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Slow West
A whimsical and wistful fable follows a young romantic and a hard-nosed realist out West
"...and wistfulness, John Maclean’s Slow West unfolds in the wake of the American Civil War as a collection of..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Hellion
Austin filmmaker Kat Candler explores the sins of the father in this dark drama starring Aaron Paul.
"...of Houston struggles to keep things together in the wake of the sudden loss of its wife and mother...."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ted
Mark Wahlberg and the teddy bear he willed to life as a child stay BFFs into adulthood in Seth McFarlane's zany first foray onto the big screen.
"...spinning his wheels in a dead-end job while sharing wake 'n' bake bong hits and zoning out to Mike..."

June 29, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Apollo 18
This secretive film's premise is that it reveals suppressed footage of the U.S. government's secret mission to the moon.
"...“baddie” – it’s actually two-pronged: The astronauts slowly, simultaneously wake to befuddling tracks on the moon’s surface and also..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kung Fu Panda 2
In this visually enticing sequel, the panda voiced by Jack Black is tasked with finding inner peace.
"...for their metals, leaving swaths of destruction in his wake. Po and the Furious Five counter Shen’s evil plans..."

May 27, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hangover: Part II
The action moves from Vegas to Thailand – but someone forgot to send along a new script.
"...amigos (Doug, wisely, stays mostly out of the picture) wake up in a ramshackle Thai hotel surrounded by party..."

May 27, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Middle Men
Middle Men journeys backward in Internet history to 1995 when two coked-up ne'er-do-wells created the first dial-up, porn-on-demand website.
"...into here, finds himself inexorably pulled into the slimy wake of Dolby and Beering's many meatheaded messes. Some examples:..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

9500 Liberty
This timely documentary is a witness to the events in Prince William County, Va., whose board of supervisors voted in 2007 to require police officers to question anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant.
"...achieved, rather suddenly, the utmost in topicality in the wake of Arizona’s passage of its infamous “show me your..."

June 4, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Nic Cage delivers one of his best and most outrageous performances in Werner Herzog's cops-and-iguanas drama.
"...new film is set in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The devastation of the city offers..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shrink
A well-chosen cast props up this otherwise shallow story that stars Kevin Spacey as a therapist who turns to pot in the wake of a personal crisis.
"...(Spacey) who turns to pot and booze in the wake of a personal crisis. Unlike last year’s The Wackness,..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hangover
The Hangover is deliciously darker than Todd Phillips' previous comedies, Old School and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice or drenched in the "bromance" creed of the present.
"...a night they'll never forget. That is, until they wake the next morning, surrounded by the spoils of the..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Battle for Terra
An animated tale of a peace-loving race of creatures known as Terrians, who are invaded by alien humans.
"...is high-spirited tomboy (tadboy?) Mala (Wood), who, in the wake of a violent attack on her people from a..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
Every generation gets the George A. Romero socio-political zombie opus they deserve. We must be living right, because this new film cuts right to the heart.
"...Dead is his no-less-disturbing cri de mort in the wake of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and Bagram-based black-and-blue ops –..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lions for Lambs
Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, in which he co-stars with Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, is a piece of nervy political theatre that argues against individual complacency in wartime.
"...Derek Luke, Andrew Garfield, Michael Peña and Peter Berg. "Wake up, America!" That’s the fervent call to action in..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Eye of the Dolphin
This family film is charming enough to inspire young girls to grow up wanting to swim with live dolphins rather than groom My Little Ponies.
"...troubled teen Alyssa, who is acting up in the wake of her mother's death. When she gets suspended from..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Talk to Me
Cheadle leads a great cast through a musical glance at D.C. in the Sixties and Seventies.
"...electric. Given a morning talk show, Petey opens with “Wake up, goddammit!” and signs off with his signature, “This..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Severance
This British horror comedy ricochets from violence to vengeance to outright survivalism, with comedy – some brilliant, some less so – underlying it all.
"...distracting strikes against it. First, it arrives in the wake of Edgar Wright's flat-out brilliant Shaun of the Dead,..."

June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
In this prequel to the original Chainsaw, we learn how Leatherface grew up to become a monster.
"...it turns out his bloodlust was keyed in the wake of layoffs at the local slaughterhouse. Ermey's still gnawing..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Idiocracy
Mike Judge's underrated comedy Idiocracy is the story of a man who awakes 500 years in the future to find a society so dumbed-down that he instantly becomes the smartest person alive.
"...is decommissioned, leaving Joe (Wilson) and Rita (Rudolph) to wake up 500 years in the future to discover they..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Puffy Chair
In their first feature, former Austinites the Duplass brothers have made a near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy.
"...right ways, just like the way we love and wake up to the realization that that love has gone..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Running Scared
Wayne Kramer's follow-up to his crime drama The Cooler has no moral compass, and swings wildly out of control while blanketed in hyper-violent digital gore effects and a thick, black nausea of the soul.
"...to have dumped in the local river in the wake of a botched drug deal that left three crooked..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ballad of Jack and Rose
An insular father-daughter relationship comes apart in writer-director Rebecca Miller's drama, which also stars her actor-husband Daniel Day-Lewis.
"...sounding seductive in parts but leaving dissatisfaction in its wake...."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
The scruffy, seminal punk band that put the Bop in the Blitzkrieg is given its due in this treasure-laden doc.
"...this celebration of the Ramones also something of a wake, albeit one with enough undiluted Lower East Side energy..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Chicks
Wayans brothers' comedy depends on latex and whitewash.
"...with their careers dangling by a thread in the wake of a botched drug bust, go undercover to protect..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Alamo
In this round of historical revisionism there's not much to remember except, maybe, Davy Crockett becoming a fiddler on the roof.
"...it. It’s loud – the cannon fire alone could wake the Alamo dead – and its sense of ballyhoo..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Buffalo Soldiers
On an American military outpost in Europe during the Eighties, the black market economy runs the show.
"...the long-completed Buffalo Soldiers was shelved indefinitely in the wake of 9/11 for its unflattering depiction of the modern..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Man Apart
"...a good cop gone over the edge in the wake of his wife's murder by drug kingpins, the idea..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moonlight Mile
"...father, Ben, in the real estate business; in the wake of her death, Ben pushes through with the plan,..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Last Orders
"...wintry reminisces of four lifelong friends, recalled in the wake of the death of one of their own, are..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Black Hawk Down
"...grinding inertia of a nightmare from which you can't wake. Bogged down in a slo-mo hell of bad vibes..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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