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Ask horror-movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers.…
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Dec 20 2016
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A sprawling civic procedural about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt it touched off, Patriots Day by…
Dec 1 2016
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Hundreds of movies come to American theaters every year. Sometimes they arrive at a rate of 20 per week, at least in…
Nov 2 2016
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…
Aug 25 2016
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…
Aug 6 2016
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…
Jul 15 2016
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This week’s question: What movie is missing from our recent list of the best big-screen comedies since 2000?
Jul 11 2016
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Sixteen years in, our new millennium looks like a banner age for big-screen comedy, as eclectic as any that came…
Jun 1 2016
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Pure evil proves an elusive matter for a provincial policeman to investigate in the Korean film The Wailing, a…
Apr 13 2016
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An artfully made drama with a suffocatingly negative view of humanity, the Israeli feature Wedding Doll describes a…
Mar 22 2016
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Nothing says respectable like a good, solid family business. The Clan, a middling drama that set an opening-weekend…
Mar 8 2016
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There is perhaps no artistic milieu that’s been more heavily romanticized than Paris between the wars, a period when…
Mar 3 2016
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A stirring yet overstuffed documentary on musicians in exile, They Will Have To Kill Us First opens with a rundown…
Feb 25 2016
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…
Dec 16 2015
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This month: The…
Dec 8 2015
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An involving documentary about complicated filmmaker-subject relations, Almost There chronicles a few years in the…
Nov 12 2015
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Five years ago, 33 men were pulled, one by one, out of a gold and copper mine in Chile after a mountain literally…
Oct 1 2015
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Based on a rousing true story, Freeheld focuses on a dying woman crusading for gay rights, and features an imposing…
Sep 29 2015
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The German film Labyrinth Of Lies, a conservatively mounted period piece that opens in Frankfurt in 1958, portrays a…
Sep 18 2015
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There’s no doubt that the inspirational thriller Captive is based on a true story, because, as they say, you can’t…