City of Lost Souls

"...an attempt to top his previous effort. City of Lost Souls was made in 2000, and although it's not..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lost Souls

"...but I'll be damned if I can find it. Lost Souls is nominally concerned with the efforts of a..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lost World, Found Footage

AFS' Avant Cinema celebrates the radical art of Bruce Conner

"...the history of everything else, is written by rebellious souls. From the early special-effect experimentation of Georges Méliès to..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

What Time is it There?

"...how fluent they are in the former, how hopelessly lost in the latter. Taipei director Tsai uses a fixed..."

April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Duets

"...story about the world of karaoke hustlers and other lost souls will have you singing “Show Me the Way..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deemo: Memorial Keys

Anime fairytale of two lost souls bonded by cherry blossom and music

"...Not reviewed at press time. Fantastical anime about two lost souls bonded by cherry blossom and music...."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

True life forgery black comedy rings surprisingly true

"...effort, the tenuous relationship and jostling interplay between their lost souls imbuing Can You Ever Forgive Me? with a..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Under the Same Moon

The film's parallel stories of a mother and son seeking each other across geographical divides is never more than one small step away from mawkishness and cliché – but as a sociological study, it’s fascinating.

"...to ring bells over. Its parallel stories of two lost souls seeking each other across geographical divides is never..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Puccini for Beginners

A lesbian on the rebound falls for both a guy and a gal in this rom-com with roots in old Hollywood screwball comedies.

"...repartee. Its vision of Manhattan as an island of lost souls (spiritually presided over by, one assumes, Dr. More!)..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Snake Moan

Like a steady 12-bar blues progression, Black Snake Moan lays down a groove and works the chords over and over 'til they're all spent.

"...the theme of the power of music to redeem lost souls. Brewer again sets his film firmly in the..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twentyfourseven

"...difference in his community and maybe save a few lost souls in the bargain. Among the kids who grudgingly..."

May 8, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Niagara, Niagara

"...you never feel the urgency of this union of lost souls; their meeting is more happenstance than fateful. With..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mast

Elizabeth Doss' new play is about lost souls not sure when to give up and go home

"...begins and ends with a sailor gone overboard and lost at sea. The middle is also filled with lost..."

July 31, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

First Love

Japanese master Takashi Miike at his quirkiest and most romantic

"...Nakamura (a frequent collaborator of Miike’s) brings these two lost souls together in a convoluted but hilarious police sting..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Don't Come Knocking

With its wonderful veteran cast, its heart on its sleeve, and a love for the landscape that suffuses its technique, Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders' movie is a peculiar but rewarding escape.

"...a home out west and finding yourself after being lost and misguided. Wenders is still fascinated by America's big-sky..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Future's So Brite

I Love the Scent of Burning Flesh...

"...Lost Souls, her first novel, took the standard vampire tale..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

In the Tunisian desert, a young girl and her grandfather spin stories of woe, lost love, and religious disenchantment in this trancelike movie.

"...of the Arabian casbah over cascading dunes, stirring ecstatic souls … I was completely lost from the moment the..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...too long to get somewhere, who rejoices in getting lost, and who strikes up conversations with anyone who promises..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Soul

Pixar's jazzy trip to the afterlife mixes kid-friendly hijinks with metaphysical angst

"...Great Before, a cotton-candy colored departure lounge for brand-new souls readying for their journey to Earth. There, he crosses..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Conversations With God

Life-affirming lessons about a generous, forgiving God and the redemptive possibilities of love and charity dominate this movie based on Neale Donald Walsch's bestseller.

"...to inspire an entire nation full of seekers and lost souls and then vanish again into the ether, only..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Hell House

"...of both its earnest dedication to the conversion of “lost” souls and the solace it has provided said souls...."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn

Part one of epic anime quest is a fine first step

"...are seemingly accelerated by the discovery of the ultimate lost treasure: Reg (Christian), a robot boy of incredible powers..."

March 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gravity

Sandra Bullock is lost in space – alone with the beauty, terror, and the laws of gravity.

"...experience of Cuarón’s vast and humbling depiction of two souls lost in the void, with no one to hear..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trust

"...Maria but just as much a misfit, these two lost, frustrated souls are a perfect match. We're introduced to..."

Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Golden Compass

The special effects are mostly spectacular in this story of a 12-year-old orphan whose fate is connected to a holy, multiverse war yet to come.

"...series at large), inspired in part by Milton's Paradise Lost, charts the coming of age of Lyra Belacqua (Richards,..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Northfork

"...in long preacher garb) ministers to the last few souls left in town, but by the time the movie..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Words

As an examination of the writer's world, this film offers nothing new; as a romance it's not half bad.

"...the complications that result from the merging of two lost souls into one. (And it's always complicated, no?) The..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Wild

Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's bestselling mystery adventure to the screen with frequently stunning but ultimately unsatisfactory results.

"...like a modern-day Odysseus, commiserating with fellow drifters and lost souls (including an excellent Holbrook and a wired Vaughn,..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Enter the Domain With Other Worlds Austin

Sci-fi film festival adds world premiere, new score, and award winners

"...joins the list: Erle C. Kenton's masterful Island of Lost Souls, the 1932 adaptation of The Island of Dr...."

Nov. 5, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Forget it, Jake; it's Sin City.

"...doing what they do best: throwing their bodies and souls into life’s furnace, where they are steeled for the..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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