SXSW Film Review: We're All Gonna Die

Sci-fi romance balances humor and grieving

"...Freddie Wong and Matthew Arnold, captures Thalia bottling in grief from a recent tragedy while struggling to pay the..."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

Visual Arts Review: “Two Births and the Afterlife”

Aimée M. Everett’s current exhibition at Carver Museum offers a refreshing switch on an all-too-familiar narrative of motherhood

"...philosophy into her show, which simultaneously elicits feelings of grief and optimism...."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by Meher Qazilbash

Origin

Ava DuVernay's plainly spoken look at the underpinnings of bigotry

"...Richard) in a performance rooted in stillness and bone-deep grief, Isabel is the far-flying film’s center of gravity. Rattled..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...rediscovers the possibilities of joy in the aftermath of grief. (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Boy and the Heron

Miyazaki's gorgeous but oddly obtuse return to animation

"...of one person’s healing passage through a landscape of grief and trauma. But there is little doubt that The..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Godzilla Minus One

The king of the monsters returns in a mighty period drama

"...in the rubble of a bombed-out Tokyo, surrounded by grief, ghosts, and guilt. Koichi has plenty of that, buried..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Silent Night

The action's too familiar in John Woo's gimmicky revenge flick

"...of value from this setup. His silent dance of grief between two broken parents is an impressive piece of..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Killers of the Flower Moon

Scorsese at his best for a true tale of hideous heartland crimes

"...at Hale's behest. Equally, Gladstone – in expressing Mollie's grief, rage, and powerlessness – gives insight into why this..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

It Lives Inside

Familiar horror tropes make scary use of Hindu mythology

"...at least isn’t just another mainstream horror weepy about grief – there’s a lot more that it’s playing around..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Blue Beetle

Latest DCEU flick can't cram the Chicane experience into superhero duds

"...the kind that echoes some of the very real grief Latine people face in real life while highlighting the..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

The Unknown Country

Lily Gladstone takes a road trip through small, meaningful stories

"...a more active character in feeling and understanding her grief, leading her toward a path of discovery. As she..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Starling Girl

Coming-of-age drama inside the quiet oppression of a fundamentalist community

"...health spiral of her father (Simpson) – fueled by grief and regret – is poignant. It's the deterioration of..."

May 19, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Caroline Rose Practices The Art of Forgetting on Fifth LP

Austin pop auteur explores fluctuating relationship to the past

"...only the record but Rose's own way of processing grief. The LP title, pulled from a line in "Miami,"..."

April 7, 2023 Music Feature by Gabrielle Sanchez

Close

A tear-jerking look inside the fragile friendships of teenage boys

"...It feels like a slow descent into depression, with grief laced throughout like a rising tide rather than a..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

A Man Called Otto

Tom Hanks' "grumpy old man" phase stumbles with this discordant comedy about death

"...me: I suspect this light comic take on paralyzing grief works much better on paper. On film, goosed along..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Festival Review: The Whale

Darren Aronofsky contemplates fatness and faith

"...Charlie (played by Brandan Fraser), who is struggling with grief and depression, which has manifested itself into an eating..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Till

Oddly glossy version of the quest for justice for Emmett Till

"...A sustained wail of maternal grief wells up from deep inside Till. It’s the heartrending..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down

The congresswoman’s inspirational healing in an age of gun violence

"...represents more than a politician’s success story: It embodies grief, dignity, and above all, love...."

July 15, 2022 Movie Review by Dina Barrish

Valleyesque: Not Just Weird for Weird’s Sake

Inside the pages of the new anthology from Fernando A. Flores

"...short stories reads like a memory trace, filled with grief, delight, and rebellion...."

June 8, 2022 Arts Post by Valeria Valdez

Monstrous

Babadook wannabe falls over its own metaphors

"...are often metaphors – for trauma, for guilt, for grief – and that’s definitely true in Monstrous. Midcentury-modern mom-on-the-run..."

May 13, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mothering Sunday

Literary adaptation charts doomed romance between classes

"...melancholy gives Mothering Sunday thematic weight. A veil of grief hangs over the film, as the three families collectively..."

April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dear Mr. Brody

Money can’t buy happiness in Keith Maitland’s documentary

"...lives create a moving record of need spurned by grief and hope. Letters of hard times for families, of..."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Umma

Generational trauma becomes terror in the heartland

"...this problem: Shim never lets her audience experience Amanda’s grief and trauma, and instead has her characters guide the..."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Keynote: Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner on Creative Inspiration and a Good Sandwich

Crying in H Mart author also hints at second book

"...life free of longing was simultaneously so full of grief over her mother’s fatal battle with cancer that most..."

March 20, 2022 SXSW Post by Christina Garcia

The Long Walk

Enigmatic supernatural mystery from the heart of Laos' forests

March 4, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

A Banquet

Overstuffed high-minded horror isn’t meaty enough to satisfy

"...is a tumbling allegory of a blend of ideas: grief, eating disorders, motherhood, and religion. It’s an overambitious problem..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Now Streaming in Austin: 'An Uncomfortable Woman

New short film makes perpetual unease the villain

"...my car), and I’d never experienced a level of grief like that before...."

Feb. 3, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Torn

New documentary sees a family in a legendary mountaineer’s shadow

"...without a father, about finding your way through the grief of your other family members, and how processing that..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Hand of God

Unromantic semi-autobiography about an auteur’s discovery of cinema

"...Sorrentino doesn’t take the typical routes of depicting grief or finding passion through trauma. The Hand of God..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Benedict Cumberbatch as the artist who invented the modern cat

"...reality and society, he's never a pastiche. In his grief, talent, and increasingly erratic behavior, he is given both..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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