What makes it a special effect?
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A look at Casino through the eyes of Ace Rothstein
Last week, I rewatched Casino, Martin Scorsese’s 178-minute glitz epic about the rise and fall of the mob in Las Vegas in the 1970s and ’80s—a movie that wrestles with its own conspicuous excess. The needle-drop montages, the zillion costume changes and killer suit-shirt-and-tie combos, the physical and verbal…
Dear White People’s Emmy-worthy bottle episode frames a battle of wills
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The comedy of The Shining and other tales from the dark side
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Joe Pera Talks With You is the Adult Swim comedy that’ll restore your soul
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Investigating classic gangster movies around the world
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Brooklyn cops, new girls, last men, and the end of a sitcom lineup for the ages
On Thursday, the Fox Broadcasting Company performed a hard reset on its comedy lineup, canceling three single-camera sitcoms whose creative heights were never matched by commercial ones: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Last Man On Earth, and The Mick. With New Girl previously set to conclude its Fox run on Tuesday, May 15 and the…
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t the only battle over women’s bodies on Hulu
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The nightmarish world of Andrzej Żuławski
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What are you watching at the gym?
I have a “lunchtime membership” at a gym around the corner from the A.V. Club offices, which is a dressed-up way of saying that every month, I pay $100 (and then Univision reimburses me that $100 as part of a wellness policy that will hopefully one day be enshrined in a union contract) to take a break from staring at…
A Quiet Place, You Were Never Really Here, and the monsters we don't see
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A charming and vital coming-of-age story unfolds On My Block
A combination of Freaks And Geeks and The Chi, On My Block debuted March 16 on Netflix to little fanfare after similarly light promotion. Even I was unaware of it until I saw tweets from friends and colleagues commending the show—and “barrio bildungsroman” is my kind of genre.
The forgotten ’90s thriller The Assignment took paranoia to another level
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Superstore is giving workplace comedy a must-see renovation
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Why is totalitarianism funny?
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At 12 minutes an episode, The Life & Times Of Tim was an ideal vehicle for cringe comedy
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What Annihilation learned from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Soviet sci-fi classics
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Grown-ish and the joy of watching a show hit its stride
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Torque was a crazier, dumber Fast And The Furious
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Catch up on Claws, the summer sleeper hit with one of TV’s best ensembles
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