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Note: The writer of this review watched Chaos Walking on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to…

Blockbusters are back in a big way this March, even if movie theaters aren’t. Many of the month’s biggest titles,…

The ides of March used to signify the beginning of a new year, and in 2021, that feels strangely apropos. In a…

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, Vitalina Varela’s are a skylight. Whole texts could be written on the…

Note: The writer of this review watched Cherry on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…

Last week, The A.V. Club put out a call for questions from you, readers of the site and loyal listeners of our…

Willy’s Wonderland is a jokey elevator pitch in search of a movie. It’s the kind of genre junk—a low-rent, one-gag…

Valentine’s Day is Sunday, and to celebrate this annual rush for florists, chocolatiers, and greeting-card magnates, …

Every day is exactly the same. That’s how it goes in time-loop stories, and how it can feel to write about them,…

Every few days, A.V. Club film critics A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife plug a microphone into their laptops, retreat to a…

Every January, thousands of people fly into Utah and then descend on the sleepy ski town of Park City for the annual…

Sundance 2021 wrapped up last night, though the exact time the screening system went dark depended on when you…

Another month, another slate of films hedging their bets between the slow reopening of movie theaters and the…

Sundance is ending exactly as it began: with the virtual equivalent of a standing ovation for the film that kicked…

Judas And The Black Messiah, Shaka King’s propulsive drama about Black Panthers chairman Fred Hampton and the months…

There are few things more alienating to a moviegoer than being the only person in a theater not having the time of…

Note: The writer of this review watched A Glitch In The Matrix on a digital screener from home. Before making the…

Attending a film festival can feel like an extended game of Spot The Influence. That’s perhaps especially true at a…

Funny how pet peeves become fond memories the moment you’re denied them. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug that way.…

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