Just Mercy

True-life story of prison injustice can't escape procedural bonds

"...elevated by a terrific cast and impassioned subject matter. Just Mercy stars Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, a..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Just Mercy Will Close This Year’s Austin Film Festival

Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx star in true-life legal drama

"...announcing today the prestigious closing night film slot for Just Mercy, a drama about a man wrongfully convicted of..."

Oct. 9, 2019 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Mercy Black

Viral horror faces the reality of childhood crimes

"...has offered a definitive take on the phenomenon. Sadly, Mercy Black is not the film to buck that trend...."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Owen Egerton Gets Physical for Mercy Black

Childhood trauma lingers in this Netflix horror

"...for indie film titans Blumhouse Productions – psychological horror Mercy Black...."

April 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Mercy Is Dead in Texas

"...be dead by the time this is printed) ["No Mercy," News, Aug. 20], I am once again reminded of..."

Aug. 30, 2004 Postmarks

Have Mercy

Board shoots down superintendent's plan

"...restructuring several departments. While these goals were possible with just declaring a program change, staff proposed that doing so..."

Feb. 26, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Of Mercy and Mississippi

On the Bookshelf

"...novel by Houston writer Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy (Farrar Straus Giroux, $22 hard), centers around the notion..."

July 18, 1997 Books Review

We're 49th! ... Or Just Seventh of 10

Union and Austin ISD argue over teacher pay – and what to do about it

"...for administrative and classified employees. Even with that cost-of-living adjustment, Malfaro argued, the district still has not made enough..."

April 9, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

You Don't Need Money, Just a Little Bit a Month...

1996 AISD Bond Election

"...would probably claim it has been at the tender mercy of landowners, AISD's past dealings and attitudes toward its..."

Feb. 23, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Luv Doc: Tinder Mercy

Stupidity makes its way to the surface eventually

"...Yes, you should tell her. Just know that there are risks to being the bearer..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

Texecutioners Show Some Mercy

In a tough but good-natured final home bout of 2007, the Texecutioners dominate Albuequerque's Munecas Muertas.

"...home bout of the year on Saturday. It wasn't just that Women's Flat Track Derby Association No. 3 team,..."

Dec. 3, 2007 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Good Vibrations

Bill Pohlad offers Love & Mercy

"...need mentioning, that it's a wonder that Love & Mercy, which opens nationwide on Friday, June 5, not only..."

June 5, 2015 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

LOLA's La Clemenza di Tito: A Retelling

The quality of mercy is never not strained in this new adaptation of Mozart's late opera

"..."The quality of mercy is not strain'd," argues Portia in The Merchant of..."

March 9, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...women and their infants would be left to God’s mercy. Though she’s a Communist sympathizer and avowed nonbeliever, Mathilde..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Lazarus Effect

Medical students try to bring the dead back to life.

"...Lazarus Effect, a Frankensteinian combination of Flatliners, Carrie, and just about any possession flick that comes to mind...."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Party Girl

Parker Posey's breakout role came in this NYC coming-of-age indie in which she plays a hipster party animal who tries to settle down as a librarian.

"...of her too-successful "promotions," she throws herself on the mercy of her librarian godmother Judy (Sasha von Scherler, the..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Best of the New York Underground

"...MTV hell by playing it deadpan and light. Basically just a series of one-off gags strung together between blackouts,..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet's story of salesmen caught in their unique form of hell also offers a cornucopia of fine performances.

"...only by their own status as victims at the mercy of the head office and a mean, soulless functionary..."

Oct. 9, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Let Him Have It

"...for murder in England despite an overwhelming cry for “mercy” coming from both his jurors and a fuming public..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brother's Keeper

This documentary is about the unlikeliest of subjects: an alleged mercy killing between a pair of barely socialized, virtually illiterate, unkempt, unhygienic, slow-witted, never-married bachelors.

"...documentary about the unlikeliest of subjects - an alleged mercy killing amongst the The Ward Boys aren't just a..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Death Watch: Father Forgave, Texas Doesn’t

Sarah Walker’s dad asked for mercy for his daughter’s accused killer

"...Collin County. Walker spoke about Chan­tha­koumma­ne in "Witness of Mercy: A Father's Forgive­ness," a video produced by the Knights..."

Aug. 12, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town

Mackenzie Davis is a great traveling companion for this dull roadtrip

"...thing as fate or if we’re all at the mercy of “random fucking chaos.” And it’s all mighty existential..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Red Sparrow

Erotic spy thriller is Fifty Shades of Gorky Park.

"...supposed to be a hall-of-mirrors narrative, but instead is just a tedious back and forth. The idea that she..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Boxer Rebellion Gets Yang'd But Good

Graphic Novelist Gene Luen Yang brings his newest work to Austin

"...and Vibiana, respectively – in this new graphic novel just out from publishing powerhouse First Second Books...."

Sept. 23, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Dark Knight Rises

An uncannily accurate mirror of the contemporary cultural zeitgeist, this epic finale to the Batman trilogy is just that: epic.

"...the epic finale to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is just that: epic. Watching all three films in order, as..."

July 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

12

Essentially a Russianized version of the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, 12 is a moral powerhouse that's both intellectually riveting and indescribably poetic.

"...consider that when all's said and done, it's really just a dozen guys in a single room arguing with..."

April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flushed Away

Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.

"...keep me quiet and content for a few hours, just put on a film with some rhyming cockney slang..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Underworld

Kate Beckinsale bares her fangs as a vampire assassin in in a shaggy werewolf story.

"...though she’s on her way to a Sisters of Mercy concert armed to her pointy white teeth with all..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Documentary about the effort to place children of European Jews during WWII within safe homes in England.

"...to 17-year-olds. Fully aware of the incendiary hatreds boiling just below surface of Germany and its soon-to-be satellite holdings,..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frequency

"...at some point Hoblit and screenwriter Toby Emmerich basically just gave up and decided to throw themselves at the..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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