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A Walk to Remember
Based on a Nicholas Sparks' novel, A Walk to Remember starts out gloriously, with the title credits pounding out over the Breeders' “Cannonball” and its...
Film Review, Jan. 25, 2002
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2002
Come on, fellatio jokes are funny. Admit it. I did. I'd managed to avoid the Sick & Twisted festival -- an offshoot of Spike &...
Film Review, Jan. 25, 2002
Charlotte Gray
For a select portion of the population who like their pleasures guilty, melodrama can be a glorious thing: war, valor, intrigue, star-cross'd lovers, betrayal, bursting...
Film Review, Jan. 25, 2002
The Beauty of the Beast
Austin's IMAX theatre opts not to screen the newly remastered Disney film.
Screens Feature, Jan. 18, 2002
The Magnificent Ambersons
There are hints of a meaty complexity to Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons beyond its doomed-love motif, but the 88-minutes-long film, while striking, is too brief to really explore all that it hints at.
Reviewed by Screens Review, Jan. 18, 2002
Gosford Park
The servants know all in this Altman mystery set in a British countryside estate in the 1930s.
Film Review, Jan. 11, 2002
Love Is a Battlefield
The Austin Film Society presents a new free series on screwball comedy.
Screens Feature, Jan. 11, 2002
In the Bedroom
In the Bedroom takes its name from a “bedroom trap,” in which two lobsters are trapped in a single fishing cage and attack each other,...
Film Review, Jan. 4, 2002
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Animated Jimmy saves Retroville from the aliens.
Film Review, Dec. 21, 2001
The Majestic
The “Majestic” may be the name of the old movie house Jim Carry restores in this period piece, but you get the feeling it's also...
Film Review, Dec. 21, 2001
Fat Girl
Words like “feminist” and “provocative” are frequently bandied about when talking about French filmmaker Catherine Breillat, a writer and director who has built a career...
Film Review, Dec. 14, 2001
Better Than Sex
The title alone sets Better Than Sex up for a fall at the hands of metaphor-manic critics (“About as appealing as dry-humping a second-hand sofa!”...
Film Review, Dec. 7, 2001
Amélie
Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?
Film Review, Nov. 16, 2001
Wet Hot American Summer
Spoof of old summer-camp sexcapades is performed by a sprawling cast of comedic hams, largely culled from comedy troupe the State.
Film Review, Nov. 2, 2001
On the Line
Apparently looking to extend his 15 minutes, 'N Sync crooner Lance Bass stars in his feature-film debut as Kevin, a Windy City ad exec who...
Film Review, Oct. 26, 2001
Waking Life
This animated journey through one character's dreams is a stirring, motivational, and metaphysical head trip.
Film Review, Oct. 26, 2001
Corky Romano
SNL cast member Chris Kattan should have been in silent comedy. He has the Silly Putty face of those old slapstick stars, and a sing-song,...
Film Review, Oct. 19, 2001
Liam
Best off to begin with a bias: I am not a fan of Catholic guilt. So it was with a distinct lack of enthusiasm that...
Film Review, Oct. 19, 2001
Serendipity
When Jonathan (Cusack) meets Sara (Beckinsale), they're stuck in the Christmas crush at Bloomingdale's, both eyeing the last pair of cashmere black gloves. He's kinda...
Film Review, Oct. 5, 2001
Don't Say a Word
The last couple of years have been good to Michael Douglas, and, no, I'm not referring to his acquisition of a Mrs. Michael Douglas. His...
Film Review, Sep. 28, 2001
Greenfingers
Just into the opening credits, as a forgettably peppy song plays on the soundtrack, the screen spells out a cringe-inducing caveat: “This story is inspired...
Film Review, Sep. 14, 2001
Adventures of Felix
Recently laid off from his dock worker job in Normandy, Felix (Bouajila) bids farewell to his lover and hits the road, with the plan of...
Film Review, Sep. 14, 2001
Hardball
Contrary to what publicity wonks, with their one-line clippy pitches, would have you believe, Hardball is not a Bad News Bears for the urban set....
Film Review, Sep. 14, 2001
Vertical Ray of the Sun
If there is a heaven, I hope it looks like Vertical Ray of the Sun. Hands-down the most gorgeously put-together piece of celluloid in recent...
Film Review, Sep. 7, 2001
Rock Star
Coming of age during the Eighties, kids had two obvious paths as far as musical development went. If you were cool, you were into rap....
Film Review, Sep. 7, 2001
O
The practice of reimagining Shakespeare for film has produced some modern wonders that have added contemporary depth to the classic texts: Kurosawa's Ran, Richard Loneraine's...
Film Review, Aug. 31, 2001
O: The Movie
The practice of reimagining Shakespeare for film has produced some modern wonders that have added contemporary depth to the classic texts: Kurosawa's Ran, Richard Loneraine's...
Film Review, Aug. 31, 2001
Bubble Boy
It's a shame if the controversy surrounding Bubble Boy distracts people from what a smart, subversive, and genuinely good-hearted film it is. Protest groups have...
Film Review, Aug. 24, 2001
The Deep End
To be a mother -- at least, a good one -- is to be a zealot, fanatically devoted to the cause of your children. You'd...
Film Review, Aug. 24, 2001
Osmosis Jones
There are certain mysteries of the universe that I will never truly understand: the big bang theory, circuit breakers, the comeback of the mullet. Having...
Film Review, Aug. 10, 2001
A Love Divided
The “love divided” that the title so soppily refers to is the one between Sean and Sheila Cloney (Cunningham and Brady), a real-life married couple...
Film Review, Aug. 3, 2001
Le Placard (The Closet)
Trade in Dustin Hoffman's red spangly Tootsie dress for Daniel Auteuil's leather chaps and condom beanie-hat, and you've got the basic idea of this French...
Film Review, Jul. 27, 2001
Lost and Delirious
Prep school girls in knee socks … and nothing else! Lost and Delirious could have come off like a fetishist's fantasy or the stuff of...
Film Review, Jul. 20, 2001
Legally Blonde
Clueless and Dick gave the dumb-blonde tradition (think Sandra Dee) new life in the Nineties, showing some sharp social and political comedy gleaming out at...
Film Review, Jul. 13, 2001
Songcatcher
The Appalachian music that propels Songcatcher sounds sweet as honey, but the non-musical aspects of this independent film smell an awful lot like pork product....
Film Review, Jun. 29, 2001
Crazy/beautiful
As far as movies marketed at a youthful demographic go, crazy/beautiful is a surprisingly mature and delicately rendered entry into the teen sweepstakes. If only...
Film Review, Jun. 29, 2001
The Anniversary Party
Critics tend to get a little suspicious whenever entertainers try to break out of their niche to try something new. “But what I really want...
Film Review, Jun. 22, 2001
Himalaya
Filmed by a French crew, but acted by mostly nonprofessional locals (and subtitled in English), Himalaya was the first-ever Nepalese entry for an Academy Award...
Film Review, Jun. 22, 2001
Swordfish
It's difficult to synopsize Swordfish, to whittle it down to a digestible nugget. The film (directed by Gone in 60 Seconds' Dominic Sena) is a...
Film Review, Jun. 13, 2001
Evolution
It's baffling that the same comic mind that directed Meatballs, Ghostbusters, and Dave could have coughed up this underachieving and so very un-comic sci-fi spoof...
Film Review, Jun. 8, 2001
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