Eating Animals

Natalie Portman narrated documentary about the ethics of farming versus factory farming.

"...cashew milk cabana to talk to people in the real world...."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Jessi Cape

First Look: Ready Player One Experience at SXSW

Step into the Oasis from the new Steven Spielberg film

"...This weekend, the world of Ready Player One has taken over and transformed..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Post by Moisés Chiullán

The Exception

WW II melodrama lacks a charismatic lead

"...one to walk, this marriage of soapy melodrama and real-world events, and with Courtney leading the parade, it’s destined..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Brothers Grimsby

Sacha Baron Cohen's spy comedy goes awry

"...tragicomic equal in – who’d’a thunk it? – the real world. A decade ago, his culturally tone-deaf but ever-curious..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Yakuza Apocalypse

Japan’s nuttiest filmmaker Takashi Miike strikes again

"...his basement, curiously knitting their days away – no, really, they’re fucking knitting! – even as they’re being used..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

As Above/So Below

There are things in the catacombs beneath Paris that should remain underground.

"...The real-world catacombs beneath the streets of Paris are an irresistible..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The LEGO Movie

Let's face it: We're putty in these things' hands.

"...with depth and feeling when it segues into the real world of rigid fathers and their imaginative sons. It..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

Gertrude Berg, the woman behind the radio and TV icon Molly Goldberg, is profiled in this documentary.

"...ear for homespun yuks struck a major chord with real-world families everywhere. The message was plain: to Jews and..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cheri

Another dangerous liaison, this one based on the Colette novella, reunites director Stephen Frears and star Michelle Pfeiffer.

"...and her “big blue wandering eyes,” but one can’t really imagine anything wandering about Michelle Pfeiffer. (Big blue, for..."

June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lady in the Water

The performances are bang-on, and there are moments of great beauty throughout, but Lady in the Water ultimately capsizes under the weight of its own goofy story.

"...vision, which commingles elements of fantasy, horror, and the real world (itself increasingly fantastical and horrific) to craft a..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It's All Gone Pete Tong

A superstar DJ goes deaf in Ibeza in this mockumentary that observes his process of coping.

"...globe-hopping party lifestyle that surrounds it. Laced throughout with real-world DJ personalities – Carl Cox, Paul Van Dyk, Tiësto..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Perfect Score

The movie that gives new meaning to the phrase, "taking the SATs": felonious breaking and entering.

"...Mark Schwahn, Jon Zack, and Marc Hyman, touches on real-world concerns about the SATs – they’re biased in favor..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rollerball

"...of Communism breeds not democracy, but organized chaos, a real-world parallel about which McTiernan fails utterly to elaborate. Teen..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Men With Guns

"...With Guns is different, in its use of magical realism, repeated flashbacks, and the fact that it's almost entirely..."

April 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Santa Clause

When Santa falls off his roof, a man forgets to read the fine print before signing on as his substitute.

"...of time we're allowed there. But, even in the “real” world of The Santa Clause, the jokes are mostly..."

Nov. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

"...this “The best sequel since The Godfather.” In the real world, however, City Slickers II is “the best sequel..."

June 17, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Cowboy Way

"...(Hudson) befriends the duo with actions that in the real world would likely get him thrown off the force...."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hudsucker Proxy

This Coen brothers film is a goofy ode to genres and eras gone by. Although it's a little less “weird” than much of their work, it still retains a mannered and quirky air with performances that walk a line between realism and understated surreality.

"...The performances, also, walk a line between a goofy realism and an understated surreality. Set on the cusp of..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

"...maturity and acknowledging his pain, Walter finally entering the real world. But, of course, the road is rocky. 21-year-old..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Man Without a Face

"...It all builds to a climax that, in the real world, would have been completely avoidable, followed by a..."

Aug. 27, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Okoge

"...gravitate toward gay men. Eventually the demands of the “real” world impinge on the threesome's idyll. Goh comes out..."

July 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paul Hanley's War: Get Some!

Austin filmmaker Paul Hanley's "Viva the Nam" arrives on Youtube.

"...a bombastically badass year for armed conflict in the real world, which, granted, is indeed hellish, but it's also..."

March 31, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Luv Doc: Italian Boyfriends and Perky, Bleach-Blonde Updos

In the real world of the 99-percenter, however, moral questions are rarely black-and-white

"...is getting married next fall to a guy I really hate. She wants me to be the maid of..."

May 11, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

See Jane Game

Keynote speaker Jane McGonigal wants to change the world

"...what she is today – a respected and sought-after alternate-reality-game designer and researcher. McGonigal has had a hand in..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Shock and Awesomeness

Stephen Romano puts the movies in his mind down on paper in his fake-history coffeetable book, Shock Festival

"...up screaming, out of the reel and into the real...."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Free Zone

Israeli film presents the region's conflict in terms of the world's most annoying, dysfunctional-family road trip, which renders the proceedings almost as exhausting as the real thing.

"...as frustrating (and very nearly as protracted) as its real-world counterpart, the maelstrom of chaos churning at the heart..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Thirteenth Floor

"...and now The Thirteenth Floor, filmgoers' collective sense of reality has been taking a real pummeling of late. That..."

May 28, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Open Water

Is it wrong to root for the sharks?

"...fears. Add to that a bunch of sharks – real ones in this case, as budget-conscious Kentis and Lau..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...the cult horror-comedy series, whose next feature gets its world premiere as the opening night film for Fantastic Fest..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Barbie

The doll that changed the world faces the world she changed in this fizzy meta-comedy

"...partner Noah Baumbach, establishes the parameters of this bubblegum-pink world in a zippy montage. Barbie Land is a matriarchal..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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