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Oct. 9, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff
McQueen
The triumphs and tragedies of the late bad boy of British fashion
"...Returned to throughout to mark chapter breaks, the skull motif serves another purpose: of previewing McQueen’s design aesthetic via..."
Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
The pope, in his own words, through the lens of Wim Wenders
"...than taking a straight biographical approach, the film’s dominant motif is that of the pope speaking directly to the..."
May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Your Name
This body-swapping anime is a stunner
"...Using sliding doors as a recurring motif to signify its frequent shifts in time (in homage,..."
April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis
ABCs of Death 2
Let us count the ways this compilation of 26 short films gets its spook on.
"...tongue-in-cheek tone is bookended by a fittingly violent storybook motif, and whenever the film does hit a speed bump..."
Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss
The Devil's Double
Saddam Hussein's decadent and monstrous eldest son Uday forced Latif Yahia to serve as his body double, and this movie recounts his experience.
"...Were Warriors, Die Another Day), violence is a recurrent motif, but here he is unable to wrangle the details..."
Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Baghead
Kind of funny and kind of scary, the lo-fi Baghead is not so much a horror movie as a four-character study of relationships and the drive to find meaningful work.
"...of funny and kind of scary, Baghead's central horror motif is merely a structure on which to hang its..."
June 13, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Cocaine Cowboys
Documentary shows how Miami was once a sleepy seaside hamlet with a permeable border and largely unprotected coastline before the cocaine economy took over.
"...impression. Less effective is the film’s antic Miami Vice motif, which, for better or worse, extends to dramatic re-creations..."
Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Thumbsucker
The plot realistically mimics a teenager’s adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.
"...thinly traced from their literary origins. A recurring fantasy motif never pans out, and the score, by Tim DeLaughter’s..."
Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
In My Country
Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche star in this John Boorman political drama about the work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
"...of healing together), and it’s an interesting and well-acted motif for personal struggle and acceptance. The trouble is that..."
April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Eye
"...new spin on the old Hands of Orlac horror motif: transplanted body parts causing havoc for their innocent recipients...."
June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
"...that effectively uses the game metaphor as a central motif. Lagaan depicts the eternal drama of the citizens' fight..."
May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Remember the Titans
"...Sixties racial division cloaked within a high school football motif. For a more honest look at the sport of..."
Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Dress
"...entirely comfortable place for me. A bright and jaunty leaf-motif dress, designed in fury and fashioned from a swath..."
Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona
Judgment Night
"...as Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers (minus that film's gang motif, natch) hoping that no one will notice. It's hard..."
Oct. 22, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Last of the Mohicans
"...stealthily running through the forest is the film's recurring motif.) His occasionally flippant remarks are the film's only tie..."
Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Cold Heaven
"...to mix bargain basement theology with his usual mystery-suspense motif and in the end it all falls apart. Shire..."
July 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Slacker
Slacker's perception of our city's subcultures shows them not to be so marginal after all.
"...bohemia in its twilight phase. Linklater inverts the basic motif behind almost every Hollywood narrative -- ordinary people in..."
July 5, 1991 Movie Review by Chris Walters
"Far Out"
This show's works inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope tell stories, with the device's hexagonal golden mirrors a recurring visual motif
"...all of which use the golden hexagons as a motif...."
July 21, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos
Postscripts
"...meant to be celebrated, not mourned, as the gravestone motif above might lead you to believe. On Saturday, May..."
May 8, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Michelle Yeoh gets multiversal in this incredible comedy
"...those on the googly eyes that become an omnipresent motif...."
March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Red Rocket
Simon Rex gets under the skin of this year’s most fascinating scumbag
"...or abrupt cut to the soundtrack – the recurring motif of ’N Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye” is particularly memorable..."
Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur
Drive My Car
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s second masterpiece in a year finds the pain of love
"...Hamaguchi’s use of the mirror builds a strong visual motif – Yûsuke witnesses his wife’s adultery through a mirror,..."
Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
After 70 years of being someone else, the screen legend gets to be herself
"...chameleon, a trait the film embodies with an animated motif of her as a paper doll, continually changing outfits..."
June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Cunningham
Remarkable record of the middle years of the choreographer who rejected labels
"...repeatedly eschewed the idea that he was avant-garde: a motif threaded in via at least three separate interviews throughout..."
Jan. 3, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Nothing Stays the Same: The Story of the Saxon Pub
How a South Austin listening room survived, and what we can learn about preserving culture
"...Nothing Stays the Same strikes a similar motif to another SXSW biography of an iconic Austin venue,..."
May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Vice
Unsubtle Dick Cheney bio-pic is the political bludgeon we deserve
"...produced). Other tactics are more crude – a teacup motif, a fishing metaphor that stretches to the sound edit,..."
Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Julieta
Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life
"...of candy-colored hues. Here, the recurring (almost relentless) red-and-blue motif in the film’s design demonstrates a more tempered use..."
Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Cliona Gunter, Vulnerable Maker
This artist opens her home for the West Austin Studio Tour, but more to the point, she opens herself
"...at a series of paintings of crowns, a repeated motif that includes sculptures made from found objects and countless..."
May 20, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos
Tomorrowland
Seeming more like a calculation than a flight of fancy, this adventure tale has both hits and misses
"...and encourage optimism. The dichotomy is the film’s essential motif. The world is going to hell in a handbasket,..."
