A.A. Dowd
Writer
A.A. Dowd, or Alex to his friends, is a writer and editor based in Chicago. He has held staff positions at The A.V. Club and Time Out Chicago, and is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.
Writer
A.A. Dowd, or Alex to his friends, is a writer and editor based in Chicago. He has held staff positions at The A.V. Club and Time Out Chicago, and is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.
Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu star in a deep-sea survival thriller that could used a little embellishing.
| Entertainment Reviews | February 28 |
Wicked? Dune? Anora? Here's what we're predicting will win at the Academy Awards this year — and what we hope does.
| Features | February 25 |
The Academy is more diverse than ever in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite. So are the movies it celebrates.
| Features | February 21 |
Keanu Reeves followed the Matrix trilogy with a DC comics adaptation that's a little better than critics said it was in 2005.
| Features | February 18 |
Harrison Ford Hulks out in a new Captain America movie that's as sloppy as anything Marvel has ever made.
| Entertainment Reviews | February 12 |
Anthony Mackie is a worthy successor, but the MCU has still suffered from the absence of The First Avenger.
| Features | February 6 |
Challengers got great reviews, made good money, and delivered Hollywood a rare adult-oriented hit. So why did the Academy completely ignore it?
| Features | January 26 |
Mel Gibson casts Mark Wahlberg against type as a psycho in the cheap and lousy action thriller, Flight Risk, now in theaters.
| Entertainment Reviews | January 24 |
From Wicked and Dune to The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown, we rank all 10 films vying for the top Oscar this year
| Features | January 24 |
At 20 years, the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 looks more dated than the crackerjack 1970s thriller it upgraded.
| Features | January 19 |
Leigh Whannell follows his thrilling Invisible Man with a curiously dull, murky, and undercooked Wolf Man, in theaters now.
| Entertainment Reviews | January 17 |
The director of The Witch and The Northman returns with a remake of the horror classic Nosferatu that's best at its kinkiest.
| Entertainment Reviews | December 25, 2024 |
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a muscular bore in the latest and maybe last entry in Sony's misbegotten franchise of Spider-Man movies without Spider-Man.
| Entertainment Reviews | December 13, 2024 |
Without original star Russell Crowe, Gladiator II, Ridley Scott's belated sequel to his Oscar-winning 2000 epic, falls short in just about every way.
| Entertainment Reviews | November 21, 2024 |
Here, Robert Zemeckis' latest movie with Tom Hanks, finds the director still stranded in the digital abyss that ruined The Polar Express, Beowulf, and others.
| Features | November 7, 2024 |
Whether it's his last movie or not, Juror #2 is a perverse spin on 12 Angry Men that ranks among the strongest of director Clint Eastwood's late-career efforts.
| Entertainment Reviews | November 1, 2024 |
Jason Reitman assembles a giant, game ensemble for Saturday Night, a SNL origin story that's a little too reverent and tidy.
| Entertainment Reviews | October 12, 2024 |
Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has lost none of its nightmarish power over 50 years. Here's why it's still so unsettling.
| Features | October 12, 2024 |
In Joker: Folie à Deux, Joaquin Phoenix reprises the role of a misfit wallflower killer in a genre-bending sequel too cautious to really go for it.
| Entertainment Reviews | October 4, 2024 |
David Fincher's adaptation of the bestselling thriller Gone Girl, which turns 10 today, might be his most Hitchcockian achievement.
| Features | October 3, 2024 |
From the director of The Godfather comes Megalopolis, a sci-fi epic 40 years in the making that trips on its own ambitions.
| Entertainment Reviews | September 27, 2024 |
With Beetlejuice Beetlejuice now in theaters, let's revisit one of director Tim Burton's best movies, which turns 30 this week.
| Features | September 26, 2024 |