The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Richard Gere joins in the fun at this revived hotel for seniors.

"...the rest continue to contend with the business of living, loving, and squabbling. It sounds trite because, as penned..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Faults

A cult deprogrammer needs some mental floss of his own.

"...he owes. His subject, the 28-year-old Claire, has been living with a group called the Faults, whose members advance..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Guardians Sue DADS

Families head to court in a last-ditch attempt to keep loved ones at Austin SSLC

"...protesting and petitions, guardians of disabled Austin State Supported Living Center residents – ordered to transfer their loved ones..."

Dec. 12, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Low Down

John Hawkes plays junkie jazz musician Joe Albany in this film based on his daughter's memoirs.

"...1974 and jazz has fallen out of favor. He’s living in a seedy Hollywood flophouse with his 11-year-old daughter,..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Book of Life

Dia de los Muertos provides a colorful and vivid background for this animated film.

"...Eventually everything is resolved in the Land of the Living...."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tusk

Kevin Smith and his actors are fully invested in the sheer madness of this story.

"...to make a movie about a man whose newfound living arrangement involves being sewn into a walrus suit, and..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Frank

Arthouse comedy amuses yet disappoints.

"...the band’s frontman, a volatile but kind-hearted prophet and living piece of performance art. He wears at all times..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Five Star Life

What's not to love about a career as a secret inspector of luxury hotels? Turns out, plenty.

"...with little of the content or meaning. Independent and living alone, the 40-ish Irene either has it all (the..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Sun to Set on Severely Disabled Patients

Austin State Supported Living Center to close seven homes

"...they received a letter from the Austin State Supported Living Center notifying them that their son Justin, who suffers..."

Aug. 11, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

Hellion

Austin filmmaker Kat Candler explores the sins of the father in this dark drama starring Aaron Paul.

"...the sins of their fathers. Here, a middle-class family living in the Gulf Coast suburbia south of Houston struggles..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Before You Know It

There's an aging LGBT community that is only getting bigger and older, and this documentary investigates that process – in ways both specific and universal.

"...Meet Ty, an African-American advocate and activist living in Harlem who is passionately focused on improving the..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ida

Concisely but with great depth, this Polish film explores questions of individual and national identity.

"...mother superior insists that Anna visit with her only living relative, an aunt whose existence was unknown to Anna..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Only Lovers Left Alive

In this hypnotic love story, Jim Jarmusch gives us vampires who are bohemian outsiders and not blood-sucking freaks.

"...Eve (Swinton) is living languorously in Tangier when she books a night flight..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Divergent

Yet another dystopic YA book series gets translated to film – and one that resembles thebestseller: engrossing yet flimsy.

"...Now, The Descendants) plays an average-seeming girl, Beatrice Prior, living in a post-war, futuristic version of Chicago. Her voiceover..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Labor Day

An escaped convict finds a family of sorts in this new drama by Jason Reitman.

"...and despairing after having been left by her husband, living with Henry, her son, in a small New Hampshire..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Past

Another masterstroke from Asghar Farhadi, The Past begins as a domestic drama and stealthily evolves into a kind of thriller.

"...Jestin), but startled to discover that Marie is now living with another man, Samir (Rahim), and his young son,..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Less a doc than a lyrical presentation of the cult actor and surprising song man.

"...and gray-sky emotionalism. He was, and is, the coolest living actor on the planet. (And you can quote me..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Family

The family that slays together, stays together – even in witness protection.

"...the mordant black comedy The Family, the expatriate Americans living in France are a new kind of lost generation,..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Spark: A Burning Man Story

This doc's not for burning.

"...In case you’ve been living in Kansas for the past 20 years, Burning Man..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lee Daniels' The Butler

The stars shine bright in this broad yet moving overview of the last 90 years of African-American history.

"...assumption to the White House, the film provides a living tableau to those for whom recent history is as..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Arthur Newman

Colin Firth and Emily Blunt star in this road picture about two people who try to escape their identities but fall in love and learn to accept their responsibilities.

"...(Firth) is tired of his life as he is living it. He is distanced from his son, divorced from..."

May 10, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Dead Man Down

Noomi Rapace, the original Lisbeth Salander, reunites with her The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director for this NYC gangland thriller starring Colin Farrell.

"...Oplev's original Lisbeth Salander, is Beatrice, a damaged soul living in the apartment across from Victor's, weirdly done up..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

'Good Night,' Sleep Tight

How living together strengthened the ensemble in Sean Gallagher's debut feature

"...their own right. The bulk of the cast was living together in the film's set, a two-story house just..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Big Ideas, Tiny House

Everything's bigger in Texas … except the tiny house

"...Smith show in the documentary TINY: A Story About Living Small, the concept of home is no different...."

March 10, 2013 SXSW Post by Nora Ankrum

Identity Thief

Melissa McCarthy is a comic storm system to Jason Bateman's straight man in this latest variation on the road trip from hell.

"...Sandy Bigelow Patterson (McCarthy) is not only living the good life – the very good life –..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Quartet

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

"...their friend Reginald Paget (Courtenay) are former opera singers living in a home for retired musicians. They used to..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

A Haunted House

Marlon Wayans spoofs Paranormal Activity.

"...that requires him to take a dump on the living room floor. And here’s the real rub: By the..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Brooklyn Castle

"...Principal John Galvin. With a majority of its students living below the poverty level, I.S. 318 has developed a..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Nora Ankrum

Middle of Nowhere

In this Sundance-honored film, a woman has to figure out what to do after her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison.

"...push it needs to stop marking time and start living...."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hit & Run

Dax Shepard's sophomore directorial feature is a mixture of earnest and romantic road movie, high-octane chase picture, and slapstick comedy.

"...Shepard is Charlie Bronson, a sweetheart of a guy living what appears to be the good life in small-town..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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