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HomeVideo Review My Neighbor Totoro / Howl’s Moving Castle

Hayao Miyazaki’s animated fantasias will delight adults and children alike.

May 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The second half of Twilight Zone: The Movie more than makes up for the first

Two out of four ain’t bad for a horror omnibus film.

May 15, 2013 | 1:00pm -
Inventory It’s not TV—and it’s not available on HBO Go: 27-plus HBO originals unavailable from the streaming service

Another list from The A.V. Club.

May 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This In The Loop is as merciless as its spiritual ancestor, TV’s The Thick Of It

Armando Iannucci (Veep) moves his savage political satire from the small screen to the big one.

May 14, 2013 | 11:00am -
Inventory The adventures of Tookie De La Crème: 13 surprising celebrity novelists

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

May 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Alfonso Cuarón puts a steamy spin on Great Expectations

Pip, er, Finn gets some action in this unusually sexy Charles Dickens adaptation.

May 10, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Preview The other side of summer: A preview of the season’s non-blockbuster movies

There’s more to summer cinema than superheroes and sequels.

May 9, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The Archers’ A Canterbury Tale plays fast and loose with Chaucer

You won’t ace your English final by watching Powell & Pressburger’s unusual take on the 14th-century stories.

May 8, 2013 | 1:00pm -
For Our Consideration Upstream Color, Room 237, and why some movie mysteries don’t need to be solved

Films are rarely served by revealing everything—especially when nothing’s there.

May 7, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This A low budget can’t squash Super’s ambitions

Rainn Wilson goes from zero to “hero” in James Gunn’s demented addition to the costumed-crusader canon.

May 3, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review What Maisie Knew

With parents like these, who needs enemies?

May 2, 2013 | 12:04am -
Movie Review The Source Family

Only some rocking tunes distinguish a new documentary on the eponymous hippie cult.

May 2, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A Favorite pop-culture goodbyes

A staff departure has us thinking about the best and most poignant farewells in pop culture.

April 26, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Wild Things delivers salaciousness with a wink

There’s more to this trashy Florida noir than just bare flesh. Maybe.

April 25, 2013 | 10:30am -
Movie Review Kon-Tiki

This Foreign-Language Oscar nominee proves that exciting true stories don't always translate onscreen.

April 25, 2013 | 12:08am -
Movie Review The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Current events may help or hinder Mira Nair's timely portrait of culture clash.

April 25, 2013 | 12:00am -
Interview Kristin Scott Thomas has no time for nonsense

“It’s much easier making films with very little money because you have no time to waste; you just have to shoot the damn thing.”

April 18, 2013 | 11:00am -
Watch This Universal’s brief indie fling produced great, odd results like Silent Running

A ’70s experiment in low-budget cinema with minimal studio oversight produced a series of startling films, including this science-fiction oddity.

April 16, 2013 | 11:00am -
AVQ&A What did Roger Ebert mean to you?

The world’s most famous film critic was so much more than that.

April 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
Interview Shane Carruth on self-distributing Upstream Color and “life in the pig corral”

“I have a refusal to be done with something until it feels like it’s a decent piece of architecture that you can explore and swim through.”

April 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Free Angela And All Political Prisoners

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith produced this profile of incendiary activist Angela Davis.

April 4, 2013 | 12:03am -
Movie Review No Place On Earth

A cave spelunker literally uncovers a hideaway for Jews in the Ukraine in Janet Tobias’ documentary.

April 4, 2013 | 12:01am -
AVQ&A Empathizing with art

Our weekly reader-and-staffer question looks at moments where we know exactly what someone in a story feels, because we’ve been there ourselves.

March 29, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review White Elephant

Two priests and a social worker try to make a difference in a Buenos Aires slum, but their efforts put them in peril.

March 28, 2013 | 12:02am -
Movie Review Violeta Went To Heaven

This fine biopic chronicles Violeta Perra, an Chilean folksinger who raised hackles during Pinochet’s rule.

March 28, 2013 | 12:01am -
Watch This John Malkovich’s directorial debut presents terrorism without apparent goal

Malkovich’s adaptation of a Nicholas Shakespeare novel is set in a fictional country, where Javier Bardem pursues a seemingly fictional terrorist.

March 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
Interview Harmony Korine on dynamiting the zeitgeist with the druggy Spring Breakers

“I wanted to make a film that looked like it was lit with candies, like we were lighting it with Skittles.”

March 21, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review Silver Circle

The tyranny of the Fed inspired this extremely bizarre animated political fantasy.

March 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A Favorite festival experiences

After SXSW, we talk about our favorite festival experiences.

March 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Reincarnated

Snoop Dogg’s spiritual transformation involves a name change, a trip to Jamaica, and a reggae album.

March 14, 2013 | 12:06am -

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