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The Assessment
The Assessment is a 2024 dystopian sci-fi drama, Fleur Fortuné's feature debut, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, and Alicia Vikander as an assessor testing a couple's fitness for parenthood over seven days.
The Asset (TV series)
The Asset (Danish: Legenden) is a 2025 Danish Netflix crime thriller in which cadet Tea Lind goes undercover as a jeweler to befriend a cocaine trafficker's girlfriend; six episodes, renewed for a second season in January 2026.
The Assignment (2016 film)
The Assignment (2016), also titled (re)Assignment and formerly Tomboy: A Revenger's Tale, is a Walter Hill action thriller starring Michelle Rodriguez as hitman Frank Kitchen, forcibly given gender reassignment surgery by Sigourney Weaver's Dr. Rachel Kay; released by Saban Films in 2017.
The Assistant (2019 film)
The Assistant is Kitty Green's 2019 workplace drama starring Julia Garner as Jane, assistant to an unseen film mogul inspired by Harvey Weinstein; premiered at Telluride, released by Bleecker Street, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Associates (band)
The Associates (Associates) were a Scottish post-punk/new wave band formed in Dundee in 1979 by Billy Mackenzie and Alan Rankine, known for the 1982 UK No. 10 album Sulk and the No. 9 single "Party Fears Two."
The Association
The Association, American sunshine-pop vocal harmony group formed in Los Angeles in 1965, known for "Cherish," "Windy," "Along Comes Mary," and "Never My Love," and for opening the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
The Asterisk War (学戦都市アスタリスク)
The Asterisk War (学戦都市アスタリスク, Gakusen Toshi Asterisk) is a Yuu Miyazaki light novel series, illustrated by Okiura, about Genestella students battling in the Rokka academy city's Seibusai tournament; 17 volumes, a 2015-2016 two-season anime, and a five-volume manga.
The Aston Shuffle
The Aston Shuffle is an Australian electronic music act formed in Canberra in 2006, known for house releases, remixes, and a long-running triple j radio show.
The Astonishing
The Astonishing is a 2016 two-act rock opera by Dream Theater, its thirteenth studio album, set in a dystopian future where rebels fight an empire with music.
The Astra Awards
The Astra Awards, formerly the Hollywood Critics Association awards, are annual honors from the Hollywood Creative Alliance covering film, TV, creative arts, podcasts, and books, with platform-balanced TV nominations and recent wins for Sinners and The Pitt.
The Astronaut (2025 film)
The Astronaut (프로젝트 아스트로 in South Korea) is a 2025 sci-fi horror film written and directed by Jess Varley, starring Kate Mara as astronaut Sam Walker with Laurence Fishburne; premiered at SXSW, released October 17, 2025 by Vertical, 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Astronaut's Wife
The Astronaut's Wife (1999) is a sci-fi horror thriller directed by Rand Ravich, starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron; an astronaut changes after two minutes of lost contact, and his pregnant wife fears an alien influence. New Line Cinema; 109 min; 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Asunta Case
The Asunta Case (El caso Asunta): the 2013 murder of 12-year-old Asunta Basterra Porto in Santiago de Compostela by her adoptive parents Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra, and the 2024 Netflix series about it.
The Asylum
The Asylum is a Burbank, California film studio founded in 1997 by David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, and Sherri Strain, known for low-budget mockbusters like Transmorphers and the Sharknado franchise, plus Z Nation and Black Summer TV series.
The Ataris
The Ataris, American pop-punk band formed 1996 in Anderson, Indiana, led by Kris Roe; known for So Long, Astoria (2003, No. 24 Billboard 200) and the Don Henley "Boys of Summer" cover.
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Experience (AxP, TAE) is a weekly live call-in TV show and podcast from the Atheist Community of Austin, Texas, running since October 1997, airing Sundays 4:30-6:00 pm CT, prioritizing believer callers on evidence for gods.
The Atom Station
The Atom Station (Atómstöðin) is a 1948 satirical novel by Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness about Iceland letting the United States build a base at Keflavík.
The Atrocity Exhibition
The Atrocity Exhibition: J.G. Ballard's 1970 experimental novel of fifteen condensed, headline-titled texts (Cape, London), pulped by Doubleday in the US and reissued as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A., later annotated by Ballard for RE/Search in 1990.
The Attack (الهجوم)
The Attack (الهجوم) is Ziad Doueiri's 2012 drama, adapted from Yasmina Khadra's novel, about an Israeli Palestinian surgeon whose wife is a suicide bomber; it won San Sebastián and Marrakech prizes but was boycotted by the Arab League and banned in Lebanon for being shot in Israel.
The Attacks of 26/11
The Attacks of 26/11 is a 2013 Hindi film by Ram Gopal Varma about the 2008 Mumbai attacks, starring Nana Patekar as police commissioner Rakesh Maria and Sanjeev Jaiswal as Ajmal Kasab; released 1 March 2013 to mixed-negative reviews.
The Atticus Institute
The Atticus Institute is a 2015 American faux-documentary horror film, the directorial debut of Chris Sparling, starring William Mapother and Rya Kihlstedt in a story of a 1976 Pennsylvania lab where the military tries to weaponize a possessed woman.
The Attorney (변호인)
The Attorney (변호인) is Yang Woo-suk's 2013 South Korean courtroom drama starring Song Kang-ho, based on the 1981 Burim case and Roh Moo-hyun's early law career; it passed 10 million admissions in 33 days and won the Paeksang Best Film award.
The Atypical Family (히어로는 아닙니다만)
The Atypical Family (히어로는 아닙니다만) is a 2024 JTBC fantasy-romance K-drama, 12 episodes, starring Jang Ki-yong and Chun Woo-hee, about a family losing superpowers to depression, insomnia, and obesity; streamed on Netflix, distinct from the US series Atypical.
The Audacity
The Audacity is a 2026 AMC dark comedy-drama series created by Jonathan Glatzer (Succession), starring Billy Magnussen as Silicon Valley data-mining CEO Duncan Park; premiered April 12, 2026, eight episodes, renewed for a second season before its premiere.
The Audition (2015 film)
The Audition (2015) is Martin Scorsese's 16-minute comedy short starring Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Brad Pitt as themselves, made for about $70 million to promote Melco Crown's Studio City casino resort in Macau.
The Auditorium Vol. 1
The Auditorium Vol. 1 is the 2024 debut joint album by rapper Common and producer Pete Rock, released July 12, 2024 on Loma Vista; 15 tracks of 1990s-style boom bap with Bilal, Jennifer Hudson, and Posdnuos, nominated for the 2025 Grammy Best Rap Album.
The Auditors (감사합니다)
The Auditors (감사합니다, "Thank You") is a 2024 tvN Korean office drama starring Shin Ha-kyun and Lee Jung-ha as construction-company auditors fighting embezzlement; 12 episodes, aired July 6–August 11, 2024, on Netflix internationally.
The Aura
The Aura (El aura) is Fabián Bielinsky's 2005 Argentine neo-noir heist thriller starring Ricardo Darín as an epileptic taxidermist who takes over a dead man's armored-car robbery plan in Patagonia; his final film, an Oscar submission and multi-award winner.
The Austere Academy
The Austere Academy, book 5 of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), HarperCollins 2000: the Baudelaires attend Prufrock Prep, meet the Quagmire triplets, and first hear V.F.D.
The Australian Ballet
The Australian Ballet is Australia's national ballet company, a not-for-profit ensemble of about 80 dancers founded in 1962 and resident at the Sydney Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne.