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There are no real villains in Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea, The A.V. Club’s favorite movie of last year…

This week’s question comes from Matthew Wake:

David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike have strikingly similar career trajectories. Both England-born actors started out in…

Several of the seemingly endless supply of movies about Batman have made note of the superhero’s duality. But the…

Although they’re often designed to remind audiences of what they liked about a previous movie, sequels often have to…

It’s been years, even decades, since watching Robert De Niro attempt comedy could be counted as any kind of novelty.…

Look, we here at The A.V. Club know we’ve been in a mood lately. The world is on fire and we’ve let the smoke seep…

This week’s question comes from A.V. Club contributor Becca James:

One week a month, Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This…

Among the countless contributions Roger Ebert made to film criticism, the Kevin Kline Mustache Principle may not…

This week’s question pays tribute to the end of the Obama era, by asking the question many of us have pondered at…

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…

Like a lot of bad comedies, the David Spade vehicle Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star has a good premise that the…

Most Oscar nominees, save perhaps for those in the acting categories, are drawn from two unofficial pools. There’s…

One week a month, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new show coming out that week. This week,…

This week’s question comes from A.V. Club reader Rob Grizzly:

It’s a humiliating moment, to be sure. Tripp is riding to school with a bunch of other kids when a classmate pulls…

This week’s query is our annual first question of the year:

For a short while as its story begins to unfold, Arsenal seems like it might represent a tug of war between a gritty…

It’s difficult to picture anyone arguing that Disney’s animated adventure musical Moana is in any way inferior to…