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Review of The Souvenir (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 May 2019

There are times when The Souvenir has the buttoned-up, removed manner of a costume drama…

Review of Long Shot (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 May 2019

At least Long Shot acknowledges, more explicitly than usual, that it’s a kind of adolescent fantasy…

Review of Avengers: Endgame (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Apr 2019

An earnest, overstuffed, fitfully funny superhero melodrama, Endgame hits the buttons it wants to hit, and sometimes affectingly…

Review of Her Smell (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2019

Moss attacks the role with a fearless lack of vanity, daring to make this nosediving rock star not just unlikable but downright irritating…

Review of Pet Sematary (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Apr 2019

This may look like the same story, but the soul of it is missing — lost on the way out of the ground…

Review of The Beach Bum (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Mar 2019

The Beach Bum, by turn, seems to exist in the hazy headspace of its protagonist, a kindred spirit in less-than-lofty, party-till-you-puke ambition…

Review of Us (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2019

Us proves, if nothing else, that Peele has become a blockbuster visionary, fully in control of his craft…

Review of Dragged Across Concrete (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2019

This is an ugly, borderline vile piece of work…

Review of Captive State (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Mar 2019

It’s not unreasonable to expect something like excitement out of a story about freedom fighters plotting to take back the planet…

Review of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Feb 2019

As an act of storytelling, it’s curiously perfunctory, never rising to the level of effort and care put into creating its cornucopia of visual…

Review of Fighting with My Family (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Feb 2019

Fighting With My Family is a shamelessly formulaic sponsored post of a crowd-pleaser that’s also, in its best moments, a genuinely stirring…

Review of Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Feb 2019

The happy surprise of Happy Death Day 2U is that it does find ways to tweak the formula of its predecessor, to break the cycle of franchise…

Review of Native Son (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Feb 2019

The early stretch of the movie is its strongest, as Johnson lays out the bric-a-brac of Bigger’s life, which involves a good deal of code-switching,…

Review of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2019

Dramatically speaking, it’s a failed thought experiment—you get, watching it, why no one has really told this kind of story in this way…

Review of Honey Boy (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2019

This is actually a fairly conventional indie drama…

Review of The Lodge (2020)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2019

An ambitious, expertly crafted, and admittedly kind of ludicrous horror movie…

Review of High Flying Bird (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Jan 2019

High Flying Bird turns out to be a kind of shaggy heist movie, with a grand design (and payout) that’s only fully clear in retrospect…

Review of Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jan 2019

If there’s undeniable difficulty in Velvet Buzzsaw’s genre alchemy—its attempt to mix a caustic, half-comic portrait of the gallery set…

Review of Serenity (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Jan 2019

Though Serenity is blessed with a goofily enjoyable high concept, it doesn’t exploit it very effectively…

Review of Glass (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Jan 2019

For better and worse, it’s unmistakably a Shyamalan movie, with all the clunky plotting and robust, idiosyncratic staging that generally implies…

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A.a. Dowd has written reviews for:

Time Out (7,510)
The A.V. Club (5,644)
Rolling Stone (4,035)
Empire (3,446)
The Guardian (2,969)
AV Club (2,778)
IGN (1,013)
Time Out Chicago (129)

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