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An armored truck robbery of $42 million is an inside job in this action film starring Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jean Reno.

The 2009 Austin Film Festival

Should you believe the viral marketing hype about this techno-era haunted-house movie that's been playing sold-out midnight runs? Or Marc Savlov?

Serious Moonlight, scripted by the late Adrienne Shelly, will open the fest

This documentary about the 2007 Myanmar uprising is an airtight argument for the absolute necessity of a free press.

Stephen Daldry, working from a superior script by David Hare, has crafted a film about guilt, love, and history which stars Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, and newcomer David Kross.

Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie in this Depression-era-set mystery/thriller/proto-feminist drama based on a true incident.

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Until its piffling ending, Frenchman Claude Lelouch delivers a film that's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box.

As far as we know, this Adam Sandler movie is the first Hollywood-made Jewish/Palestinian/immigrant comedy that also doubles as a surprisingly trenchant analysis of the Middle East's perpetual bloodbath.

Stuart Gordon tells his own creepy version of the story about the Fort Worth woman who locked her car in the garage for days with the mangled-but-still-living body of a human victim stuck in her windshield.

The Statesman's getting smaller, but for what?

If Ferris Bueller and Max Fischer of Rushmore joined together and had a child, their spawn would most certainly turn out something like Charlie Bartlett.

The special effects are mostly spectacular in this story of a 12-year-old orphan whose fate is connected to a holy, multiverse war yet to come.

May 11-20

The Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Kneeling Down at Noon is a thoughtful and deeply humane drama that considers the way Islam informs the lives and actions of various characters

Phillip Noyce explores the havoc and repercussions caused by white interlopers toward indigenous peoples in this straightforward account of real-life black South African activist Patrick Chamusso and the white Boer police agent, who hunts him.

The latest trend in environmentally sensitive planning tiptoes into Travis County

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

Chong cuts a hugely sympathetic figure in the story of his legal troubles after Operation Pipe Dreams, an anti-paraphernalia sweep that specifically targeted his bong business.

An astonishing twinning of wild imagination and drop-dead realism, Brothers of the Head is simply the most poignant and exciting mockumentary about (conjoined) sibling rivalry, revelry, and reversal of fortunes ever made.

This taut, wiry exercise in eerie bad vibes, about a writer-cum-radio personality and a disturbing teenage literary sensation, is emotionally dense but never fully takes flight.

Yet another computer-animated film about talking animals offers a fine message for the kids, but little originality.

This animated tale of a carnivorous, haunted house and the band of neighborhood kids who decide to put it out of commission feels maddeningly unfinished.

An ex-con in Los Angeles gets pulled back into the gang wars when he has to rescue his son, who was in his carjacked vehicle.

This sophomore outing from the director of Napoleon Dynamite is full of cheesy goodness, courtesy of Jack Black, but a little goes a long way.

A satanic-possession thriller set in 1817 stars Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek – to little avail.