The Next Three Days

Russell Crowe plays a man who improbably springs his wife from prison where she's been incarcerated for life.

"...Directed by: Paul Haggis. Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Ty Simpkins and Olivia..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Crash

The paths of a seemingly unconnected, multicultural group of Los Angelenos cross in the most compelling American movie to come around in a long while.

"...Directed by: Paul Haggis. Starring: Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Thandie..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In the Valley of Elah

Paul Haggis and Tommy Lee Jones deliver a scorching film that's part police procedural, part family melodrama, and all about our national failures in Iraq.

"...Directed by: Paul Haggis. Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Third Person

Globe-trotting multistory meditation on love, betrayal, and lost/found children from the director of Crash.

"...Directed by: Paul Haggis. Starring: Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Adrian Brody, Mila Kunis,..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

And It's Burns, Burns, Burns …

Supper for the Bard with a Song for the Haggis

"...Scotsmen gathering on a hillside to "watch the wild haggis romp," y'know?..."

Jan. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Last Kiss

You could say Paul Haggis' The Last Kiss is something of a Garden State redux, but Zach Braff's character here is less fanciful, less melodramatic, and far more prone to doing the thoughtless things men tend to do.

"...new 30, no one bothered to tell screenwriter Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), whose script work here, itself..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Quantum of Solace

It's grim, dark, and relentlessly violent – James Bond as Terminator rather than Templar – but it delivers the goods in bloody high style.

"...and more enraged than we've ever seen him. Paul Haggis' script (with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade) focuses not..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three Days of Rain

A drama by debut filmmaker Michael Meredith is a Chekhov-inspired collection of semi-intertwined vignettes about a half-dozen or so depressed people living in Cleveland, and features an impressive cast.

"...are films like Robert Altman’s Short Cuts and Paul Haggis’ Crash. In a nod to Altman, Meredith even uses..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

The Black Donnellys knock off Studio 60

"...replacement comes from pedigreed writers and executive producers Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby) and Bobby Moresco (Crash). Haggis wrote..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Edge of Heaven

This Turkish film is a transgenerational, transborder microcosm of modern cultural melding.

"...Nursel Köse. In the opening scene of Crash, Paul Haggis’ 2004 Academy Award-winning sermon on race relations, Don Cheadle’s..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Haggis that includes livestock lungs has been banned in the..."

June 17, 2016 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Alex Gibney's doc penetrates the church's cloak of secrecy

"...recognizable television actor Jason Beghe, to Oscar-winning screenwriter/director Paul Haggis (Crash), to once-prominent Scientology leaders Mike Rinder and Marty..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright explores the origins and alleged abuses of the Church of Scientology

"...and the many former members, including Oscar-winning writer/director Paul Haggis (Crash), who have renounced their faith and/or the church..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Ajami

This Oscar-nominated Israeli film reveals not only the divides between Jews and Arabs, but also those between Muslims and Christians, young and old, men and women, and rich and poor.

"...and in a grim, Middle Eastern version of Paul Haggis' Crash, petty misunderstandings, then bullets, and then blood pour..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters From Iwo Jima

In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.

"...with story input from one of Flags' screenwriters Paul Haggis and credit given to Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Picture Letters From..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Casino Royale

This is the James Bond origin story wherein we get to discover, along with incoming blond Bond Daniel Craig, where 007 got his suave daredeviltry and love of fast cars, vodka martinis, and highest-stakes cardsharpery.

"...and Robert Wade (with a reported assist from Paul Haggis) to the new spirit of post-9/11 Bondage. This is..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flags of Our Fathers

The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.

"...film. (The script is by back-to-back Oscar winner Paul Haggis, from a first script by Bill Broyles.) It’s impossible..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Million Dollar Baby

Glorious performances and Eastwood's confident direction result in a film that transcends the rules of its genre and shows us, with an unvarnished simplicity, how human beings struggle to come to terms with the unthinkable.

"...help but feel betrayed by Eastwood and screenwriter Paul Haggis for undermining expectations about how this will all turn..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Billy Elliot

"...it in a sheep's stomach, and sell it as Haggis down at the pub), Billy Elliot is first and..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Five Gifts of Literary Delight for You or Anyone Lucky Enough to Be Your Friends or Family

Sentence yourself to a long stretch of reading pleasure

"...a meal that’ll leave you as stuffed as a haggis at a gathering of the Exalted Brotherhood of Culinary..."

Nov. 28, 2022 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 24-30

"...and if you were in London, you could sample haggis-flavored ice cream, made from sheep innards. But my advice..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

These Five Last-Minute Gift Ideas Might Be the Best You’ll Ever See

Because, frankly, most other listicles like this are boring AF

"...a meal that’ll leave you as stuffed as a haggis at a gathering of the Exalted Brotherhood of Culinary..."

Dec. 21, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chronicle Recommends: The Worst of the Oscars

From badly timed to just plain bad: When the Academy got it wrong

"...has already been spilled over the ham-fisted Crash, Paul Haggis’ everything-is-connected, aren’t-we-all-a-little bit-racist drama that Academy voters named the..."

Feb. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Imaginary Drinks We Wish Were Real

Our favorite fictional booze

"...accompanying: Steak and kidney pie for the living; maggoty haggis for the dead; and stoat sandwiches for giants. Romulan..."

July 21, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Spiral Stairs

Doris & the Daggers (Nine Mile)

"...fist pumps. Scottish travelogue "Dundee Man" delights with its haggis-infused narrative, while "The Unconditional" and "Angel Eyes" summon love..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Opal Divine’s 13th Annual Whisky Festival: A Review

A night of quaffs from those distant lands where the wild haggis roam

"...and the land of the thistle where the wild haggis roam, and there's newcomers like 2 Gingers, and so..."

Dec. 7, 2015 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lit-urday: Burning Down George Orwell's House

Whisky? Check. Women? Check. Weather? Check. Werewolf? Uh oh.

"...ineptly shod feet accrue nor ingest a meal of haggis so abominable that … well, we’ll let you get..."

April 4, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Alex Gibney Strikes Again

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief premieres

"...its exposé. Similarly damning is the testimony of Paul Haggis, an apostate whose revealing commentary about Church activities is..."

March 29, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Josh Kupecki's Top 10 List

"...Worst Film Third Person: Paul Haggis continues to cement his reputation as the most plodding..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

The Gourds: Don’t Call It A Breakup

Beloved Austin pranksters hit pause on 19 years

"...Smokin’” “Maria” “Country Love” “Lower 48” “I Ate the Haggis” “Flavor On the Tongue” “How Will U Shine” “Up..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Music Post by Melanie Haupt

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