2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

Compassion, grace, and humor distinguish the Oscar hopefuls

"..."The Silent Child" earnestly pleads for sign-language support for deaf children in England’s educational system, as a young tutor..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Do It Like an Hombre

My best friend is gay

"...in what appears to be one of the most tone-deaf and homophobic films exported from Mexico (recently)...."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Little Hours

Foul-mouthed nuns can't save this comedy

"...the convent, where the nuns believe him to be deaf and mute, and take turns defiling him. Jemima Kirke..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Dog’s Purpose

Reincarnated dog film is full of cliches

"...Tale – he has created a misguided and utterly tone-deaf Hallmark card to the canis lupus familiaris and the..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Shut In

Naomi Watts stars in ho-hum thriller

"...in the crash. After one of her patients, a deaf boy named Tom (Room’s Tremblay), unexpectedly shows up on..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Florence Foster Jenkins

Meryl Streep plays the doyenne called “the worst singer in the world”

"...and amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins – the infamously tone-deaf doyenne once christened “the worst singer in the world”..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Compadres

Mexican action comedy

"...comedy film Compadres is one of the dopiest, most tone-deaf films I’ve seen in recent memory (and that’s coming..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Hush

Well-executed horror nightmare features sick torment of a deaf woman

"...he is also married. Siegel plays Maddie Young, a deaf writer who lives alone in an isolated cabin (classic..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Brothers Grimsby

Sacha Baron Cohen's spy comedy goes awry

"...– the real world. A decade ago, his culturally tone-deaf but ever-curious Kazakhstanian reporter named Borat delivered a laudable,..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tribe

Using only sign language and no subtitles, this Ukrainian drama tells a story about young, deaf criminals

"...film, set in a Ukrainian boarding school for the deaf, unfolds entirely in sign language, with no subtitles or..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Simon Pegg stars as a shrink trying to heal himself.

"...performances of Rosamund Pike and Toni Collette. But this tone-deaf story about a shrink healing himself should come with..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Endless Love

New era, same old story: young passions, forbidden love, and parents who just don't understand.

"...on petty details, but this film is so colossally tone-deaf and off-key in every way that its collection of..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

ACCESS News Back on the Air

Innovative news program for Austin's deaf community

"...and entertainment program developed to communicate with Austin's sizable deaf and hard-of-hearing community, is set for its second season..."

Sept. 17, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Barfi!

This heartwarming Bollywood tale tells the life story of a man who is deaf and mute but lives life to the fullest.

"...tell the life story of a man who is deaf and mute but hasn't allowed these problems to impede..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Take Shelter

Is Curtis LaForche slowly going mad or is something apocalyptic about to happen? Michael Shannon stars in this truly unsettling movie.

"...and supportive; and his young daughter, Hannah (Stewart), though deaf, is developing nicely and his first-rate health insurance is..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twelve

The private-school kids on New York's Upper East Side are definitely not all right in Joel Schumacher's sordid tale of young promise gone wrong.

"...getting around how dreadful Twelve is – how tone deaf it is to its young protagonists and how vapid..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cry of the Owl

Based on the 1962 Patricia Highsmith novel, this mood-heavy film contemplates what happens to a stalker when the object of his obsession returns the favor.

"...out of his accent so vigorously he winds up tone-deaf and textureless. British writer/director Thraves' film suffers from the..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Adventures of Power

All Power wants is to be the best possible air drummer he can be.

"...among his own kind, Power meets Annie (Stern), a deaf girl who really feels his drumming. Power’s nemesis is..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

This comedy starring Simon Pegg is based on Toby Young's memoir about working at Vanity Fair.

"...Surely those two could have managed more than this tone-deaf ode to comedic obviousness, right? After all, satire about..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Epic Movie

The filmmakers are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, and their special form of sadism-as-punch-line leaves the audience in a perpetual cringe.

"...of gawky teenage boys? Friedberg and Seltzer are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody,..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.

"...bumping up against a potential meal. Shin plays the deaf and dumb Ryu, a green-haired youth working a thankless..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dear Frankie

An ad hoc dad turns out to be far better than the real thing in this sentimental Scottish yarn.

"...with the titular salutation, and their influence on the deaf 8-year-old’s still-developing personality is deep. Frankie (McElhone) charts the..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Vertical Limit

"...doesn't ring any warning bells then chances are you're deaf) that piles one disaster on top of another on..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Goya in Bordeaux

"...his villa. The movie centers on the 82-year-old and deaf Goya (who is played as an old man by..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beautiful

"...like Sally Field, but her directing debut is a tone-deaf dramedy whose need to please is a pain in..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Same Old Song

"...tune, conducted by a maestro who appears to be tone-deaf...."

Dec. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red Corner

"...him and himself behind bars. His protests fall on deaf ears, and it becomes apparent that even the U.S...."

Oct. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Calendar Girl

"...attention it has received from picketing protesters from the deaf community). That detail is the performance of Stephen Tobolowsky..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Linguini Incident

"...comes off with the best role here, as the deaf maître d' forced to put up with an endless..."

July 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Little Noises

"...seriously, Joey steals the beautiful poems of a young deaf-mute he knows and offers them to the neighborhood literary..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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