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

Austin Film Festival Reviews: The Souvenir Part II

Joanna Hogg's sequel is the portrait of the artist as filmmaker

"...are all challenges to Julie, to contend with her grief, to deal with Anthony's legacy, to not think that..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Longing and loss explored in this stunning, tender anthology

"...than villainous, an act that produces sadness, remorse, and grief. It’s profound in the way Hamaguchi chooses to not..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Austin Film Festival Review: Petite Maman

Whimsical French coming-of-age drama evokes Miyazaki

"...feel looming, especially around Nelly’s mother (Nina Meurisse), whose grief over her own mother’s passing is palpable. Nelly takes..."

Oct. 27, 2021 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Austin Filmmaker Puts Personal Experience Into Rehab Drama

Lane Michael Stanley's Addict Named Hal shows the long road of 12 steps

"...young woman, Amy (Natalie L'Amoreaux), tries to suppress her grief over her father's death with booze, only to be..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ride the Eagle

Jake Johnson gets his head straight in this comedic kin to Walden

"...translate what could have been a maudlin meditation on grief into something more touching and sweet. All things must..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

The life, passions, and shattering death of the traveler

"...friend. Neville is able to tell a story of grief through the most important figures from Bourdain’s life, and..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

A joyous historical document of the Harlem Cultural Festival

"...and open to the public. Amidst far too much grief, the festival was a place for celebration...."

July 2, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

New French Shorts 2021

The annual best of Gallic cinema, in small chunks

"...mother’s recent death has strained relations with her father, grief striking both of them in unexpected ways. Inevitably, he..."

June 4, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

In his account of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the New Yorker writer reports the killers are off the leash

"...to raise. The country was drowning in acrimony and grief. Trump's inner demons had been set loose. The killers..."

June 4, 2021 Arts Feature by Michael King

Riders of Justice

Mads Mikkelsen is out for revenge in this sweet, strange Danish tragicomedy

"...of brutality, creating an unexpected space for discussion about grief and powerless rage, like someone spliced a reel from..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Finding You

Dismal YA romance piles up Hollywood clichés and Irish stereotypes

"...culture). It’s a busy, packed adaptation that doesn’t understand grief, love, or passion...."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Water Man

Tale of tales finds strength in fantasy as a young boy goes questing

"...the edge-of-adulthood folklore of Bridge to Terebithia and the grief-wracked A Monster Calls...."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: It's Gonna Be Gay

Poo Poo Platter’s mommy complex, Cheer Ups reopening, and more queer May happenings

"...Out Youth Adult Grief Support Group Adults (ages 18 & up) experiencing any..."

May 7, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Qmmunity: Treat Your Fine Queer Self With This Week's Qmmunity Events

Mask up for Austin Black Pride’s Pose watch party, drag brunch at the Iron Bear, and more

"...Out Youth Adult Grief Support Group Adults (ages 18 & up) experiencing any..."

April 30, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Jakob's Wife

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

"...night is her strongest creation since her portrait of grief in We Are Still Here. Her performance is bolstered..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Extraordinary elegy to a dying village in Lesotho

"...is meticulous and grand. It’s a haunted hymn of grief, one that feels like a fable read from an..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Violet Evergarden: The Movie

The Auto Memory Doll finally writes her own story

"...Akatsuki's original light novel is really about expressions of grief, loss, and forgiveness – of others and of self..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Five true stories of a world in turmoil

"...there’s “Colette,” a familiar but powerful exploration of multigenerational grief. Colette Marin-Catherine served in the French resistance during World..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Come True

Nightmare horror is the wrong kind of creepy

"...Real. Except where his film develops the trauma and grief for his characters in deep sleep, Burns’ fog-drenched merry-go-round..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

17 Blocks

Incredible home-footage documentary blows shows that no one is voiceless

"...Blocks is the story of the Sanfords’ growth and grief, with their own agency at the center of it..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

The World to Come

Frontier romance speaks of a love that cannot speak the name it does not yet have

"...early scenes, the lonesome Abigail is a mother in grief, her only child fatally stricken by diphtheria the year..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Faster Than Sound: Sun June’s Emotional Landscapes

Songwriter Laura Colwell discusses atmospheric sophomore effort Somewhere

"..."It's about letting the grief swallow you up and spit you out."..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Opinion: Mother Nature / Murder Nurture

A single mother tries to process the shock and grief of losing beloved pediatrician Dr. Lindley Dodson to murder

"...This grief is thick. In a country and health care system..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Column by Katy Chrisler

Identifying Features

Mexico's "disappeared" given a voice in this cross-border drama

"...Astrid Rondero, have made a beautifully stark meditation on grief. Early on, Magdalena meets Olivia (Rodríguez), a doctor who..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

No Man's Land

Well-intentioned cross-border drama finds humanity on all sides

"...narrative forward and helps characters navigate the stages of grief. Careless scripting chips away at this cohesion. Before long,..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Go/Don't Go

Enigmatic end-of-the-world story blossoms into quiet hope

"...(that light bulb cemetery is a place of proxy grief, because whatever happened to humanity left no bodies to..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Finding Yingying

True-crime documentary centers on the life, not death, of Yingying Zhang

"...on the wall to their tearful fights from aching grief. As they wait over a year for Christensen’s trial..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

News of the World

Tom Hanks evokes one of his most celebrated roles in this tragic Western

"...She is borderline feral, carrying so many levels of grief that it's hard to tell who she even is...."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Come Away

Maudlin melding of Peter Pan and Alice is a misreading of both

"...Calls, both of which examined how children deal with grief through imagination with far more astuteness and tenderness...."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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