Exists

This found-footage horror film shot in Austin finds a Bigfoot chased from its home by the Bastrop fires.

"...With Exists, Sánchez finally returns to the found-footage genre, and the..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bigfoot Exists in Texas

Eduardo Sánchez makes a monster movie against the Bastrop fire

"...Sánchez created a beast of a different stripe with Exists. He said, "It's very rare in a monster movie..."

Oct. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'Exists'

'Blair Witch' creator revives 'The Beast of Boggy Creek'

"...Eduardo Sanchez returns to the found footage genre for Exists, the beast is right in the camera’s lens...."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Civility Still Exists

"...in an age of rancorous competition that civility still exists. People from Austin and other cities paid a visit..."

Oct. 24, 2006 Postmarks

Zombieland: Double Tap

Zomcom sequel doesn't have the splattering charm of the original

"...As sequels go, Double Tap delivers the goods, but exists in a realm that feels more like a second..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Desolation Center

Before corporate fests, Desolation Center blew the Mojave apart

"...(ironically just a few miles from Indio where Coachella exists today). Inspired by Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo of all things,..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marley

Stir it Up: Finally, there's an authoritative film biography of Bob Marley.

"...At last there exists an authoritative, comprehensive, and detailed study of the life..."

April 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Natural Selection

This locally shot black comedy examines the bizarre feedback loop that exists among celebrity psychopaths, the increasingly tabloidized mainstream news media, and, not least, our own bad selves.

"...Natural Born Killers, examines the bizarre feedback loop that exists among celebrity psychopaths, the increasingly tabloidized mainstream news media,..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Hunting Down the Clickbait Beast in The VICE Guide to Bigfoot

Zach Lamplugh and Brian Emond are on the case at the Austin Film Festival

"...things that can be said about Bigfoot. Whether it exists or not, whether you call it yeti or skunk..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Biography of Leonard Cohen's muse can't stop focusing on the artist

"...it doesn’t color outside its two-person narrative, which only exists because one of the two is famous. “I’m Your..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ma

Octavia Spencer subverts expectations and racist tropes in this fun horror

"...Much like Netflix’s recent release of The Perfection, Ma exists somewhere at the intersection of Lifetime Movie of the..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Only Living Boy in New York

A New York love triangle state of mind

"...Summer, and the dramatic (mis)construction of Allan Loeb’s screenplay exists solely for the purpose of an anticlimactic revelation clumsily..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Wind River

Crime and punishment on a Wyoming reservation

"...with no winter gear. Cory, a modern Western figure, exists in an odd form of social limbo, divorced from..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Little Hours

Foul-mouthed nuns can't save this comedy

"...is a farce that doesn’t really mock anything. It exists as if amusing itself were its only objective. In..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rings

Japanese horror franchise reboot falls flat

"...in a frankly baffling attempt to prove the supernatural exists. Or something along those lines. The theory that seems..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slash

A sweet coming-of-age film set in the world of fan fiction

"...not. The Chan board’s Rule 34 – “If it exists, there’s porn of it” – is one of the..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Doctor Strange

The Doctor is out, far out

"...the final battle against a planet-sized, interdimensional being that exists beyond time itself perfectly recalls the comic’s mid-to-late Sixties..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Morgan

An AI experiment goes wrong in this forgettable genre exercise

"...The entire plot exists for the sole purpose of the yawning revelation in..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Club

Chile's Oscar nominee is a dark drama about pedophile priests

"...happened and presumably continue to happen wherever the priesthood exists, and whenever the leaders of any organized religion attempt..."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

He Named Me Malala

Doc about the famous champion of girls' eduction, Malala Yousafzai

"...offers little insight into the now 18-year-old teenager that exists behind the icon. Uplift is the film’s only goal...."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Walk

Philippe Petit dreamed it and Robert Zemeckis brings it to life

"...re-creation of a New York cityscape that no longer exists is dazzling, as is the vertiginous cinematography of Dariusz..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Sniper

Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper tell Chris Kyle's war story.

"...the annals of U.S. military history – the film exists in a black-and-white world in which only good and..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

God's Not Dead

A college kid faces flunking out if he can't prove to his classmates and atheist professor that God exists.

"...convincing his fellow students why he believes that God exists. It’s a devil’s bargain that Wheaton seems set up..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Monuments Men

George Clooney's star-studded account of the Allied rescue of the stolen art treasures of WW2 has many great scenes but no center.

"...directing and starring in a bizarre vanity project that exists because he wanted to make it, and he managed..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Riddick

In this third outing, the science-fiction antihero played by Vin Diesel is stranded on an inhospitable planet.

"...immediately face off against an entire biosphere that seemingly exists for the sole purpose of making his life painful..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Place on Earth

A spelunker in the Ukraine turns amateur sleeuth as he tries to make sense of the remnants he finds in a cave: They were left by Jews who hid there from the Nazis.

"...chronicle is better than no chronicle, but the past exists only in the retelling; how history is written is..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Ruby Sparks

Ruby Sparks tries hard, and though it's a likable film she never completely sparks.

"...humor that also lurks within. It all pretty much exists on an even keel, and that’s not really the..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Big Year

Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson co-star in this comedy about competitive birdwatchers.

"...universe, a much better version of The Big Year exists, one that embraces the essential, insular weirdness and romantic..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Valentine's Day

Aggressively unfunny and unromantic, Valentine’s Day’s chief concern appears to have been the corralling of its cast of a thousand stars.

"...corny, not clever. (That the film’s one gay relationship exists for “gotcha!” purposing alone indicates how unengaged with the..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Messenger

Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster play two members of the military's casualty notification team, which delivers bad news to soldiers' next of kin.

"...Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker and Steve Buscemi. There exists a gulf between those who return home from war..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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