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Before Midnight

This third European outing with Celine and Jesse is a grand accomplishment.

Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, May. 24, 2013

Epic

This imaginative 3-D animated fantasy takes place in a forest world.

Louis Black, Review, May. 24, 2013

Fast & Furious 6

The curiously addictive fast-cars franchise is still committed to excess.

Kimberley Jones, Review, May. 24, 2013

The Hangover: Part III

The hard-R comedy trilogy concludes with more mortal peril and questionable taste.

Kimberley Jones, Review, May. 24, 2013

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

This doc about the storied department store stays relentlessly on-message.

Leah Churner, Review, May. 24, 2013

Low Lighting

Soderbergh flickers into retirement with 'Behind the Candelabra'

Reviewed by Patrick Courtney, May. 23, 2013

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 city’s 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

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