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Review of Deep Water (2022)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Mar 2022

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, both terrific in their roles, play the couple around whom the film’s meditation on modern sexual relationships…

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Review of The Outfit (2022)

By Mark Keizer (225) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Mar 2022

Filled with twists and reversals that, for the most part, are motivated by character not plot, The Outfit is a nifty little period thriller…

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Review of Jane by Charlotte (2022)

By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Mar 2022

Whether or not the film necessarily works as a narrative feature, Gainsbourg manages to peer inside her mother’s life and lifestyle with…

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Review of The Adam Project (2022)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Mar 2022

With an overworked script that checks boxes rather than delivers compelling characters, this effort lands as perfectly bland…

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Review of Turning Red (2022)

By Martin Tsai (390) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Mar 2022

We all need a little reassurance once in a while to stay true to ourselves, and Turning Red is speaking directly to generations of Asian women…

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Review of After Yang (2022)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Mar 2022

Despite the sci-fi trimmings—or, really, in perfect sync with them—the anxiety After Yang generates has the gentle, humming pervasiveness…

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Review of Huda's Salon (2022)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Mar 2022

Either one of these dual narratives might have worked reasonably well on its own, even if Reem’s situation—complete innocent seeks to escape…

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Review of Fresh (2022)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Mar 2022

Despite its bolder choices, however, Fresh doesn’t push the body horror as far as it could, and works better as an empowerment fable than…

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Review of Lucy and Desi (2022)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Mar 2022

Anyone looking for a clear, concise explanation of how these two unlikely impresarios dominated American pop culture in the mid-20th century…

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Review of The Batman (2022)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Feb 2022

Still, the film sustains its seductive atmosphere—its hushed pop-noir cool—even as the story fizzles into a string of reveals and a curiously…

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Review of Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming (2022)

By Craig D. Lindsey (161) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Feb 2022

Although marginally more woke than other Madea installments (the fam has an unexpected response when one of them publicly comes out), Homecoming…

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Review of Hellbender (2021)

By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Feb 2022

If there’s a lesson to be taken from Hellbender, it’s this: Underestimate the small and unassuming at your own peril—whether that be…

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Review of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Feb 2022

This time around, Leatherface is just a run-of-the-mill bogeyman, slaughtering a new generation of lambs for the sins of our age…

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Review of Uncharted (2022)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Feb 2022

Like text that’s been translated into another language and then re-translated back by someone else, Uncharted bears a clunky resemblance…

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Review of Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (2022)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Feb 2022

Downfall is effectively enraging—especially in its middle section, where the picture really packs the most punch…

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Review of Playground (2022)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Feb 2022

Playground smartly complicates the situation by showing how Nora juggles her desperate concern for her brother with a fear that his plummeting…

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Review of Bigbug (2022)

By Carlos Aguilar (278) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Feb 2022

Subtlety has never been one of Jeunet’s tools, and the comedy in Bigbug is enjoyably over-the-top, occasionally a bit too mannered, and often…

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Review of Playground (2022)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Feb 2022

Playground smartly complicates the situation by showing how Nora juggles her desperate concern for her brother with a fear that his plummeting…

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Review of Marry Me (2022)

By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Feb 2022

It’s an absolutely outlandish rom-com premise, and though the film tries to lampshade it as such (#whatishappening pops up in the movie’s…

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Review of Tall Girl 2 (2022)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Feb 2022

There’s a sweetness to the movie’s multiple storylines about teenagers earnestly, supportively pining for each other—and a neutered prudishness,…

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