Clockwise from left: Atlas (Netflix), My Oni Girl (Netflix), Unfrosted (Netflix)Image: The A.V. Club
Netflix offers a few high-profile originals this May as the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters. Jerry Seinfeld makes his feature directorial debut and acts in Unfrosted, a comedy about the...
Netflix offers a few high-profile originals this May as the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters. Jerry Seinfeld makes his feature directorial debut and acts in Unfrosted, a comedy about the...
- 5/3/2024
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Clockwise from left: Anyone But You (Sony Pictures Releasing), Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver (Netflix), Scoop (Netflix) Image: The A.V. Club
Netflix adds a few high-profile originals and a recent rom-com blockbuster to kick off the first full month of spring. Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver is the...
Netflix adds a few high-profile originals and a recent rom-com blockbuster to kick off the first full month of spring. Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver is the...
- 4/1/2024
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
From left: Enchanted (Buena Vista Pictures), When Harry Met Sally (Columbia Pictures), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)Graphic: The A.V. Club
Chemistry is perhaps the most elusive of all cinematic ingredients. Critics can point to craft in elements like directorial technique, set design, editing, and the...
Chemistry is perhaps the most elusive of all cinematic ingredients. Critics can point to craft in elements like directorial technique, set design, editing, and the...
- 2/14/2024
- by Gwen Ihnat, A.A. Dowd, David Anthony, Becca James, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Cameron Scheetz, and Marah Eakin
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top left: Jeff, Who Lives At Home (Screenshot); The Farewell (Photo: A24); igby Goes Down (Screenshot); Election (Screenshot); Young Adult (Screenshot); Friends With Kids (Screenshot); Ghost World (Screenshot)Graphic: The A.V. Club
Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But...
Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But...
- 1/30/2024
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
M3GAN (Universal Pictures), Taken 3 (20th Century Studios), Paddington 2 (Warner Bros.), Cloverfield (Paramount Pictures)Graphic: The A.V. Club (AP)
Historically and annually speaking, January is a bad month for Hollywood movies. It’s a “dump month,” that time of year when the major studios offload the projects in which they have no faith.
Historically and annually speaking, January is a bad month for Hollywood movies. It’s a “dump month,” that time of year when the major studios offload the projects in which they have no faith.
- 1/19/2024
- by A.V. Club Staff
- avclub.com
Clockwise from left: Foe (Amazon Studios), Mad Max (American International Pictures), The Passenger (Paramount Home Entertainment)Image: The A.V. Club
Amazon’s Prime Video revs up the new year with new originals and several movies focused on automobiles and other modes of transportation. A few short months before Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga...
Amazon’s Prime Video revs up the new year with new originals and several movies focused on automobiles and other modes of transportation. A few short months before Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga...
- 12/31/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top: Society Of The Snow (Netflix), Good Grief (Netflix), Sixty Minutes (Netflix)Image: The A.V. Club
Netflix kicks off 2024 with some high-profile originals, fan favorites, and cinema classics. J.A. Bayona’s Society Of The Snow is based on the true story of the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and its 16 survivors.
Netflix kicks off 2024 with some high-profile originals, fan favorites, and cinema classics. J.A. Bayona’s Society Of The Snow is based on the true story of the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and its 16 survivors.
- 12/30/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top left: Leave The World Behind (Netflix), Maestro (Netflix), Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child Of Fire (Netflix)Image: The A.V. Club
Just in time for the holidays, Netflix is stuffing stockings with high-profile originals and blockbuster favorites. The new arrivals include Rebel Moon – Part One:...
Just in time for the holidays, Netflix is stuffing stockings with high-profile originals and blockbuster favorites. The new arrivals include Rebel Moon – Part One:...
- 11/28/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
From left: The Hateful Eight (The Weinstein Company), The Killer (Netflix), I Care A Lot (Seacia Pavao/Netflix), Uncut Gems (A24)Graphic: The A.V. Club
In the film genre pecking order, thrillers often get short shrift. They sometimes overlap with the far flashier horror genre, and seldom make the...
