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Destiny Turns On the Radio
"...only because Tracey Walter is in both films). It's the kind of film critics like to call “quirky,” and..."

May 5, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Night We Never Met
"...Directed by: Warren Leight. Starring: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Justine..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Brahms: The Boy II
The well-dressed, porcelain, miniature killer is back. Um … how?
"...Quoth the other, more bewhiskered and musically inclined Brahms, “The only..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lucy in the Sky
Natalie Portman's astronaut crashes to Earth
"...a straight-shot trajectory to an Orlando airport to confront the third point of a love triangle, never wore an..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Old Man & the Gun
Robert Redford has rarely shone more than in this true-crime tale
"...Like the twinkly septuagenarian bank robber in the title, The Old..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

We the Animals
Growing up dysfunctional in this literary adaptation
"...We the Animals isn’t the sort of film that much concerns..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Miseducation of Cameron Post
YA novel adaptation gently lampoons "pray the gay away" thinking
"...Let’s be clear: Gay conversion therapy will not – and cannot – change the true-north..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Equalizer 2
Denzel Washington action sequel is a total misfire
"...It’s not hard to figure out the formula director Antoine Fuqua was angling for with his..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Lu Over the Wall
Japanese mermaid tale with a big heart and a groovy beat.
"...Whether it's Texas or Japan, the story of being stuck..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Midwife
Two screen legends deliver in a mildly sappy drama
"...Directed by: Martin Provost. Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot,..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Only Living Boy in New York
A New York love triangle state of mind
"...The too-too-precious title flashes like a cautionary traffic sign. Warning:..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Keeping Up With the Joneses
Silly cul-de-sac action comedy is a knockoff Mr. and Mrs. Smith
"...Life in the 'burbs gets another humdrum shake-up in the cul-de-sac action..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Wild Life
An animated spin on Robinson Crusoe
"...Belgian animated film is one strange bird. (No disrespect intended to its principal character, an adventure-seeking parrot nicknamed Tuesday..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Astraea Sees the Future
Director Kristjan Thor brings snowy apocalypse to Austin
"..."Two years ago, it felt like every other movie was a zombie apocalypse movie." That was the..."

July 20, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Boy
Horrors: A nanny finds that her new charge is a life-sized doll
"...Another day, another evil doll, another nanny in trouble. It’s..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
Did anyone really ask for a third helping of this stomach-turning provocation?
"...2009. You may recall (or more likely you’ve spent the intervening years desperately attempting to scour the memory from..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Song of the Sea
From the director of The Secret of Kells comes this lovely work of animation about the Celtic selkies.
"...The ethereal Irish animated fantasy Song of the Sea looks..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Point Austin: Farewell to the Seven
The end of an era, and the beginning of another
"...The official 175th anniversary of the city's founding is not..."

Dec. 12, 2014 News Column by Michael King

The Last of Robin Hood
Kevin Kline is Errol Flynn in this confused story of his late-life affair with 15-year-old Beverly Aadland.
"...To ambitiously approach this inherently tabloid tale of the end-of-life romantic fling Errol Flynn (Kline) had with Beverly..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Fluffy Movie
Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias performs in this comedy concert film.
"...Directed by: Manny Rodriguez and Jay Lavender...."

Aug. 1, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

We Are the Best!
Lukas Moodysson gives us a captivating portrait of 13-year-old proto-punk girls in 1982 Sweden.
"...like to be a 13-year-old girl, something We Are the Best! off-handedly acknowledges at its start – an overlapping..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Christmas Candle
This inspirational film is as picturesque and beautiful as a holiday card but equally two-dimensional.
"...Directed by: John Stephenson. Starring: Hans Matheson, Samantha Barks, Lesley Manville, John Hannah, Susan Boyle, Sylvester..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Marvel's The Avengers
Excelsior! This Marvel adventure knocks it out of the universe.
"...This is it, oh true believers: the moment monumental Marvel Comics morphs – for real, for..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
The most expensive film ever produced in Taiwan to date, Warriors of the Rainbow is a sweeping historical epic.
"..."Based on a history of Taiwan's aboriginal people," as the opening titles put it, this is a sweeping historical..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Rum Diary
Johnny Depp stars in this adaptation of one of Hunter S. Thompson's earliest novels, which is set in Puerto Rico in 1960 and soaked in booze
"...Adapted from the lost then found first novel by Hunter S. Thompson,..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tree
Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in this uneven and overly metaphorical Australian drama that is nevertheless strange and moving.
"...As the young widow Dawn O’Neil, Charlotte Gainsbourg grieves like crazy..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Help
Based on a bestseller, this Southern civil-rights era story about white women and their black maids is saved by the film's deeply moving cast.
"...A major complaint brought against Kathryn Stockett's 2009 bestseller The Help was that a white woman didn't have any..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Beaver
Jodie Foster directs Mel Gibson in this odd family drama.
"...and Cherry Jones. A challenging movie under any circumstances, The Beaver arrives in theatres carrying an unfair amount of..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Spy Next Door
Jackie Chan plays an undercover CIA agent who turns out to be a disastrous babysitter for his girlfriend's three kids.
"...Will Shadley, Magnús Scheving, Alina Foley and Lucas Till. There was a time when the arrival of a new..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The September Issue
This intriguing documentary observes Anna Wintour and her staff at Vogue put together the magazine's September 2007 issue, its biggest issue ever.
"...Directed by: R.J. Cutler. Like a time capsule from another era of journalism, The September Issue chronicles a distant..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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