Maid in Manhattan

"...only two candidates: this new J.Lo starrer Maid in Manhattan and next weekend's opening of the Sandra Bullock/Hugh Grant..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Manhattan Romance

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

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

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sudden Manhattan

"...proudly stapled her influences on her sleeve, though Sudden Manhattan is a wholly original piece when it comes right..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Manhattan Murder Mystery

"...Joy Behar and Ron Rifkin. With the exceptions of Manhattan and Annie Hall, I always like Woody Allen more..."

Aug. 20, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Night Falls On Manhattan

"...but there's no getting around it: Night Falls on Manhattan is a wild, corkscrewing swing and miss by Lumet...."

May 16, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Jackie Venson & Dale Watson’s Manhattan Mosey

How to Become a Musician – Episode 2

"...singer-songwriter-guitarist crosses paths with fellow Austinite Dale Watson in Manhattan. Munching gyros, singing in the subway, and generally “moseying”..."

Dec. 19, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

First They Take Manhattan … Then They Don’t

The Alamo Drafthouse abandons the Upper West Side

"...Drafthouse announced plans to open its first theatre in Manhattan (in addition to sites in Yonkers, which opened just..."

Oct. 1, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rob Nash: He'll Take Manhattan

New York critics have weighed in on the off-Broadway debut of Rob Nash's Holy Cross Sucks! and given the Austin theatre artist a bushel of Big Apple praise

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Manhattan

June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friday the 13th: Part VIII – Jason Takes Manhattan

Aug. 4, 1989 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Party Girl

Parker Posey's breakout role came in this NYC coming-of-age indie in which she plays a hipster party animal who tries to settle down as a librarian.

"...queen of a social whirl made up of various Manhattan hipsters who live to club, throw outrageously fun parties,..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

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.

"...cigarettes and lie out in the sun; the next, Manhattan is an overgrown wasteland where thousands of rusting, driverless..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Prime

With genuine sparks between its two lovestruck leads and a delightfully flinchy performance from Meryl Streep, this comedy is just what its title implies: prime.

"...Boiler Room in 2000, and this film, dotted with Manhattan landmarks like the Magnolia Bakery and the Cinema Village,..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wonder Wheel

Woody Allen's ode to Coney Island

"...Wonder Wheel, maybe Woody Allen’s most glorious-looking film since Manhattan, is an idealized dream-memory of Coney Island’s amusement park..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Beastly

Beauty and the Beast is refashioned here for the contemporary teen set and stars I Am Number Four's Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens.

"...and so this new incarnation set in a contemporary Manhattan high school fills and swells and finally blooms with..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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.

"...I think, in the role of the opera-loving, commitment-phobic Manhattanite Allegra, but Reaser pulls it off just as well...."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ed's Next Move

"...twentysomething fish out of water on the island of Manhattan finds his sea legs and embarks on a great..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Night and the City

"...fix. Harry's a desensitized burn-out case wandering around lower Manhattan with a smoldering fuse. He has abundant energy and..."

Oct. 23, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Uncut Gems

Sandler and the Safdies take a roller-coaster through the NYC Diamond District

"...meet Howard Ratner (Sandler), a mid-tier jewelry dealer in Manhattan’s famous Diamond District. “District” implies a whole area, like..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

21 Bridges

Chadwick Boseman brings Manhattan to a halt as a corruption-busting cop

"...Andre hunts Michael and Ray through the corners of Manhattan, all three men begin to realize that there may..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Kitchen

1970s mob drama gets a #MeToo overhaul

"...ranks are three wives who scheme to rule Midtown Manhattan after their low-rent husbands get taken down by the..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

True life forgery black comedy rings surprisingly true

"...The deromanticized Manhattan in this caustic dramedy based on the unrepentant memoir..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Only Living Boy in New York

A New York love triangle state of mind

"...New York takes place in the rarified world of Manhattan privilege, a world in which the well-to-do (and an..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Colossal

Toxic masculinity melds with a monster movie

"...Gloria, who’s kicked out of her boyfriend Tim’s (Stevens) Manhattan apartment after one blackout too many. Nonplussed, she returns..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Disappointments Room

Kate Beckinsale moves into a haunted house

"...pre-teen son Lucas (Joiner), flee the teeming chaos of Manhattan and move to a dilapidated English Tudor manse right..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Green sewer-dwellers battle purple ooze. Big, dumb fun

"...residing in their secret lair in the sewers below Manhattan, although the fact that they can’t take credit for..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Different Stages' 4000 Miles

The grandmother in the tiny Manhattan flat is the heart of the quiet, thoughtful 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog

"...she welcomes him and his bicycle into her tiny Manhattan apartment, where he winds up camping out for a..."

March 25, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Carol

Everything about this Fifties lesbian romance is sublime

"...a shopgirl in the toy department of a large Manhattan department store at Christmastime. Vaguely bored at work, Therese..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Learning to Drive

Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley drive a tale of unlikely friendship

"...he navigates a cab through the anonymous crush of Manhattan. One night, he picks up a couple in mid-fight...."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Dog

Dog Day Afternoon is a film about a wildly true bank robbery; as conveyed by John Wojtowicz in this doc, the story gets even nuttier when told from the horse's mouth.

"...1972, he and two barroom acquaintances entered the Chase Manhattan Bank on Avenue P in Brooklyn, New York, with..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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