Up

Pixar tops itself with its new animated film that offers so much more than its promotional promise of a fantastical movie about a house that flies on balloon power.

"...tops itself with its new animated offering Up, a movie so visually and emotionally skillful that it makes Monsters,..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...alums Ry Russo-Young (You Won't Miss Me), Lynn Shelton (Humpday), and Alex Karpovsky (Trust Us, This Is All Made..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Four Christmases

From the director of the hit documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters comes this holiday-themed romantic comedy that stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. Opens Wednesday.

"...yuletide season would be complete without the crappy Christmas movie. A holiday tradition on par with returning unwanted gifts..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Flags of Our Fathers

The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.

"...After about the first third to half of the movie, the story detours from this quintessentially Eastwoodian theme of..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cider House Rules

"...however, it is difficult to say precisely what this movie is about. It's not that the movie is muddled..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...well be that we have already witnessed the biggest movie event of 1997 -- and all before tearing off..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dennis the Menace

This film adaptation is based more on the TV series than on the comic strip.

"...Lea Thompson and Paul Winfield. Writer-producer-director John Hughes these days comes dangerously close to promoting child abuse. What started..."

June 25, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crossing the Line

"...thus, takes the kids and moves out. Come fight day, the bout is excruciating. The two men beat each..."

Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Parts You Lose

Icy thriller has no idea what to do with its talented cast

"...the young boy crosses paths with a fugitive, the movie provides the narrative equivalent of a 60-minute shrug...."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Isn’t It Romantic

Another entry in the bizarre "head trauma leads to female empowerment" rom-com genre

"...a rom-com timed to cash in on the Valentine’s Day mood … another movie with a female protagonist who..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Filmmakers’ Waking Nightmares

They're just making a movie. What could possibly go wrong?

"...No one but an idiot thinks making movies is easy...."

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Traffik

Sleazy modern exploitation falls off its poorly staked moral high ground.

"...trade, one crusading to expose the horror of this modern-day subjugation while objectifying its torn-and-tattered female prey like a..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Like Father, Like Son

In this movie from the always perceptive Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, two families are uprooted by the belated knowledge that their babies were switched at birth.

"...though Like Father, Like Son is a very good movie, it is not in the same category. The story..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A 'Prince' Among Men

David Gordon Green makes himself at home in Bastrop for 'Prince Avalanche'

"...he's fully in control of the production to make movies that look like Hollywood but feel like indies. The..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Tamara Drewe

Stephen Frears directs this romantic romp that combines the bedroom farce and the pastoral and stars Gemma Arterton.

"...Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans and Tamsin Greig. Do our movie characters have to be likable? Of course not. But..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Letters From Iwo Jima

In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.

"...blitz to raise support for the war on the home front. Letters From Iwo Jima instead looks at the..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Quiet

The first Burnt Orange Productions joint mixes The Piano with Poison Ivy. Perhaps future generations of film scholars will embrace The Quiet as a B-movie that problematizes the oppressive gaze, but for now, it's a misfire.

"...tragedy, "speaks" through a piano and moves to the home of her hot but creepy, and possibly evil, new..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Elizabethtown

Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.

"...Biel, Loudon Wainwright and Patty Griffin. You can’t go home again, but if you do, you’d better discover yourself..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Latter Days

A West Hollywood party boy and a Mormon missionary find love and understanding.

"...typical first feature in many ways; writer-director (and Sweet Home Alabama scribe) Cox is too reliant on his screenplay...."

March 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Man on the Train

"...Directed by: Patrice Leconte. Starring: Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday. A man gets off a train in a sleepy..."

May 23, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sunshine

"...three-hour running time. Beginning in the mid-19th century, the movie tells the story of the Sonnenscheins, a Jewish Hungarian..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big Momma's House

"...a Martin Lawrence vehicle, I'll take fart jokes any day of the week. Lawrence stars as FBI agent Malcolm..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Madness of King Geek

Harry Jay Knowles' Cool Movie News

"...Harry Jay Knowles at home with friends photograph by Bruce Dye..."

June 6, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Iceman Cometh

"...probably Hong Kong cult director Clarence Ford's most accessible movie. Ford's out-of-control filmography includes such outrageous gems as the..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Showgirls

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas' flimsy and illogical story about Vegas showgirls is a sad excuse for this prurient and purulent tale that nevertheless has its cult adherents.

"...Rachins and Gina Ravera. Showgirls is the kind of movie that gives NC-17 a bad name. It's exactly the..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Girl Two

"...become the cornerstone of a new rating system: the movie loses a star each time I'm fidgety enough to..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Emma & Elvis

"...is having a great deal of trouble assembling her movie and finishing the project and, thus, spends a great..."

May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All the Vermeers in New York

"...out of his arthouse ghetto and into markedly familiar movie strategies like narrative and performance, making this his most..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hippy Porn

"...not many things I know for certain about this movie, but one thing I do know is that it..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life Is Sweet

"...Timothy Spall and David Thewlis. The title of this movie proclaims that life is sweet. It's meant to be..."

March 13, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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