Note: The writer of this review watched Shoplifters Of The World on a digital screener from home. Before making the…
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Fuck, shit, bitch, dick, pussy, damn—these words provide the episode titles and subject matter for Netflix’s History…
My teenage Anglophilia started with music—The Smiths, New Order, The Wedding Present—and quickly spread to sweets,…
My teenage Anglophilia started with music—The Smiths, New Order, The Wedding Present—and quickly spread to sweets,…
As Halloween approaches, let’s revisit The Babadook, The Ring, and more movies that made the new millennium a…
The restaurant industry has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 epidemic, for obvious reasons: A huge number…
Provocation has always been a sharp tool in Morrissey’s arsenal. In his earliest days with The Smiths, the singer…
A massive part of Taylor Swift’s massive appeal is the notion that she’s an open book. Toward the beginning of the…
Beck—or at least the Beck as represented on his records—has been in a real funk for a while, and not the fun,…
Coldplay has a reputation for a sort of vanilla earnestness that isn’t entirely undeserved: The albums that made the…
There ought to be one of those compound German words to describe Amazon’s Jack Ryan—something like…
Warning: In so much as a documentary can contain major “plot points,” this review reveals them.
Crank Yankers feels much older, culturally speaking, than it actually is: The prank call puppet show originally ran…
A good redemption story needs a badly behaved protagonist—a “proper cunt” in the very British parlance of the…
There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Si…
As a profile of an important journalist, Mike Wallace Is Here works. Wallace laid the foundation for the sort of…
There’s a bit of cognitive dissonance in the not-exactly-a-Rick Rubin documentary Shangri-La, in that it deifies the…
Deadwood famously ended with more of a whimper than a bang, canceled by HBO in 2006 after three seasons—at least one…
Morrissey has never made it easy on people who prefer to separate art from artist, but that was often part of his…
No one under 16 is allowed to enter the Sweets And Snacks Expo, which seems like a cosmic fuck-you to children…