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Photograph (2019, 110 min., PG-13)
Indian romance is best in its quiet moments
Get ready for romance with this Valentine’s release about family secrets
Pi (1998, 85 min., R)
Brilliant, surreal, and emotionally draining, this first feature from American Film Institute grad Aronofsky recalls such low-budget sci-fi epics as Tetsuo: The Iron Man and more traditional paranoiac suspense films (Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder in particular, ...
The age-old question redone in Holocaust blacks and crimsons: Art -- what is it good for? Can it save the world, effect change in the emotional tumors of man's soul, or is it just something pleasing ...
It's little wonder that Vienna is the city that cultivated Freud's breakthrough ideas about sex and repression and civilization. The Piano Teacher seems as though it might be a page lifted from one of the theoretician's ...
Like a dream, the Quay Brothers' The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is wispy and ethereal; like a nightmare, it lodges in your hindbrain and gnaws away with gleeful abandon.
If Madame Bovary were ever to find a Room of her Own, the result might be something like The Piano. But, then again, probably not, since The Piano is a wholly original achievement. Writer-director Jane Campion ...
Five adorable puppies on the path to changing lives
A film about history, nostalgia, and matchmaking, Picture Bride deservedly won this year's Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Director/co-screenwriter Hatta drew on her grandmother's experiences as a mail-order bride from Japan to write -- ...
The Friends transition to the big screen continues unabated with this, the Aniston entry into the fray, and as might be expected, the blandest actress on NBC's hit show also gives the weakest star turn thus ...
Susan Meiselas risked her life photographing the Nicaraguan revolution of 1979. Her images were vivid, arresting; one picture of a young Sandinista hurling a Molotov cocktail was even adopted as a logo of sorts by both ...
The Tredici family, late of Corsica, has settled in the farmlands of Indiana and is trying to make a go of 240 acres of apple orchards that have seen better days. When patriarch Franco (Breuler), a ...
A Thanksgiving from hell with the family and all the neighbors upstairs.
Piercing (2019, 81 min., R)
A wannabe serial killer gets more than he anticipates in this dark comedy
Pieta (2012, 104 min., NR)
South Korea's Kim Ki-duk makes his most commercial film yet, but it's still full of queasy-making moments.
Pig (2021, 92 min., R)
Nicolas Cage’s porcine drama is a transformative soliloquy about love and loss
Piggy (2022, 90 min., R)
Spanish teen slasher subverts the tropes with a new kind of protagonist
Disney’s timing in releasing Piglet’s Big Movie last Friday could not have been more serendipitous had it been National Hug a Pig for Peace Week. At the end of what will surely go down as one ...
British director Greenaway (Prospero's Books, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) has a cinematic style that's all his own, and this meditation on the vagaries of love, betrayal, and vengeance is rife with ...
Pin Gods (1996, 82 min., NR)
Pin Gods opens theatrically in Austin following its previous run during the SXSW.97 Film Festival.Even if you're not the kind of person who longs to hear the crackle of a strike or to feel the tight ...
Pina (2011, 103 min., PG)
Wim Wenders celebrates the great, innovative, German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch – in commanding 3-D, no less.
A winning "bromance" between stoners, played by reigning comedy king Seth Rogen and James Franco, is at the heart of this shaggy pot story.
Piñero (2001, 103 min., R)
This film is a sympathetic biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican writer Miguel Piñero (author of Short Eyes).
Singing sphincters, Edie the Egg Lady, Divine as the "filthiest person alive," and the now-legendary dog shit scene: All are part of Waters' first underground success.
Steve Martin returns as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, but no Beyoncé in sight. Smart girl.
In this pointless rehash of the 1964 Blake Edwards film that introduced Inspector Clouseau to the world, Steve Martin inhabits the role of the bumbling French detective without a trace of the comic genius of Peter Sellers.
Pinocchio (2003, 108 min., G)
Rarely have I so longed for fondue forks to be plunged with feverish abandon into my eyes and ears, the better to enact stoppage against what must surely be the most irritating adaptation of a childhood ...
Pinocchio (2020, 124 min., PG-13)
Latest retelling of the children's classic gets tangled in its own strings
Finally, 3-D is being put to its optimum use. Who cares how it holds up as a remake?
Barely a step above a second-tier Troma film, this is one catch you'd do well to throw back.