The Taste of Others

Tremendously popular French film tosses together members of different social and aesthetic circles and watches as they circle each other, sniffing out sensibilities and impressions for cracks in the veneers.

"...Directed by: Agnès Jaoui. Starring: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Alain Chabat, Gèrard Lanvin, Christiane Millet..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Jealousy

"...Eric Stoltz, Anabella Sciorra, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Peter Bogdanovich, Bridget Fonda and John Lehr. A comedy..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Timecop

In a future in which time travel has become possible, a cop's life is torn asunder by political malfeasance.

"...Directed by: Peter Hyams. Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Mia Sara and Gloria Reuben...."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Germinal

"...Directed by: Claude Berri. Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Renaud, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet and Judith Henry. Set amidst the coal-mining French..."

June 3, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

La Vie De Bohème

This film honors the romantic notion of the starving artist while simultaneously mocking its illusions and pretensions.

"...Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Samuel Fuller and Louis Malle. Oh, to be..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Uranus

"...Directed by: Claude Berri. Starring: Philippe Noiret, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Michel Blanc. What did you do during..."

Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

La Chimera

Josh O’Connor is a grave robber in this dreamy Italian romance

"...watch it again.) No matter: O’Connor is a first-class Jean-Paul Belmondo-like brooder, until he something trips him up and..."

April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him

"...as a story about his portrait of French fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen reveals, as the butt of an elaborate..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Addams Family

Your favorite creepy neighbors are back, and kid friendly

"...are given CG animated form in the bouffant-haired and blue-jean chic of Margaux Needler (Janney), a home improvement show..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Inside the 2019 Cine Las Americas Schedule

Talking different kinds of borders with Executive Director Jean Anne Lauer

"...at Cine Las Americas International Film Festival. Long­time booker Jean Anne Lauer took over as executive director, and as..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Settling in but Never Settling at the Old Settler's Music Fest

Executive Director Jean Spivey looks back at three decades of roots music

"...Jean Spivey throws a 4x4 utility vehicle into gear and..."

April 12, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Weekend Wine

Argentina ala Francais

"...step towards world dominance when she hired retired winemaker Jean Claude Berrouet to come be her consulting winemaker to..."

May 19, 2018 Food Post by Wes Marshall

Cine Las Americas Explores the Global Faces of Latino and Indigenous Cinema

Not just the border

"...There's a misconception about Cine Las Americas. Festival director Jean Anne Lauer said, "I get asked the question quite..."

April 27, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Battle of the Sexes

Billie Jean King takes on Bobby Riggs

"...publicized 1973 tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King played out as the circus sideshow of the..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

X-Men: Apocalypse

Another bloated spectacle that serves neither the fans nor the story

"...is the latter more apparent than the scenes with Jean Grey (Turner), whose appearances feel more like a prelude..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

The eeriness is palpable but the suspense is not.

"...of the countryside are schoolteacher Eve (Fox), sturdy headmistress Jean (McCrory), and their small flock of grade-school pupils, chief..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Look: Black's Barbecue

Famous family opens Austin storefront

"...family photos documenting various stages of Edgar and Norma Jean Black's respected family business...."

Oct. 31, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Borgman

This Dutch film is a darkly nuanced fable that keeps us consistently off-balance.

"...of Borgman (Bijvoet) – a cross between Rasputin and Jean Renoir’s Boudu – fleeing his underground warren in the..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

All Is Lost

In this near-wordless film, Robert Redford is compulsively watchable as a man trying to save himself from his sinking ship.

"...“This is the Virginia Jean with an SOS call. Over.” That right there is..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Big Wedding

In this wedding comedy, a bridegroom’s bitterly divorced parents (De Niro and Keaton) must pretend they’re still married to appease his Catholic birth mother.

"...The antics, alas, are toothless. Adapting from Jean-Stéphane Bron’s 2006 source film Mon frère se marie, writer/director..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Admission

Tina Fey and Paul Rudd go rom-drahm, while Lily Tomlin runs circles around everyone.

"...this story, which is based on a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, doesn’t need the potential motherhood angle in..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Quartet

A charming, funny, and sentimental comedy/drama about former opera singers living in a home for retired musicians.

"...resident, a former star. It turns out to be Jean Horton (Smith), the fourth member of the quartet. She..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Les Misérables

This extravagant adaptation of the monster-hit musical is a little pitchy, but it's still a potent piece of cinema.

"...blasted-out pupils, Jackman is commanding as the former convict Jean Valjean, who hides his past as Prisoner 24601 under..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Water for Elephants

Based on a bestselling novel, this 1930s-set film stars Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, and Christoph Waltz.

"...plays August's star attraction and wife Marlena, and her Jean Harlow platinum-blond bob out-vibrants everything else in this consistently..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Potiche

Catherine Deneuve stars in this French comedy set in 1977 about a trophy wife.

"...the filmmaker from a play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy, Potiche never acquires any psychological depth or narrative..."

April 22, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

The director of Doom takes on another video-game franchise, this time one about a female martial artist seeking justice.

"...classic Capcom video game, this kinda-sorta sequel to 1994's Jean-Claude Van Damme-meets-Kylie Minogue kick-fest is set in Bangkok –..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel's unorthodox but true story about a protagonist who is stripped of all self-movement and expression is equal parts reverie, despair, and social experiment.

"...of moviemaking conventions to tell the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby. Which makes sense considering just how unconventional Bauby’s..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Nines

Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, and Hope Davis star in three discrete but thematically linked short films in this feature-film-directing debut from screenwriter John August.

"...feels much more like some Bizarro World collaboration between Jean-Paul Sartre and Charlie Kaufman, and not in a good..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The In-Laws

"...delusional madman) on the trail of French arms dealer Jean-Pierre Thibodoux (Suchet), and Jerry’s a neurotic dentist straight out..."

May 23, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

24 Hour Party People

"...time that in hindsight seems about as innocent as Jean Genet in heat. Loud, hilarious, and enormously entertaining, 24..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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