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Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
"...Bear Mountain. Ricci (Addams Family, Casper) is a brilliant young actress and someone I'd pick as most likely to..."
Nov. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
La Leyenda del Chupacabras
Dark animated tale may be too frightening for children
"...Mexico’s Anima Estudios, La Leyenda del Chupacabras aims at young and adult viewers alike. However, I suspect most children..."
Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Howl's Moving Castle
The latest from animation master Hayao Miyazaki is ravishingly beautiful but narratively inferior to all his other films.
"...of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki have often paired adult themes with the sort of whimsical lightness that Walt..."
June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Fairytale: A True Story
"...ignore the element of doubt altogether is to deprive adults of the compelling dramatic conflict between Doyle's eloquent argument..."
Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Magic in the Water
"...is about as old as the Loch Ness legend. Young, lonely Ashley (Wayne) is befriended by Orky, the monster..."
Sept. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona
Blue
"...impression is to say that Blue is a very adult movie. By using the word “adult,” I don't mean..."
March 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
For a Lost Soldier
"...live with relatives, hoping that the farms are safer. Young Jeroen (Smit) is placed in the care of one..."
Oct. 22, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Ginger & Rosa
The personal becomes political in Sally Potter's story about a girl who comes of age in England during the early Sixties.
"...both sides of that inevitable divide between childhood and adulthood. (“Can’t you be a girl for a moment or..."
April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's latest film bursts with unbridled ambition and vision, and while it doesn't always reach the heights for which it aims, it soars boldly and fearlessly.
"...(played as a child by McCracken and as an adult by Penn), is the story’s central figure. Throughout his..."
June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Easy A
The Scarlet Letter is refitted for the app age in this winning high school comedy.
"...to embrace the rumor, in part as a too-smart-for-school young woman’s social experiment and in part (though she’s less..."
Sept. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
From Austin to Neptune
Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the rise of his career-making cult favorite
"...students and their communities to discuss issues that affect young people, with education being a priority. The Marsathon is..."
Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
Naked City
No Adult Trial for McTear
"...to have 16-year-old McTear certified for trial as an adult. "This case has, of course, raised a lot of..."
May 30, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Anne Frank Remembered
"...the horrors of the Holocaust. It is to this young girl's diaries we turn when we need to put..."
April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Everyone's favorite web-slinger returns for a new era of Marvel
"...Avengers: Endgame swept the pieces off the table, now young Spider-Man (Holland) is trying to work out how to..."
July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
An Unfinished Life
An Unfinished Life never transcends its simple storyline to charter original ground, but it’s the kind of movie you can’t fault too terribly much, primarily because its heart seems to be in the right place.
"...Gilkyson (Redford) grieves long after the death of his adult son in a car accident, until the 11-year-old grand-daughter..."
Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Postmarks
Readers take us (and each other) to task over mistaken identites and misguided ideas.
"...this horrific slander to my wife and four pitiful young children. I also must quickly get into the next..."
Feb. 18, 2000 Column
After Five Decades, Austin Recovery to Close
Nonprofit succumbs to financial challenges made worse by COVID
"...Austin Recovery will stop serving adult clients on May 15, after five decades as a..."
April 22, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders
The House With a Clock in Its Walls
Eli Roth swaps gore for delightful childlike Gothic wonder
"...and following the loss of both of his parents, young Lewis (Vaccaro) is sent to Michigan to live with..."
Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Hounds of Love
A deft reimagination of the serial-killer genre
"...Directed by: Ben Young. Starring: Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry, Susie Porter,..."
May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Caught
"...Directed by: Robert M. Young. Starring: Edward James Olmos, Maria Conchita Alonso, Arie Verveen,..."
Nov. 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
YA Novelist Elizabeth Acevedo Has No Room for Hopelessness
How the author of Clap When You Land and keynote speaker at the 2020 Texas Teen Book Festival writes toward the positive
"...her voice to persuasively advocate for greater representation in young adult literature. She is adamant about the need for..."
Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson
The Boss Baby
Alec Baldwin voices corporate infant
"...concept – the literal infantilization of selfish and demanding adult behavior – and attaches fantastic plot threads involving the..."
March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Doc chronicles a shameful chapter in San Antonio history
"...in San Antonio were charged with sexually assaulting two young girls over the course of two days. The year..."
Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Danny Collins
Al Pacino is an aging rock & roller who makes an entertaining play for redemption
"...seem calculated to maintain his fabulous home, private plane, young girlfriend, and vast quantities of booze and cocaine. Then,..."
April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Frankenweenie
Tim Burton’s animated, black-and-white movie about a boy and his dog is sweetly filtered through the lens of Frankenstein and other famous monsters.
"...Frankenweenie is that rare film that's both kid- and adult-friendly. Burton, to be sure, knows his audience by now,..."
Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Woman in Black
Daniel Radcliffe jumps from Hogwarts to this movie's haunted mansion where he stars as a young widower under siege from a malevolent ghost.
"...wand with him when he graduated to his first adult film role since the conclusion of the Harry Potter..."
Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Flipped
Rob Reiner's best film in a decade is another coming-of-age story set in small-town America.
"...& Emma. In Flipped (based on Wendelin Van Draanen's young-adult novel of the same name), Reiner returns to some..."
Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
What They Always Tell Us
Required reading for all those awkward 16-year-olds – post-suicidal and gay or otherwise – who just don't fit in
"...lake-house party by chugging Pine-Sol. Five pages into this young-adult novel, I'm thinking this Martin Wilson guy – a..."
Oct. 31, 2008 Books Feature by Sofia Resnick
Raising Victor Vargas
"...too is keen on examining the coming-of-age process of young, sometimes-neglected kids, but does so without Clark’s nasty, nihilistic..."
