Nerve

An online game of "Truth or Dare" turns dangerous

"...But for the PG-13 crowd hardwired to the internet, Nerve will jangle with a resonating and perhaps unpleasant truth...."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Optic Nerve #12

Floppy is as floppy does

"...Oy, girl, what a world. The rest of Optic Nerve #12 is taken up with a letters column, wherein..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Having the Nerve to Speak Up

"...an exposé in Best in Texas for having the nerve to speak up...."

Aug. 14, 2008 Postmarks

When Did America Lose Its Nerve?

"...don't back apartheid anymore. When did America lose its nerve? Winnable nuclear war was possible when Dutch was at..."

June 14, 2004 Postmarks

Creativity! Uniqueness! Nerve! and Talent!

RuPaul's Drag Race episode 2 recap and comments.

Feb. 10, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

The White Crow

Biopic of the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev rarely finds its feet

"...favor of a more conventional tick-tock structure for the nerve-jangling showdown in Paris-Le Bourget Airport...."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dream With the Fishes

"...Freeman and Allyce Beasley. It takes a lot of nerve to die, to leap from the bridge and commit..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ACL Interview: The Chicks’ Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer Talk Social Media, Hometown Feelings, and Plans for a Multigenerational Zilker Debut

“It’s always fun, but nerve-racking, to be back in Texas”

"...teachers coming to see us, so it’s a little nerve-racking, playing for people that normally don’t see what you..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Downhill

Tepid Hollywood remake of marriage dramedy Force Majeure never leaves the training slope

"...breed contempt, but it sure can work a spousal nerve from time to time. In this lesser remake of..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tully

Modern motherhood unraveled and rebuilt by the Young Adult team.

"...embraces every inch of Marlo – her love, her stretched-nerve desperation. Underneath her interactions with the charming, nurturing, wise-beyond-her-years..."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

Compassion, grace, and humor distinguish the Oscar hopefuls

"...terrorists near the Kenyan/Somali border. In the even more nerve-racking "DeKalb Elementary," inspired by an actual 911 call, a..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Land of Mine

A viscerally intense anti-war film

"...moments of humanity throughout what is easily the most nerve-racking, intense film of the year thus far. Audiences will..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Transpecos

Border-patrol officers get in way over their heads

"...easy questions, and the subsequent fallout is intense and nerve-racking in all the best ways. All three leads bring..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Eye in the Sky

Helen Mirren is a British colonel engaged in modern drone warfare

"...their final jihad proclamations. Eye in the Sky maintains nerve-racking suspense throughout its running time and explicates some of..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Roar

Drafthouse Films reissues this truly trippy oddity from 1981

"...a trippy episode of Wild Kingdom gone wrong, a nerve-racking experience fraught with the possibility of a casual mauling..."

April 17, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Gambler

Mark Wahlberg has one of his juiciest roles ever as a creative-writing professor by day and a compulsive gambler by night.

"...but the game remains – mostly – the same: nerve-wracking, perverse, and sinfully exhilarating. (The original film’s producers Robert..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Guest

With their follow-up to You're Next, filmmakers Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett prove the new kings of indie horror movies.

"...are uniformly excellent across the board, a nervy and nerve-wracking sense of suspense, and the whole idea of Halloween..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Her

In the near future, Theodore upgrades his operating system and subsequently falls in love; Spike Jonze conceives the romance, Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlet Johansson sell it.

"...required to achieve it. With Her, he hits a nerve – an age-old one, in fact, dressed up in..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Last Stand

Arnold Schwarzenegger plunges back into acting in this full-bore action vehicle helmed by the South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon.

"...years. Despite his acknowledged age, creaking bones, and reduced nerve, Schwarzenegger still delivers quite a performance in this fun,..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Rubber

Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.

"...to Magnolia Pictures’ subdivision, Magnet Releasing, for having the nerve to acquire and release Rubber in the first place...."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The House of the Devil

This retro horror film is the freakiest and most unnerving shocker in theatres this season.

"...(and blood red). West's new film is a welcome, nerve-rattling anomaly in a year – okay, decade – in..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Drag Me to Hell

Sam Raimi makes a triumphant return to the "splatstick" horror genre he more or less invented with The Evil Dead and its two sequels.

"...skills to a razor's edge in the creation of nerve-racking suspense and jarring shocks. This film is, quite simply,..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Timecrimes

Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo's first feature film is a tremendously entertaining bit of Kafka that whirlpools down into The Twilight Zone – and one helluva blast to watch.

"...to see why: Vigalondo's triple command of surreal compositions, nerve-raping suspense, and the ability to draw out scarily emotional..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Four Letter Word

This tale of an unapologetically promiscuous New Yorker settles for the easy trifles of romantic comedy.

"...it and gives it life. Unfortunately, they lose their nerve halfway through and stop short of any real psychological..."

May 23, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Cloverfield

Cloverfield is a pure-blood, grade A, exultantly exhilarating monster movie in the grand tradition.

"...of one character's digital video camera, complete with rough, nerve-jangling, in-camera edits and an "official" Department of Defense Eyes..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Snow

A moody thriller that tries to thumb its nose at fatalism, First Snow features another great performance from Guy Pearce.

"...performance by Pearce, whose slick salesman Jimmy has the nerve to challenge his fate. While waiting for his car..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harsh Times

A gritty drama about a disappointed military vet and his best pal, who are headed in a downward spiral in South Central Los Angeles.

"...its viewers’ throats. Bale plays Jim as a raw nerve, cursing and glaring and flexing his muscles to prove..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Wah-Wah

The death throes of an empire are are practically nothing when compared with the twitch of the marital death nerve in Richard E. Grant's semiautobiographical directorial debut.

"...rainbow compared with the twitch of the marital death nerve in Richard E. Grant's semiautobiographical directorial debut. Grant, the..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three ... Extremes

This lush and horrific anthology film from three of the finest craftsmen working today – Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, and Takashi Miike – is an instantly memorable and squirm-inducing assemblage.

"...far the strongest of the three films, "Dumplings" is nerve-racking from frame one thanks to some stunning cinematography from..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Just Like Heaven

This romantic comedy about a winsome, charming ghost and the man who loves her sidesteps abundant potential clichés through sheer dint of the acting skills on display.

"...of American cities, San Francisco, and then having the nerve to make one of them truly, madly, deeply dead...."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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