• aux Birdman, Boyhood, Whiplash score multiple Indie Spirit nominations By A.A. Dowd November 25, 2014 | 10:15pm
• film The Babadook is metaphorically rich—and pretty damn scary, too By A.A. Dowd November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
• tv The Airborne Toxic Advent, or The A.V. Club’s holiday gift guide, part 2 By A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Katie Rife, Becca James, Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
• aux Weekend Box Office: Mockingjay “disappoints” with $123 million By A.A. Dowd November 24, 2014 | 4:34pm
• film Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy have a battle of the sexes By A.A. Dowd November 21, 2014 | 6:00pm
• tv Is there an ending that made you change your mind? By Jesse Hassenger, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, William Hughes, Mike Vago November 21, 2014 | 6:00am
• film 7 essential films demonstrate Mike Nichols’ gift for comedy and drama By A.A. Dowd, Sean O'Neal, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 21, 2014 | 12:09am
• film As its clunky title suggests, Mockingjay—Part 1 is half a Hunger Games film By A.A. Dowd November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
• film The V/H/S franchise goes Viral—and down the tubes By A.A. Dowd November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
• film La Dolce Vita won the Palme, but a more radical Italian film deserved it By A.A. Dowd November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
• film The desperate Dumb And Dumber To recycles the jokes of its predecessor By A.A. Dowd November 13, 2014 | 7:45pm
• film The speculative Foxcatcher turns true crime into unconvincing Greek tragedy By A.A. Dowd November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
• film Spoiler Space: Foxcatcher By A.A. Dowd November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
• film Ignore the story, enjoy the puppet show By A.A. Dowd November 11, 2014 | 5:00pm
• aux Weekend Box Office: America does the robot for two geek spectacles By A.A. Dowd November 10, 2014 | 5:06pm
• film SPLAT!: 15 ways to blow up a human head By Jesse Hassenger, Drew Fortune, A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Joshua Alston, Genevieve Valentine, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, William Hughes, Les Chappell, Dennis Perkins, Kiva Reardon October 29, 2014 | 5:00am
• film 24 hours of horror with a dozen of the genre’s freshest voices By A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 27, 2014 | 5:00am
• film Natural born thrillers: 18 directors who haven’t made a horror film, but should By Jesse Hassenger, A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Joshua Alston, Genevieve Valentine, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Drew Fortune, Dennis Perkins, Mike Vago October 27, 2014 | 5:00am
• film Laggies is even less of a Lynn Shelton movie than Lynn Shelton’s last movie By A.A. Dowd October 23, 2014 | 3:25pm
• film Force Majeure is a darkly comic study of male ego in collapse By A.A. Dowd October 23, 2014 | 3:00pm
• film You can finally own Thom Andersen’s cranky treasure, Los Angeles Plays Itself By A.A. Dowd October 22, 2014 | 5:00am