The Best-Case Scenario

After years of work, Envision Central Texas goes majorly public.

"...get public feedback on its four alternative long-term growth scenarios, all premised on Central Texas doubling its population to..."

Oct. 24, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The real Parnassus of this story is director Terry Gilliam, who salvaged his movie despite the sudden death of his star, Heath Ledger, midway through shooting.

"...star, Ledger, died abruptly midway through filming. Concocting a scenario that almost works seamlessly, three actors – Depp, Farrell,..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happy Death Day 2U

Comedy-horror sequel is less Halloween, more Groundhog Day

"...close the time loop that created the Groundhog Day scenario in the first film. She does not choose to..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Johnny 100 Pesos

"...real-life material but delivers an uneven and occasionally lackluster scenario. Based on a fumbled bank robbery in Santiago, Chile..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Fall of the American Empire

Oscar winner Denys Arcand mixes crime, political commentary

"...with a philosophy degree who, in the classic right-place-right-time scenario, finds a cache of millions recently stolen from a..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Insult

Lebanon's internecine crises as courtroom drama

"...its story. Director Ziad Doueiri has shaped an instructive scenario in which a petty, street-level argument escalates into insults..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life

Astronauts discover that a wall won't keep out a new alien life form

"...and Paul Wernick immediately plops you into its derivative scenario without any narrative foreplay: An international space station orbiting..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Inferno

Hanks tours the museums of Europe trying to save the world

"...Langdon finds himself at the center of a ticking-clock scenario, with only his keen intellect and a plucky gal..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kevin Hart: What Now?

Comic plays to record crowd in Philadelphia

"...which Hart appears as Agent 0054 in a Bond-like scenario that features Halle Berry as the Bond Girl sidekick,..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Good Day, Ramón

This Mexican hit tells a heartwarming story about a teen who's forced to rely on the kindness of strangers when he travels to Germany to find work.

"...having it actually work out sounds like an apt scenario for a feel-good movie. The film loses its focus..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Snowpiercer

This English-language debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is a riveting sci-fi action film entirely set on a speeding train.

"...breath-catching beauty, Snowpiercer plays what-if with a familiar doomsday scenario: What if Noah’s ark never found dry land again?..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

It's a Disaster

This dark comedy by UT grad Todd Berger is built around a likable ensemble.

"...to a banter-heavy picture largely untroubled by its doomsday scenario – the possibility of imminent death is but the..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Croods

Animated cave dwellers are stealth charmers.

"...the Earth fracturing around them in a continental-drift doomsday scenario, the whole clan is forced to leave the cave’s..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The A-Team

It's the latest old TV show to be remade as a contemporary feature film and fares just about as well as the rest.

"...B, or rather, from one wildly ludicrous and artillery-charged scenario to the next. Still, Carnahan, with co-writers Brian Bloom..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Valentine's Day

Aggressively unfunny and unromantic, Valentine’s Day’s chief concern appears to have been the corralling of its cast of a thousand stars.

"...Katherine Fugate (The Prince & Me) invents one unenlightened scenario after another, then crisscrosses them in ways that are..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Happening

In M. Night Shyamalan's mystery spooker, logic-defying episodes of death and destruction suddenly erupt across America.

"...the director's downward spiral. The film's apocalyptic, Mother Nature-in-revolt scenario feels like something Al Gore might've cooked up during..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Graduation

This high school bank-heist caper flunks out.

"...made by first-time feature director Mayer further cloud the scenario. Often the viewer is left grasping for a nonexistent..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Signal

The Signal is an audacious horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy.

"...the day. The Signal envisions a remarkably effective breakdown-of-society scenario on an obviously low budget and does it in..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Imagine Me & You

A traditional romantic comedy with a lesbian twist, Imagine Me and You has its charms, but for a movie about loving radically, it sure plays it safe.

"...Imrie, Sue Johnston and Darren Boyd. British Ensemble Romantic-Comedy Scenario No. 3: Broody bride sees attractive stranger at the..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Rumor Has It ...

Fans of The Graduate should skip this strange comedy, which posits that the real-life inspiration for counterculture icon Benjamin Braddock grew up to be a cheesy, brainless high tech zillionaire doing yoga and driving a Mercedes around Half Moon Bay.

"...with a special rating. It’s a bizarre and uncomfortable scenario, but Reiner plays it like straight fluffy farce, which..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Doom

Doom is not so much a film as a marketing tie-in, albeit one with some exceptional production values.

"...film. It’s a generally accurate representation of the gaming scenario, and a chief component of the film’s final reel..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flight of the Phoenix

Sticking closely to the tone of its predecessor, this remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film lacks the tang of the original, and trades the late-vintage Jimmy Stewart for the shirtless Dennis Quaid.

"...– Survivor in the Gobi, maybe, or Worst Case Scenario goes Mongol. That has as much to do with..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jet Lag

"...beneath these old pros, but they make its meet-cute scenario work, mostly – and most especially when crusty, grumpy,..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Notorious C.H.O.

"...fairly predictable, such as the inevitable “if men menstruated” scenario, but Cho's strength as a comic is her delivery...."

Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Time Out (L'emploi Du Temps)

"...children. But director and co-scripter Cantet turns this tabloid-fodder scenario into a modulated, keenly insightful psychodrama with an absolute..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

La Ciénaga

Martel's debut film is a family portrait of people falling down the class ladder.

"...of cousins mothered by practical, disdainful Tali (Moran). This scenario doesn't engender much in the way of traditional dramatics;..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Monkey's Mask

"...the facets of the movie's bad poetry and obvious scenario. The story's forward motion detours occasionally for scenes of..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Road to El Dorado

"...help of the local conwoman Chel (Perez). It's a scenario you can easily picture being played by Hope and..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sliding Doors

"...her PR job, and on her way home, dual scenarios are played out. In the first, Helen bumps into..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

She is a Man, He is a Woman

"...that leads to plenty of wacky high-jinks. If this scenario sounds less than awe-inspiring, credit the actors for pulling..."

Dec. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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