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Review of Good Boys (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Aug 2019

Yet as with Booksmart, the summer’s earlier riff on that Apatovian classic, there are times when Good Boys feels a little too nice to actually…

Review of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Aug 2019

As gross and spooky and, yes, occasionally frightening as these terror tactics get, they never quite cross over into the deep end of truly…

Review of Luce (2019)

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

It’s a remarkable, chilling performance: from Harrison, certainly, but also from his character, playing code-switching mind games with his teacher…

Review of Crawl (2019)

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

If any one thing holds back this modest, skillfully made potboiler from true B-movie glory, it’s the human drama…

Review of The Lion King (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Jul 2019

Ultimately, only Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, as slacker sidekicks Timon and Pumbaa, make much of an impression; their funny, possibly ad-libbed…

Review of Stuber (2019)

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

The demands of action and comedy, however, are apparently much too great a weight for this action-comedy to Lyft…

Review of Midsommar (2019)

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

Aster, it can’t be denied, possesses an almost supernatural command of dread…

Review of Toy Story 4 (2019)

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

The basic pleasures of this fourth installment may be at once more hectic and more shopworn, but the film preserves, at least, the pathology…

Review of Dark Phoenix (2019)

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

There’s just little here that the X-Men series hasn’t shown audiences before…

Review of Frankie (2019)

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

The whole thing struck me as pleasant, nicely judged, and unremarkable, right up to a final shot so graceful and moving that it sent waves…

Review of Parasite (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 May 2019

Parasite isn’t just thrillingly unpredictable. It pivots with purpose, the class politics setting the trajectory…

Review of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 May 2019

It’s an elegy for a certain age of American pop-culture that may really be about the writer-director grappling with his own inevitable obsolescence…

Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 May 2019

The Lighthouse is more satisfying when viewed through the prism of its pitch-black humor; it’s fine as a thriller, borderline brilliant as…

Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 May 2019

The Lighthouse is more satisfying when viewed through the prism of its pitch-black humor; it’s fine as a thriller, borderline brilliant as…

Review of Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

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

This is a quantum creative leap for Sciamma, herself a keen observer of behavior…

Review of A Hidden Life (2019)

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

Maybe Malick has committed so hard to his own principles, artistic as well as ideological, that he’s lost his grasp on drama…

Review of Pain and Glory (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 May 2019

Pain And Glory has are some beautiful passages…

Review of Little Joe (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 May 2019

Visually, it’s a total feast for the eyes, contrasting art-deco pinks and mint greens against sterile, symmetrically framed expanses of white,…

Review of Atlantics (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 May 2019

Atlantics is most successful as a look at a particular milieu, which makes one wonder if Diop might have been better off just making a longer…

Review of The Dead Don't Die (2019)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 May 2019

The film feels like a creative resignation, too, meeting the end of the world with a shrug of tepid postmodern shtick…

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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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