In the film genre pecking order, thrillers often get short shrift. They sometimes overlap with the far flashier horror genre, and seldom make the...
- 11/11/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top left: Get Out (Universal Pictures); Jaws (Screenshot: YouTube/Universal); The Strangers (Screenshot: Universal/Rogue Pictures); It Follows (Radius/TWC)Graphic: The A.V. Club
Pick a film genre, any film genre, and Netflix is likely to have you more than covered in terms of viewing options—from the...
Pick a film genre, any film genre, and Netflix is likely to have you more than covered in terms of viewing options—from the...
- 10/20/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Clockwise from left: The Little Mermaid (Screengrab: YouTube), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Screengrab: Disney); Star Wars:The Last Jedi (Screengrab: Disney+), Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Screengrab: Disney)Graphic: AVClub
Of all the streaming services, Disney+ has the most desirable IP sitting around waiting to be exploited (meaning content...
Of all the streaming services, Disney+ has the most desirable IP sitting around waiting to be exploited (meaning content...
- 9/9/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top left: The Wolf Of Wall Street (Paramount), Spy Kids: Armageddon (Netflix), 8 Mile (Universal), Fast Times At Ridgemont High (Universal)Graphic: The A.V. Club
It’s the last month of summer as well as back-to-school time, so Netflix is here to help make the transition easier. While...
It’s the last month of summer as well as back-to-school time, so Netflix is here to help make the transition easier. While...
- 8/30/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top left: Terminator: Genisys (Paramount Pictures), Non-Stop (Universal Pictures), River Wild (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)Photo: The A.V. Club
Now that you’ve adjusted to Netflix’s new pricing plans and added your out-of-household members, it’s time to check out what the streamer will be adding to...
Now that you’ve adjusted to Netflix’s new pricing plans and added your out-of-household members, it’s time to check out what the streamer will be adding to...
- 8/2/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Newsrrr.First: Notebook is launching a weekly email newsletter in 2023! Sign up here to keep up with our latest writing in this precarious digital age.At a recent screening of Rrr in Chicago, S.S. Rajamouli mentioned that his father and screenwriting partner V. Vijayendra Prasad is beginning to draft a sequel. In the meantime, Rajamouli is preparing an untitled film starring Mahesh Bubu, set to begin filming in the spring.In this Willamette Week article about George Saunders’s new short story collection Liberation Day, there is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it mention of a film project. Richard Ayoade will direct an adaptation of Saunders’s 2012 short story “The Semplica-Girl Diaries,” set to begin filming next year. Though Ayoade stole the show in both parts of Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, this will be his...
- 11/16/2022
- MUBI
Mubi's series Shooting the Hip: The Cinematography of Sean Price Williams is showing June and July in many countries.Above: The Color WheelThe work of cinematographer Sean Price Williams has become synonymous with contemporary American independent cinema. What separates his filmography from his peers is his ability to shape shift with his various collaborators whether in different film frameworks of fiction and non-fiction, different genres, or just different aesthetics altogether. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Josh and Ben Safdie (Heaven Knows What and Good Time), but his credits include over ninety feature-length films and shorts— a body of work that when investigating further yields some of the most impressive images in the medium. With his versatile camera Williams brings an electric personal energy to wildly different films, making his name in the credits an enticement to any project.Often the stories about Williams start with...
- 7/22/2020
- MUBI
With movie theaters still shuttered as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the World War II thriller “Greyhound” starring Tom Hanks made its debut on Apple TV+ on July 10, instead of on the big screen where it was initially intended to be released by Sony Pictures on June 12. But does the economical, 91-minute nautical drama (80 minutes if you don’t count the end credits) play well to critics regardless of the size of screen?
