Jan 30 2018
2
C+
Tony (Adel Karam), a fortysomething right-wing Christian car mechanic in Beirut, is watering his plants when he…
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Jan 27 2018
6
What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s staff and readers to share their thoughts, observations,…
Jan 24 2018
2
B
To comics fans, the drawing style of the Chinese independent animator Liu Jian should look familiar. His meticulous…
Jan 23 2018
2
C+
A Ciambra, a coming-of-age story set in the homely outskirts of the Italian port of Gioia Tauro, is a sequel of…
Jan 23 2018
3
Katie Rife: Well, we’ve reached the pinnacle of awards season: The 2018 Oscar nominations were announced this morning
Jan 20 2018
2
Three staffers, three unabashed recommendations.
Jan 19 2018
3
Cinematography is an art within an art, practiced within the limits of a director’s craft. But every once in a…
Jan 18 2018
5
When it comes to difficult-but-rewarding modern art, few films can compete with the reputation of Sátántangó, the 7…
Jan 18 2018
2
The eerie and elegantly Gothic 1950s-set relationship study Phantom Thread (one of The A.V. Club’s favorite movies…
Jan 18 2018
3
B-
It’s very early morning and still dark as an armored car moves west through the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena. The…
Jan 17 2018
3
Last year’s superhero team-up blockbuster Justice League was a claustrophobic mess of bad effects, boring urban and…
Jan 17 2018
3
C+
It’s become Hollywood tradition to sound reveille at the start of the year with stories of heroic Navy SEALs, Green…
Jan 16 2018
11
Wes Anderson returns to stop-motion. Claire Denis goes to space. Joaquin Phoenix gets immobile and intimidating, not…
Jan 15 2018
3
Grossing $28.1 million in its fourth week out, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle ended up topping a busy weekend that…
Jan 12 2018
1
B
Audrey (Claire Armstrong) and Lillian (Naomi Skwarna), the protagonists of David Warth’s offbeat Canadian indie Dim…
Jan 10 2018
6
B
“On behalf of the American middle class, fuck you,” growls Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson, obviously) not more than…
Jan 8 2018
4
B
When we last saw Paddington Brown (né Bear), the little marmalade-loving, digitally animated bear-person voiced by…
Jan 5 2018
2
B
A horror fantasy about the worst fears of parents and children, Before I Wake imagines a married couple, Jessie…
Jan 4 2018
5
C-
The success of Insidious, the low-budget horror flick about a family trying to rid itself of ghosts and demons with…
Jan 4 2018
4
So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters…