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TV Roundtable After Ally McBeal captured the zeitgeist, Robert Downey Jr. found the show’s heart

“That’s what Christmas is all about, Ally McBeal.”

March 20, 2013 | 12:00pm -
TV Club : Smash “Musical Chairs”

Remember everything Smash was so sure about last week? This week it all changes. (Again.)

March 20, 2013 | 1:00am -
HomeVideo Review Timerider

Fred Ward as a time-traveling dirt-bike rider? B-movie heaven.

March 20, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Decoy”

You might not see a major motion picture this year more tense and well-plotted than this week’s Justified.

March 19, 2013 | 10:00pm -
AVQ&A Favorite festival experiences

After SXSW, we talk about our favorite festival experiences.

March 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The Day Of The Jackal meticulously tracks an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle

Long, detail-oriented, largely dialogue-free scenes place this 1973 international terrorist procedural in its own league.

March 18, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Club : Other Shows The World According To Dick Cheney

The director of The War Room and The Perfect Candidate talks to one of the most controversial VPs in US history.

March 15, 2013 | 4:00pm -
AVQ&A Surprising songs in concert

This week, a reader asks the staff and readers about unexpected songs we heard at live performances.

March 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
A Very Special Episode How Dollhouse toyed with the idea of how people and institutions are formed

Snappy dialogue masking genuine questions of identity or writers’ lament?

March 14, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review Ginger & Rosa

Director Sally Potter chronicles a volatile friendship between two teenagers (Elle Fanning and Alice Englert) in 1962 London.

March 14, 2013 | 12:02am -
Movie Review From Up On Poppy Hill

Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro directed this sweet animated coming-of-age tale, set the year before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

March 14, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Club : Smash “The Fringe”

Big decisions get made on a not-too-terrible Smash.

March 13, 2013 | 12:15am -
HomeVideo Review Naked City: 20 Star-Filled Episodes

From 1958 to 1963, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, and more passed through this often-lurid crime show.

March 13, 2013 | 12:02am -
HomeVideo Review Ministry Of Fear

Fritz Lang’s dark history in pre-WWII Germany informs this noir-tinged paranoid thriller.

March 13, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Roundtable Daria’s musical episode comes off like a dare—but does it hit the right notes?

An all-singing, all-dancing episode of this down-to-earth cartoon makes no sense, but it’s still an endearing experiment.

March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Get Drew”

A twisty Justified separates its Harlan players into outlaws, assholes, and awesome.

March 12, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Why Is This Commercial? An AT&T spot uses cute kids to sell multitasking, but fails to sell AT&T

The “Dizzy” spot is pleasant, but not pointed enough to work as advertising.

March 12, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Comics Panel New comics releases include a Guardians Of The Galaxy origin story and the sordid Sex

Also reviewed: Gilbert Hernandez’s latest, Age Of Ultron, and a romantically nerdy Neil Gaiman adaptation

March 12, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This Triplets Of Belleville’s director adapted a Jacques Tati screenplay into a deft homage

A long-lost script became a modern, melancholy animated film about a fading past.

March 12, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration From Journey to Jack White to James Hunter: What makes a singer “good?”

Range and power can only take a singer so far.

March 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey

A look at Journey’s latest incarnation focuses on the incredible story of Filipino vocalist Arnel Pineda.

March 7, 2013 | 12:03am -
Movie Review Gut Renovation

A damning look at Williamsburg gentrification makes a strong argument against itself.

March 7, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Roundtable Frasier forgets the words in one of the funniest sitcom episodes of the 1990s

The glare of the spotlight makes the show’s characters sweat, copiously and hilariously.

March 6, 2013 | 10:00am -
TV Club : Smash “The Read-Through”

Smash smashes on, Smash-ily.

March 6, 2013 | 12:45am -
HomeVideo Review The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley: The Complete Series

Hanna-Barbera teamed with Martin Short for one of the most unusual cartoons of the ’80s.

March 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory MTV After Dark: 15 R-rated (or at least PG-13) music videos of the ’80s

Another list from The A.V. Club.

March 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “The Hatchet Tour”

This week on Justified, the real Drew Thompson finally stands up.

March 5, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Why Is This Commercial? A confusing Samsung Galaxy spot offers a peek at the doofuses behind the ads

It’s supposed to be The Next Big Thing, but the people who use them seem smug, dorky, or both.

March 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The inspiration and heartbreak of the Minutemen story comes through in We Jam Econo

Twenty years after D. Boon’s death, his bandmates share their story.

March 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Out of a tailspin: 16 great shows that recovered from bum seasons

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

March 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

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