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Stranger-than-fiction doc about an eccentric doctor
"...on the filmmakers’ part. As every defamation lawyer knows, truth is the best defense...."
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Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Courage Under Fire
"...the war as he works to get at the truth behind the events leading up to Walden's death. When..."
July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor
The X-Files' Invisible Ink
The Truth Is Out There -- Somewhere
"..."The Truth Is Out There -- Somewhere" was originally published in..."
Nov. 17, 1995 Screens Feature
American Animals
Truth, lies, and self-deception in this remarkable true-crime docudrama
"...documentary cinema? For many moviegoers, documentaries are synonymous with truth, a re-creation of historical events using primary documents and..."
June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Something Wild
There's no pussyfooting about it: The Truth About Charlie is a remake -- of the widely adored Charade -- and Jonathan Demme isn't apologizing for it.
"...ask Jonathan Demme why he decided to make The Truth About Charlie, his contemporary take on Stanley Donen's 1963..."
Oct. 4, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Crucible
"...attendant mass hysteria can snuff out all vestiges of truth and justice. Miller's play has always suffered from the..."
Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
All About Nina
Mary Elizabeth Winstead excels as a comic in freefall
"...“I don’t need to tell my truth, I own my truth. It’s in here, giving me..."
Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Chappaquiddick
The car crash that changed America.
"...his cluelessness. But when Teddy says, “We tell the truth. Or at least our version of it,” that’s the..."
April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White
Killers
Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play a married couple, but the wife doesn't know her husband is a government assassin. Comedy ensues.
"...Heigl reteams here with her director of The Ugly Truth to see, apparently, if they could stoop any lower...."
June 11, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Pauline & Paulette
This Belgian drama tells a deceptively simple story about the complex relationships of four elderly sisters, one of whom is mentally handicapped.
"...mortally ill characters teach otherwise healthy characters the “real truth” about life and its purpose. Yet, the movie's instincts..."
April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Story of Us
"...stages this movie as though he's discovered some great truth -- or to put it another way, “the story..."
Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
My New Gun
"...almost to be a lost Hal Hartley (The Unbelievable Truth, Trust) film. Like Hartley, Stacy Cochran has set her..."
March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Requiem for Dominic
"...of this film is Dornhelm's personal quest into the truth of the affair. Dominic's wife tells Paul that the..."
July 26, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Everybody's Fine
"...his children to be happy and wealthy. Gradually, the truth that their lives are no more extraordinary than anyone..."
June 28, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher
Vengeance
B.J. Novak tells a touching tale of truth, myths, and Texas
"...Though there is some truth in Ben’s thesis that the film itself explores, it..."
July 29, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur
Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer
The shocking history of America's sleaziest tabloid
"...Bernstein somberly remarking about the deplorable disrespect for the truth today in the age of Trump. His insinuation? That..."
Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Hate U Give
Astounding adaptation of YA novel critiques race in modern America
"...That’s a whole lot of gospel truth to jam into a single film, but director Tillman..."
Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Third Murder
Japanese legal procedural puts the justice system on trial
"...the underlying drive is not to find the absolute truth, but a resolution that makes sense to all parties,..."
Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Denzel Washington is a lawyer who goes rogue
"...Washington is so enjoyably startling playing a nebbishy Asperger’s-oriented truth-teller. Gilroy is batting two for two on his truth..."
Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Wonder Woman
The origin story of Diana, princess of the Amazons
"...no one says it aloud), the bullet-deflecting, Lasso of Truth-whipping, not-entirely-American – yet utterly feminist – heroine created by..."
June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
How Texas Is Texas Wine?
What “Truth in Labeling” means for Texas winemakers and vineyards
"...origin. House Bill 1514 and Senate Bill 1833, the "Truth in Labeling Act," were filed in February and are..."
April 28, 2017 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes
Nerve
An online game of "Truth or Dare" turns dangerous
"...high.) It’s a cyberspace variation on the party pastime “Truth or Dare,” except there’s no option to honestly answer..."
July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Past
Another masterstroke from Asghar Farhadi, The Past begins as a domestic drama and stealthily evolves into a kind of thriller.
"...the time. We dribble facts and feelings, stop at half-truths when the whole truth is too uncomfortable – or..."
Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
I'm Still Here
Is Joaquin Phoenix having a meltdown, or is he putting us on? Only his brother-in-the-law, the film's director, knows for sure.
"...taken by Phoenix’s abused assistant, Anton). Certainly, there’s some truth in Phoenix’s desire to escape the imprisonment of characterization,..."
Sept. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Green Zone
With Matt Damon's Bourne director at the helm, the actor plays an officer in Iraq who's mystified by why he's unable to uncover any WMDs.
"...a pawn and then a dogged seeker of the truth. Working out of the Coalition Provisional Authority's so-called Green..."
March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Adoration
Atom Egoyan returns ambitiously to form with this probing, if not always successful, drama that reveals his ongoing fascination with the subjective nature of truth.
"...genocide, Ararat, and the off-putting mystery thriller, Where the Truth Lies). His usual concerns with the subjective nature of..."
June 12, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Mighty Hannibal Sees All
The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?
"...full-length LP of his career in 1972. Titled simply Truth, it’s righteous, defiant, gritty, and funky as hell...."
Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett
Sharkwater
Rob Stewart, a marine biologist and underwater photographer, makes up for in passion what he lacks in narrative subtlety in this cautionary documentary about the eradication of the planet's sharks.
"...Shaw, they don't. Stewart sets out to uncover the truth behind the shark-finning industry and, to his and our..."
Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
We Don't Live Here Anymore
What people fight about when they fight about love.
"...write off his character from that moment forward). In truth, Jack is no better and no worse than the..."
Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
TV Eye
Spin City: How the media manipulates truth into something very different.
"...versions to every story -- and then there's the truth. The truth lies somewhere between the lines, between pauses..."
