Amanda & Jack Go Glamping

A couple try to reignite their marriage

"...I wish I could say the same for his counterpart. Amanda isn’t given much of a backstory, and she..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Napoleon Solo and and Illya Kuryakin don't transition well to the present

"...the adventures of an American spy and his Russian counterpart is yet another Hail Mary effort on the part..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Wicker Park

Paul McGuigan pulls out all the stops on his Wurlitzter Organ of Incessant Camera Trickery to muddy the waters of rationality in this bizarre remake of a fine French thriller.

"...American version can’t hold a candle to its French counterpart, which was deeply, eerily resonant where this is only..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Contact

Carl Sagan's novel about the celestial mysteries is embodied onscreen by Jodie Foster as the astronomer heroine and Matthew McConaughey as her spiritual counterpart from the other side of the fence

"...for solving the universe's mysteries matches that of her counterpart on the spiritual side of the fence, charismatic pop..."

July 11, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Fun

"...a smarmy print reporter (Moses) and his social worker counterpart (Hope) as a framing device, allowing us to see..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

"...film offers a marked improvement over its small screen counterpart, with the Hong Kong influenced fight sequences and computer..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Baby's Day Out

"...is temporarily amusing as well as less offensive than counterpart Kevin's deliberate human damage, but it cannot compensate for..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Night and Day

"...of bliss. Then one day Julie meets Jack's day-shift counterpart Joseph (Negret), who drives the cab by day. Almost..."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Is a Battlefield

In 'The Holy Land,' indie auteur Eitan Gorlin Feels at home as an interloper in a world of religion, romance, and war.

"...in Israel. That the fictional bar has a real-world counterpart is odd enough -- it's a bit like the..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dream Scenario

Nic Cage leads a strange satire about public perception

"...earnestness and Adaptation's idiosyncrasies. But it's also a fitting counterpart to last year's broader, more meta The Unbearable Weight..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

What's Love Got to Do With It?

Rom-com look at arranged marriage in contemporary Britain

"...Shekhar Kapur's satire on relationships serves as a British counterpart to Roshan Sethi's very American movie, in that both..."

May 5, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Halloween Ends

Jamie Lee Curtis stars in her umpteenth face-off with a retirement-age Michael Myers

"...the Blumhouse-era Halloween films has reflected its respective original counterpart in some way. 2018’s Halloween mimicked the clean scope..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Terrifier 2

More gore as the indie horror smash gets an even grislier sequel

"...this time he has a creepy little girl clown counterpart. As if things couldn’t get worse...."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Facing Nolan

The life of baseball's (fairly) scandal-free hall of famer

"...described in so many words as Nolan’s fiercely competitive counterpart, is also credited with talking him out of quitting..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Jasmine Lane

The Great Green Wall

A grand plan for Africa from an African perspective

"...The Great Green Wall serves as a direct counterpart to Jared P. Scott's The Age of Consequences, which..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A White, White Day

Icelandic revenge drama is really a perfect study of stifled grief

"...Hollywood adaptation in the same way that its Norwegian counterpart, In Order of Disappearance could be turned into the..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ground Floor Theatre and Deaf Austin Theatre's Next to Normal

In this collaboration between the two companies, having signing actors and speaking actors perform side by side provides a uniquely engaging experience

"...sees these signing actors performing synchronously alongside their vocal counterparts...."

Dec. 13, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

The Nightingale

Jennifer Kent's follow-up to The Babadook is a true historical horror

"...about race relations: The white character elevates his nonwhite counterpart, causing them to be overcome with emotion at the..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Midsommar

Ari Aster’s folk-horror excursion to Scandinavia never sees the forest for the trees

"...the other cat’s-paw in the cult’s plans. He’s a counterpart to Gabriel Byrne in Hereditary, a partner trapped in..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Hustle

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake can't con its way to success

"...Hathaway and Wilson's characters work off, not against, their counterpart. The Hustle wants to say something about the inherent..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Crime Month: Down Those Mean Streams

Nordic noir and other criminal pleasures worth streaming

"...chief who endures more trouble per capita than his counterpart in Los Angeles, but almost never loses his cool...."

July 20, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Six New Shows to Distract Yourself With This Year

Your 2018 TV preview

"...but people are already clamoring for a second season. Counterpart (Starz)..."

Jan. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Marjorie Prime

"...and looking just as he did when his flesh-and-blood counterpart first proposed to the lovely, lusty young Marjorie (seen..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Past Life

Avi Nesher's film is a thoughtful examination of forgiveness

"...rehearsal and a climactic performance (written by Sephi’s real-life counterpart, Ella Milch-Sheriff) – are just as essential to the..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Life

Astronauts discover that a wall won't keep out a new alien life form

"...Jordan makes for an ineffectual action hero, while his counterpart, Ferguson’s Dr. North, at least evokes a modicum of..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Hail, Caesar!

The Coen brothers celebrate and eviscerate old Hollywood

"...Mannix held roughly the same position as Brolin’s fictional counterpart, albeit one where suicides, mob collusion, and murder were..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girlhood

Being an adolescent girl of color in the working-class suburbs of Paris is no easy job

"...in an obvious ploy to be viewed as a counterpart to last year’s widely hailed Boyhood, this film is..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All the Way With LBJ's Play

Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'

"...leader in All the Way, does not have a counterpart character in The Great Society. James Bevel, as a..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Johnny English Reborn

Rowan Atkinson brings his particular brand of physical comedy to this James Bond spy spoof.

"...Johnny English may remind you more of his Gallic counterpart Inspector Clouseau...."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Debt

Helen Mirren stars in this film that's part espionage thriller and part moral meditation, though the emphasis leans more toward the former than the latter.

"...is paid to the storyline that involves her younger counterpart (played by Jessica Chastain). The story begins in 1997..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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