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A.A. Dowd,
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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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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…
Jul 6
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Jun 23
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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Apr 29
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In the year 1774, some time before the French Revolution, a group of aristocratic libertines exiled from the court…
Mar 4
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It takes less than 10 minutes for The Banker to establish its hack-biopic, based-on-a-true-story credentials. After…
Jan 21
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I Wish I Knew, a 2010 documentary shot in Shanghai, closes with two starkly contrasting views: one from the…
Dec 18
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At the beginning of Invisible Life, Brazil’s official submission for next year’s Foreign Language Oscar category,…
Dec 3
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Daniel Isn’t Real, a new horror movie from director Adam Egypt Mortimer, explicates its title almost immediately.…
Nov 11
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In Mati Diop’s Atlantics, discontent reigns over the port city of Dakar, where a futuristic high-rise towers like…
Nov 5
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“I miss the clout of being First Lady,” admits Imelda Marcos, the widow of former Philippine president Ferdinand…
Aug 27
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The Load is a movie in which little is said, but a lot is implied. Set during the Kosovo War, at the height of…
Aug 6 2019
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In 1979, China launched its one-child policy, which legally prohibited most parents from having more than a single…
Jul 30 2019
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To make a movie about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is, necessarily, to work with volatile materials. And from…
Jul 16 2019
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A fictional but all-too-believable in-the-trenches look at an industrial labor dispute, At War opens with news…
Jul 8 2019
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Memories both joyous and painful are recreated and thus transformed in Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day…
Jun 17 2019
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When Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho presented his 2016 feature Aquarius at the Cannes Film Festival, he…
May 14 2019
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When we first see Asako (Erika Karata), the central character of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II, she’s milling…
Apr 15 2019
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Over the course of a prolific two-decade career, South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo has made a consistent,…
Mar 26 2019
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The eponymous lead character of Diane, played by the 70-year-old veteran actress Mary Kay Place (The Big Chill, Being…