American Skin

Payback for police shootings in this violent drama

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review

The Reflecting Skin

"...Longworth. Like an irrational but beautiful dream, The Reflecting Skin unfolds with a clarity that's disturbing. It's a true..."

Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

American Hustle

It's all about the hair, the performances, and the grift and graft in this unpredictable new offering from David O. Russell.

"...It’s all about the hair in American Hustle: a small-time con man’s elaborate comb-over; a well-meaning..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

American Genre Film Archive Expands

Local film preservationists add Severin, Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome

"...Viva sleaze! Viva exploitation! Viva arthouse weirdness! Austin's American Genre Film Archive has announced that it will be..."

Jan. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

LBJ Library Celebrates Fight for Equality in American Sports

The “Get in the Game” exhibition’s opening ceremony is April 21

"...demonstrating that anyone, no matter the color of their skin, could make it in the professional world of sports...."

April 18, 2018 Chron Events Post by Milo Webb

American Dharma

Steve Bannon dissected by the great Errol Morris

"...reshape the world on new, nationalistic, fascistic lines, Morris' American Dharma is no less critical of Bannon than Alison..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

American Dreamer

Jim Gaffigan shows a flair for darkness, but this rideshare thriller stays in neutral

"...credibly by the comedian Jim Gaffigan), has seen his American dream go kaput. Canned from his job, divorced from..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What If The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Was Really About the Horrors of Modern American Society?

Putting the Austin-made seminal slasher back into context

"...further threads of darkness into a skein of flayed skin and paranoid psyches that prevailed and assailed long before..."

March 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Yardbird's Blues

How the bone-out chicken-fried chicken breast is destroying American menus

"...appeal." – John T. Edge, from Fried Chicken: An American Story..."

June 29, 2007 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

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.

"...lives of a multicultural group of Los Angelenos: two African-American carjackers, a Brentwood housewife, a Latino locksmith, a Persian..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Never Let Me Go

The children in this story are born into a system that values them for their disposable body parts, not their discrete personalities.

"...reactions to this filmed adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s undeniably under-the-skin but a mite overpraised Never Let Me Go seemed..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Room

Room wears the skin of a psychological thriller, but plays out as something far darker, weirder, and more distancing. The film was invited to Cannes and earned Independent Spirit Award nominations for its Austin artists, Kyle Henry and Cyndi Williams.

"...a while – as a film programmer, a documentarian (American Cowboy, University Inc.), and an editor (Manito). But Room,..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tomcats

"...writer, Poirier appears to be following in the Farrelly brothers/American Pie tradition of the moment, but compared to this..."

March 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Proof of Life

"...been called in to rescue Peter Bowman (Morse), an American engineer who is building a dam for an oil..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Haunting of Molly Hartley

A frighteningly dull updating of The Omen and Rosemary's Baby for the Gossip Girl set.

"...Newcomer Bennett, looking like the mythical soul of the American teen (post-WB), is the titular teen who has more..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Real Women Have Curves

"...and individual potential -- the struggle of a first-generation Mexican-American Latina in East Los Angeles to break from tradition..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Men of Honor

"...the life of Carl Brashear,” the U.S. Navy's first African-American master diver. A forerunner of today's elite Navy Seals,..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chuck & Buck

"...is the kind of movie that gets under your skin and takes root. It's a discomfiting sensation, much like..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Suture

"...slender white man, Clay is played by a larger African-American man and no one in the film notices the..."

April 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild West

"...anomalous outfit that nobody takes seriously. With his brown skin, fringed western wear, cowboy boots and hat, Zaf marches..."

Nov. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

White Dog

With typically blunt, disturbing, combative, unconventional storytelling, Fuller tackles the disease of bigotry with this story about a racist dog.

"...exposing a tiny bit more of his own black skin to the animal on repeated encounters. It's tedious, treacherous,..."

July 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: NSFW

The return of Eurosex with 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Under the Skin'

"...also horrifies people, and makes them laugh. But while American film makers seem ever more prudish on the topic,..."

July 19, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Innkeepers

With slow-burn shudders, Ti West's haunted-inn story provides a stellar model for creeping dread.

"...Ti West knows how to get under our skin and make us danse macabre. Over the course of..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Towelhead

Alan Ball's film is guaranteed to discomfit and dismay with its dangerous plunge into an adolescent girl's discovery of sexuality and self-identity.

"...Ball’s feature-directing debut, after penning the Oscar-winning script for American Beauty and creating HBO’s eccentric Six Feet Under. Personally,..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Notorious Bettie Page

Gretchen Mol dazzles as the titular pinup girl, but the film raises many more questions about the enigmatic icon than it answers.

"...crisp black-and-white photography evokes both seamy noir and Eisenhower-era American naivete, while occasionally switching to some of the most..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Apostle

"...characters are everyday folk. And there is something so American about it all, from the roof-rattling tent revivals to..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The People vs. Larry Flynt

"...to undertake this freedom-of-speech project than one of his American counterparts.) Those disturbed by the film’s glorification (of sorts)..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

After the Wedding

American remake of Danish Oscar contender flails into melodrama

"...that trigger with having one of its rich, white, American leads explaining meditation to a bunch of Indian street..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Cucaracha, La

"...grandeur and battered hope. As the alcoholic, thoroughly broken American Walter Pool, Roberts clings to his dreams of becoming..."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Get on the Bus

"...gathering that so galvanized the hearts and minds of African-American men. The movie focuses not on the event itself..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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