This Christmas

The film has the perfect formula for holiday cheer: redemption through sentimentality, salvation through schmaltz.

"...arrives home to find most of his family members living lives of not-so-quiet desperation. His mother (Devine) is still..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Still Scary, Still Subversive

Alamo's Roadshow of the Living Dead brings George Romero to Austin

"...his now iconic black-and-white zombie opus Night of the Living Dead in 1968, he likely wasn't aware he was..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...it best: "She never let herself be beautiful before." Living With Ghosts Griffin hasn't changed all that much. Her..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

The Mirror Has Two Faces

"...professor of literature at Columbia University. Unmarried and still living at home with her beautiful, sharp-tongued mother Hannah (Bacall,..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Lotto Land

"...this warm, informed, and knowing look at two couples living in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood. The drug use and..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Patrick Taggart

The Brady Bunch Movie

"...in their Seventies cocoon, the Bradys of today are living in a time warp, hilariously out of sync with..."

Feb. 24, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Totally F***ed Up

Queer New Wave classic tracks six teenagers living in Los Angeles.

"...despondent character to describe himself -- the six teenagers living in Los Angeles are isolated from the rest of..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tropic of Cancer

"...the hay. As for the construction of the film living up to the standards of Miller's subjectivity in the..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Ishi: The Last Yahi

"...he remained until 1911 when he became the last living Yahi. Cold and starving, the California Indian came down..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thank You and Good Night!

"...universe where the dead still receive mail and the living suffer few regrets. When Jan Oxenberg began this film..."

April 17, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rush

Kim Wozencraft's semi-autobiographical novel is the source material for this film about a couple of cops in Beaumont, Texas, who become heavily involved in drug use while working deep undercover.

"...what to get him. Reflecting the upside-down world they're living in, the most attractive character is not the bent..."

Jan. 10, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Morbius

Marvel's living vampire gets a Sony Spidey-verse spinoff

"...dark and brooding superheroes, and then there's Morbius the Living Vampire. Originally created in 1971, he was one of..."

April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Always at the Carlyle

Behind-the-scenes at NYC's legendary hotel is just PR fluff.

"...by famous artists displayed on the walls, like a living museum. (Ludwig Bemelmans, after whom the bar is named,..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Going in Style

Three old-timers plan to rob a bank

"...The three men play retirees who’ve been living in Brooklyn since long before it became a colony..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miss Hokusai

The life of an artist through the eyes of his daughter

"...Japanese anime feature film about an independent young woman living in the artistic shadow of her father, the renowned..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Other Side of the Door

The portal between the living and dead is once again breached

"...a grief-stricken mother opens a forbidden portal between the living and the dead. However, atmospherically, this film forges a..."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Manglehorn

Al Pacino stars in David Gordon Green's shot-in-Austin drama

"...of human relationships. An aging locksmith eking out a living in a small Texas town (note the Austin locations)..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Wages up in the Air

Will ABIA vendors get away with another 10 years of paying less than living wages?

"...per hour. Both wage figures fall below the city's living wage standard of $11 per hour (not including benefits);..."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Gone Girl

When a lady vanishes, David Fincher holds the moral compass.

"...best marriage. On the whole, they appear to be living the dream in New York City’s upper-class, pseudo-bohemian substrata...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Buy What You Love'

Collector Glenn Fuhrman on 'A Secret Affair' and living with contemporary art

"...questions about his collection and what he's gained by living with contemporary art...."

Aug. 8, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

We Live in Public

The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.

"...transformed some vacant NYC cellar/loft space into a communal living experience that was monitored in every conceivable way by..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Amreeka

In this delightfully human and sweetly comic ode to the contemporary immigrant experience in a post-9/11 “Amreeka,” a Palestinian mother and son create a world of possibilities.

"...Muna (Faour) is a single mother (and non-pious Muslim) living in the Palestinian territory with her teenage son, Fadi..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wendy and Lucy

From the director of Old Joy comes this minimalist story about a girl (the elfin Michelle Williams) and her dog getting by in society's margins.

"...elfin, astonishingly un-self-conscious Williams) and her dog, Lucy. They’re living out of Wendy’s beat-up car, on their way to..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Speed Racer

The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight.

"...populate their shiny, happy, CGI-drenched Hot Wheels world with living, breathing, identifiably organic actors: Into the Wild's Hirsch as..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Am Legend

After a terrific start marked by the film's striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith's mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.

"...at night to feast on the blood of the living and screech at great volumes. In this latest adaptation..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.

"...Tim Burton. The dead have more fun than the living, again, in Tim Burton’s new stop-motion animated feature, a..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ice Age

Prehistoric buddy cartoon.

"...through the cracks are some surprisingly progressive ideas about living in harmony in the midst of nature's unavoidably antagonistic..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Donnie Darko

This unnerving, electrifying film provides a unique take on the teen psyche in modern suburbia.

"...macabre Grandma Death, whispers into Donnie Darko's ear: “Every living creature on Earth dies alone.” It's an idea the..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Keep the River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

"...know that eating a bite of human flesh while living with a headhunting tribe in Peru many decades ago..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two Family House

"...right in their two-family house; most egregiously, the family living upstairs (a drink-grizzled Irish man and his very young,..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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