• film Joaquin Phoenix goes full Taxi Driver for the shallow but striking psychodrama of Joker By A.A. Dowd October 3, 2019 | 2:00pm
• music FKA Twigs, Danny Brown, and Angel Olsen turn over new leaves this October in music By The A.V. Club, Katie Rife, Laura Adamczyk, Gwen Ihnat, A.A. Dowd, Alex McLevy, Shannon Miller, Randall Colburn, Erik Adams October 1, 2019 | 7:15pm
• film Truth is stranger than the fiction of Natalie Portman’s diaper-free Lucy In The Sky By A.A. Dowd October 1, 2019 | 4:30pm
• film Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman opens the New York Film Festival—and a coffin for crime epics By A.A. Dowd September 28, 2019 | 12:00am
• film Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat is a Big Short that comes up short By A.A. Dowd September 25, 2019 | 5:30pm
• film The Devil’s Rejects ride again in Rob Zombie's tedious 3 From Hell By A.A. Dowd September 17, 2019 | 10:00pm
• aux Why make the astronaut-in-a-diaper movie if you don't want to show an astronaut in a diaper? By A.A. Dowd September 13, 2019 | 9:30pm
• film Take away the jokes and Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit is just another heartstring-tugging Holocaust movie By A.A. Dowd September 12, 2019 | 8:00am
• film Noah Baumbach makes a moving divorce drama, and Adam Sandler plays a tornado of self-destruction By A.A. Dowd September 11, 2019 | 7:00pm
• film Joker’s throwback vision is derivative, but at least it brings something new to superhero cinema By A.A. Dowd September 10, 2019 | 10:10pm
• film Tom Hanks channels the essential goodness of Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood By A.A. Dowd September 9, 2019 | 9:45pm
• film Don’t be fooled by its polish—The Goldfinch is a phony imitation of a prestige drama By A.A. Dowd September 9, 2019 | 5:45pm
• film It’s apocalypse now for the teenage soldiers of the superb war drama Monos By A.A. Dowd September 9, 2019 | 4:00pm
• film Rian Johnson chases Star Wars with the ingenious, madly entertaining murder mystery Knives Out By A.A. Dowd September 8, 2019 | 9:05pm
• aux Toronto commences with outlaw origins and a faithful take on Dickens from Veep creator Armando Iannucci By A.A. Dowd September 7, 2019 | 7:45pm
• aux Re-reading Stephen King’s It and confronting my own personal Derry By A.A. Dowd September 5, 2019 | 1:00pm
• film Brad Pitt blasts off, Pennywise floats, and Downton Abbey reopens its doors this September By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Jesse Hassenger, William Hughes, Sean O'Neal September 5, 2019 | 11:00am
• film Jacob’s new Ladder only goes down, into the pits of crappy remake hell By A.A. Dowd August 20, 2019 | 8:45pm
• film Good Boys puts a tween spin on the R-rated teen comedy, to mostly funny effect By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2019 | 9:30pm
• film Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark could scare kids as much as the books scared their parents By A.A. Dowd August 9, 2019 | 12:30am
• aux Star Wars v. Matrix, Santana v. Smash Mouth, and Y2K panic: 21 windows into 1999 By The A.V. Club, Erik Adams, A.A. Dowd, Randall Colburn, Shannon Miller, Laura Adamczyk, Marah Eakin, Gwen Ihnat, Danette Chavez, Katie Rife, Kelsey J. Waite, William Hughes, Sam Barsanti August 8, 2019 | 11:00am