The Descent

Urban professionals go spelunking in an attempt to wipe away old horrors, only to find some new ones to call their own.

"...Nora-Jane Noone, Oliver Milburn and Molly Kayll. Is The Descent the horror film to beat for the foreseeable future?..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Descent

This vertiginous documentary about snowboarding talks with the sport's greats and shows them in action, rocketing down crag-encrusted, virgin slopes like buckshot fired from God’s own 20-gauge.

"...waves in the world. The five subjects of First Descent – 40-year-old snowboarding legend Shawn Farmer, 39-year-old Nick Peralta,..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Descent Into the Maelstrom

Radio Birdman surfs out of Edgar Allan Poe's maelström a quarter-century later

"...in its agony to Heaven. – Edgar Allan Poe,"A Descent Into the Maelström," 1841..."

June 22, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Aggies Amped for Entry, Descent, and Landing in the SEC

A&M preps for SEC like Curiosity was prepped for Mars

"...the size of a small car began its entry, descent, and landing sequence, it employed all kinds of curious..."

Aug. 28, 2012 Sports Post by Emily Bevan

Descent

Not reviewed at press time. After enduring a brutal rape, introverted college student Maya (Rosario Dawson) spirals out of control, turning to self-destruction in an attempt to exact revenge.

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Darcie Stevens

Line of Descent

Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston's House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias

Nov. 24, 2006 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Descent into Hell

The City Council kicked off its budget talks in earnest last week, with the least grim part of the FY2003 proposed budget -- public safety -- along with aviation, the Convention Center, and Solid Waste Services.

Aug. 16, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Hall

"...riveting. His Pappas is a career politician of Greek descent, genuinely proud of the job he's doing and aware..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blinded by the Light

Semi-true story of how the Boss shook the world of a boy from Luton

"...a shy and dreamy 16-year-old aspiring poet/writer of Pakistani descent, stuck in the blue-collar town of Luton, England, with..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Mountain Between Us

This is what a boring plane crash movie looks like

"...while a passive sort of romance develops during the descent pretty much says it all while simultaneously offering nothing..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil's Candy

Heavy metal and Satanism in a rural Texas town

"...print, renders Sean Byrne’s second feature a queasy, moment-by-moment descent into hell. Ostensibly a demonically haunted house horror show,..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Conjuring 2

Semi-retired ghost hunters make a comeback in the second installment of James Wan's spooky series

"...The Conjuring 2, he succeeds. It’s a much subtler descent into the weird than the first film, which was..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Witch

Madness, mayhem, and witchcraft beset a family in 1630s New England

"...pitch-black center of first-time feature director Robert Eggers’ slow-burning descent into madness and mayhem in 1630s New England. The..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Goodnight Mommy

Nine-year-old twins suspect that someone is impersonating their mother

"...An unnerving descent into the extreme, anxious corners of a mother’s relationship..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Queen of Earth

Elisabeth Moss stars in Alex Ross Perry's elliptical psychodrama

"...popular in the Sixties and Seventies, of a woman’s descent into madness. In the aftermath, Catherine reunites with her..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

White God

This Hungarian film is the Battleship Potemkin of canine mutiny

"...two complementary narrative threads: Lili’s burgeoning adulthood and Hagen’s descent into the brutality of life on the streets, especially..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

As Above/So Below

There are things in the catacombs beneath Paris that should remain underground.

"...Their off-map exploration blends the subterranean torment of The Descent with the supernatural guilt-trip of Event Horizon, with characters..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Escape From Tomorrow

Shot guerrilla-style at Disneyland and Disney World, this surreal drama about a man's mental disintegration at "the happiest place on Earth" lands a spitball in the Mouse's eye.

"...caroms wildly from a normal family outing to a descent into holiday hell, sometimes literally. Apparently terminated by his..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Place Beyond the Pines

A melodrama, multigenerational epic, heist film, and motorcycle-fetish movie are all rolled into one in this Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper headliner.

"...of spectacular single-take chase scenes, the film follows Luke’s descent. The deeper he goes, the more we mourn the..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Anonymous

Normally a maker of big, explosive movies, Roland Emmerich directs this conspiracy-minded potboiler which questions the veracity of Shakespeare's authorship.

"...by Sir Derek Jacobi), make for a pleasantly ridiculous descent into utter confabulation...."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Straw Dogs

Rod Lurie remakes Sam Peckinpah's 1971 bloodbath-classic about a home invasion and tapping into man's inner rage monster.

"...totally unnecessary. It doesn't ask you to ponder David's descent into brutal, primal masculinity; it merely asks you to..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sanctum

When spelunkers rappel into a remote cave and get trapped by storm runoff, the plot and dialogue become as soggy as the characters.

"...hit with this messy, atrociously written, and unevenly acted descent into a subterranean adventure that's supposedly based on "true..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark Streets

A collection of blues originals by the likes of Aaron Neville, B.B. King, and Etta James lightens this otherwise dreary exercise in modern film noir.

"...huge Mickey Spillane fans. They happily chart their hero’s descent into the criminal underworld with that familiar brand of..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Dark Matter

A Chinese student studying theoretical cosmology in the U.S. also has a lot of dark matter occupying his head, and not even the assistance of faculty wife Meryl Streep can prevent it from taking over.

"...high-pressure academic ambition turning violent, but to map the descent of a genius into madness isn’t a task to..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Doomsday

In this UK thriller, the so-called Reaper virus threatens the Isles with extinction.

"...one with the werewolves) and the genuinely claustrophobic The Descent (the one with the women) comes up short on..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is England

Set in Thatcherite England, this semi-autobiographical story tells of a descent from mischievous schoolboy to junior skinhead.

"...a thoughtful simmer for the semi-autobiographical story of a descent from mischievous schoolboy to junior skinhead. Friendless – and..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

El Cantante

Jennifer Lopez and her real-life husband, Marc Anthony, portray the lives of salsa star Hector Lavoe and his wife, Puchi, in this biopic overstuffed with music-industry clichés.

"...Nuyorican community is shown as meteoric and trouble-free, his descent into drug addiction and unreliability appears endless and endlessly..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Talk to Me

Cheadle leads a great cast through a musical glance at D.C. in the Sixties and Seventies.

"...The plotline, consisting of the rise to fame, inevitable descent, and even more inevitable redemption, is somewhat tired. But..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Turistas

Turistas is a surprisingly effective horror film with good acting and some breathless action.

"...ultrarealistic green hell horrors, the spelunking aspects of The Descent, and Marino Girolami's scalpel-happy Cannibal Holocaust aka Doctor Butcher,..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For Your Consideration

Although it attempts to skewer Hollywood, this new comedy from Christopher Guest, and his loyal troupe of improv actors doesn’t have even a drop of affection for its characters.

"...saturation, and that’s when For Your Consideration begins its descent into broad, mean-spirited satire. Unlike the best movies of..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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