Claire of the Moon

"...Todd, Karen Trumbo, Faith Mcdevitt and Caren Graham. Lesbian love story Claire of the Moon wants to become the..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Far and Away

"...Far and Away that seems wasted on its simple love story straight out of It Happened One Night. The..."

May 29, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Mississippi Masala

"...primary appeal as well, but it is the tender love story and sweet human comedy that makes the audience..."

Feb. 28, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Late for Dinner

"...fantastic to say something wonderful about the resiliency of love. The springboard for this statement is unquestionably ridiculous: a..."

Sept. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW Doc Proves That Being an Evangelical Christian Doesn't Have to Mean Transphobia

Love above all others in Mama Bears

"...clearly “the difference between operating from a place of love and operating from a place of hatred and misunderstanding...."

March 18, 2022 Screens Feature by James Scott

The Flatlanders Album Review

Treasure of Love (Rack’em Records/Thirty Tigers)

"...More a Legend Than a Band, this Treasure of Love more than lives up to said COVID designation: essential...."

July 9, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"...bop sees the spice-loving local MC singing with a lovestruck serenity rare to his discography outside of 2018 EP..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Marriage Story

Driver and Johansson are note perfect as a couple falling apart

"...character delivers a soliloquy that lists the things each loves about the other. Charlie is the director of a..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sister Aimee

A slightly true story of America's first megapastor on the run

"...there was an active search for their whereabouts, the lovers enlisted the help of a guide named Rey (Suarez..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Villains

Delicious black comedy finds bad guys in a battle of the generations

"...are delightfully in sync as a pair of coked-out lovers using self-affirmations to navigate a life of crime. Despite..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

After the Wedding

American remake of Danish Oscar contender flails into melodrama

"...Bier's class critique as some kind of neo-Eat Pray Love. No one in their right mind can possibly think..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Opera's La Bohème

The beauty of the music and stagecraft in this production teaches us something about love and art

"...candle in the dark winter night. They fall in love...."

May 3, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Saving Emily Dickinson From History in Wild Nights With Emily

Molly Shannon and Madeleine Olnek revise the poet's life and loves

"...says yes and yes: “It matters that she was loved and that her love was for another woman.” This,..."

April 19, 2019 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program A

Breaion King arrest doc heads up the Oscar short list

"..."Edith+Eddie," which tells what should be a highly conventional love story. What threatens the couple's contentment is not that..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Only Living Boy in New York

A New York love triangle state of mind

"...stump even Freud. It’s a movie in which star-crossed lovers engage in intense conversations with desperate questions such as..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Baby Driver

A heist goes wrong for a music-loving getaway driver.

"...Freudian), the movie shifts gears somewhat to become a love story inspired by Hollywood noir, one in which the..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Linklater’s Before Trilogy comes to Criterion

Love, dreams, and destiny

"...philosophical explorations about the fundamental elements of life: time, love, and death. Linklater's scripts grasp how both strangers and..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Collateral Beauty

Will Smith mopes around in this preposterous drama

"...apartment, he pens hate letters to Death, Time, and Love. It pains Howard’s colleagues (Norton, Winslet, and Peña) to..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Touched With Fire

Two manic-depressive poets meet in group therapy and fall in love

"...Love and creativity rarely come easily, but when interlaced with..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kissing in America

Rabb's second YA novel features more than one love story, and they're all worth telling

"...second novel for young adults, "every poem is a love poem," then arguably every YA story is a love..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Kimberley Jones

Manhattan Romance

New York-set indie rom-com just goes through the motions

"...title was ambiguous, writer/director Tom O’Brien’s Manhattan Romance would love to evoke the late Seventies cinema of Woody Allen...."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Age of Adaline

Romantic hokum, well done

"...Many of us like to think that true love is timeless, but the notion is rarely flipped on..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Amira & Sam

Cross-cultural love between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi girl flourishes in the Big Apple.

"...co-produced – is a relatively slight slice of cross-cultural love in the Big Apple, it more than makes up..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beyond the Lights

A popular singer finds the courage to be herself with the help of a friendly cop.

"...Prince-Bythewood. Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver, Danny Glover, Richard Colson Baker, Tyler Christopher and India Jean-Jacques...."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Theory of Everything

Based on Jane Hawking's memoir about her marriage to the scientist Stephen Hawking, this film really shows what goes into a relationship.

"...Theory of Everything delicately observes the boundless universe of love’s possibilities – what we’re willing to give, what we’re..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

This Japanese mind-twister from Shion Sono screams with madness and mayhem.

"...Director Shion Sono (Love Exposure), a Fantastic Fest favorite, is all about blowing..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Invisible Woman

The woman who must remain invisible in this drama is Nelly Ternan, an actress who's not only the mistress of married Charles Dickens, but also 27 years his junior.

"...a fledgling stage actress with whom he falls in love despite a 27-year age difference. Initially, the 18-year-old Ternan..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Enough Said

James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus co-star in this delicate, uncommon picture of middle-aged new love.

"...deft portrait artist and consistently independent-minded filmmaker, Nicole Holofcener (Lovely & Amazing, Friends With Money) is the last person..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lake Bell Is 'In a World' of Her Own

Sound studios, trailer voiceovers and high-speed rivalries

"...As an actress, Lake Bell is a rarity. She loves re-recording her own lines. "I love cave industries, where..."

Aug. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Spectacular Now

An outstanding cast and eloquent storytelling shape this delicate film that becomes a dark study of a budding, young alcoholic.

"...This is not a love story. Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber prefaced..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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