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Articles by A.A. Dowd
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film Dave Franco’s indie slasher The Rental is barely worth one
By A.A. Dowd July 22, 2020 | 10:00pm
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film At three grueling hours, The Painted Bird is the feel-bad movie of this year or any other
By A.A. Dowd July 15, 2020 | 8:20pm
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music The best albums of 2020 so far
By Alex McLevy, Katie Rife, Mosi Reeves, Clayton Purdom, Shannon Miller, Randall Colburn, Cameron Scheetz, Marty Sartini Garner, Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd July 11, 2020 | 5:05am
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games The best games of 2020 so far
By William Hughes, Shannon Miller, Joey Clift, A.A. Dowd, Alexander Chatziioannou, Randall Colburn, Sam Barsanti, Samantha Nelson July 10, 2020 | 11:00am
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film The best films of 2020 so far
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, Noel Murray, Beatrice Loayza, Lawrence Garcia, Charles Bramesco July 9, 2020 | 11:00am
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film Andy Samberg falls into his own Groundhog Day in the sweet and inventive Palm Springs
By A.A. Dowd July 6, 2020 | 2:30pm
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film Werner Herzog explores the strange business of rented relatives in Family Romance, LLC
By A.A. Dowd July 2, 2020 | 2:00pm
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film Bill Clinton is a supporting character in this inside look at his campaign for the presidency
By A.A. Dowd June 26, 2020 | 7:00pm
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film Will The King Of Staten Island make you a Pete Davidson fan? Our critics are split
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife June 26, 2020 | 12:00pm
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film Onward’s tearjerking finale is a triumph of perspective
By A.A. Dowd June 23, 2020 | 2:55pm
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film Jon Stewart’s political satire Irresistible would have looked obvious two presidents ago
By A.A. Dowd June 22, 2020 | 9:00pm
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film Purgatory is as drab as the DMV in the profound and moving After Life
By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2020 | 9:30pm
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film Remember video stores? Our critics take a trip back to the Blockbuster era
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife June 19, 2020 | 12:00pm
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film Kevin Bacon books the Airbnb from hell in ponderous Blumhouse chiller You Should Have Left
By A.A. Dowd June 18, 2020 | 6:30pm
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games The Last Of Us Part II boldly reckons with its predecessor and its own violent design
By A.A. Dowd June 16, 2020 | 11:00am
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film On the long, wild, and exhilarating career of Spike Lee
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife June 12, 2020 | 12:00pm
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film Pixar’s hot streak screeched to a halt with a starring vehicle for Larry The Cable Guy
By A.A. Dowd June 9, 2020 | 11:00am
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film New films from Spike Lee, Judd Apatow, and, uh, Kevin James are coming this June
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jesse Hassenger, William Hughes June 4, 2020 | 11:43am
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film Kevin James playing a “scary” Nazi villain isn’t even the most ridiculous thing about Becky
By A.A. Dowd June 3, 2020 | 8:00pm
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music Run The Jewels, HAIM, and 15 more albums we can’t wait to hear in June
By The A.V. Club, Gwen Ihnat, Katie Rife, Cameron Scheetz, A.A. Dowd, Randall Colburn, Baraka Kaseko, Erik Adams June 3, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Our critics investigate the strange world of TV in a format-breaking episode on The X-Files
By Katie Rife, A.A. Dowd May 29, 2020 | 7:30pm