To Leslie

Andrea Riseborough's Oscar-nominated turn as a West Texas woman who wastes a windfall

"...Not reviewed at press time. Catch Andrea Riseborough's underdog Oscar nominee performance as a West Texas woman who wastes..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review

Now Streaming in Austin: It's Such a Beautiful Day

Don Hertzfeldt offers his incredible animated feature for free

"...way of helping. Add the (in his words) two-time Oscar-losing Don Hertzfeldt to that list...."

April 6, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Parasite Black and White

A new way to see one of our favorite social satires – in monochrome

"...layered in grays. Read our four-star review of the Oscar-winning classic here...."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Decade in Austin Films

The city’s cinema, from indie visions to Oscar winners and international blockbusters

"...Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke, and that as an Oscar-nominated filmmaker with his own production company he had the..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Dark Waters

Todd Haynes' courtroom drama is a true-life environmental horror

"...As Ruffalo half-cries in what should be his inevitable Oscar nomination clip, the system won't protect us. We protect..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hustlers

True crime drama gets an A-list female empowerment sheen

"...that Wu and Lopez share onscreen. Your Jennifer Lopez Oscar campaign can now begin...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt's metaphorical novel gets an award-season adaptation

"...it’s all about!” scene that is the tradition of Oscar bait since time immemorial. Which is unfortunate, because, while..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Long Shot

Timely political rom-com finds new common ground for opposites attracting each other

"...camera before. Maybe it’s Theron’s confidence that’s catching. An Oscar winner with a mid-career move into action badassedness (Mad..."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sunset

Period drama keeps the techniques of Oscar winner Son of Saul but loses the emotional weight

"...Nazi concentration camp. It was awarded the Academy’s 2016 Oscar for Best Foreign Language feature, a rare distinction for..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Us

Jordan Peele has met the enemy, and they is Us

"...allegory, it’s a reasonable comparison. After he provided an Oscar-worthy analysis of race relations in Get Out, now America’s..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

If Beale Street Could Talk

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins adapts Baldwin's tale of love and racism

"...For his follow-up to the Oscar-winning Moonlight, Jenkins has adapted James Baldwin's searing 1974 indictment..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Roma

Alfonso Cuarón bleakly romanticizes his childhood maid

"...up sending Sandra Bullock floating in space for the Oscar-winning Gravity. That’s just a sampling of his CV, but..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Green Book

Jim Crow road trip may be simplistic, but it's heartfelt

"...and Tony bicker like a persnickety Felix and earthy Oscar...."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Happy Prince

Tragic Oscar Wilde biopic flies sporadically

"...The final three years of Oscar Wilde’s life, which are dramatized in The Happy Prince,..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hate U Give

Astounding adaptation of YA novel critiques race in modern America

"...Stenberg gives an Oscar-worthy performance as Starr Carter, a high schooler who witnesses..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

America's favorite neighbor, Fred Rogers, revealed as even kinder than you hoped

"...childhood nickname, “Fat Freddy.”) Instead, documentarian Morgan Neville, an Oscar winner for 2014’s lively 20 Feet From Stardom and..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Fantastic Woman

Emancipation in grief in this Chilean Oscar-nominated film.

"...in the titular role of Marina Vidal haunts the Oscar-nominated Chilean film A Fantastic Woman like a ghost inhabiting..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Insult

Lebanon's internecine crises as courtroom drama

"...Lebanon’s official submission for the 2017 Best Foreign Language Oscar, has advanced to the final qualifying round of five,..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Annette Bening soars in the last days of starlet Gloria Grahame

"...higher and breathier to play Gloria Grahame, the one-time Oscar winner (for 1952’s The Bad and the Beautiful) whose..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Marjorie Prime

"...be a bit surprised if this version gets an Oscar nod come 2018. Lois Smith, whose remarkable onscreen career..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tulip Fever

Intrigue blossoms in 17th century Amsterdam

"...Boleyn Girl) and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (who won the Oscar for Shakespeare in Love) can’t find a pulse, let..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Al Gore reminds us (once again) that climate change is real

"...for our dire times. In this sequel to the Oscar-winning 2006 documentary, a noticeably aged but thoroughly unbowed Gore..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chuck

The rise and fall of the real-life Rocky

"...nobody named Sylvester Stallone wrote and starred in the Oscar-winning film Rocky, in which a small-time palooka goes up..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Risk

Doc follows WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

"...is back with her follow-up feature to her 2014 Oscar winner Citizenfour, in which she filmed NSA whistleblower Edward..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Nighter

A father searches for his daughter with the help of her ex-boyfriend

"...who isn’t? – but even with the gruff, chiseled Oscar-winner on board as a mysterious man of action, this..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Land of Mine

A viscerally intense anti-war film

"...Germany’s more battle-hardened soldiers were long depleted. In this Oscar-nominated Danish production, these young Germans, 12 of them, have..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Toni Erdmann

An honest and bizarre take on the parent/child relationship

"...One of 2017’s Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, this pleasantly rambling..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nine Lives

Kevin Spacey gets trapped inside the body of his family's cat

"...transposed tycoon Tom (yes, that’s his name) Brand, two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey spends most of the time lying..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Phantom Boy

Hand-drawn animation is the hallmark of this animated French film

"...not entirely as whimsical or visually splendid as the Oscar-nominated directors’ previous film, A Cat in Paris, this animated..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zero Days

Chilling cyber warfare doc explores the Stuxnet virus

"...and with good reason. The meticulous documentarian behind the Oscar-winning, Bush/Cheney “extraordinary rendition” exposé Taxi to the Dark Side..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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