The Mexican

"...Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, J.k. Simmons, Bob Balaban, Sherman Augustus, Michael Cerveris, Richard Coca and David Krumholtz. Despite..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Players Club

"...person we've met before. Her jump from ringing up Manolo Blahniks to grinding onstage in a funky downtown rut-room..."

April 17, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Washington Square

"...scabrous cynicism lurking beneath the author's elegant prose. Like many of his works (Daisy Miller, The Wings of the..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Postmarks

The Xicanindio Poet

"...In Sacramento, I lived beside a mid-town light rail station for nearly a year...."

April 11, 1997 Column

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Canadian comedy troupe hits the big screen with this movie about the humorous side effects of a new drug.

"...Python and the Holy Grail, this revolves around the performances of the five regular cast members, each taking on..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

"...do it -- but it bogs down in so many formulaic conventions that it ultimately becomes a cliché. To..."

Aug. 28, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

R.I.P. Akwasi Evans, Eastside Writer and Activist

“He spoke his truth”

"...“He was a man of small stature, but he filled a very big..."

April 16, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald‎

Fewer beasts, but a much better story, make this sequel magical

"...Where to Find Them was that it poured so many resources into crafting those fantastic beasts, crafting a compelling..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Yellow Birds

Iraq War veteran's novel gets a sadly uninspiring adaptation

"...boys go to war; one comes back, not a man, just a broken boy. It's the classic modern veteran..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...a riff lifted from Charlie Haden's bassline on Ornette Coleman's "Ramblin'," it only sold 19,000 copies. Today, Dury proclaiming..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The Danish Girl

Biopic about the first person to undergo sexual reassignment surgery

"...In many ways similar to his Oscar-winning turn as Stephen Hawking..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Burnt

Bradley Cooper is a "bad boy" chef; Sienna Miller and others are garnish

"...Keeley, Matthew Rhys, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman and Lexi Benbow-Hart...."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Look of Silence

Getting personal with Indonesia's bloody past in follow-up to The Act of Killing

"...to watch, and yet watch them we must. Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, which chronicles the horrific, day-by-day, death-by-death minutiae of..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Past

Another masterstroke from Asghar Farhadi, The Past begins as a domestic drama and stealthily evolves into a kind of thriller.

"...that title, with its two main characters on opposite sides of a partition. They could still see each other,..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

About Time

Love Actually maestro wants to make you cry with this romantic dramedy.

"...Yes, this is a movie about a man who can travel back in time to do over..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Descendants

George Clooney teams up with Sideways filmmaker Alexander Payne for this funny but tender story that's a little too smug for its own good.

"...what we're shown by director and co-writer Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt) don't always square: The girls seem more..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Whole Love

Reviewing Wilco's new ‘The Whole Love’

"...it become obvious that Jeff Tweedy has been a man in search of a band...."

Sept. 27, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Due Date

Road comedy hits the sweet spot with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis.

"...palate-cleanser reunites Phillips with The Hangover’s Galifianakis, whose comic man-child schtick gets the fullest workout seen so far in..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fish Tank

In this raw and award-winning film, a prickly British teenager hurls herself into scenarios fraught with danger.

"...behind Mia, ever trailing her, catching her from the side as she hurls herself headlong into scenarios fraught with..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gone Gone Gone

The Head Cat himself, Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, talks in his sleep.

"...with Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister wasn’t one of them. The man was simply talking in his sleep...."

May 7, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Marine

WWE wrestling champion John Cena makes his film debut in this action film.

"...Kelly Carlson, Anthony Ray Parker, Abigail Bianca, Jerome Ehlers, Manu Bennett, Drew Powell and Frank Carlopio. With biceps the..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

District B13

Set in the near-future of 2010, this French import is not big on plot exposition, instead focusing on its finely wrought action momentum, which moves ever forward with rushing exhilaration.

"...Leito (Belle), who appears to be the last righteous man in his suburban ghetto District B13, is a constant..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Silent Hill

Eerie but ultimately unengaging film adaptation of Konami's smash series of video games has a pitch-perfect score and unnervingly nightmarish imagery.

"...direction and production design. Now imagine it scored by German proto-industrialists Einstürzende Neubauten and helmed by the late Italian..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Find Me Guilty

Like the criminal justice system it portrays, Find Me Guilty (starring Vin Diesel in the dramatic lead) ultimately works a great deal better than you might expect.

"...early 80s, not only delivering his best film in many years, but also making a film whose thematic consistency..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two Men Went to War

A WWII comedy of errors begins when two British military dentists swap their drills for grenades.

"...and David Ryall. Adapted from Raymond Foxall’s book Amateur Commandos, this sweet, World War II-era comedy of errors and..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jersey Girl

Ben Affleck plays a widower dad in this family dramedy from an uncustomarily sweet Kevin Smith.

"...a longtime Smith collaborator, stars as Ollie Trinke, a Manhattan publicist who must abandon the big city and move..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tupac: Resurrection

More popular dead than alive, the hip-hop Tupac Shakur is remembered in this authorized documentary.

"...issued in his lifetime. The question is why, and many of the answers are presented here in Lazin’s detailed..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...for an opera, even one that deals, as so many operas do, with death. Were it a wooden scaffold,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Bourne Identity

"...Directed by: Doug Liman. Starring: Matt Damon, Franke Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen,..."

June 14, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Climb

"...David Stuart, Kyli Santiago, Clifton Davis, Todd Bridges, Dabney Coleman, Ned Vaughn and Jason George. This well-intentioned drama, produced..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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