistically compelling, historically significant films from the 1890s.

October 19, 2012 | 10:00am -
Movie Review Alex Cross

A detective (Tyler Perry) tracks down a cunning serial killer (Matthew Fox) in a thriller like every other.

October 18, 2012 | 12:07am -
Movie Review Holy Motors

Returning to feature filmmaking after a 13-year exile, Leos Carax pours everything he’s got into an inspired fit of invention.

October 17, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Inventory The mirror has two faces: 15 great movie scenes where characters meet their reflection

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

October 15, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The best films of the ’90s: orphans, outliers, and personal favorites

Our critics’ personal favorites that didn’t make the main list.

October 11, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The 50 best films of the ’90s (3 of 3)

Our cinema countdown hits its top 10, with a double feature from a single filmmaker.

October 10, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The 50 best films of the ’90s (2 of 3)

Our cinema countdown continues, with entries from Robert Altman, the Coen brothers, and more.

October 9, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The 50 best films of the ’90s (1 of 3)

We begin our countdown of the best cinema of the ’90s, from James Cameron to the Wachowskis.

October 8, 2012 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes A seemingly superfluous scene says a lot about Margaret’s meaningful messiness

Why stop the movie to debate King Lear?

September 24, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes In The Court Jester, Danny Kaye’s life depends on getting the words right

The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle, right?

September 10, 2012 | 11:00am -
Inventory A working class hero is something to be: 23 proletariat classics

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

September 3, 2012 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes How The War Of The Roses highlights Danny DeVito’s brief directorial genius

As a filmmaker, Danny DeVito is no Charles Laughton… or is he?

August 20, 2012 | 11:00am -
Scenic Routes The French drama La Haine makes unusually good use of a restroom

In a dizzying movie, a convoluted bathroom story just adds to the spin.

August 6, 2012 | 1:00pm -
For Our Consideration Did 12 Angry Men get it wrong?

Did Henry Fonda convince 11 people to let a murderer go free?

August 2, 2012 | 10:00am -

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