A.A. Dowd's posts

Watch a random few minutes from any of his movies and it becomes obvious that Dan Gilroy loves the cinema of the…

There are people who come to Sundance just for the chance to freak out at the sight of a movie star. (“Fan” is the…

One thing I’ve learned in my years covering Sundance is that when a programmer gets up on stage and tells an…

Big news rumbled like an avalanche across the peaks and valleys of Park City, Utah yesterday afternoon. Robert…

Nothing is ever as it seems in film noir, a genre built on hidden motives and delayed revelations. Serenity, a…

When Debra Granik’s touching and truthful Leave No Trace premiered at the Sundance Film Festival one year ago today,…

The first time Samuel L. Jackson appears in Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan’s majestically moody turn-of-the-century…

Replicas, the astonishingly inept new Keanu Reeves vehicle, plays less like a science-fiction thriller than some…

Cold War, from Polish writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski, is a haunted romantic epic in miniature, like a novel…

Robert Zemeckis, the Hollywood fabulist who made Forrest Gump and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, remains a wizard of…

When filmgoers, professional ones included, complain that movies have gotten too damn long, they’re often talking…

If there’s a defining image in the small but remarkable filmography of Barry Jenkins, it’s of someone staring, with…

On paper, it sounds like the stuff of nightmares: Lars von Trier, the Danish maestro of suffering who made Breaking…

Ben Is Back isn’t the year’s first American drama about a teenage drug addict and the parent agonizing over how to…

Movie trailers can be misleading. Their primary function is to sell us something, to get asses in seats any way they…

Say this and little else for the new Robin Hood movie: It’s less of a self-serious slog than the last Robin Hood…

In the damnably nice middlebrow race dramedy Green Book, two unlikely travel companions—one black and urbane, the…

Steve McQueen’s Widows is the type of movie that Hollywood too rarely bankrolls anymore: a mid-budget crackerjack…

There are only six levels in the new Hitman game, but each is a world unto itself: elaborately mapped, highly…

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald wastes no time at all ushering viewers back into the “Wizarding World”…