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Review of Prisoners (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Sep 2013

In any case, the crowd I watched it with sat in awed, tense silence throughout-a mighty good sign that a thriller is doing its job…

Review of The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2014)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Sep 2013

It’s dazzling, but also excessive; by the end, even those consistently wowed by the directorial showmanship may find themselves feeling that…

Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Sep 2013

There’s something undeniably affecting about that trajectory, which allows McConaughey to turn his character into an empathetic figure —…

Review of Manakamana (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Sep 2013

Really, though, the film’s focus is on neither the destination nor the journey, but on the individuals planting themselves in front of the lens…

Review of Mother of George (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Sep 2013

Mother Of George is rarely boring to look at, but it might still have been better served by a starker, less showy aesthetic…

Review of Populaire (2012)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 04 Sep 2013

A candy-coated French throwback to the Hollywood rom-coms of the ’50s — especially the ones starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day — Populaire…

Review of Our Nixon (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Aug 2013

The results are akin to seeing the Nixon presidency through the eyes of his top aides; it’s as much a portrait of innocence lost as a behind-closed-doors…

Review of One Direction: This Is Us (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Aug 2013

Mostly, however, This Is Us counts on the musicians to supply the personality—a strategy that makes it feel more like an anonymous mash note…

Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 27 Aug 2013

Closed Circuit may be little more than a high-minded, shrewdly topical gloss on a shopworn genre, but its cynicism is bracing…

Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Aug 2013

At the end of the day, the pesky imperative to convey information is still a driving force; more than anything Wong has ever made, the movie…

Review of The World's End (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Aug 2013

Easily one of the year’s best comedies, the movie thrives off the chemistry between its leads, with Pegg painting a very funny portrait of…

Review of You're Next (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Aug 2013

Written by Simon Barrett, another purveyor of micro-budget carnage, You’re Next boasts a sometimes-uneasy blend of comedy and horror…

Review of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 20 Aug 2013

Borrowing every single component of its complicated plot from other sources, The Mortal Instruments is hodgepodge claptrap, but there’s a…

Review of Paranoia (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Aug 2013

As a post-financial-crisis movie, Paranoia is muddled at best, wagging its finger at Hemsworth's ambitious bridge-and-tunnel type while fetishizing…

Review of Paranoia (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Aug 2013

The film works only, if at all, as an unofficial Air Force One reunion, with Ford stopping just short of bellowing “Get off my jock…

Review of Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Aug 2013

Lowery, it can’t be denied, has Malick’s moves down pat. It’s the Malick touch that eludes him…

Review of Austenland (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Aug 2013

In Austenland, her directorial debut, Hess adapts a 2007 beach book into another broad comedy of caricature…

Review of Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Aug 2013

Even with its edges sanded down, Kick-Ass 2 is unmistakably Millaresque — a juvenile comedy of excess, in which skewering adolescent power…

Review of Planes (2012)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Aug 2013

Perhaps one of the two already-in-the-works Planes sequels will crack one of these unholy machines open…

Review of Planes (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Aug 2013

Perhaps one of the two already-in-the-works Planes sequels will crack one of these unholy machines open…

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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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