Bratz

Bring some bratitude and a passion for fashion, and you'll be almost as giddy as a 10-year-old girl.

"...oversexualized clotheshorses who irritate their elders. In this live-action film, multicultural BFFs Yasmin (Ramos), Jade (Parrish), Sasha (Browning), and..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blade II

"...II delivers the goods better than any new action film released in the last several years. The story is..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Circle

"...in Tehran, as evidenced by this disturbing but well-crafted film by Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon). That women are..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shanghai Noon

"...Lucy Liu and Jackie Chan. After more than 70 films, Jackie Chan has finally met his match, and wouldn't..."

May 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Price of Glory

"...as opposed to in the ring. For Avila's debut film, he has chosen former boxing journalist Phil Berger to..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Romeo Must Die

"...third-act appearance. Instead, we're treated to plenty of energetically filmed scenes of Li doing what he does best: breaking..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eye of the Beholder

"...(The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) new film to decide whether I had just witnessed some stunning..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Mask

"...his money. Produced by UT alumnus Tsui Hark, the film is drenched in Hark's trademark neo-psychedelics, from the mind-blowing..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Nice Guy

"...what audiences really want from the Hong Kong megastar's films. So to a much greater degree than Rumble in..."

March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Land and Freedom

"...Bollain, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martinez and Frederic Pierrot. War film, history lesson, love story? Loach's new work is all..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Time Will Tell

"...It's kind of hard to figure out who the filmmakers are targeting with this film about musician/saint Bob Marley...."

Sept. 11, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Voices From the Front

"...its goal is to involve the viewer in the fight as well. It's hardly coincidence, says this movie, that..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Justice League

Another ho-hum entry to the DC Extended Universe

"...Comics is only glancing – or tethered to previous film incarnations, like Richard Donner’s Superman, Tim Burton’s Batman, or..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Suffragette

Carey Mulligan gets her Norma Rae on in this historical drama

"...history book, Suffragette soldiers through its story about the fight waged by British women during the early decades of..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Freeheld

Julianne Moore and Ellen Page are adrift in this gay-rights drama

"...never ignites. Riddled with cliches and dull direction, the film also seems miscast and, through no fault of its..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Knuckle

Fight Club meets the Hatfields and McCoys in this documentary about the bare-knuckle bruisers of Ireland.

"...very nearly everyone on the screen as well. It's Fight Club meets the Hatfields and McCoys by way of..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

House of Flying Daggers

The swooning visuals, the expert choreography, the teasing love story, and the puzzle-piece plot all combine to provide this martial arts movie with the spirit of a star-cross'd swashbuckler.

"...recently come to appreciate the gorgeous operatics of Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou – Hero was the first of his..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

You can't keep a bad zombie down.

"...year’s House of the Dead, a genuinely terrible zombie film that recalled nothing so much as an inept stab..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Am Sam

"...recounts the story of a mentally retarded man's legal fight against the system to retain custody of his 7-year-old..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

On the Ropes

"...particularly captured this critic's imagination apart from such related films as Raging Bull and When We Were Kings. Burstein..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wing Commander

"...you just know is going to die before the film is half over -- but curiously, these work to..."

March 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

187

"...toward that assumption. Regardless, 187 is a morally baffling film that teeters on the edge of inanity; despite the..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Magic Crane

"...fantasy, directed by comedy ace Benny Chan Muk-sing. The film displays more imagination in a matter of minutes than..."

July 7, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Ashes of Time

"...revolutionary in its destruction of typical narrative techniques, that films like Pulp Fiction look like simple A-Z storytelling by..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Shadow

"...character and a way to make him live on film. They'd drawn out his unsettling ruthlessness and neatly visualized..."

July 8, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Wing Chun

"...and Donnie Yen. Hong Kong's reigning queen of action films, Michelle (Supercop: Police Story III) Yeoh, toplines this fun,..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Drunken Master II

"...his strict father, and his worst enemy… himself. The fighting and stuntwork in Drunken Master II is absolutely incredible...."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Sex and Zen

"...tells you all you need to know about this film: it's a freeze frame of two newly-penitent monks clinging..."

June 25, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mac

"...and the value of a job well-done. As the film opens, we find Mac (Turturro) at his father's wake...."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...a lineup drop for a reason: South by Southwest Film and Television Festival has just added gaming and international..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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