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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 25 Apr 2018

Infinity War inherits plenty of the problems endemic to crossovers: the privileging of quantity over quality, of spectacle over story, and…

Review of Beast (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Apr 2018

This psychodrama didn’t go exactly where I expected it would. It didn’t go anywhere particularly interesting either…

Review of Beast (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Apr 2018

This psychodrama didn’t go exactly where I expected it would. It didn’t go anywhere particularly interesting either…

Review of Rampage (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2018

Johnson’s singular charisma—his way with a one-liner, the built-in special effect of his unreal physique—grounds Rampage in a consistent…

Review of Custody (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Apr 2018

Custody doesn’t do much more than plunge the audience into this hellish situation, but it shrewdly understands the bad dad’s pathetic pathology,…

Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Apr 2018

Moving, perhaps inevitably, toward a final fork in the woods, Leave No Trace condenses big questions into something simple and quietly powerful…

Review of A Quiet Place (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Apr 2018

Horror movies often play with the contrast between deathly silence and deafening cacophony, one puncturing the other to shred nerves and send…

Review of Sweet Country (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Apr 2018

Poetically directed by Warwick Thornton, whose Samson & Delilah also threw a spotlight over aboriginal characters, Sweet Country has a shaggy,…

Review of Hereditary (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Mar 2018

It’s a supremely effective gauntlet of supernatural horror that’s also, at blackened heart, a grueling domestic drama about how trauma,…

Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Mar 2018

What makes this coming-of-age film special is that it’s at once harsh and humanist: a perceptive, realistic comedy about tweenage life that’s…

Review of Blindspotting (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Mar 2018

The film’s messy mix of flavorful, sometimes over-the-top character comedy and sincere racial politics benefits from the voice of its stars,…

Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Mar 2018

Ready Player One, based on the bestseller of the same name, is a pandering, crassly commercial victory of intellectual property law that’s…

Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Mar 2018

If this is a superficial tribute, it’s also an affectionately dense one…

Review of A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Mar 2018

A Brighter Summer Day's extended running time pays off: Si'r's spiral towards tragedy never stretches credibility, because Yang takes the time…

Review of Tomb Raider (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Mar 2018

When it comes to what should be the reliably dumb fun of tomb raiding, maybe there are worse crimes than insulting viewers’ intelligence…

Review of Gringo (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Mar 2018

Solid chunks of the screwball humor land like bricks, and the characters — most of them idiots, a**holes, or suckers — are colorfully over-the-top…

Review of Death Wish (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Mar 2018

Whether uncritically brought over in remake translation or genuinely reaffirmed, the movie’s fucked-up politics poison the fun…

Review of Dark River (2017)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Feb 2018

Barnard, who made The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, has an impeccable sense of grubby pastoral space, and her performers locate some truth in…

Review of Annihilation (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Feb 2018

If Ex Machina was a mess of provocative, half-formed thoughts on gender, creation, and desire, Annihilation locates something closer to a clear,…

Review of Annihilation (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Feb 2018

If Ex Machina was a mess of provocative, half-formed thoughts on gender, creation, and desire, Annihilation locates something closer to a clear,…

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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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