Sunset Song

A woman comes of age in this rugged Scottish saga set in the early 1900s

"...As played by model-turned-actress Agyness Deyn, Chris’ undimmed beauty may be a bit too luminous for a character..."

June 3, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

Animated film is based on Gibran's iconic book of prose poems

"...(whose Disney work includes The Lion King, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast) have assembled an international group of..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Harmontown

Mad genius TV writer Dan Harmon (Community) embarks on a 20-city tour taping his popular podcast in front of live audiences.

"...up his terrific portrait of artist Wayne White, 2012’s Beauty Is Embarrassing, Berkeley documents another color-outside-the-lines creative force, TV..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wayne White's Big Art Adventure Arrives on TV Tonight

'Beauty Is Embarrassing' doc debuts on PBS at 9pm

"...in-depth look at the weird world of Wayne White, Beauty Is Embarrassing bounces along the emotional spectrum from hilarity..."

Jan. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

The Joneses

David Duchovny and Demi Moore star in this partially successful comedy about consumer culture that turns uncomfortably moralistic part way through.

"...up with.” Each member a handsome specimen of physical beauty and personal charm, the family as a whole appears..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Towelhead

Alan Ball's film is guaranteed to discomfit and dismay with its dangerous plunge into an adolescent girl's discovery of sexuality and self-identity.

"...feature-directing debut, after penning the Oscar-winning script for American Beauty and creating HBO’s eccentric Six Feet Under. Personally, I..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Bridge

An emotional and aesthetic whirlpool of horror, fascination, beauty, and resignation gives Eric Steel's Golden Gate Bridge suicide documentary an eerie power.

"...striking: an emotional and aesthetic whirlpool of horror, fascination, beauty (it’s hard not to feel a bit guilty –..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera

The plodding stage musical finally comes to the big screen, its relentlessly bombastic score intact with a vengeance.

"...bold, painterly look that is often ethereal in its beauty – the snowy scenes atop the opera house and..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Shipping News

"...many ways his portrayal of Lester Burnham in American Beauty, yet actually surpasses it in subtlety and intrinsic believability...."

Dec. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

George Washington

Green's debut feature is a sublime tone poem about adolescence

"...that has passed, and a look that finds the beauty and grace in the plainness of the landscape. Filmed..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Horse Whisperer

"...Evans' bestselling novel is a countrified, monolithic thing of beauty -- gorgeous to behold despite the fact that its..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Still Breathing

"...of). That his true love is a jaded, cynical beauty of the walking-wounded variety puts the whole crusade into..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Winter Guest

"...Sean Biggerstaff. Sometimes the coldest season exhibits an austere beauty -- trees stretching bony limbs toward a somber sky..."

March 20, 1998 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Shanghai Triad

"...hasn't already. His films -- testaments to the terrible beauty of Chinese culture and history -- are visually arresting..."

March 1, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Legends of the Fall

"...spades. But, somehow, it doesn't seem appropriate that Pitt's beauty should be the film's lingering sentiment. This is, after..."

Jan. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...Beauty and the Beat was mixed, mastered, and finished. All..."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Violet

In this moving production, a young woman learns the nature of true beauty and true love

"...televangelist she believes will heal her, revealing the screen-siren beauty that Violet knows resides inside her. On the way,..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

FotoATX: "Austin Women by Austin Women" at the Elisabet Ney Museum

The five women showing photographs capture the beauty, passion, grace, and resilience of being a woman in Austin today

"...white: a stone-faced woman sitting arms crossed in the beauty chair; the back of a woman, her hands up..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

The Rude Mechs' Now Now Oh Now

Version 3.0 of this look at role-playing games tests how deeply we engage in our quests for beauty and truth

"...commonality and run with it, seeking out conclusions about beauty, mortality, and how we become who we are in..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Hey Beautiful

Hot Club of Cowtown fiddler Elana James calls the tune on her second solo disc

"...they're celebrating the release of her new CD, Black Beauty, a folk album in the truest sense, it limits..."

April 24, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Wayne White at the Violet Crown

Artist & Pee-Wee puppeteer at screenings tonight and tomorrow

"...If you see the new doc Beauty Is Embarrassing, you'll see a whole lot of award-winning..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Exibitionism

Beauty Vultures and the Plague of Sleep: Heartwarming Chill

"...lurk the odd characters of Rembert Block's new work Beauty Vultures and the Plague of Sleep. Another in a..."

May 22, 1998 Arts Review

Belle

Social media and fairy tales meet in this gorgeous, grounded version of Beauty and the Beast

"...Yes, Belle draws in part on the story of Beauty and the Beast, but Hosoda (who both directed and..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gift Guide: Grateful Dead

American Beauty 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino)

"...Altamont. Six months later, "Box of Rain" opened American Beauty with its plaintive chorus and a redemptive question: "What..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Scott Jordan

Like a Boss

Unpleasant workplace comedy didn't get the memo about jokes

"...who’s hellbent on gobbling up a financially struggling small beauty company owned by longtime besties Mel (Byrne) and Mia..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

“Alba Corral: Thoughts in Action” at Generative Art Project

The new gallery screens our present into the future with beauty and depth

"...husband, James Pricer – is a testament to the beauty and layers of meaning possible within this relatively new..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Roma

Alfonso Cuarón bleakly romanticizes his childhood maid

"...ugly glory as well is its quiet moments of beauty...."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

Documentary tracks the evolution of the artist and activist

"...the disenfranchised. It all seems overly determined, but the beauty of Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is that the film depicts these disparate..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Beautiful and heartfelt fantasy anime tackles death and family

"...But the greatest beauty is in Okada's script. She translates so perfectly the..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

God's Own Country

Love and lambing on the cruel, cold hills of England

"...own terms. When he finally looks out on the beauty of the Dales, and away from the mud on..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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