Nurse Betty

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Your Friends & Neighbors

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Ben Stiller, Jason Patric, Catherine Keener, Nastassja..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

House of Darkness

Neil LaBute takes a smart bite out of the vampire drama

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Gia Crovatin and..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

What Goes Around ...

With 'Some Girl(s)', Neil LaBute circles back from stage to screen

"...heart of Some Girl(s), the new film based on Neil LaBute's 2005 play in which a writer on the..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

'Bash' in Your Head

Although best known for films such as In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, LaBute began as a playwright, and Austin is about to get its first look at one of his plays, the disturbing Bash, courtesy of the dirigo group.

"...If you want easy, you don't want Neil LaBute, a man with the guts and gall to..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Roger Dodger

"...favorable comparisons with that other scribe of male dystopia, Neil LaBute. Further complicating this film's likability quotient is the..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cleopatra's Second Husband

"...Schram and Paul Hipp. Thanks to the likes of Neil LaBute and Todd Solondz, filmgoers commonly associate tastefully twee..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Death at a Funeral

A remake of a 3-year-old British comedy, Death at a Funeral transfers its farce from a predominantly white cast to predominantly black.

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, Zoe..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lakeview Terrace

By-the-book domestic thriller about the consequences of moving into a neighborhood lorded over by a rules-happy sociopath with a gun and a badge.

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington,..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Possession

This dual love story spanning two centuries, taken from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, is handled with typical LaBute pessimism.

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Gywneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Shape of Things

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Gretchen Mol and..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Wicker Man

Notorious director Neil LaBute's well-intentioned but inadvertently silly film starring Nicolas Cage replaces the vague, sinister paganism of the original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire.

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Company of Men

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards and Matt Malloy...."

Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two Actresses, Fat and Thin

Staging Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig' is a heavy proposition

"...of Helen in the Theatre En Bloc production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, opening this weekend at the Off..."

Oct. 2, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Behind the Screens

Hidden Hollywood and other secret histories

"...The Shape of Things: A Playby Neil LaBute..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Mercy Seat

With Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, the dirigo group takes us back to 9 / 11 and shows a couple laying bare their relationship against that day's monstrous tragedy

"...all perhaps save one, the one on which this Neil LaBute play turns: that That Day is for him..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Fat Pig

To present an in-your-face play about weight as your first show requires real intestinal fortitude, so consider the Vestige Group, making its debut with Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig,' a gutsy bunch

"...Neil LaBute is at it again. As has become clear..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Fat Pig

Neil LaBute's play about body-size and social douchebaggery gets a sharp production from Theatre en Bloc

"...In that context, consider the plot of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, onstage now from Theatre en Bloc...."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Bash

In Bash, a collection of monologues by Neil LaBute, the protagonists appear to be considerate, decent people, but in the stories they share they prove themselves capable of committing crimes straight out of Greek tragedy, and the dirigo group production achieves a breezy intimacy with the audience, engaging us so thoroughly that when the darkness falls, we find it hard to abandon them.

"...much in Bash, a grouping of three monologues by Neil LaBute. They all feature protagonists who by all appearances..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Shape of Things

Neil LaBute's 'The Shape of Things,' staged by a chick and a dude productions, destroys the kind of cutesy relationships usually reserved for melodramatic chick flicks

"...not what you'd expect from the filmmaker and playwright Neil LaBute, who has the topic of cruelty cornered the..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Your Friends & Neighbors

"...Your Friends & NeighborsD: Neil LaBute (1998); with Jason Patric, Ben Stiller, Amy Brenneman,..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Screens Review by Mike Emery

Reeling in '98

The Austin Chronicle Top Nine Films of 1998

"...(Saving Private Ryan); Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine) BEST SCREENPLAY Neil LaBute (Your Friends and Neighbors); Atom Egoyan (The Sweet..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Seven in Focus

SXSW '97 Film

"...narrative and emotional economy. There's nothing extraneous about writer-director Neil LaBute's film, even though he modestly explains how he..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Feature

Gigi & Nate

Saccharine story of a man and his assistance monkey

"...Hamm, who is better known for grittier material like Neil LaBute's Full Circle, and one could only wish there..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New in Print

Three recent releases go behind the scenes for Hollywood reads

"...and underloved movies via Q&As with filmmakers/proselytizers, such as Neil LaBute (cheering Blume in Love), Richard Linklater (Some Came..."

July 12, 2013 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Hamilton. Party Girl director Daisy von Scherler Mayer brings Neil LaBute play Some Girl(s) to screen with Adam Brody,..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Down at the Jinn Mill

Austin's dirigo group prepare to premiere the best new play one could wish for

"...1999 galvanized audiences with their bold take on Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and most recently presented their..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Secret Things

Violent French erotica about female empowerment is a turbocharged gender bender that's equal parts soft-core porn and overwrought symbolism.

"...to her younger charge. Sandrine takes to this vaguely Neil LaBute-ian construct like a pro, and before long the..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Body Shots

"...bleak, depressing film, with neither the wicked snap of Neil LaBute (Your Friends & Neighbors) or the humane, self-deprecating..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Slamnation

"...basic quandary. For example, Providence's Taylor Mali is a Neil LaBute character waiting to happen: a WASPishly handsome, unabashedly..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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