As of this writing the film has received generally positive reviews with a MetaCritic score of 62 based on 31 reviews counted thus far: 21 positive, nine somewhat mixed, and only one outright negative. On Rotten Tomatoes, which classifies reviews simply as positive or negative, the film is rated 77% fresh based on 109 reviews, only 25 of which give it a thumbs down. The Rt critics’ consensus summarizes the reviews by saying, “‘Greyhound’s’ characters aren’t as robust as its action sequences,...
As of this writing the film has received generally positive reviews with a MetaCritic score of 62 based on 31 reviews counted thus far: 21 positive, nine somewhat mixed, and only one outright negative. On Rotten Tomatoes, which classifies reviews simply as positive or negative, the film is rated 77% fresh based on 109 reviews, only 25 of which give it a thumbs down. The Rt critics’ consensus summarizes the reviews by saying, “‘Greyhound’s’ characters aren’t as robust as its action sequences,...
- 7/10/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Christopher Nolan’s “no chairs on set” rule has gone viral after the director’s “Interstellar” and “The Dark Knight Rises” actress Anne Hathaway brought it up during a recent interview with Hugh Jackman on Variety’s “Actors on Actors” video series. Nolan fans have known about the rule for quite some time, as “Dunkirk” actors Mark Rylance and Barry Keoghan told The Independent in 2017 that Nolan bans chairs and water bottles on set. Hathaway appeared complimentary about Nolan’s decision.
“He doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working,” the Oscar-winning actress said “I mean, he has these incredible movies in terms of scope and ambition and technical prowess and emotion. It always arrives at the end under schedule and under budget. I think he’s onto something with the chair thing.”
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“He doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working,” the Oscar-winning actress said “I mean, he has these incredible movies in terms of scope and ambition and technical prowess and emotion. It always arrives at the end under schedule and under budget. I think he’s onto something with the chair thing.”
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- 6/30/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSOlivier Assayas is developing his 1996 feature Irma Vep, which follows Maggie Cheung as an actress starring in a remake of Les vampires, into a TV series produced by A24. Producer Saïd Ben Saïd has also announced that Paul Verhoeven is set to direct a French-language TV adaptation of the classic novel Bel Ami. Meanwhile, the Locarno International Film Festival has detailed its plans for The Films After Tomorrow, a competition that aims to help independent cinema due to the health crisis. Competing feature films must've been affected in some way by the pandemic. 20 participating titles will also partake in a forthcoming online program that includes screenings and masterclasses. In a new interview with Screen Daily, Thierry Frémaux announces that the official lineup for Cannes will be shared at the beginning of June, after which...
- 5/13/2020
- MUBI
Welcome back to another edition of Film Club. Film editor A.A. Dowd is unable to join us this week, as he is in Park City, Utah covering this year’s Sundance Film Festival—check out his excellent coverage here. In his place, senior writer Katie Rife is joined by contributor Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to discuss this week’s…...
- 1/31/2020
- by Katie Rife and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Film, shared by Katie Rife to The A.V. Club
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Welcome back to another edition of Film Club. Film editor A.A. Dowd is unable to join us this week, as he is in Park City, Utah covering this year’s Sundance Film Festival—check out his excellent coverage here. In his place, senior writer Katie Rife is joined by contributor Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to discuss this week’s…...
- 1/31/2020
- by Katie Rife and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Film, shared by Katie Rife to The A.V. Club
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Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSTerrence Malick's A Hidden Life.The various lineups for Cannes 2019 have been announced: the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, and the separate but simultaneous events, the Directors' Fortnight, Critics' Week, and Acid.Stephen Chow has confirmed that he will be directing the follow-up to his 2004 film Kung Fu Hustle, in which he also starred as the lead character. Recommended Viewinga tense and harrowing trailer for Ava Duvernay's When They See Us, a miniseries that follows the plight of the Central Park Five, five boys falsely accused of brutally raping a jogger. The series, which spans from 1989 to 2014, also marks another collaboration between Duvernay and cinematographer Bradford Young.Flying Lotus and David Lynch come together for the song "Fire is Coming," off of Flying Lotus's new album Flamagra. The music video, which...
