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HomeVideo Review Marketa Lazarová

Don’t expect to decipher this ensemble period piece, new to Criteron, on first viewing.

June 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Jukebox superhero: 26 songs about Superman

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

June 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Twenty Feet From Stardom

For once, the spotlight belongs to the backup singers.

June 13, 2013 | 12:05am -
Watch This Work is hell for the beleaguered temps of Clockwatchers

Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, and Toni Collette shine in this ’90s office comedy.

June 4, 2013 | 11:00am -
Watch This Zack Snyder delivers a passion project with Sucker Punch

Not the fanboy sop it was mistaken for, this excessive fantasia is instead Snyder’s most personal effort.

May 30, 2013 | 11:00am -
HomeVideo Review Life Is Sweet

Is Life Is Sweet “the scourge of the lower middle classes,” or a tragi-comic balancing act?

May 29, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Vanishing Point caters to car nuts and existentialists alike

From out of the ’70s, here comes a parable built for speed.

May 23, 2013 | 11:00am -
Interview Katie Aselton on going from mumblecore to thriller—and directing her own nude scenes

“Did that answer your question? Your uncomfortable nudie question?”

May 22, 2013 | 11:00am -
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 -

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