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Like its hero, Aquaman is big, cheesy, and fun
Anyone who read comics in the ’90s probably remembers Peter David’s mean, bearded Aquaman, a rejoinder to the Filmation…
The worst films of 2018
Though it’s always a group effort (misery loves company), The A.V. Club’s list of the year’s worst movies is almost…
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With Mowgli, Andy Serkis brings a marginally darker Jungle Book to Netflix
Although it’s more faithful to the characters of The Jungle Book than any of the Disney adaptations, Andy Serkis’…
John Waters' list of the year's best films is as eclectic and fascinating as ever
Asking someone to put together a list of the year’s best films is a good way to get an insight into who they are. For…
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The micro-indie The Great Pretender finds comedy in art, self-deception, and gonorrhea
The retro-psycho Thirst Street brought the prolific Nathan Silver within spitting distance of the indie mainstream (in…
The best film scenes of 2018
As usual, there was no shortage of worthy contenders for The A.V. Club’s list of the best movie scenes of the year.…
Spider-Man, Aquaman, Dick Cheney: It’s a month of heroes and villains at the multiplex
So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters…
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Lost for decades, Orson Welles’ The Other Side Of The Wind is a brilliant blast of ’70s Hollywood mania
“You old guys are trying to get with it. Is that what this movie’s about?”
—The Other Side Of The Wind
The incomplete and incomparable Orson Welles
What can we really say about a life? It’s a question that is asked time and again in the films of Orson Welles, and…
All we wanted was a dumb Jason Statham giant shark movie
Let’s be reasonable: No one was expecting cinema gold from an August release in which Jason Statham fights a big…
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Gerard Butler dives into the watchably dumb submarine thriller Hunter Killer
The week before Halloween is horror-movie season. But what could be scarier than the B-list action movies of Gerard…
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Art and community collide in the fantastic, small-town epic A Bread Factory
Patrick Wang’s unlikely two-part comic epic A Bread Factory is set in Checkford, New York, a quiet town where residents…
BlacKkKlansman is Spike Lee’s best and most entertaining film in ages
On this week’s episode of Film Club, critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss the latest from…
Christopher Robin gives Winnie The Pooh and his furry friends the Hook treatment
On this week’s episode of Film Club, critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky take a look at Disney’s new live-action …
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Aubrey Plaza leads a parade of bad taste and noir misfits in An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn
To the extent that Jim Hosking’s cartoonishly grotesque characters can be called human, they paint an unflattering…
Julia Roberts comes home to TV, and Robin Wright gets a seat at the head of the table
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, November 2 and Saturday, November 3. All times are…
How is Mission: Impossible still this good?
The summer movie season starts to wind down this weekend with Mission: Impossible—Fallout, the latest entry from one of…
Not even Denzel can save the bland Equalizer 2 from itself
Welcome back to another edition of Film Club. For this week’s second episode , A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky…
"Here we go again" indeed: Our critics see more jukebox tackiness in the Mamma Mia! sequel
For the first of two Film Club segments today, critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss the jukebox musical Ma…
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One-man show The Guilty effectively transfers Rear Window to a police call center
Stories confined to a single location had a special place in the career of Alfred Hitchcock, who saw them as…