- 4/24/2019
- MUBI
“Captain Marvel” is just a few days away from release, but how are critics responding to Marvel’s first female superhero film?
Pretty well, it seems. With more than 100 reviews, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s blockbuster has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 85 percent. In her review for TheWrap, April Wolfe praised Brie Larson’s performance as the film’s titular heroine, selling a balance of warrior intensity and sly mischievousness.
Also Read: Male Film Critics Outnumber Women 2 to 1 - And Are Less Likely to Mention Female Directors, Study Says
“Larson’s energy, at first, is powered by a precocious kid-sister vibe, disobeying the rules but charming her way out of trouble. Carol’s arc is defined by shedding those bonds to that identity and to her mentor/father figure, speaking and acting with directness,” Wolfe writes.
“Larson’s quite capable of selling that oscillation of maturity without losing the...
Pretty well, it seems. With more than 100 reviews, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s blockbuster has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 85 percent. In her review for TheWrap, April Wolfe praised Brie Larson’s performance as the film’s titular heroine, selling a balance of warrior intensity and sly mischievousness.
Also Read: Male Film Critics Outnumber Women 2 to 1 - And Are Less Likely to Mention Female Directors, Study Says
“Larson’s energy, at first, is powered by a precocious kid-sister vibe, disobeying the rules but charming her way out of trouble. Carol’s arc is defined by shedding those bonds to that identity and to her mentor/father figure, speaking and acting with directness,” Wolfe writes.
“Larson’s quite capable of selling that oscillation of maturity without losing the...
- 3/6/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Sherlock Holmes might be the greatest detective in history, but he couldn’t find any laughs in the new Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly buddy comedy and Holmes parody “Holmes & Watson.”
Though the film from Columbia Pictures didn’t screen for critics before opening on Christmas Day, a few intrepid reviewers tracked it down, and after careful deduction, their findings were not good.
“If there are any new jokes left to tell about Holmes, they’re nowhere to be found in the abysmal ‘Holmes & Watson,’ which might be the worst feature-length film ever made about the ‘consulting detective’ from Baker Street,” Ignatiy Vishnevetsky writes in The A.V. Club.
Also Read: How John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan Became Brothers Filming 'Stan & Ollie'
Critics have said that while it had potential, it’s a far cry from the previous Ferrell and Reilly pairings, including “Talladega Nights” and most notably,...
Though the film from Columbia Pictures didn’t screen for critics before opening on Christmas Day, a few intrepid reviewers tracked it down, and after careful deduction, their findings were not good.
“If there are any new jokes left to tell about Holmes, they’re nowhere to be found in the abysmal ‘Holmes & Watson,’ which might be the worst feature-length film ever made about the ‘consulting detective’ from Baker Street,” Ignatiy Vishnevetsky writes in The A.V. Club.
Also Read: How John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan Became Brothers Filming 'Stan & Ollie'
Critics have said that while it had potential, it’s a far cry from the previous Ferrell and Reilly pairings, including “Talladega Nights” and most notably,...
- 12/26/2018
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Academy has released its shortlist of nominees for nine categories, including Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Original Score. Let the speculating, predicting, and betting begin! The latest issue of short story journal Zoetrope features a cover by guest designer David Lynch. His artist bio: "Born Missoula, Montana. Eagle Scout." Recommended VIEWINGThe USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive has uncovered and identified a 1898 silent film entitled Something Good—Negro Kiss, including possibly the earliest known depiction of "affection between a Black couple." The splendid U.S. trailer of Jean-Luc Godard's fierce new film, The Image Book, courtesy of Kino Lorber.Annapurna Pictures's first trailer for Richard Linklater's Where'd You Go, Bernadette contains quirky family fun, suburban dinner parties, and a fair share of criminal hijinks. Recommended READINGAlongside the overabundance of streaming services,...
