Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's posts

Dwayne Johnson, who recently played a brawny ex-Special Forces primatologist in Rampage, gets a backstory that’s…

1. Wings, “Silly Love Songs”
2. Elton John & Kiki Dee, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
3. Johnnie Taylor, “Disco Lady”
4.…

Jody Hill’s comedies of testosterone-fueled burnout are better suited to TV. Still, the co-creator of HBO’s Vice…

The French documentarian and writer Claude Lanzmann, whose 1985 magnum opus Shoah stands as the medium’s definitive…

The Houstons were as classic an American saga as the Ambersons or the Glass family, and the life and untimely death…

Did the crushing cliffhanger of Avengers: Infinity War leave you anxious to find out what happens next? You’ll have…

What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s staff and readers to share their thoughts, observations,…

Debra Granik’s low-budget Ozarks crime drama Winter’s Bone jumpstarted the career of the then-unknown Jennifer…

Though it wasn’t a monster hit, 2015’s Sicario has more than earned its reputation as one of the sharpest thrillers…

Blessed with the wackiest superpowers and least essential backstory in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Scott Lang…

Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 thriller Sicario opens with the discovery of a house of horrors, an apt metaphor for the…

Twenty-five years and four films later, Hollywood is still trying to recapture the magic of the original Jurassic…

As its protagonist, the ex-con Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), roves from job to job in the Brazilian state of Minas…

It’s mid-June, which means Pixar is racing another shiny all-ages blockbuster into theaters: Incredibles 2, Brad…

Does Hereditary live up to the hype? Or is its scariness a matter of personal taste? On this edition of Film Club, A.…

A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with another edition of Film Club,…

On a typical Wednesday night in the satirical techno-future of 2028, while the rest of Los Angeles riots over the…

A belated spin-off of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s caper comedies (minus the earlier films’ wit, chemistry, and…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable…

So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters…