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Gimme the Loot
This prize-winning indie debut follows two wannabe graffiti artists on one long night.
Monica Riese, Review, May. 17, 2013
The Iceman
Michael Shannon stars as a contract killer with a double life.
Louis Black, Review, May. 17, 2013
Pieta
South Korea's Kim Ki-duk makes his most commercial film yet, but it's still full of queasy-making moments.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, May. 17, 2013
Tyler Perry Presents Peeples
This likable comedy is equal parts silly and sweet.
Kimberley Jones, Review, May. 17, 2013
In the House
A pleasurably heady thriller from French auteur François Ozon.
Kimberley Jones, Review, May. 17, 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness
The Star Trek reboot may be overly familiar, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun.
Kimberley Jones, Review, May. 17, 2013
At Any Price
This family drama puts a human face on corporate agribusiness.
Leah Churner, Review, May. 17, 2013
Arthur Newman
Colin Firth and Emily Blunt star in this road picture about two people who try to escape their identities but fall in love and learn to accept their responsibilities.
Louis Black, Review, May. 10, 2013
The Great Gatsby
A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
Kimberley Jones, Review, May. 10, 2013
Renoir
Renoir is great at capturing an Impressionist atmosphere on film but this story about the family relations is dramatically inert.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, May. 10, 2013
Trash Dance
The process used by Austin choreographer Allison Orr to create this dance piece for garbage trucks and sanitation workers is revealed in this fascinating documentary record.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, May. 3, 2013
The Angels' Share
Scottish social-realist director Ken Loach is back with a new movie about young delinquents and a whisky-distillery heist.
Leah Churner, Review, May. 3, 2013
Blancanieves
A period piece about two generations of matadors is fused with the Snow White fairy tale in this black-and-white Spanish charmer.
Kimberley Jones, Review, May. 3, 2013
Iron Man 3
It's more of the same, but the same is pretty good.
Louis Black, Review, May. 3, 2013
No Place on Earth
A spelunker in the Ukraine turns amateur sleeuth as he tries to make sense of the remnants he finds in a cave: They were left by Jews who hid there from the Nazis.
Leah Churner, Review, May. 3, 2013
The Big Wedding
In this wedding comedy, a bridegroom’s bitterly divorced parents (De Niro and Keaton) must pretend they’re still married to appease his Catholic birth mother.
Kimberley Jones, Review, May. 3, 2013
Filly Brown
A young, Latina hip-hop artist gets a shot at a record contract only if she is willing to compromise her ideals.
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 26, 2013
Home Run
A pro ballplayer with a substance-abuse problem goes back home for rehab, and finds Christian redemption by coaching a Little League team.
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 26, 2013
Mud
Hypermasculine yet soulfully romantic, this coming of age story with thriller elements stars Matthew McConaughey.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Apr. 26, 2013
The Company You Keep
Members of the Weather Underground resurface in this contemporary thriller directed by Robert Redford.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 26, 2013
Disconnect
This mawkish, preachy picture about technophobia has already dated itself.
Leah Churner, Review, Apr. 26, 2013
Graceland
Ron Morales hostage thriller is a fluorescent-lit tour of the citys seedy underbelly.
Leah Churner, Review, Apr. 26, 2013
Pain & Gain
One of the dirty secrets of modern American filmmaking is what a skilled director Michael Bay really is.
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 26, 2013
The New Juarez
This partisan film essay attacks both the United States and Mexican governments for the massive violence in Juarez.
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 19, 2013
Oblivion
Tom Cruise stars in this science-fiction outing that favors style over substance.
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 19, 2013
Starbuck
A sperm donor learns 20 years after the fact that he is the father of 533 children in this mild, French-Canadian comedy.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 19, 2013
Scary Movie 5
This parodic auto-mash-up of Paranormal Activity, Black Swan, The Evil Dead, and more is even worse than you think.
Leah Churner, Review, Apr. 19, 2013
Upstream Color
Shane Carruth's film is arthouse science fiction at its most compelling yet cryptic.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 19, 2013
From Up on Poppy Hill
This latest film from the Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli is dubbed into English.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Apr. 19, 2013
It's a Disaster
This dark comedy by UT grad Todd Berger is built around a likable ensemble.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Apr. 19, 2013
The Lords of Salem
With his fifth horror feature, writer/director Rob Zombie proves he's a unique visionary in a repetitive cinematic genre.
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 19, 2013
The Place Beyond the Pines
A melodrama, multigenerational epic, heist film, and motorcycle-fetish movie are all rolled into one in this Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper headliner.
Leah Churner, Review, Apr. 12, 2013
42
Jackie Robinson's story is told as a socially conscious moral tale about the malevolence of segregation.
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 12, 2013
The Sapphires
Exuberant but fairly formulaic, this Australian film is a backstage story about an all-girl singing group from the outback in the Sixties.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 12, 2013
To the Wonder
Terrence Malick makes a swift return to our screens with this evocative story about the stages of love.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 12, 2013
Trance
Danny Boyle's film swerves unevenly between moods and motivations, from heist film to psychosexual thriller, and dreamy logic to amped-up action.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Apr. 12, 2013
Ginger & Rosa
The personal becomes political in Sally Potter's story about a girl who comes of age in England during the early Sixties.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Apr. 12, 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
This overflowing action stew is loaded to the brim with half-formed ideas, action stereotypes, and hints of characters.
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 5, 2013
The Host
Andrew Niccol writes and directs this romantic, science-fiction thriller that's based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Apr. 5, 2013
Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
Perry's melodrama centers an ambitious, married woman's dalliance with a handsome billionaire.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 5, 2013
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