- 12/19/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAmy Heckerling on the set of the Off Broadway musical of her film Clueless.We are delighted by the news shared by the New York Times that American auteur Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is producing an Off-Broadway musical of her pop culture landmark film (and so much more!), Clueless. For more on the director, read our 2016 interview.Recommended VIEWINGMarcelo Martinessi's lovely debut film The Heiresses, a delicate drama focusing on the self-discovery of a wealthy, middle-aged queer women in Paraguay, gets an English trailer. We reviewed the film at the 68th Berlinale held earlier this year.The Criterion Collection produced this lovely video exploring the birth and programming vision of New York's Walter Reade cinema. Recommended READINGIt's that time of the year again: Year-end lists of the best films of 2018 have...
- 12/12/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombNEWSPablo Ferro, the renowned title designer of Dr. Strangelove, Beetlejuice, Stop Making Sense, and many more, has died at the age of 83. Harrison Smith of the Washington Post has written an expansive obituary and informative summation of Ferro's signature style. Following the closing of FilmStruck, the Criterion Collection has announced that it will be launching the Criterion Channel as "a freestanding service," wholly owned and operated by Criterion, in spring of 2019. Read the full press statement, including details on how to sign up, here. Recommended VIEWINGPeter Jackson attempts to resurrect history, via colorizing and dubbing, in the trailer for his forthcoming Wwi documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old.An official trailer for Aleksei German's Khrustalyov, My Car! highlights its morbid humor and stunning style.
- 11/21/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSLil Peep and Terrence MalickHere's a surprising one: Terrence Malick is set to executive produce a documentary about the late rapper Lil Peep. Ang Lee has begun preparing to direct a biographical film about Teresa Teng, the Taiwanese pop icon who passed away in 1995 at the age of 42. There's also some very exciting rumors that the role of Teng is to be played by pop icon Faye Wong.Lucrecia Martel is mounting her next feature, her first documentary chronicling "the murder of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar and the removal of his community from their ancestral land in Argentina."Recommended VIEWINGThe Coen brothers' forthcoming anthology western, starring the likes of Liam Neeson, Zoe Kazan, Tom Waits, and Tim Blake Nelson, gets its 2nd trailer ahead of its Netflix release.This one caught us by surprise:...
- 11/8/2018
- MUBI
Reviews for “Ant-Man and the Wasp” are flooding in, and the third Marvel Cinematic Universe entry this year is proving that the Marvel formula still has the Midas touch, with a 91% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. According to critics, the success of the micro-sized superhero’s second adventure can be attributed to Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly, the powerhouse duo leading the charge of this large-than-life action comedy.
Variety’s own Owen Gleiberman praised director Peyton Reed for investing personality into each of the movie’s scenes as well as Rudd’s confident swagger in the delivery of his lines. Of Lilly’s performance, Gleiberman said, “Evangeline Lilly seizes her moment with a refreshing air of skepticism. Her Hope doesn’t trust the whole superhero thing, and comes off a stronger heroine as a result.”
Read on to see what other critics are saying about “Ant-Man and the Wasp.”
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Variety’s own Owen Gleiberman praised director Peyton Reed for investing personality into each of the movie’s scenes as well as Rudd’s confident swagger in the delivery of his lines. Of Lilly’s performance, Gleiberman said, “Evangeline Lilly seizes her moment with a refreshing air of skepticism. Her Hope doesn’t trust the whole superhero thing, and comes off a stronger heroine as a result.”
Read on to see what other critics are saying about “Ant-Man and the Wasp.”
