Braver Newer World

The Year in Albums

"...than a Bristol, England deejay by the name of Tricky. Starting with his brilliant solo debut, 1995's Maxinquaye, the..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Wolfs

George Clooney and Brad Pitt play rival fixers forced to work together on a tricky job

"...play rival fixers forced to work together on a tricky job in an action comedy from Jon Watts (Spider-Man:..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Movie Review

Deadpool & Wolverine

Marvel mash-up has a blast

"...the MCU. Or, rather, some of them. Multiverses are tricky that way...."

July 26, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

A Québécois teen grapples with the ethical ramifications of bloodsucking

"...the mundanity of suburban vampire life, love, and the tricky concept of consent...."

July 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Book of Clarence

Uneven attempt to both resurrect and spoof the biblical epic

"...part of serious dramas like Ben Hur. It’s a tricky tone to balance, and The Book of Clarence doesn’t..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Eileen

Adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh's thriller captures her mood, not her internality

"...in her novels. This is, of course, always a tricky point when adapting books to the big screen, and..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Central Machine Works Resurrects Kentucky Common Beer With Help From the Smithsonian

Tapping history

"...arsenal, Rynbrandt says the KC is still a devilishly tricky style of beer to execute. Sticking close to what..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Food Feature by Hannah Uebele

What Happens Later

Ryan and Duchovny ponder the road not taken in magical rom-com

"...of the bittersweet What Happens Later that channels the tricky tone of this throwback of a movie with one..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Saw X

Jigsaw returns in a giant flashback event

"...All the Saw signatures are there: a surprisingly tricky timeline, the open-ended narrative, the accelerated judder shots, tortures..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

On Fire

Stock footage saves uninspiring faith-tinged disaster drama from tedium.

"...exercise in stock footage. Fire feels like a particularly tricky digital effect; even the smallest flame casts shadows in..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Dumb Money

The GameStop short squeeze is a meme-splattered discount The Big Short

"...how characters interact with it in film is a tricky thing. In this movie in particular, the internet is..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Satanic Hispanics

Latino horror anthology hangs wild and loose in its pan-American chills

"...Anthology films are tricky. While they are a mainstay of one genre in..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Past Lives

The tragedy of romance lost in years in Celine Song's remarkable debut

"...each of them fits into her life. It’s a tricky dynamic expertly explored through Song’s delicate relaying of events...."

June 9, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Knock at the Cabin

M. Night Shayamalan takes on the end of the world

"...The threat seems clear but soon becomes something more tricky. The group’s leader, Leonard (a never-better Bautista), claims that..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Gluten-Free Without (Much) Misery

Eating in Austin with a wheat allergy

"...way down on the mystery ingredient list could be tricky, because their alcohol comes from fermented sugars derived from..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Violent Night

David Harbour cracks down hard on the "naughty" list in the Christmas slugfest

"...hard-R violence that defines the fight sequences. It’s a tricky line to walk for a Christmas movie – even..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Good House

Sigourney Weaver drags this addiction drama out of comfortable numbness

"...Leaving Las Vegas) and redemptive (everything else). It’s a tricky task for stories of the latter variety to engagingly..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Proposed Development Would Revive Austin Opera House but Faces Neighbor Opposition

200 Academy Drive: Big hit or last call?

"...The problem Wallin and Weiss now face is a tricky variation of the usual NIMBY vs. YIMBY conflicts that..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Swan Song

Mahershala Ali faces himself in a melancholic clone drama

"...It’s a tricky circumstance that the film takes great care to allow..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Belfast

Kenneth Branagh's stunning if messy look back at his childhood in Northern Ireland

"...posed and inauthentic, plainly aimed to crowd-please. That’s the tricky thing about memories, particularly those from when you were..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Card Counter

Oscar Isaac takes the biggest gamble of his life

"...discretion, and the very idea of forgiveness is a tricky subject when considering Tell’s troubling past. It shouldn’t go..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The East

Colonial ambitions implode in this brutal recounting of Dutch folly

"...tropes without ever actually teetering into cliche. That’s an ever-tricky move that Taihuttu aces...."

Aug. 13, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

The titans of literature and their complex bond

"...It’s a notoriously tricky undertaking to attempt to make a film about writers..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Unholy

Messy Catholic horror is weighed down by becoming a creature feature

"...Gerry Fenn (The Walking Dead's Morgan) has a tricky relationship with the truth. Once a rising star in..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Interview: Bradley Grant Smith’s “Male Gaze Gazes on the Male Gaze” in Our Father

Dick Wolf, Chicago, and the politics of writing female leads

"...BGS: It's a tricky thing to talk about because I don't want to..."

March 26, 2021 Screens Post by Selome Hailu

Saint Maud

Agony and ecstasy intertwined in this horror as Catholic angst turns self-destruction

"...It takes a standout performance to balance so many tricky narrative and thematic elements, and Morfydd Clark is here..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

One Hour Outcall

Emotional, rather than physical, consent is tragically probed in this sex work drama

"...Relationships can be tricky, and Greg and Esmerelda have been through it all..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Yes, God, Yes

Catholic sexual awakening gets a charming, honest new spin

"...on it. Though the subject of teenage sexuality is tricky territory, it is one the film never exploits but..."

July 31, 2020 Movie Review by Shalavé Cawley

Corpus Christi

Powerful Polish drama probes faith and lies

"...Faith is a tricky thing, especially within the confines of structured religion. In..."

April 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Lodge

Icy melding of horror and religion is cool, not chilling

"...elements of Fiala and Franz's first film, the equally tricky Goodnight Mommy. Claustrophobia, delusion, unwilling mothers, antagonistic children, all..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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