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July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Maverick
"...costumes, though, you might just find yourself confusing the Maverick character with Gibson's Lethal Weapon persona, Martin Riggs. Foster's..."
May 27, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Top Gun: Maverick
Tom Cruise proves he’s the last of his kind
"...And that’s exactly what Top Gun: Maverick delivers. This 25-plus-year-belated sequel to the Eighties cultural phenomenon..."
May 27, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur
Willie Varela: Maverick Outsider
"...Directed by: Willie Varela. Willie Varela: Maverick Outsider is the current focus of the Austin Film..."
Oct. 28, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Austin Music Awards, a Black Rock Maverick, and More Crucial Concerts
Our recommended shows for the week ahead
"...– Miranda Garza Bevis M. Griffin: Texas Black Rock Maverick..."
Feb. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe
McCain No Maverick
"...Dear Editor, How is it so "mavericky" to occasionally consider voting for the people's interest instead..."
Sept. 4, 2008 Postmarks
Maverick Outsider
Avant-garde artist Willie Varela discusses politics, the nature of personal work, a career on the fringes, and what it's like to be a Chicano filmmaker.
"...moving from being the perpetual outsider to being a maverick insider, as a way to talk back to the..."
Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Athina Rachel Tsangari
C&W Maverick Kevin Welch: Square Peg Escapes Round Hole
"...matter where he may live, he's a country music maverick, a square peg in the round commercial world. We..."
Aug. 25, 1995 Music Feature by Lee Nichols
The Texas Film Awards Celebrate the Maverick Spirit
Shirley MacLaine, Jeff Nichols, and others to be honored
"...Green was already a respected producer who bonded with mavericks: John Sayles (City of Hope), David Mamet (American Buffalo),..."
March 3, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Capitol Chronicle
A farewell to Maury Maverick Jr.
"...death last week at the age of 82, Maury Maverick Jr. was still fighting for justice and peace. When..."
Feb. 7, 2003 News Column by Michael King
Filmworker
Leon Vitali, Kubrick's right-hand man, forever in the maestro's shadow
"...Zierra is really exploring is the fine line between maverick genius and manipulative bully. The cult of Kubrick is..."
July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
Truth or dare? We say pass on this demonic schlock.
"...Why maverick producer Jason Blum chose to affix his company’s name..."
April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Paterson
Adam Driver embodies the poetry of the quotidian
"...type of endeavor, Paterson is also one of the maverick filmmaker’s most accessible films. Not only is it a..."
Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Nuts!
Stranger-than-fiction doc about an eccentric doctor
"...So begins this stranger-than-fiction (ahem) account about a controversial maverick who rose to fame and made his fortune in..."
Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Part concert film and part fascinating biography, this deft film is a moving tribute to Leonard Cohen’s musical legacy.
"...Beauty,” after one of Cohen’s songs. Overseen by the maverick producer Hal Willner, the show featured an esteemed collection..."
July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Laws of Attraction
The first law of attraction is sexual chemistry – something this movie is completely lacking.
"...Rafferty is a shell of a character, a raffish maverick in the courtroom but a smitten lover in the..."
April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Insomnia
"...Nicky Katt and Paul Dooley. The question of how maverick filmmaker Christopher Nolan could possibly follow up his arthouse..."
May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Royal Tenenbaums
"...and the much-heralded comic stylings of Rushmore) shows this maverick filmmaker to be expanding his emotional palette and dramatic..."
Dec. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Blood Simple: The Director's Cut
"...first-timers have proven themselves over the years to be maverick talents (Coen brothers: Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, and..."
July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Acid House
"...of the neighbors' baby boy. For all the supposedly maverick filmmaking going on here -- the wild angles, the..."
Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Boy
"...Tuesday is something quite different, Boy (1969), by Japanese maverick Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses, Merry..."
Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
El Cid
"...of the Roman Empire. Mann was one of the maverick dynamos of the American cinema. Best known as an..."
Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black
Armor of God II: Operation Condor
"...tale of buried Nazi gold and international camaraderie. As maverick government agent Condor, Chan is sent to the Sahara..."
July 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Discrète, La
"...mousy, shy secretary who at first finds this speechmaking maverick a bit of a lout, and then succumbs to..."
April 23, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Project A -- Part II
"...in the West. As Dragon Ma, Chan is a maverick coast guard officer in turn-of-the-century Hong Kong, a time..."
April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
A Brief History of Time
"...support his wife and family. The pairing of this maverick of science with this iconoclast of filmmaking seemed like..."
Oct. 30, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Split Second
"...between a couple of higher-ups discussing Officer Stone's dangerously maverick tendencies and the fact that his last partner was..."
May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Point Austin: More Mavericks
You need a Texas scorecard to sort out the pretenders from the real thing
"...Everybody wants to be a maverick...."
Sept. 12, 2008 News Column by Michael King
The Hightower Report
The Myth of Georgian Democracy; and McCain, the Anti-Maverick
"...America financially and militarily on false pretenses. McCain, the Anti-Maverick..."
Oct. 17, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower
Film News
'Film News' explains what the new film incentives bill means; plus news from Rick Linklater, Andrew Bujalski, and Owen Egerton
"...a big-screen version of television's The Jetsons. Linklater Goes Maverick..."