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- 6/27/2018
- by Ellis Clopton
- Variety Film + TV
Does Hereditary live up to the hype? Or is its scariness a matter of personal taste? On this edition of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd (who has been raving about the movie since the beginning of the year) and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss the Sundance horror sensation, which gives…
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- 6/8/2018
- by Caitlin PenzeyMoog, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Film, shared by Caitlin PenzeyMoog to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
After a brief hiatus, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with a new edition of Film Club, discussing Disney’s latest trip to the galaxy far, far away, Solo: A Star Wars Story. Wherein the last entry in the Star Wars saga broke from convention (to the chagrin of some die-hard…
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- 5/25/2018
- by Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Film, shared by Baraka Kaseko to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe great post-war Italian auteur Ermanno Olmi had died at the age of 86. Winner of the Palme d'Or in 1978 for The Tree of the Wooden Clogs, Olmi was making great cinema up until the end. Sam Roberts of the The New York Times remembers.And another mourning that also hits us personally: Pierre Rissient, the ultimate cinephile (and filmmaker in his own right!), has left us. Scott Foundas has penned a most thorough remembrance for IndieWire.Recommended VIEWINGWe're covering the Cannes Film Festival this week and next, and are ever-more excited for the latest film from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong (Poetry), which so happens to be his first film in 8 (!) years.Two of the minds behind the brilliant television series Atlanta, Donald Glover (in his musical alias Childish Gambino) and director Hiro Murai,...
- 5/9/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGThe conversation surrounding the liberties of restorations continues with this eye-opening new video from Krishna Ramesh Kumar comparing different versions of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.With Claire Denis's new film Let the Sunshine In currently in cinemas, we're delighted to discover that one of the director's rarest films, her 2005 documentary Towards Mathilde—which was for a long time only available on Mubi, back when the platform was called The Auteurs—will finally be receiving distribution in the Us. Below is the magnetic new trailer for this largely undiscovered gem:Gus Van Sant returns to the biopic genre with Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, about Portland cartoonist John Callahan, played in the film by Joaquin Phoenix. We caught it at the Berlin Film Festival and found it sweet and moving,...
- 5/2/2018
- MUBI
On this week’s episode of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky take a look at the latest Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson vehicle, Rampage, loosely based on the arcade game of the same name. The Rock stars as Davis, a primatologist whose best friend—an orphaned albino gorilla named…
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- 4/13/2018
- by Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on Film, shared by Baraka Kaseko to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with another edition of Film Club, this time discussing Veep and The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci’s The Death Of Stalin. The film, a satirical look at the Soviet dictator’s last days and the chaos of the regime after his death, fits…
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- 3/9/2018
- by Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
The 90th Academy Awards are coming up Sunday, March 4th and Film Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky will break down a category and give us their picks for who …
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- 2/25/2018
- by Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
The Oscars are less than a month away, but there are a handful of films from this year’s Best Picture lineup we haven’t covered on Film Club. So we’re catching up with these contenders in a few special-edition episodes. Today, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss number two on…
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- 2/22/2018
- by Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
The Oscars are less than a month away, but there are a handful of films from this year’s Best Picture lineup we haven’t covered on Film Club. So we’re catching up with these contenders in a few special-edition episodes. Today, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss one of last…
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- 2/20/2018
- by Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
The Oscars are less than a month away, but there are a handful of films from this year’s Best Picture lineup we haven’t covered on Film Club. So we’re catching up with these contenders in a few special-edition episodes. Today, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky argue the merits of …
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- 2/15/2018
- by Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
The Oscars are less than a month away, but there are a handful of films from this year’s Best Picture lineup we haven’t covered on Film Club. So we’re catching up with these contenders in a few special-edition episodes. First up, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss Darkest Hour
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- 2/13/2018
- by Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Now that Netflix’s surprise “Cloverfield” sequel “The Cloverfield Paradox” has been available to stream for more than 24 hours, film critics from across the country have finally been able to weigh in, and let’s just say you’re probably better off re-watching “10 Cloverfield Lane” than giving the latest installment a go. Critics have not been to kind to “Paradox,” with IndieWire’s own David Ehrlich giving the movie a D review, calling it “direct to video garbage.”
