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"...The Sour NotesLast Looks..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

The Luv Doc: Lutropublicaphobia

Ever enter a public restroom stall that looks like Leatherface just went berserk with a chainsaw on a pile of bloody meat, semen, snot, and excrement?

"...at the Austonian?). The other end of that scale looks like the last rest stop before the gates of..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

The Sour Notes

"...The Sour NotesLast Looks..."

April 15, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

The New Way, Part Two

Passing the digital collection jar with Kickstarter

"...featuring Danny Malone and Matt the Electrician, among others, looks like a romantic comedy worthy of a Michael Cera..."

Feb. 3, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Paris 36

This French film set in late-Thirties Paris is something of a backstage drama, but it's marred by glossy reminiscing and melodramatic politicizing.

"...a tone that lands somewhere between François Truffaut's The Last Metro and a nice long nap, with accompanying dreaminess...."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

State of Play

Starring Russell Crowe, this American redo of a great BBC miniseries about investigative journalism and nefarious institutions neither embarrasses the original nor is superior to it in any way.

"...that leaves little room for character shadings. Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) has assembled a cast of professionals..."

April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Planet B-Boy

The global revival of breakdancing is the subject of this documentary, which shows off the mad skillz of competitors around the world.

"...Breakers, French-based the Family (whose youngest associate, Lil Kev, looks to be all of 10 years old), and South..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rambo

In his fourth cinematic outing, Rambo's tasked with saving Christian missionaries in Burma.

"...of the Eighties. In the 20 years since we last saw him fighting alongside Afghan rebels against the Soviets,..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

It's the Texans Just Being the Texans

"...the bye week. They have lost five of their last seven, are severely injury-depleted with a shallow roster, and..."

Nov. 11, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

The Art of Dying

"...sort of I Know What You Did in Spain Last Summer that borrows heavily from both American and Italian..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thirteen Ghosts

"...unabated, and, sadly, remains uninspired, uninteresting, and unfun. After last year's jokey remake of Castle's great The House on..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Left Luggage

"...bouts of lovemaking with her blond Marxist boyfriend (he looks like an Aryan surfer), she tries to cobble together..."

April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Guantanamera

"...satire, magical realism, and Forties road-pic shenanigans is the last major work by Cuban director Alea, who recently died..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

JLG by JLG

"...of the Oscar) award as the best short of last year. It is the first film by well-known theatre..."

June 16, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sunday's Children

"...immediately prior to his conception. In 1983, for his last announced directing project, Bergman filmed Fanny and Alexander, a..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Clean Slate

"...Michael Gambon. Didn't Dana Carvey learn anything from his last Hollywood debacle, the odious, wildly unpopular Opportunity Knocks? From..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother's Boys

"...as Kes, the son on whom Jude is fixated, looks and acts like he just graduated from the Edward..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked

"...Johnny makes a hasty getaway for London. There he looks up an old girlfriend, has sex with her masochistic..."

April 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Road Scholar

"...is that rare film: a documentary road movie that looks at America with eyes not hampered by the rose-tinted..."

Oct. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Just Another Girl On the I.R.T.

"...perspective on the situation of urban African-American females. The last few years have seen a commercial surge in African-American..."

April 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The People Under the Stairs

Wes Craven mixes social injustice into urban horror

"...the Wes Craven we came to admire in The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes and..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Border

Swedish coming out drama has a mythological bent

"...up, the first person she has ever seen who looks like her and acts like her. However, he has..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Choice

Nicholas Sparks' romantic yearnings once again flood our screens

"...a cinematic subgenre unto itself (Nights in Rodanthe, The Last Song, etc.) but The Choice, scripted by Bryan Sipe,..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Best of Me

It's getting hard to tell one Nicholas Sparks adaptation from another amid all the dross.

"...planned for 2015 – The Best of Me certainly looks like its predecessors, checking off the usual Southern locale..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

50 to 1

The Kentucky Derby-winning horse Mine That Bird sprints to glory in this equine biopic.

"...watching the long-shot contender, Mine That Bird, start dead last and finish first in a breathless, come-from-behind upset you..."

April 11, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Stories We Tell

Canadian filmmaker and actress Sarah Polley goes looking for her biological father and comes homes with a wise and poetic documentary about the nature of truth.

"...ultimately her assemblage of the truth, but one that looks beyond herself to understand the multiplicity of perceptions that..."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From the Vaults: Robert Rodriguez's Early Years

"Ismael Jones and the Eyes of the Devil" debuts and "El Mariachi" at 20

"...threw a little party down at the Paramount Theatre last Thursday night. It was one of those special nights..."

Sept. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Amusing but never rousing, this fourth installment in this cartoon franchise comes fretted with freezer burn.

"...spectacle with breathtaking line detail, Ice Age: Continental Drift looks terrific. New voices – if not particularly fresh characterizations..."

July 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sleepless Night

Purloined cocaine, his kidnapped son, and a den of thieves who wish him ill cause one man to have a very desperate night in this taut French thriller.

"...and a Jamaican/Turkish drug lord – Vincent is a last best option for hero, and director/co-writer Frédéric Jardin and..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Change-Up

In this body-switcheroo movie, Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman star as pals each a little envious of the other's life.

"...have gone into the assemblage of The Change-Up: It looks terrible, starting with the title card's font, which seems..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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