Snatched

A mother/daughter vacation from hell

"...trudging through the jungles of South America, covered in muck from head to toe as they flee would-be kidnappers..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Septic Man

This Canadian horror film wades through a cesspool of human waste and challenges our gag reflexes.

"...in an Ontario township becomes entrapped in the noxious muck of an old septic tank littered with infected corpses..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nymphomaniac: Volume 1

Lars von Trier's latest provocation is more meditation than outright flagellation.

"...his benighted characters, von Trier may revel in the muck, but Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 is anything but a dirty..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wuthering Heights

Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) wrests Wuthering Heights from the heaving bosom of Romantics majors and gives it a good shake – even if she doesn't know when to stop.

"...With inspired casting and accentuation of so much muck and yuck, Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) means to wrest..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Alice in Wonderland

Sadly, the mirth-to-muck ratio in Tim Burton's new film is deeply imbalanced.

"...five more clunkers, and tonally, there’s a deeply imbalanced mirth-to-muck ratio. Who would’ve guessed that Burton, a man who’s..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Obtaining a back-alley abortion in Romania proves to be rivetingly tense in this visually spare but assuredly virtuosic film.

"...with no hope of escape or even respite. It’s face-down-in-the-muck filmmaking at its most immediate and unapologetic, stripped of..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

La Buche

"...Relax, pour a cuppa nog, and watch somebody else muck up the holidays for once...."

Dec. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Baise-Moi

"...are surely nothing new, and by sinking to the gutter-muck level of the very things they appear to despise,..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ratcatcher

Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.

"...A nearby canal is a toxic wasteland. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Plunkett & Macleane

"...imbuing this tale of 18th-century highwaymen with enough dandified muck and rainy-day spatter to make Uncle Ridley's friend H.R...."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Acid House

"...characters and their tortured syntax face first through the muck and mire of Scottish low-rent, drug-crazed awfulness. But where..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Thirteenth Warrior

"...pounds of chains and leather mail and gobs of muck and mire. It's all a bit reminiscent of the..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kurt and Courtney

"...slung across his shoulders, gamely dives head-first into the muck and rakes for all he's worth. What he finds..."

April 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mod Explosion

"...who can't get together because of all the social muck that's in their way. Intentionally bad in terms of..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

London

"...of IRA shell craters, shattered husks of council flats, muck and sewage floating inches thick atop the Thames, telephone..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Warlock: The Armageddon

"...chair with yet another exercise in how to make muck of a horror film. Reborn in modern New York..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cyndi Williams

The Austin playwright unearths the inspiration for her spooky new play

"...was struck by the idea of the life in muck versus the life up on a balcony. I wanted..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Bring Them Down

Violent tragedy about sheep farmers stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott

"...helps keep his character study firmly grounded in the muck of Irish subsistence farming, the kind that has barely..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Monsters

In this startlingly original indie film, a road trip combines with an alien invasion to remind us of our ageless fear of otherness.

"...bombed-out towns and baby monsters nesting in trees to muck up the works. And what magnificent muck: This is..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ten Canoes

Ten Canoes is as much a work of anthropology as it is a narrative, and its true strength lies in its exploration of ancient aboriginal hunting practices, death rituals, and legal traditions.

"...we humans first dragged ourselves out of the primordial muck millions of years ago and that will continue to..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Eyeing the Niche

Local filmmakers head to Sundance with "The Send-Off"

"...shores of Lake Okeechobee, is known to some as "Muck City," for the distinctive softness of the local soil...."

Feb. 5, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

DVDanger: Here Be Monsters

Back in the home-release stack after SXSW

"...knows exactly what it is. By comparison, fourth-wall buster Muck is as self-aware as a rock...."

April 4, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Friday Picks & Sleepers

The blurbing of SXSW

"...Fav is too busy making a sonic mess to muck about with suit jackets and serious shit. While the..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Sisu

Gruesome guffaws in this Nazi-smashing Finnish action-comedy

"...especially bloody-minded to dig that gold out of the muck and mire, then transport it on horseback past retreating..."

April 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Vesper

Enthralling eco-fable rewrites Snow White as a young Galileo

"...Galileo, seeing the patterns that others deny. Under the muck and mire, Vesper is a reminder that both life..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Monstrous

Babadook wannabe falls over its own metaphors

"...flip) definitely has her hands full dealing with the muck monster that’s trying to abduct her son (Barnard). Or..."

May 13, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Long Night

Evil rules in the occult South

"...the occult South, but they're not headed to some muck-encrusted swamp. The NYC duo find themselves in surprisingly salubrious..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Power of the Dog

Benedict Cumberbatch is malevolent and magnetic in this High Plains tragedy

"...shadow in the corner of her eye, the stinking, muck-covered presence she can smell before he enters the room...."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Their Finest

How to make a propaganda film in World War II England

"...along with the production process that attempts to turn muck into magic...."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer Fun: A [Revised] Guide to Floating the River

Lessons learned during a Texas summer staple

"...through the riverbed’s cumulation of beer cans and swamp muck. Flip-flops have nothing on the muck’s suction power or..."

May 21, 2014 Chronolog Post by Adrienne White

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