Karate Kid: Legends

This franchise extension is a soulless slog

"...that implausibly brings back as many characters as possible. Hilary Swank may have had better things to do, but..."

May 30, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ordinary Angels

True story about a small-town hairdresser's crusade to help a widower secure a liver transplant for his daughter

"...Directed by: Jon Gunn. Starring: Hilary Swank, Alan Ritchson, Nancy Travis, Tamala Jones, Drew Powell,..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Movie Review

The Good Mother

Searing drama set at the dawn of the fentanyl crisis

"...Directed by: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte. Starring: Hilary Swank, Olivia Cooke, Jack Reynor, Dilone, Hopper Penn, Norm..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Fatale

Not everything that happens in Vegas ...

"...Directed by: Deon Taylor. Starring: Hilary Swank, Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, Danny Pino and Tyrin..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fatale Attraction

Deon Taylor on bringing back the '80s erotic thriller

"...in Sin City with a mysterious stranger played by Hilary Swank. Their paths are set to cross again in..."

Dec. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Looking for Bright Spots in a Historically Bad Year

The Top 10s Issue

"...on his new psychological thriller starring Michael Ealy and Hilary Swank...."

Dec. 18, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

Transcribing the Oral History of Dazed and Confused in New Book Alright, Alright, Alright

Melissa Maerz wrangles a class reunion

"...universe in which Claire Danes, Mark Ruffalo, Wil Wheaton, Hilary Swank, and Brendan Fraser (all of whom auditioned) took..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hunt

Scathing action-satire is more than Elites versus Deplorables

"...Directed by: Craig Zobel. Starring: Betty Gilpin, Ike Barinholtz, Hilary Swank, Emma Roberts, Wayne Duvall, Amy Madigan, Ethan Suplee,..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: Memory Loss

Films for when you're trying to forget everything

"...on her family. Her husband (Robert Forster) and children (Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon) employ their own strategies for..."

Jan. 8, 2019 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

What They Had

Authentic Alzheimer's drama steers just clear of soap opera

"...Directed by: Elizabeth Chomko. Starring: Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner, Taissa Farmiga,..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Logan Lucky

A different kind of heist film from the Ocean's 11 director

"...Keough, Katie Holmes, Farrah Mackenzie, David Denman, Seth MacFarlane, Hilary Swank, Jack Quaid, Brian Gleeson, Katherine Waterston and Macon..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Homesman

Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones point their wagon east while confronting the myths of the Old West.

"...Directed by: Tommy Lee Jones. Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, John Lithgow,..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Writing the Frontier

First-time screenwriter Kieran Fitzgerald scores big with The Homesman

"...directed by Tommy Lee Jones and starring Jones and Hilary Swank, opens Friday in Austin...."

Nov. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Austin Film Festival Announces (Almost) Full Slate

Opening and closing night films still to come

"...Fitzgerald Director: Tommy Lee Jones A pious, independent-minded pioneer (Hilary Swank) employs a drifter (Jones) to help escort three..."

Sept. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Festival Showcases Linklater, Cumberbatch

First round of films announced mixes world and Texas premieres

"...surroundings falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa,..."

Aug. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tuesday Night Movie Night

Tuesday is the new Friday is the new (movie) date night

"...women, Bookwoman will be screening 2004's Iron Jawed Angels. Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston star in this tale of..."

Nov. 11, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

The Karate Kid (1984)

Five franchise films

"...one did launch the career of two-time Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank). And there's a reason why the basic theme..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

HBO Premiered 'Mary and Martha' in Time for World Malaria Day

Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn star

"...Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank took on the lead role of Mary. Opposite..."

April 22, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

You Gotta Have the Mettle

Legendary Texas doc 'Hands on a Hard Body' keeps on truckin'

"...column that the cast was to include Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, Billy Bob Thornton, Jack Black, Chris Rock, John..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

New Year's Eve

Did you see Garry Marshall's last all-star movie Valentine's Day? This is the same silly claptrap, just a different holiday.

"...Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Hilary Swank and Sofia Vergara...."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Conviction

Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell star in this real-life legal drama in which a woman goes to law school in an attempt to exonerate her brother.

"...Directed by: Tony Goldwyn. Starring: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Minnie Driver, Melissa Leo, Peter Gallagher,..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Amelia

Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's big-budget biopic.

"...Directed by: Mira Nair. Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Mia..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Back in Action

After a moviemaking hiatus, writer/director Kimberly Peirce returns to screen with Stop-Loss

"...Cry, the still startling and raw movie that brought Hilary Swank to everyone's attention, probably wouldn't be the first..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

P.S. I Love You

Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank needs to call her agent before getting involved in any more romantic codswallop like this.

"...Directed by: Richard LaGravenese. Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Gina Gershon, Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Bates,..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Reaping

Pardon the pun, but audiences will reap little from this satanic backwoods juju thriller.

"...Directed by: Stephen Hopkins. Starring: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb and Stephen..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Freedom Writers

Although based on a true story, this is another movie in which the cute white lady goes into an irascible high school and makes everybody love learnin'.

"...Directed by: Richard LaGravenese. Starring: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April Lee..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Black Dahlia

Brian De Palma returns with a new crime thriller drawn from James Ellroy's fictional account of the notorious Los Angeles murder of a would-be Hollywood starlet dubbed the Black Dahlia.

"...De Palma. Starring: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw and Rose..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

It's hard out here for a Style Avatar, especially after all those DHOHs at the Oscars!

"...DHOH (Did Her Own Hair) category, narrowly beating out Hilary Swank, Catherine Keener, and Frances McDormand. J-Ho looked like..."

March 10, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Stephen gets caught, wants to buy Drew a bra, and is already picking out his attire for the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...gown that was as disturbing as it was hideous. Hilary Swank? Boooring and Did Her Own Hair. Melanie Griffith..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Movies That Matter

An interview with Killer Films producer Christine Vachon

"...Besides making more money than we had ever made, Hilary [Swank] won the Oscar ... and that catapulted us..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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