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We stopped keeping count of how many days we’ve been sheltering in place two weeks ago—or was it three? Oh, well,…
Aug 23 2019
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1969 must have been a wild time to be alive. America was fighting with itself over civil rights and Vietnam. Teddy…
Feb 14 2019
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Robert Redford does not disappear into The Old Man & The Gun. He’s not supposed to, really. David Lowery’s elegiac,…
Sep 21 2018
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Last August, with his announcement that his upcoming film The Old Man And The Gun would be his last, Robert Redford…
Sep 8 2018
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Robert Redford takes one last ride in a nostalgic true-crime yarn from the director of A Ghost Story
What do we see when we look at Robert Redford? Now in his 80s, the actor has reached that moment of his career,…
Aug 6 2018
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Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and…
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The Discovery, Charlie McDowell’s Sundance-approved Twilight Zone weepie, fits neatly into a subgenre one might call…
Feb 22 2017
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The first teaser for Netflix’s The Discovery was designed to be unnerving and ominous, with Jason Segel and Rooney…
Jan 27 2017
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When Robert Redford cast Mary Tyler Moore in the pivotal role of Beth for his 1980 directorial debut, he was accused…
Jan 18 2017
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Is there life after death? It doesn’t explicitly say so in this trailer, but The Discovery apparently posits that,…
Nov 11 2016
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Robert Redford will be retiring from acting soon. That’s the takeaway from an interview the Sundance Film Festival…
Oct 31 2016
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We here at The A.V. Club are quite fond of the recent remake of Pete’s Dragon, a family film of rare integrity that…
Oct 5 2016
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It was hardly the first Hollywood movie about journalism or crusading reporters, but Alan J. Pakula’s 1976 political…
Aug 11 2016
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Looking for poetry in a live-action family film is usually about as futile as hunting for dragons in your backyard;…
Jun 14 2016
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For those who were disappointed that they didn’t see more of Pete’s Dragon in the Pete’s Dragon teaser, the first…
Mar 9 2016
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Nicholas Hoult is no longer awaited in Valhalla—at least, not as part of the sci-fi love story The Discovery. Accordi…