The Salesman

Gripping drama from the director of A Separation

"...which include the 2013 French production The Past, another masterpiece – are slippery to categorize. You could plausibly call..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Julieta

Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life

"...elements of grief, guilt, and loss. Like his humanist masterpiece All About My Mother, the film is a testament..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Resurrection of Gavin Stone

A former actor finds faith in his hometown

"...evangelical template. If Carl Theodor Dreyer’s boundlessly soulful 1928 masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc were released today,..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

We Learned It by Watching Movies

A film primer for the best in wicked entertainment

"...prophylactics and give zero fucks along with the cinematic masterpiece Velvet Goldmine – director Todd Haynes' love letter to..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Slash

A sweet coming-of-age film set in the world of fan fiction

"...contemporary and all-embracing. Bluntly put, Slash is a spunky masterpiece. It may be the finest and funniest teen angst..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In a Valley of Violence

Ti West takes a break from horror with this Ethan Hawke Western

"...Think Jason Robards in Sergio Leone’s six-gun masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West, or Franco..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Recommended ACL Records to Get You Psyched for the Fest

The best CPR (concert psychin' rock) to get in the fest mindset

"...dark, sprawling, bloated Blank Face LP to be his masterpiece. The Top Dawg Entertainment star raps, growls, and sneers..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Post by The Music Staff

Schoolboy Q

Blank Face LP (Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope)

"...dark, sprawling, bloated Blank Face LP to be his masterpiece. The Top Dawg Entertainment star raps, growls, and sneers..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Bryan Rolli

Richard Linklater: dream is destiny

Doc on local filmmaker is a thoughtful portrait

"...Richard Linklater released Slacker, a sublime and crafty-cool, ultra-low-budget masterpiece that’s probably inspired more young filmmakers to take up..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...One Nation Under a Groove (1978), and Bell's erotic masterpiece The Electric Spanking of War Babies (1981) laid out..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The Neon Demon

Cinema's bad boy, Nicolas Winding Refn, strikes again

"...This new Refn though, reborn with 2008's Bronson (his masterpiece), heralded a marriage between style and substance, and he..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Chronicle Recommends: Foolish Films

They're no geniuses, but these fools make for fun films

"...Stanley Kramer’s comic masterpiece features virtually all of cinema’s greatest professional fools, ranging..."

April 1, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Wednesday SXSW Picks

"...verge via 2002's self-recorded, 36-track, lo-fi standout The Headphone Masterpiece. The Atlantan actually got his start writing for Death..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

Call the exterminator: The tuneful rodents are back

"...John Waters, and a subsequent joke about his dogshit-eating masterpiece Pink Flamingos? (Crickets in the theatre when that one..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The New Girlfriend

A Frenchwoman discovers the secret hidden by her best friend's husband

"...De Palma at his most Hitchcockian, and, eventually, Hitch’s masterpiece of lost love and l’amour fou, Vertigo...."

Sept. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

When Marnie Was There

Will this ghost story be the final film from animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli?

"...films. Among a countless bounty of career-spanning accolades, Miyazaki’s masterpiece, Spirited Away, won the 2002 Oscar for Best Animated..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Still Alice

In an otherwise tepid film, Julianne Moore delivers a terrific performance as a woman beset by early-onset Alzheimer's.

"...going to pretend it was for Todd Haynes’ 1995 masterpiece, Safe, and leave it at that...."

Feb. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...hope will someday be recognized for the bulletproof little masterpiece it is...."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Uzumasa Limelight

The hero of this beguiling Japanese film is a kirare-yaku or “sliced actor” – a certain kind of Japanese actor/stuntman who always dies by sword in the shadows.

"...or digging deeper with Hideo Gosha’s insolently beautiful, 1965 masterpiece Sword of the Beast. It seemed for a moment..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

Documentary about a film that never was heads this week's releases

"...So what went wrong? "You can't have a masterpiece without madness," as Jodorowsky's producer Michel Seydoux delicately puts..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Eggshells' Is an Austin Time Capsule

Tobe Hooper presents 'Eggshells' on Tuesday night with Louis Black

"...in creating tension/terror in a horror film. Horror film masterpieces almost invariably boast brilliant points of view as one..."

July 7, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cindy Wood at Esther's Follies

April 3, 2014. 8 photos.

"...bitches about the Mona Lisa: "Oh, she is a masterpiece alright.. She is a masterpiece of &!!@**!." Her opening..."

April 3, 2014 Photo Gallery

Oldboy

Spike Lee maintains the shuddery, visceral punch of the South Korean original, but something gets lost in translation.

"...of the wall behind you the next morning.) A masterpiece in every sense of the word, Park’s disconcertingly majestic..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: 'The Vincent Price Collection'

The master of horror at the height of his Poe powers

"...of his later labors, it's his final true horror masterpiece, the glorious grand guignol performance of 1973's Theatre of..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Insidious: Chapter 2

All the same gang's back for this follow-up to the hit spooker.

"...going in, but whereas the amateur/industrial filmmaker Harvey's dreamy masterpiece crafted low-budget unease (so much so that the film..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lords of Salem

With his fifth horror feature, writer/director Rob Zombie proves he's a unique visionary in a repetitive cinematic genre.

"...assume, ever, that the fact that it’s not a masterpiece seems almost moot. It’s a head trip, to be..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lather, Repeat: British Sudser 'Downton Abbey' Returns

Season 3 debuts Sunday with a two-hour episode

"...the stateside rollout of the third season on PBS’ Masterpiece Classic. (British fans – and resourceful American ones –..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Anne Harris

Cloud Atlas

This spellbinding adaptation of a supposedly “unfilmable” novel achieves near-perfection on virtually all levels.

"...to pen The Cloud Atlas Sextet, a lovely little masterpiece that serves as the film’s theme (co-written, in reality,..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!

‘Sherlock,’ ‘White Heat’ hit U.S. airwaves

"...So what rabidly anticipated show returns tonight to PBS?..."

May 6, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Pink Floyd

In Box

"...this Wall offers a brick-by-brick analysis of the doomed masterpiece in scrapped selections – frantic psych-funk sample "Backs to..."

April 27, 2012 Music Review by Austin Powell

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