The Interrupters

The Hoop Dreams filmmaker, Steve James, has a new documentary about a group working to halt crime in Chicago.

"...group mediates emotions in the hair-trigger spaces between sadness, grief, anger, and deadly action, and its members are nearly..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Edward and Bella are back for more thwarted young vampiric love.

"...flavor) has completely gone flat here. Bella, incapacitated with grief, turns to her old pal Jacob (Lautner) for comfort..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Antichrist

Lars von Trier lives to affront again. Chaos, indeed, reigns.

"...pavement below. The child's death and the immense, obliterating grief that both She and He experience in its wake..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where the Wild Things Are

This very special film is the rare children’s offering that isn’t coded for adults or made corny and flip for kids.

"...tapped every primal feeling along the spectrum – joy, grief, rage, a relish for mayhem – and put it..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Boys Are Back

Clive Owen is a widower in Australia who learns to become a hands-on dad to his sons.

"...performance as he learns to move on from his grief and take an active role in the lives of..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Are Marshall

There are football movies, and then there’s this 800-pound gorilla of a gridiron weepie, which should be penalized for roughing the viewer.

"...wants you to pump your fist and cheer your grief away, no exceptions. Consider by comparison another movie about..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Architect

This well-meaning social drama about the intersecting lives of a dysfunctional, upper-middle-class family in suburbia and the residents of a deteriorating public-housing project is flimsy at best.

"...a self-involved architect and his unhappy wife, the repressed grief of an activist who crusades for the destruction of..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee is something of a rarity: a movie for children that is about children and their world.

"...but overall the movie doesn’t condescend about heavy matters (grief, healing, and blended families) and is pleasantly diverting...."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Marebito

Although long on style and concept, this film lacks the primal urgency of Shimizu’s 2003 J-horror blockbuster Ju-on.

"...blockbuster, which successfully married its philosophical subtext – about grief, about rage, and about the permeable boundaries between the..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Dancing in Twilight

This intercultural Houston-made film is an off-the-beaten-path ensemble drama that shows a healthy disregard for Hollywood rules.

"...the story of how a family is unraveled by grief, told in an unhurried style without a lot of..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Keane

An unconventional psychological thriller without much plot, Keane is the gripping and uncompromising story of a man's attempt to hang on to his sanity.

"...the world to be out of his mind with grief. Largely filmed with a hand-held camera by DP John..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tony Takitani

This adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s eponymous short story is a delicate little curio, lighter than air and gravely philosophical at once.

"...film gestures toward our understanding of deep matters – grief, solitude, and the process by which people build and..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

À Tout de Suite

Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, this French film's on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth and some of the spirit of the French New Wave.

"...emotional center of a moral drama about desire, abandonment, grief, and the turning points in a person’s life. As..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

November

November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.

"...harm’s way, Sophie travels through the five stages of grief (for those of us lacking dead exes, they’re helpfully..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

House of D

Here’s an interesting surprise: Dour, dry David Duchovny’s directorial debut is more weepy than creepy, a conventional coming-of-age story that flashes back to 1970s New York City.

"...son of a widowed nurse (Leoni) who staunches her grief with cigarettes and pills. His best friend is Pappass..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Grand Theft Parsons

This film version of the legend of Gram Parsons’ missing body lacks soul.

"...and direction that aggressively eschew any insight into Kaufman’s grief; the actor must define Kaufman’s head space largely through..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Mother

From the director of Notting Hill comes this story about a middle-aged woman who reignites her sex life with a much younger man.

"...tell, he’s brought her flighty, single-mom daughter nothing but grief – but then May warms up to his many..."

July 2, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

"...the 20th century. Whether to fuel protest or assuage grief, music was essential to the movement’s drive. As internationally..."

March 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Bedroom

"...moves. It slows to the exacting, glacial speed of grief, and it is in this final half that In..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Road Home

"...a snowstorm. Yusheng's mother (Zhao Yuelin) nurses hard, bitter grief, insisting that the body be carried back to the..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Return to Me

"...dies, and her organs are harvested. Her desolate and grief-stricken husband (Duchovny) throws himself into his work (building the..."

April 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Random Hearts

"...trying to present a sober-minded depiction of loss and grief as befits a mature pair of relationships. It doesn't..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moonlight and Valentino

"...three women who sustain her in her time of grief and adjustment. Her best friend and close neighbor Sylvie..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Green Snake

"...mission in life to give them no end of grief. Evading this Falwellian goof proves to be a full-time..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema

"...a terminal illness, the sobering link of sorrow and grief readily transcends into the subject of Lynd's “R.S.V.P.”, where,..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

House of Cards

"...into their characters, reaching an uncommon level of hurt, grief, and prolonged frustration and conveying it feelingly. The film..."

July 30, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest

Documentary about the famous case brought against Judas Priest by the parents of two troubled teens who committed suicide – because of alleged backward masking on an album.

"...appealed that decision. It's a disturbing look into the grief-induced ignorance that can overwhelm people in times of personal..."

July 17, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ruby

"...ends for someone, or he was acting out of grief and some crazy idea of revenge. The movie takes..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Truly, Madly, Deeply

"...back door locked. Adrift in an unhealthy sea of grief and unwilling to let go of the memory of..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Photojournalist Awarded for Images After Uvalde Shooting

Tamir Kalifa receives American Mosaic Journalism Prize

"...identity as a freelance photojournalist chronicling the struggles of grief-stricken communities...."

Feb. 7, 2024 News Post by Brant Bingamon

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