Inside

High-concept art heist flick is an arthouse dud

"...High above the city in a Manhattan penthouse, art thief Nemo (Dafoe) is tasked with stealing..."

March 17, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Scream VI

The meta-horror franchise gets less meta, more brutal

"...the Friday the 13th series, the multiple-shark-jumping Jason Takes Manhattan, taught us anything, it’s that when it comes to..."

March 10, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sharper

A stylishly smart and satisfying con artist drama

"...grifters preying on billionaires in the upper echelons of Manhattan society. Director Caron, who’s helmed close to a dozen..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Meet Me in the Bathroom

NYC millennial music doc is as rambling as the city

"...drugs, Napster, and Courtney Love. There's a subtext about Manhattan moving in on their Brooklyn (which is a little..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Please Baby Please

Andrea Riseborough remains unmissable in this wild, weird, and divisive Fifties fantasy

"...and Arthur (Melling) are a married couple living in Manhattan sometime in the 1950s. In front of their apartment..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

It's 2022, and someone thought we need a pro-Vietnam War comedy

"...on tabs. Many of his buddies from the neighborhood (Manhattan, apparently) are over in Vietnam fighting, and Chickie is..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Malvern Books Founder Joe W. Bratcher III Dies

Publisher and bookseller shaped Austin's literary scene

"...his wife, Elzbieta Szoka) cofounded and then relocated to Manhattan the company Host Publications and its signature publication: literary..."

Aug. 1, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Humans

A family quietly implodes at Thanksgiving in this merciless Broadway adaptation

"...into with her boyfriend Richard (Yeun). It's a downtown Manhattan pre-war apartment that’s dingy, sparsely furnished, and cramped to..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Capote Tapes

A literary life of oblivious self-destruction

"...darling in literary circles and essential fixture of the Manhattan social scene, his aspirations culminated in the publication of..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dating & New York

When “friends with benefits” goes wrong for the smartphone generation

"...top billing in this callow rom-com about two right-swiping Manhattan millennials who meet cute on a dating app and..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In the Heights

An explosion of dance and song in this vibrant stage-to-screen adaptation

"...about three days in the life of an Upper Manhattan working class community...."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Alamo Drafthouse Touts Post-Bankruptcy Expansion Plans

With sale complete, chain announces five new locations

"...• The long-awaited Alamo Drafthouse in Lower Manhattan at 28 Liberty (better known to New Yorkers as..."

June 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mayor

Santas, sewers, and park benches: A very different look at everyday life in Ramallah

"...of Muslim-Christian relations, previously viewed through the topic of Manhattan's Sharif El-Gamal community center in his 2010 short documentary..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

True to the Game 2

Trust us, you'd be better off playing tiddlywinks

"...Believing well-off Manhattan journalist and the late Quadir’s fiancée Gena Hollins (Peeples)..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Other Music

History of a lost Manhattan record store keeps a basic tune

"...a terrific role in the development of the post-millennium Manhattan music scene. It's the sense of exceptionalism, and the..."

April 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Times of Bill Cunningham

The NYT fashion-lover revealed as really a lover of people

"...his hardships, and was hit hard like everyone in Manhattan's fashion scene by the swinging blade and slow death..."

April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Assistant

The film industry’s quiet complicity in #MeToo crimes placed in stark context

"...boss. Jane accompanies the young girl to a luxe Manhattan hotel and returns to find her boss absent. Taking..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hustling Uncut Gems With the Safdie Brothers

How their family history glistens in their New York story

"...many microcommunities that make up the patchwork of Lower Manhattan. In this case, it's the Diamond District, a block-and-a-half..."

Dec. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Depraved

A modern Frankenstein finds the sins of the fathers in war and commerce

"...Owen Campbell) remembers is bleeding to death in a Manhattan alley. When he wakes up, he is Adam (Breaux),..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Before You Know It

Theatre family gets more drama than they expected in this sweet tragicomedy

"...long tracking shot conversations down Brooklyn sidewalks and past Manhattan brownstones, chatting about everything and nothing. Rachel plays hard..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...active. The city's first documented gay bar – the Manhattan Club, located on Congress between Ninth and 10th streets..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

An Incomplete Compilation of the Gay Bars Austin Has Loved and Lost

Because sometimes you want to go where everybody knows you’re queer

"...THE MANHATTAN CLUB 911 Congress (1958-early Seventies)..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature

Terrence McNally on Art and Commerce

The Tony-winning playwright talks about the business of show

"...work began life in the not-for-profit world – at Manhattan Theatre Club primarily – so there was not the..."

June 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Carmine Street Guitars

Spend time with the quiet artisans who make the instruments that rock & roll is built upon

"...are in fact salvaged pieces of Five Points-era lower Manhattan, each with a scrawled note attesting to their original..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Greta

Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert play cat-and-mouse in this glorious potboiler

"...Frances is a recent graduate sharing a loft in Manhattan with her friend Erica Penn (Monroe). Frances waits tables..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Second Act

Lean In meets The Secret of My Success in workplace rom-com

"...fulfillment rom-coms along the lines of Lopez’s Maid in Manhattan. For a certain segment of the moviegoing audience this..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie

Behind the Music for a band you've never heard of

"...waiting room; in another, an audition gig at a Manhattan club for another record company was self-sabotaged by an..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Puzzle

The pretty pieces don't all fit in this jigsaw-solving drama

"...Hooked, she boards the commuter rail from Connecticut to Manhattan (where she hasn’t ventured for years) to visit a..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...According to biologist Menno Schilthuizen, the DNA of Manhattan mice no longer matches that of their Brooklyn counterparts...."

July 27, 2018 Column

Point Austin: Welcome to the Future

Texas is just like America, only more so

"...writer (an anxiety that seldom bothers writers microscopically dissecting Manhattan), but added that he'd had a "wonderful time" writing..."

March 16, 2018 News Column by Michael King

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