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Articles by A.A. Dowd
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film Chevalier sees male bonding as a (literal) dick-measuring contest
By A.A. Dowd May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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film With Holy Hell, a cult survivor shares 22 years of footage from the inside
By A.A. Dowd May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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aux Here are the unexpected winners of this year’s Cannes Film Festival
By A.A. Dowd May 23, 2016 | 6:23pm
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tv Ambient TV and two albums, one ornery, the other convention defying
By A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Katie Rife May 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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aux See some stellar movies (and Craig Robinson!) at this weekend’s Chicago Film Critics Festival
By A.A. Dowd May 20, 2016 | 5:35pm
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film Pervert Park boldly expresses empathy for America’s most reviled
By A.A. Dowd May 19, 2016 | 2:00pm
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film Maggie’s Plan is the off-brand version of a delightful Greta Gerwig comedy
By A.A. Dowd May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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aux Weekend Box Office: Disney is the real money monster, as usual
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2016 | 5:51pm
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film Touring the surreal dystopias of The Lobster and High-Rise
By A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 13, 2016 | 7:40pm
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film Poltergeist haunts every lame frame of The Darkness
By A.A. Dowd May 13, 2016 | 3:00pm
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film Just about every time these brothers make a movie, it wins at Cannes
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2016 | 2:30pm
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film Cage and Travolta face off again, this time with competing budget vehicles
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2016 | 1:00pm
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film Colin Farrell goes full-on frumpy in the darkly deadpan The Lobster
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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aux Colin Farrell is looking for love—or else—in an exclusive The Lobster mini-trailer
By A.A. Dowd May 11, 2016 | 4:00pm
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music My country, fests of thee: A state-by-state guide to summer music festivals
By Gwen Ihnat, A.A. Dowd, David Anthony, Becca James, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning May 11, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Our critics address Captain America: Civil War and the state of the Marvel union
By A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 6, 2016 | 6:39pm
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film Spoiler Space: Captain America: Civil War
By A.A. Dowd May 3, 2016 | 10:47pm
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film It’s Avenger on Avenger in Marvel’s superior Captain America: Civil War
By A.A. Dowd May 3, 2016 | 9:11pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: The quiet before the Civil War
By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2016 | 5:46pm
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film What movie are you glad you saw in the theater?
By Nathan Rabin, Gus Spelman, Caroline Siede, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Katie Rife, Genevieve Valentine, Molly Eichel, Becca James, Erik Adams, Alex McLevy, Sam Barsanti, William Hughes, Jesse Hassenger, Dennis Perkins, Mike Vago April 29, 2016 | 5:00am
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film Key and Peele are outrageously funny, even when Keanu isn’t
By A.A. Dowd April 28, 2016 | 7:15pm