Regret to Inform

Sonneborn has captured the horror of the Vietnam conflict from an angle as yet unexplored, that of the women left behind. Sonneborn travels to the place of her husband's death in Vietnam with a film crew to retrace his final days.

"...to return, though Sonneborn throughout the film remains undaunted. Regret to Inform is a scathing antiwar diatribe as shocking..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sun June's Regret Pop

The quintet rewrites the classic tapestry of an “Austin sound”

"...up a long time" album, and Sun June's sound "regret pop."..."

June 8, 2018 Music Feature by Libby Webster

We Regret to Inform You Central Texans May Now Add “West Nile Virus” to the Worry Jar

Another reason to stay inside this summer

July 16, 2020 News Post by Kimberley Jones

We Regret to Inform

July 26, 2002 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eternity and a Day

"...dedicated first and foremost to art. This flood of regret and self-doubt has already been set in motion by..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Stan & Ollie

Coogan and Reilly breathe tender life into the Hollywood icons

"...The bits are tinged with nostalgia, a perpetually unalleviated regret...."

Jan. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Work

Doc on a powerful Folsom Prison therapy group

"...into shrieking and sobbing piles of fear, shame, and regret humanizes them, startlingly so, and argues for a re-examination..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

T2 Trainspotting

The sequel to the 1996 classic

"...Iggy Pop on the soundtrack; T2 is rife with regret, melancholy, lost youth, and (of course) a new, nihilistically..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fences

Denzel Washington scores big in August Wilson's great American play

"...embittered garbageman, stuck in a self-made cage of steely regret and an inability to move forward in life. Viola..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gunman

Sean Penn stars as a regretful ex-mercenary in this international game of cat and mouse

"...craggy face in The Gunman is a roadmap of regret for a man haunted by a dark and shameful..."

March 20, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Richard Stanley, Cinema's Lost Soul

Director on new documentary about the Dr. Moreau disaster

"...that you get to ask a filmmaker whether they regret hiring a warlock. But then, Richard Stanley isn't most..."

Feb. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Project Almanac

Teens discover plans for a time machine within found footage, but things go awry when they begin to construct it.

"...if formulaic cautionary tale about the timeless nature of regret uniquely enabled by the product placement one has come..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Liam Neeson has taken to shooting at bad guys again in this slow-burning Matthew Scudder mystery.

"...of yore, saddled with a hard-boiled, noirish pall of regret and whiskey. Although A Walk Among the Tombstones is..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Prisoners

Jake Gyllenhaal is a detective working a troubling case, and Hugh Jackman's wound-up father of the victim is just one of his problems.

"...police procedural stoked by the fires of obsession and regret. It's a rough, gritty ride, but one well worth..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seven Pounds

Will Smith stars in this dramatic film about a man who whose melancholia compels him to devise a unique plan to redeem what remains of his life.

"...who now leads a desperate life of self-loathing and regret. Seeking out the most effective and productive means of..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Beerfest

The jokes in this latest film from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe are about as potent as near-beer.

"...more akin to the hangover. You may not completely regret the night before, but you'd probably be better off..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Will Ferrell runs comic circles around NASCAR.

"...overwhelmed, but you’d laugh a lot and would never regret the experience...."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Click

Click is a message movie whose real message isn't "Stop and Smell the Roses, Jackass," but "How to Manipulate the Audience in 12 E-Z Steps."

"...Sandler's rat-racing architect, Michael Newman, withered by age and regret, literally crawls through a driving rainstorm toward his forgotten..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Broken Flowers

Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.

"...about middle age, a first for Jarmusch, although any regret, longing, or disquietude we see in Don are projections..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

British romantic tale uses the gunslinger mythos as a means to explore romance and regret.

"...gunslinger mythos as a means to explore romance and regret. Carlyle, who will forever be Trainspotting’s thuggish Begbie to..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Life Without Me

Unusual film about dying young avoids sentimentality.

"...sadness and loss is a mere shadow away but regret is somehow, against all odds, held at bay. It’s..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Up at the Villa

"...pleasurable to watch, even if they make the viewer regret that there isn't more for the actors to do...."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Snow Falling on Cedars

"...than a rollicking narrative as it twists memory, desire, regret, and history into a blue-gray skein of quietude and..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The General's Daughter

"...in aberrant sexuality, but others can probably skip sans regret...."

June 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Self-Made Hero

"...here an ability to convey subtler emotional states: vulnerability, regret, and a sorrowful sense of emptiness at his own..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Licensed to Kill

"...relief as I see transient but unmistakable flares of regret in at least some of their faces. They're human,..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Career Girls

"...bring to light every flicker of awkwardness, indecision, anger, regret, joy, admiration, and affection felt by Hannah and Annie...."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Palookaville

"...might ultimately lead to something that they'll (and you'll) regret. In other words, as corny as it may sound,..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Remains of the Day

"...years later, he is a man brimming over with regret, a man who has the niggling feeling that something..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

"...has killed a bird, and in addition to the regret he feels for the act, he finds the bird's..."

July 9, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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