ABQ AV Club

  JOSHY (2016) (A-minus) - We're delving further into the catalog of Jeff Baena, who gave us " The Little Hours " and " S...

  SWAMP DOGG GETS HIS POOL PAINTED (A-minus) - Documentaries don't get much more giddy than this romp through the life and career of ...

  ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR (C-minus) - A fun romp from 2018 didn't need a sequel and certainly not this spectacle. At least director Paul F...

  THE CONVERSATION (1974) (B) - Having finally gotten around to this touchstone of '70s realism, prompted by the death of Gene Hackman,...

  TRENQUE LAUQUEN (B) - It takes a certain level of confidence to slowly unfurl a four-hour story, edited into shifting time loops, with a ...

  JANIS IAN: BREAKING SILENCE (B+) - I've led a fairly charmed life, free from trauma or even much struggle. But one of the toughest ye...

  COMPANION (C-minus) - What a lackluster attempt at a sci-fi AI thriller. A flat no-name cast sleepwalks through a cobbled together idiot p...

 Let the countdown begin ...   We have high hopes for the teaming of Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in a debut film about how men become pals, ...

  LOUDER THAN YOU THINK: A LO-FI HISTORY OF GARY YOUNG AND PAVEMENT (B+) - We'll eventually get to see Alex Ross Perry's experiment...

  BRING THEM DOWN (C-minus) - This debut film leans hard on its two rough-hewn millennial stars -- Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott -- ...

 Spending back-to-back nights with perhaps the two pre-eminent Boomer bands from the 1970s, whose music I scorned in my youth but grew to ap...

 A quarter of the way through a century ...   Amalia Ulman follows up her debut " El Planeta " with a romp about vain New York Cit...

We stumbled on the book 25th Hour by David Benioff, who co-created HBO's "Game of Thrones," so we watched the movie version a...

  THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND (A) - This perfect little film was years in the making. It's a feature-length version of a 28-minute shor...

  THANK YOU VERY MUCH (A-minus) - He definitely was an acquired taste at a specific moment in time, and perhaps you had to be there. But An...