A.V. Film Club

Archie from Riverdale finds love, faith, and a guitar in the blandly inspirational I Still Believe trib.al/1FGOaqx

Vin Diesel’s comic-book potboiler Bloodshot is dumb fun dressed like smart sci-fi trib.al/p0K5IXz

The Hunt is an anemic political comedy wrapped in a blood-soaked thriller trib.al/8JyxAiF

There’s a hint of an even more fascinating story in Netflix’s true-crime drama Lost Girls trib.al/YuY4Lhq

Pete Davidson delivers small-time charms in Big Time Adolescence trib.al/FG9LsJu

Gorgeous visuals make the shocking drama Swallow go down easy trib.al/N7j2aq9

Even Mark Wahlberg can do better than the forgettable Spenser Confidential trib.al/6miUdsJ

Ken Loach grinds another honest man under the cruel gears of society in Sorry We Missed You trib.al/HueKiOU

The style is thrilling, even when the story isn’t, in Chinese gangster noir The Wild Goose Lake trib.al/mPqCZVN

The Banker is rich only with biopic clichés trib.al/3GjrP4I

Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow finds an American creation myth in a touching portrait of friendship trib.al/cCiyPx7

Wendy is a glum gloss on Peter Pan from the director of Beasts Of The Southern Wild trib.al/li61bAD

Saint Frances finds grace, humor, and an ode to the female body in a familiar indie premise trib.al/dlH39Bb

Greed, for lack of a better word, is not good trib.al/WZxLBPr

The KKK redemption drama Burden means well but misses the bigger picture trib.al/oeDLiNd

The Whistlers is a delectable deadpan noir trib.al/SFo8Tqj

The Oscars should have made room for the intense and elemental A White, White Day trib.al/ucd0L54

A new version of #TheInvisibleMan makes one of his victims intensely visible trib.al/1bUyBM0

The spooky doll is an oddball delight, but Brahms: The Boy II is not trib.al/L119iSL

Ana de Armas is way too good for the lousy, sub-De Palma thriller The Night Clerk trib.al/8QiLi6K