A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation

"...collector wandering around ancient China in search of his true love is an eyeful of candy-coated images. Unlike its..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It's My Party

"...we're provided create more of a scattershot swirl than flesh-and-blood people. For whatever it's worth, Eric Roberts does his..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Bride With White Hair II

"...a witch-woman scorned. (You may remember that her one, true love, Zhou, left her at the end of the..."

Jan. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Killing Zoe

"...Roger Avery, Tarantino's longtime pal and co-writer (Reservoir Dogs, True Romance). Stoltz is Zed, an American safecracker called to..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blankman

"...Blankman should be hung by their thumbs while the blood is slowly drained out of their bodies through small..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Cocaine Bear

The ursine Dr. Rockzo goes on a bloody comedic bender

"...Loosely based on a true story – the cocaine part, anyway – Cocaine Bear..."

March 3, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Black Panther

High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.

"...is built on a lie. It has hidden its true nature as the most technologically advanced nation on the..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

BPM (Beats Per Minute)

France's AIDS community battles big pharma in the 1990s

"..."The personal is political.” This has always been true and always will be true, even if the phrase..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Impossible

The sound and fury of the Christmas tsunami is deeply harrowing as shown here through the microcosm of one family's experience.

"...resort in Thailand to celebrate Christmas. Based on a true story, but dressed with the usual cinematic embellishments (the..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Merry War

"...of being a poet. One day Gordon decides to bloody well do it. He'll chuck his job, hole up..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Painter and the Thief

Intriguing tale of crime and redemption

"...with Perry Smith, the "sensitive killer" figure in his true-crime classic, In Cold Blood...."

May 22, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Breakthrough

Evangelical tract never raises a pulse

"...the movie is an affirmation of their faith, a true-story tale of a modern-day Lazarus raised from the dead..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Belko Experiment

A gory social experiment gone wrong

"...Space. With all those white shirts, all that red blood, this is a Battle Royale for the Dilbert generation...."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright

Time to "Turn Out the Lights" for the Texas Mad Dog writer

"...Gary Cartwright, Texas Monthly stalwart, author of the true-crime classic Blood Will Tell, sportswriter extraordinaire, inveterate prankster, and..."

March 2, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Bye Bye Man

A group of teens unleash the bogeyman

"...on a chapter in the 2005 collection of allegedly strange-but-true paranormal tales The President’s Vampire, the premise is second-rate..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mud

Hypermasculine yet soulfully romantic, this coming of age story with thriller elements stars Matthew McConaughey.

"...takes to Mud and his romantic backstory like a true believer...."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Dead

The sun-drenched locales of Ghana and Burkina Faso provide the backdrops for this original zombie apocalypse.

"...locales of Ghana and Burkina Faso as sun and blood-drenched backdrops to an undead apocalypse, The Dead is a..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bangkok Dangerous

The Pang brothers' remake of their own film is all cock and no bang.

"..."ancient Chinese secret" was somehow scrubbing away all the true grit and raw wallop of Asia's finest. Perhaps their..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Shane Black's directorial debut is a suckerpunch-and-a-half, a trippy tribute to L.A. noir and a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretensions that’s just as full of them as the pulp it lampoons.

"...love of self-reflexive, genre-skewering conventions drenches the film in blood reds and Sunset Strip purples and drops a wink..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monument Ave.

"...has Bobby's cokehead cousin Teddy (Crudup) killed in cold blood on the off chance that the youngster was a..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Caught Up

"...working overtime to lead him astray. This is particularly true when it comes to his Tarot-reading girlfriend (Williams), whose..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Apostle

"...Dewey, is not some gross exaggeration, but rather a flesh-and-blood human being with flaws, two critical ones being a..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fargo

The Coen brothers return to their Blood Simple roots with this bizarre, dialect-strewn tale of a kidnapping gone very wrong that's filled with the their trademark graveyard wit and unique camera angles.

"...Proxy, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen return to their Blood Simple roots with this bizarre, dialect-strewn tale of a..."

March 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on

"...is a fractured fairy tale too good to be true, because the truth hurts; and Tarantino, forever lovesick with..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Everything, Everything

Another YA adaption of star-crossed lovers

"...by with a tentative wave, and the race to true teen love is off and running. Maddy’s mother (Rose)..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Babadook

Tyro helmer Jennifer Kent conjures a disturbing spook story about a mother, a son, and an unnerving presence in their house

"...tallies. It’s more a psychological horror tale than a blood-and-guts outing, although the filmmaker doesn’t stint on either score...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dallas Buyers Club

Matthew McConaughey gives a searing performance in this true-life story set in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

"...is said to have lost 40 pounds. Based on true events, Woodroof is an electrician and rodeo rat, who..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Captain Phillips

Tom Hanks is at his best in this multidimensional thriller that grabs real life by the throat.

"...audience along for a tense, claustrophobic ride. Based on true events from 2009 in which the U.S.-flagged cargo ship..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Other Son

Palestinian and Israeli baby boys are accidentally switched at birth, and that discovery in adulthood creates many repercussions.

"...in the Israeli army, it is discovered that his blood type is incompatible with that of his parents. His..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Louis Black

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.

"...pilgrimage, drenched in what at first appears to be blood. (It's not.) She’s a free spirit, and when she..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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