Read More:‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Review: Netflix’s Super Bowl Surprise Is a Game-Changing Way to Watch a Godawful Movie
“The Cloverfield Paradox” is directed by Julius Onah and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris O’Dowd, John Ortiz, David Oyelowo, and Zhang Ziyi. The story centers around a group of astronauts tasked with activating a particle accelerator in an attempt to provide Earth with a new source of energy.
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“The Cloverfield Paradox” is directed by Julius Onah and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris O’Dowd, John Ortiz, David Oyelowo, and Zhang Ziyi. The story centers around a group of astronauts tasked with activating a particle accelerator in an attempt to provide Earth with a new source of energy.
- 2/6/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
For the final Film Club of 2017, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff writer Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are discussing what is sure to be the biggest film of the year, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Although it’s the middle chapter of the sequel trilogy, The Last Jedi avoids being a retread of The Empire Strikes Back,…
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- 12/14/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
It’s been more than a year and a half since A.V. Club’s A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky last sat down to debate the merits (or lack thereof) of a Zack Snyder superhero movie. But now, duty calls them to return to the bombastic Snyder-verse with a look at Justice League, an intentional course-correction for the DC…
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- 11/16/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! has proven to be a divisive film, with some critics, including The A.V. Club’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, praising the “elaborate meta-textual pastiche,” while others have compared it to The Emoji Movie in terms of sheer unpleasantness. Moviegoers, however, aren’t nearly so split on the film,…
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- 9/25/2017
- by Danette Chavez
- avclub.com
The veil surrounding Mother! has been lifted and, thanks to our own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s review, we now have a small idea just how gruesome and deranged Darren Aronofsky’s new film really is. While public details are still scarce, we learned a bit about Mother!’s extensive rehearsal process from Aronofsky yesterday.…
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- 9/14/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko
- avclub.com
We don’t know much about Darren Aronofsky’s new film Mother!, aside from our own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calling it “the most irrational piece of filmmaking that [he] has produced since his black-and-white debut, Pi,” after a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the video above, we did manage to pry…
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- 9/13/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko
- avclub.com
In The Overlook, A.V. Club film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky examines the misfits, underappreciated gems, and underseen classics of film history.
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- 8/29/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe are devastated by the death of performer and director Jerry Lewis this week at the age of 91, one of the 20th century's greatest—and most inspiring—artists. Dave Kehr for The New York Times has penned an excellent obituary, and it's worth revisiting Christoph Huber's 2013 coverage of the Viennale's epic retrospective of Lewis's work as an actor and a filmmaker. Last year, Adrian Curry published a selection of the international poster designs for Lewis's films.The Locarno Festival wrapped last week, with the top prize going to Chinese documentarian Wang Bing's Mrs. Fang. We were at the festival covering it day by day, including its retrospective of Hollywood genre director Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past). See all the awards and read our coverage from the Swiss film festival.Recommended VIEWINGThe...
- 8/23/2017
- MUBI
Whatever pretense of retirement Steven Soderbergh has been maintaining these past few years finally, officially collapses with Logan Lucky, his first theatrical directorial effort since 2013’s Side Effects. On this episode of Film Club, staff critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss why it’s great to have this ambassador of cool back (even if he never really left), while also acknowledging that the movie—a Southern heist comedy starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, and a cast-against-type Daniel Craig—is more breezy fun than triumphant return.
- 8/18/2017
- by A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
We’ve been away for awhile, but we’re back with a new edition of Film Club. For the first of two segments this week, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss Nocturama, the striking new outing from French writer-director Bertrand Bonello, which left both of them in awe.
- 8/11/2017
- by A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
We’ve been away for awhile, but we’re back with a new edition of Film Club. For the second installment this week, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky follow up their discussion of Nocturama with a look at Good Time, a new crime thriller from directors Josh and Ben Safdie, which features a career-defining performance from Robert Pattinson.
- 8/11/2017
- by A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
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