Owning Mahowny

"...for more action than the movie provides. Even the dramatic structure the filmmakers apply to the story seems a..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Pebble and the Penguin

"...it all together in a finished film. It lacks dramatic structure and narrative drive: Songs and animated action pieces..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

Married to It

"...the plot is its awesome predictability, the literally obnoxious dramatic structure in which we all, as an audience, know..."

April 2, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Caramel

The denizens of a beauty parlor in Beirut depend on one another for friendship and support in this lovely Lebanese film.

"...Caramel, Labaki, can be forgiven the commonness of her dramatic setting because of the gracefulness of her storytelling and..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Days of Being Wild

One of Wong's first international hits, this stylish film is an atmospheric drama about a playboy who's stringing along two women while also learning that the prostitute who raised him is not his biological mother.

"...Andy Lau, Carina Lau and Rebecca Pan. A moody, dramatic opus that sports a world view as fully developed..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

One True Thing

"...ever-changing understanding of them are the magma of our dramatic bedrock. The retreads in the family drama cycle are..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life

"...while also reining in their wilder instincts with measured dramatic storytelling. Last paired in 1992's Boomerang, Murphy and Lawrence..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Women’s Balcony

An Orthodox community gets embroiled in gender politics

"...Torah reading, the women’s balcony collapses, damaging the entire structure. The rabbi, the congregation’s leader, goes into a state..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

One Day

This gimmicky romantic drama charts 20 years of one British couple's ups and downs in one-day blips.

"...jobs and failed love affairs. Perhaps inevitably, the book's structure plays in a more gimmicky way onscreen. It strains..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Beyond the Sea

More "Splish" than "Splash," this biopic about the life of pop crooner Bobby Darin is practically a one-man Kevin Spacey show.

"...becomes worn and repetitive. That’s because the film’s narrative structure – a flashback structure in which the artist revisits..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Company of Men

"...our culture and is embedded in the corporate work structure. In the Company of Men illustrates and dissects that..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Together Alone

"...conversation is part of this movie's appeal but its dramatic tension comes from its choreography and pace of revelations...."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jersey Boys

Even though Clint Eastwood guides this Broadway hit to film, there’s not much new in this rise-and-fall, music-biz story.

"...really hostile toward the others. In these films, the structures of friendship that initially supported the rise of the..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Divergent Series: Allegiant

The penultimate installment in this YA series arrives with a thud

"...The concept of world-building is essential to all dramatic arts, but it shouldn’t be the essence of it...."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Breathe In

A comely British exchange student in upstate New York upsets a cozy family dynamic.

"...a single piece is enough to topple the entire structure: Cue the rainstorms, smashed cookie jars, and car crash...."

April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

LoneStarCon 3: The George R. R. Martin Interview

'Game of Thrones' creator discusses how he writes and why

"...Amid reports of a dramatic uptrend in babies named “Khaleesi” and tourism to Dubrovnik,..."

Aug. 29, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore wants to know where our money went.

"...with routine aplomb. Capitalism forges ahead, using a loosey-goosey structure that jumps all over the place to show examples..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bamako

This Malian courtroom drama is like nothing you've ever seen: The people put the institutions of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on trial.

"...of capitalism," says one. Yet instead of a physical structure, Sissako's courtroom is the open-air courtyard in the midst..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shakti: The Power

"...of the usual Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle and an earthy dramatic realism (and I'm told that some of the dialogue..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The City (La Ciudad)

"...Festival and South by Southwest, among others. Photographed in dramatic black-and-white tones, the film presents a collection of four..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

So What's Funny?

"...semester and is teaching Undergraduate Playwriting and Form and Structure in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance this..."

March 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Patch Adams

"...and unwavering educational traditions. Instantly, he defies the power structure, and is punished for his “excessive happiness.” These are..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Permanent Midnight

Jerry Stahl's junkie confession is the author's fictionalized account of how to maintain a successful Hollywood career as well as a $6,000-a-week heroin habit.

"...phenomenon, There's Something About Mary, Stiller has turned darkly dramatic in this season's two new outings, Neil LaBute's corrosive..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Your Friends & Neighbors

"...women among society's perpetrators of contemptuous immorality. LaBute's narrative structure and visual strategies are rigorously crafted, bespeaking an almost..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

When the Cat's Away

"...in which answers don't come easily. The aimless, loose structure of While the Cat's Away, however, stalls the film..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Andre

"...thin to float but makes up for its threadbare structure with a wholesomeness and PG-feel-goodness that is well-suited to..."

Aug. 19, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Out of Her Cage

Micah Magee explores a Texan's teen pregnancy in Petting Zoo

"...over again, just based on the social and economic structure of being poor in San Antonio, or any other..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Amy Gentry

Jakob's Wife

Crampton and Fessenden rewrite the vampire/hunter dynamic in this relationship horror-comedy

"...That dramatic structure is what gives Stevens space to play with..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shall We Dance?

Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, and Susan Sarandon co-star in in this tempting remake of a Japanese film about a man's midlife slump.

"...pupil, this version of the story opts for a dramatic structure that often trivializes the film’s core message about..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

“Nick Schnitzer: Inevitable Reckoning” at Dimension Gallery

Structures degraded by time and other materials provide a pointed view of dramatic change at work in the world

"...directly under the pipette, but an otherwise complete limestone ministructure. As of last Saturday, though, the pyramid was showing..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

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