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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 -
Movie Review Philip Roth: Unmasked

The newly retired author reflects candidly on his life and work.

March 14, 2013 | 12:03am -
Watch This Metallica enters therapy in Some Kind Of Monster

A behind-the-scenes puff piece from the directors of the Paradise Lost films wound up capturing something much more troubled and intimate.

March 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review The Sweeney

An obscure ’70s UK TV show inspires this soon-to-be-obscure cop thriller.

February 28, 2013 | 12:05am -
Movie Review The End Of Love

Writer-director-star Mark Webber out-Apatows Judd Apatow with this funny, incisive family affair.

February 28, 2013 | 12:04am -
Movie Review Inescapable

A Syrian exile tracks down his kidnapped daughter in a thriller that sounds like Taken, but strikes a much different tone.

February 21, 2013 | 12:02am -
Watch This The Informant! turns a tale of corporate whistle-blowing into zany comedy

Steven Soderbergh’s self-consciously minor film bites down hard on the tongue in its cheek.

February 18, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A Regrettably unattainable art

In an age of near-infinite pop-culture accessibility, we look at those rare items we still can’t acquire.

February 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Hold for some minor retooling: 14-plus entertainments altered due to historical events

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

February 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Sundance Day Eight wraps up an exceptionally good Sundance with a late-breaking entry to round out the Top Five list

The wrenching documentary Valentine Road ends a great Sundance on yet another high point.

January 25, 2013 | 2:22pm -
Sundance Documentaries on Pussy Riot, FAME Studios and Sound City highlight an all-music Day Seven at Sundance

An all-music day delves into the power of studio artistry and political protest.

January 24, 2013 | 11:40am -
Sundance Day Six at Sundance tackles the Beltway Sniper killings and a second go-around for Michael Cera and Sebastían Silva

An attempt to dramatize the Beltway sniper killings puts too neat a spin on unfathomable horror.

January 23, 2013 | 9:48am -
Sundance Day Five at Sundance is all about the perplexing, overwhelming, heart-stoppingly beautiful Upstream Color

Shane Carruth's follow-up to Primer is every bit as baffling, but it's the standout film of the festival so far.

January 22, 2013 | 11:30am -
Sundance Before Midnight, a Terrence Malick homage and Lake Bell's directorial debut top a great Day Four at Sundance

Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy complete a romantic trilogy for the ages.

January 21, 2013 | 8:33am -
Sundance Day Three at Sundance offers a thrillingly subversive, extralegal tour of Disney's Magic Kingdom

An unauthorized shoot inside Disneyworld and a meta-reimagining of William Friedkin's Cruising are two perhaps Sundance-only experiences.

January 20, 2013 | 12:19pm -
Sundance Day Two at Sundance brings Joseph Gordon-Levitt's risible directorial debut and a triumphant follow-up to Smashed

Men are from Mars, women are from the '50s in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut.

January 19, 2013 | 12:40pm -
Sundance Day One at Sundance sends Michael Cera on a wild, drug-filled odyssey through Chile

Sundance kicks off with Americans traveling to Jordan and Chile in perilous journeys of self-discovery.

January 18, 2013 | 7:38am -
Watch This Fritz Lang’s Fury sympathizes with a persecuted innocent

Fritz Lang’s first American film answers the Nazi encroachment with a stirring drama about a decent man falsely condemned.

January 16, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This 40 years before Django Unchained, The Spook Who Sat By The Door depicted a full-scale black revolution

Race war as logical inevitability.

January 9, 2013 | 12:00am -
Interview Sopranos mastermind David Chase talks process and his debut feature film

Why a period piece about the British Invasion isn’t too different from a TV show about the current-day mob.

December 27, 2012 | 12:00am -
Set List The Police’s Andy Summers on his songs, Sting, and being ripped off by Puff Daddy

The Police’s guitarist just wrote one song per album, but he made the most of it.

December 24, 2012 | 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 -

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