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Calling John Hughes: Former Freaks and Geekster Paul Feig has got your number.

"...Club in The Terminal? Home Alone meets Planes, Trains & Automobiles? Calling John Hughes: Former Freaks and Geekster Paul..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It's My Party

"...has poured heart and soul. But heart and soul create a lugubrious mix when not tempered by clarity of..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inching Toward Higher Heights to Get More Housing

Advocates for low-income tenants urge a go-slow approach

"...the Vertical Mixed Use density bonus program, designed to create affordable housing on Austin’s core transit corridors...."

June 13, 2022 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

SXSW Creates XR Austin for Online Festival

Digital environment will be virtually like being there

"...SXSW has collaborated with extended reality experts VRrOOm to create a virtual downtown Austin in the SXSW Online XR..."

March 2, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

City Council Approves SAVES Resolution to Rescue Venues, Bars, Restaurants

City will explore potential funding sources for struggling sectors

"...unanimously approved a resolution Thursday night directing staff to create a plan for providing relief to some of those..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Can we all finally just be excellent to each other?

"...Preston, Esq. stumbled into our lives in 1989's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure...."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wendy

J.M. Barrie’s classic flies on new, grimier wings

"...not quite Barrie’s Neverland, nor is it the version created by Disney that has become visually intertwined with the..."

March 6, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Clemency

The death penalty reconsidered from the eyes and heart of a warden

"...the ways in which the structure of prison institutions create scars and negate lives at a moment’s notice. “I..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Different Stages' Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Like the separate parts of the Creature's body, the technical and performance aspects unite to create a delightfully provocative production

"...sucker for an immersive atmosphere (i.e., the unique environment created onstage when a show's visuals, sound, and performance come..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Climax

Gaspar Noé's acid freakout dance-a-thon teaches us that drugs are bad, m'kay

"...a room with 30 ciphers, and gets them to create a party that is both annoying and dull. When..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Latest update of Kipling's classic is caught in Disney's shadow

"...Walt Disney did not create The Jungle Book. That was the work of Rudyard..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mid90s

Jonah Hill's coming-of-age story sometimes sparks with authenticity

"...navigating his own missteps as a first-time filmmaker to create a promising – albeit unsatisfactory – story of adolescent..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

The genius of the original bad boy of tennis, deconstructed

"...and biopic conventions (there’s no Tatum O’Neal here) to create a visual essay on the famed tennis player that..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Minding the Gap

Sundance-lauded Hulu skateboarder doc surpasses Thrasher equation

"...antics. The threads of this story are woven to create a picture of the struggling working class and all..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Portrait of the artist as a young man is more a portrait of NYC.

"...he was at the time. The young artist also created poetry, stream-of-consciousness musings inspired by William S. Burroughs and..."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

24 Frames

Iranian master filmmaker plays with the almost-moving image.

"...how we make meaning from images. The effect it creates in the viewer is sometimes contemplative and sometimes somniferous...."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bomb City

Infamous 1997 Amarillo punk murder exposes social division.

"...from The Anarchist Cookbook: Everyday items which, when assembled, create a dangerous product capable of wreaking havoc and destruction...."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Downsizing

Alexander Payne creates a small word with big ambitions

"...Story elements blend science fiction, comedy, and drama to create tones and a trajectory that wobble in different directions..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happy End

Michael Haneke creates a mosaic of French bourgeois life.

"...– all emerge and recede, finally coming together to create a whole. Much of that mosaic effect is created..."

Dec. 21, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bullet Head

A cracking good Tarantino-esgue heist film

"...Popovic make brilliant use of the building’s space to create a milieu that seems, rather than claustrophobic, an infinite..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lady Bird

An enchanting coming-of-age tale from Greta Gerwig

"...among anyone who’s experienced how tiny passive-aggressive comments can create deep gashes. Lois Smith’s Sister Sarah Joan, the principal..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton

Intimate portrait of the surfing legend only skims the surface.

"...(from the air, from the water, from the board) create an immersive effect (I could practically taste the salt..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Infinity Baby

Babies (young and old) who can't grow up

"...that, in the near future, experiments with stem-cell research create an anomaly: thousands of babies manufactured who don’t age...."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Churchill

An intimate look at a leader's state of mind

"...week of Churchill’s release on June 2). Aiming to create a more rounded portrait of Churchill (named the Greatest..."

June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life, Animated

The magic of Disney unlocks a boy's mind

"...and overstimulated easily. (The film’s audio mix attempts to re-create and literalize that cacophony of stimuli.) Doctors were consulted,..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Tina Fey becomes a war correspondent in her new comedy

"...from Kim Barker to Kim Baker – presumably to create more creative distance between the book and the movie...."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carol

Everything about this Fifties lesbian romance is sublime

"...In Carol, all the elements dovetail perfectly to create a movie that is as irresistible as its title..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Turbo Kid

This irreverent throwback is a loving homage to kids' adventure pictures

"...youth-driven B-movies (Solarbabies, BMX Bandits) in a blender to create a satisfying (if blood-drenched) smoothie of awesomeness. Set in..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Last Five Years

Anna Kendrick shines in Richard LaGravenese's loving adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's stage musical.

"...for his vision and tenacity, which has helped to create a piece that should be catnip to fans of..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blackhat

Chris Hemsworth stars in Michael Mann's cyber thriller.

"...most eloquently crafted part of this rogue program was created by a jailed computer hacker in America. The film..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Louis Black

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