A Stranger Among Us

"...you guys sure have a lot of rules,” or “Come on; eat the eclair -- I won't tell anyone.”..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Meeting Venus

"...Close, Niels Arestrup, Marian Labuda and Maite Nahyr. The films of Szabo (Mephisto, Colonel Redl, Hanussen) come few and..."

Jan. 31, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Close My Eyes

"...and so spend their teenage years apart. When they come together again their meetings are increasingly sexually charged until..."

Dec. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Crossing the Line

"...appalled and thus, takes the kids and moves out. Come fight day, the bout is excruciating. The two men..."

Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Commitments

"...and Bronagh Gallager. To judge from most of his films, Alan Parker grew up in a box. When he..."

Sept. 20, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Servants of Twilight

"...Grace Zabriskie. While not as awful as the last film adaptation of a Dean Koontz novel (the evil Corey..."

June 7, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"...clue, two of literature's greatest goofballs, things do not become much clearer when they meet a scruffy pack of..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

All We Imagine as Light

Three women seek connection in Mumbai

"...The film captures a crush of bodies and some very interesting..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Qmmunity: Two Drag Performers Talk Moving to Austin From San Marcos

Beau Elliot and Kino Kino come to town but don't forget their roots

"...such kindness!” In particular, he remembers asking Malibu Imported – host of Distorted Drag Brunch at Ovenbird – whether..."

Sept. 13, 2024 Column by James Scott

Dolittle

Downey has and is fun as the doctor who can talk with the animals

"...Polynesia the macaw (Thompson). Yet his years of reclusion come to an end when the world intrudes: Royal handmaiden..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Them That Follow

Snake-handling drama quietly eviscerates that whole "thoughts and prayers" deal

"...this small West Virginia community, where Mara (Englert, Ginger & Rosa) serves her loyal role as the daughter to..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Prospect

Lo-fi sci-fi drama is driven by performances and ingenuity

"...parallels between space exploration and westward expansion, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that plenty of science-fiction films borrow..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Science Fair

The future is as bright as these charming science kids

"...We’ve come a long way from Eighties tropes about nerds –..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

America's favorite neighbor, Fred Rogers, revealed as even kinder than you hoped

"...Neighborhood will sully his reputation. Indeed, you’re liable to come away with an even greater appreciation of him...."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Book Club

Life, love, laughter, and literature for a classic quartet of actresses

"...and bring that perspective into the theatre. At the film’s best, Book Club places its target demographic within the..."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Dealt

The remarkable life of a blind card mechanic

"...a card mechanic, a person who can control the outcome of a table game, a player with whom you..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

American Made

Tom Cruise is a pilot who becomes embroiled in the Iran/Contra scandal

"...America – but in director Doug Liman’s hands it becomes a four to the floor, sky-high action comedy that..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother!

Jennifer Lawrence on the brink of madness

"...madly fertile imagination and Mother!, his first true horror film, blazes new synapses in the cinematic zeitgeist, reveling in..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Atomic Blonde

Spies duke it out in Cold War-era Berlin

"...hands of Russia’s KGB. In recent years, Theron has become one of cinema’s top female action stars, impeccably lethal..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Exception

WW II melodrama lacks a charismatic lead

"...Lamentably, all of these performances must come in contact with Jai Courtney’s. He fills the film..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Your Name

This body-swapping anime is a stunner

"...two teenagers, the headstrong Mitsuha and the shy Taki, come together and then apart, again and again, as they..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Silence

Two missionaries in feudal Japan are tested

"...Set in 17th century Japan, the film takes place during the feudal shogunate era when Western..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Collateral Beauty

Will Smith mopes around in this preposterous drama

"...Come expecting a good cry from this mawkish holiday slush..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Honey

Youths hit the road in this rambling epic

"...in Andrea Arnold’s American Honey (the title of which comes from a Lady Antebellum song). Arnold (Fish Tank, Wuthering..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Be Single

This millennial romantic comedy wears that same old shaggy dress

"...to you by the writers of the lackluster relationship comedies Valentine’s Day and He’s Just Not That Into You,..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jane Got a Gun

Natalie Portman stars in and produced this Western

"...Come expecting a feminist Western and you’ll be sorely disappointed...."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer Fun: No Pressure; No Diamonds

Learning the facets of the AAA hotel inspector's trade

"...Come with us as we slide our plastic card in..."

July 17, 2015 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer

In the Name of My Daughter

The Affaire Le Roux, a famous missing-person case, is the subject of this French drama

"...Seventies and continued through the next three decades, the film will not provide similar touchstones for North American viewers...."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Project Almanac

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

"...temporal relocation devices. The latest high-concept handheld whatsit to come down the pike would be Project Almanac, which transparently..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Mortdecai

Johnny Depp fails to unleash his inner Peter Sellers in this globetrotting spy comedy.

"...Kyril Bonfiglioli’s Mortdecai novels, on which this Johnny Depp comedy is based; still, no reference point is required to..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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