Dark Waters

Todd Haynes' courtroom drama is a true-life environmental horror

"...be the Bilotts, the slow and steady people of conviction...."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Woman at War

Saving the world, one wry laugh at a time in this Icelandic eco-comedy

"...and Men) gives us a protagonist of deep moral conviction whose dual lives as a secret eco-terrorist and reputable..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tulip Fever

Intrigue blossoms in 17th century Amsterdam

"...an energetic but not spirited performance. He lacks the conviction required to make sense of Sophia’s ardor...."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Progress and Justice With the San Antonio Four

Women hope to help the rest of the wrongfully convicted

"...four months after the exoneration of a sexual assault conviction that sent the four women to prison for nearly..."

March 15, 2017 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Kicks

A boy and his Air Jordans

"...how to capture a moment, and convey a rabid conviction to hold on to your beliefs. Joseph Campbell would..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

How to Be Single

This millennial romantic comedy wears that same old shaggy dress

"...I like the declarative clarity, the strength of conviction in the title. I wish the movie itself bore..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Creed

Stallone's Rocky trains Apollo Creed's son in worthy franchise reboot

"...of a boxer’s rise, beginnings of self-doubt, recovery of self-conviction, and ultimate triumph. But the performances are lovely, and..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Little Boy

Can the power of faith change the course of history?

"...remains unclear whether Little Boy intends to celebrate the conviction of belief or to mock it. It’s an unfortunate..."

May 1, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

No Good Deed

Idris Elba plays a home invader hell-bent on terrorizing Taraji P. Henson’s suburban mom.

"...rough beast to Bethlehem, falling apart and lacking all conviction...."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Persecuted

In this Christian-based thriller with a better-than-average cast, an evangelist is framed for murder by the government.

"...for rape and murder. All steel and passionate religious conviction, determined to clear himself, rather than turn himself in..."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Study: More Innocents on Death Row Than Previously Thought

Number could be higher in larger criminal justice system

"...Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the incidence of wrongful conviction is, in essence, vastly overblown...."

April 28, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Saving Mr. Banks

Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson star in this story about how Walt Disney convinced the prickly author of Mary Poppins to sell her creation to Hollywood.

"...literary creation, Mary Poppins, on film with the same conviction as the no-nonsense nanny who was carried by the..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lawmakers Urge Pretrial DNA Testing in Death Penalty Cases

AG joins senators in saying measure would speed exonerations

"...death penalty cases, it can take years after a conviction to secure DNA testing...."

March 20, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Paperboy

This lurid Southern tale by the director of Precious shows that he still knows how to push people's buttons – and gather an all-star cast to sell the goods.

"...town of Lately, Fla., to investigate the possible wrongful conviction of Hillary Van Wetter (Cusack) for the murder of..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Safety Not Guaranteed

Love and time travel commingle in this debut feature which stars Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass.

"...and richly as it does, but it's Plaza's wide-eyed conviction that makes the whole thing ring true...."

June 15, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Evidence Missing in Skinner Case

Key evidence missing and no one knows why

"...state announced it would drop its opposition to the post-conviction DNA testing of evidence in the capital murder case..."

June 13, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Sound of Noise

Unique to a fault, this Swedish film is a daft police procedural and an absurdist comedy about musical terrorists.

"...premise, although it’s carried out with a degree of conviction that’s hard to beat. The performances are all full-length,..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Incendiary: The Willingham Case

The "junk science" used to make the case for the Texas execution of Cameron Todd Willingham for the arson murders of his children is persuasively laid out in this locally made documentary.

"...psychopath. Others call him – or rather, call his conviction in 1992 and his subsequent execution in 2004 –..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tyson

Mike Tyson tells his life story in his own words in this documentary by longtime friend James Toback.

"...three years in a federal pen on a rape conviction, and the career-ending chomping of Evander Holyfield's ear during..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Che: Part Two

Steven Soderbergh concludes his two-part biopic with Che's Bolivian endgame.

"...legendary and controversial character, but it’s his own aesthetic conviction that life’s insignificant moments are the ones to keep..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Mister Foe

Equal parts sweet and perverse, this Scottish coming-of-age story about a teenage voyeur is unpredictable and compelling and premieres exclusively in Austin.

"...but the story is told with such heart and conviction that it also manages to avoid succumbing to the..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Amazing Grace

Unfortunately, what makes British abolitionist William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him dull: his single-minded righteousness.

"...history of Great Britain. With his leading-man looks, unshakable conviction, and dulcet voice, young Wilberforce has charms to soothe..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Paradise Now

Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That’s the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.

"...thriller, not so much a whodunit as a whetherdunit. Conviction mingles with vacillation, and once an unexpected hitch in..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Japón

"...(Flores), while trying to find the serenity, courage, or conviction to kill himself. Who knows what's going through his..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Talk to Her

Gone, with one major exception, are the delicious hysterics of Almodóvar's earlier works; Talk to Her is a mostly restrained, though by no means unemotional, work about two men in love with comatose women.

"...grounds it with gravity and, above all, the tender conviction of a man who believes he has love on..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Recruit

"...for the viewer. These three bring a sense of conviction and gusto to characters that are written (by Roger..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Undisputed

"...has just been sent to prison on a rape conviction (in a thinly veiled take on the Mike Tyson..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trembling Before G-d

"...is a predicament portrayed with extreme compassion and stirring conviction. Trembling Before G-d ultimately calls into question belief in..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).

"...little concrete sense but, oh, it's presented with such conviction and panache. And it's this -- the movie's spectacle..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Frequency

"...yet, due largely to the tremendous innate warmth and conviction of leads Quaid and Caviezel (The Thin Red Line),..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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