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A.A. Dowd,
Katie Rife,
Allison Shoemaker,
Lawrence Garcia,
and 9 moreJust about everyone agrees that 1999 was a great year for movies. We here at The A.V. Club do not beg to differ: We…
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Jul 29
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A Girl Missing is a movie about optics—how bad ones can incriminate an innocent person, and how we perceive each…
Jul 21
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Jul 15
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Jul 9
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A.A. Dowd,
Katie Rife,
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky,
and 5 moreA few weeks ago, the Academy announced that it would be extending the eligibility window for next year’s Oscars by a…
Jun 30
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Jun 16
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Apr 14
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Visions of a burning house haunt a nameless fugitive in Scott Teems’ The Quarry. Played by Shea Whigham and referred…
Feb 26
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The possibility that our futures hold nothing remarkable for us can seem like a nightmare. In Saint Frances, 34-year-…
Dec 13
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Walking home alone at night, the appearance of a strange man can cause alarm, even if it’s just some random guy…
Dec 4
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New York City in the summer of 1977 must have felt like the end of the Roman Empire. Sweltering heat waves turned…
Oct 28
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“Instead of the cross, the Albatross around my neck was hung” laments the narrator of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge…
Oct 11
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Imagine an episode of Black Mirror written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the minds behind such piercing…
Aug 14 2019
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There’s good reason to be skeptical of white filmmakers taking on the Black experience. But if Green Book, as a…
Jul 16 2019
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The first scene in which Jane Fonda appears in Alan J. Pakula’s Klute (1971) is at a type of inspection point. A row…
Jul 8 2019
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If you’ve heard anything about The Farewell other than it stars rapper-turned-actress Awkwafina, maybe it’s the…
Jun 6 2019
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The lights are dimmed, and a mess of chairs and tables form a circle around a makeshift dance floor. It’s primed for…
May 13 2019
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It’s not uncommon in Asian cinema to depict female oppression—and resilience—through the historical lens of old…