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Movie Review A Royal Affair

When King Christian VII of Denmark falls to mental illness, his doctor takes up with the queen.

November 8, 2012 | 12:02am -
Primer A beginner’s guide to the Spike Lee Joints

Exploring the filmmaker’s diverse, unfailingly personal, body of work.

November 1, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review A Late Quartet

Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener bring heft to a drama about a quartet suffering a personal and professional falling out.

November 1, 2012 | 12:05am -
Movie Review A Man’s Story

The ceaseless appetite for docs about fashionistas brings a dismal study of British designer Ozwald Boateng.

November 1, 2012 | 12:03am -
Best of The 10 best films of the 1890s

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

October 19, 2012 | 10:00am -
Interview Love And Rockets’ Hernandez brothers on 30 years in comics

“In the normal world of art comics, our time is up."

October 19, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview John Leguizamo on returning to the stage and antagonizing Steven Seagal

“I didn’t start out thinking, ‘Well, damn, I’m the most fascinating thing.’ I was fascinated by other people.”

October 18, 2012 | 10:00am -
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 -
Movie Review Middle Of Nowhere

A woman drops out of med school to care for her incarcerated husband in this old-school Sundance gem.

October 11, 2012 | 12:07am -
Movie Review A Whisper To A Roar

A sampling of five democratic movements around the world attempts to find some common threads.

October 11, 2012 | 12:02am -
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 -
For Our Consideration Dial M for 3-D: Hitchcock’s primer for depicting the third dimension

What an almost 60-year-old movie can teach modern filmmakers about shooting in depth.

October 9, 2012 | 12:00pm -
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 -
Interview Famke Janssen on her directorial debut, the X-Men films, and Taken 2

“What’s the point of independent film if you don’t get to experiment?”

October 8, 2012 | 11:00am -
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 -
Movie Review Butter

The Machiavellian tactics of competitive butter-carvers make for a soft political metaphor.

October 4, 2012 | 12:05am -
Inventory Familiar faces in unfamiliar places: 17 TV cast reunions on other shows

Another list from The A.V. Club.

October 3, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview Genndy Tartakovsky on helming Hotel Transylvania, plus the Samurai Jack movie

The creator of Dexter’s Laboratory on taking over a troubled production and trying new things in animation.

October 1, 2012 | 11:00am -
Movie Review Backwards

A young woman’s pursuit of an Olympic rowing medal gets stalled when life intervenes.

September 20, 2012 | 12:05am -
Interview Nick Cave on Lawless, the sentimentality of sadists, and the war on drugs

“Once the theme is there, the stories come relatively easy.”

September 19, 2012 | 10:00am -
Movie Review Detropia

The decline of Detroit provides a sad case study for the current economic downturn.

September 6, 2012 | 12:04am -
Movie Review Keep The Lights On

Director Ira Sachs tells an intensely personal story about a filmmaker who tries to romance a closeted lawyer.

September 6, 2012 | 12:01am -
Inventory A working class hero is something to be: 23 proletariat classics

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

September 3, 2012 | 12:00am -
Random Roles Clarke Peters on Red Hook Summer, Treme, and performing with a purpose

“Art is just as important in your society as economics is and as politics is. And if it’s not serving that purpose, then it’s just a wank.”

August 29, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Interview Compliance writer-director Craig Zobel on his controversial new film

“We fail to recognize that human interaction and a really good pitch can actually overcome logic and your belief system.”

August 23, 2012 | 11:00am -
Interview Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me: an interview in three acts (with guests)

Also starring Ira Glass, Marc Maron, and Carol Kane.

August 23, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview Dax Shepard on Idiocracy, Hit & Run, and Van Halen's film-music delusions

“I’m almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow.”

August 22, 2012 | 12:00am -
Inventory “It’s like Jaws but…”: 14 great films that inspired regrettable trends

The A.V. Club's weekly list.

August 13, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview Killer Joe’s Gina Gershon on merkins, film ratings, and laughing at brutality

“‘Outside of the box’—what box? Let’s just do what’s honest to the character and see how far we can go.”

August 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

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