Just about everyone agrees that 1999 was a great year for movies. We here at The A.V. Club do not beg to differ: We…

For over four decades, cult figure Alejandro Jodorowsky—the filmmaker, actor, poet, puppeteer, occasional mime,…

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A few weeks ago, the Academy announced that it would be extending the eligibility window for next year’s Oscars by a…

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This week’s episode begins more auspiciously than any that’s come before, a hyperbolic claim I nonetheless feel…

As pandemic stay-at-home orders have forced all of humanity to get real comfortable with a stationary lifestyle real…

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Maybe we should feel betrayed. Last week, Riverdale went to great lengths to convince us that Jughead was morally,…

For the past few years, Ben Affleck has been defined not so much by his professional output but by a single…

When committing one’s self to watching a soap opera, a viewer must breed a certain skepticism where…

There’s bound to be a lot of axe-grinding when a TV show sets a strand of its season in a writer’s workshop, but the…

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What do kids know? In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, that phrase lends a general-knowledge game show pitting…

The gap is closing. “Varsity Blues” concludes with a flash-forward, as have most of the episodes in this fourth…

We measure TV finales, even those marking the midseason break, by closure and the lack thereof. That can be somewhat…

Once upon a time in the late ’00s, HBO provided a home for an unusual small-screen experiment called In Treatment.…

It may seem like hardcore Christians have exclusive license to the holiday persecution complex, with their annual…

Let no one fault Trey Edward Shults for giving less than 110%. His third feature, Waves, confers the impression of a…