Love & Friendship

What took Whit Stillman and Jane Austen so long to find each other?

"...there’s a hearty New World sensibility to Love & Friendship, too. America likes nothing more than a winner, and..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Exploring Friendship in Ralph Breaks the Internet

Screenwriter and former Austinite Pamela Ribon talks BFFs, online and IRL

"...viewers will find deeply relatable. It's a tale of friendship and the ways we evolve together and – sometimes,..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Britt Hayes

Turning Fear Into Friendship

"...believe that by taking the bigger step of embracing friendship will overcome fear and achieve greater heights...."

Nov. 9, 2016 Postmarks

Seven Decades and One Wall Apart: Finding Friendship on Either Side of a Bouldin Creek Duplex

Two women at different stages of life keep company during a pandemic

"...thrill of freedom, but by the beauty of long friendships: the kindness of people who opened their doors and..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Ali Montag

The Verde Report: Unable to Gather, Austin FC Players Find Friendship in Fans

How the Verde squad is settling into Austin

June 11, 2021 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Interstellar Friendship in Elijah and the Rock Creature

Canadian kid-friendly sci-fi story playing Other Worlds Austin

Dec. 7, 2018 Screens Post by Shalavé Cawley

Paul Thomas Anderson on His Friendship With Jonathan Demme

Phantom Thread director to receive Texas Film Award

March 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Mina Tannenbaum

"...is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Eight Mountains

Touching depiction of male friendship in the Italian Alps

"...Why do all cinematic depictions of platonic male friendship have to be mired in trauma? Whether it's Mean..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Postman (Il Postino)

"...the southern coast of Italy, the film recounts the friendship between the aging Communist poet and the shy, directionless..."

July 7, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Strawberry and Chocolate

"...Cuba. The story tracks the development of an improbable friendship between two Cuban men, a friendship colored by the..."

March 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Disney gets a lot of the bugs out of their arcade franchise

"...(Reilly) and racer Vanellope (Silverman), two misfits who find friendship together. Unfortunately, it was riddled with so many memes..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shaun of the Dead

This "romantic comedy … with zombies" has a note-perfect mix of humor, horror, love, and death.

"...to top it off, it’s a winning tale of friendship and true love that actually gets it all right..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Devotion

Airborne biopic finds warm friendship across the military's racial divide

"...Makos’ 2014 book Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, it follows the friendship between naval pilots..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Career Girls

"...ago, for what, if anything, is left of their friendship. As he's done to great effect in previous films,..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Two Friends

"...keen eye, Jane Campion relates the intricacies of adolescent friendship in her first feature Two Friends. Written by Helen..."

June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Where Hope Grows

A sinner finds redemption with the help of a a young man with Down syndrome

"...A tale of redemption through an unlikely friendship, Where Hope Grows is another entry in the ever..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ernest & Celestine

The team from A Town Called Panic returns with another animated charmer – this time a tale about interspecies friendship and dentistry.

"...Feature (it lost to Frozen), this tale of interspecies friendship and dentistry is a sublime example of form following..."

April 4, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Friends With Benefits

This Mila Kunis/Justin Timberlake rom-com is smart enough to decry Hollywood’s romantic clichés but never savvy enough to truly subvert them.

"...the world’s awesomest bottomless buffet, wherein sex and platonic friendship are both for the taking so long as you..."

July 22, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bratz

Bring some bratitude and a passion for fashion, and you'll be almost as giddy as a 10-year-old girl.

"...the Bratz give voice to lofty sentiments, such as “friendship is a big deal,” a quick dissolve to junior..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Steal Big, Steal Little

"...reuniting with his wife Laura (Ticotin), his partnership and friendship with Laura's boss Lou Perilli (Arkin), his damaged friendship..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Lovers

"...to attend, of course). Once there, she forms a friendship with Leung San-Pak, who is a spirited, hard-working, young..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Circle of Friends

"...Friends tells the predictable but nonetheless enchanting tale of friendship, secrets, and sex familiar to anyone who's survived puberty...."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Proof

"...charming and feckless busboy, Andy (Crowe) and discovers real friendship, but it's a friendship he makes almost impossible to..."

June 12, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

True Colors

"...are bad. As the modern-day Damon and Pythian whose friendship is destroyed by political ambition, Cusack and Spader founder..."

June 21, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Old Friends John Doe and Michael Mogavero Combine Paintings and Poetry to Reach the "Promised Land"

The exhibition at Bale Creek Allen Gallery celebrates a 47-year-old friendship

"...to say wryly, "That is the basis of our friendship right there." Everyone on the call breaks up, but..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animated

This year's Academy-loved cartoons push the boundaries of the medium

"...of neighborhoods away), Rosana Sullivan's story of the unlikely friendship between a stray kitten (an adorable hairball with huge,..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wonder

Treacly feel-good drama nevertheless has helpful life lessons

"...the ropes before school proper begins, the only real friendship he develops is with “good egg” Jack Will (Jupe),..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Matt & Ben at the Institution Theater

Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers use Damon and Affleck to create a hilarious case study in how Hollywood murders friendship

"...it's this: Sometimes the quickest way to destroy a friendship is to create art you believe in with someone..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Shepard & Dark

The turbulent but creative connection between theatre legend Sam Shepard and writer and collector Johnny Dark is explored in this documentary. The film also features the work of a couple of Austin film mavericks: editor Sandra Adair and musician Graham Reynolds.

"...oft-melancholy film about two old friends who’ve maintained said friendship since 1963. That one-half of the pair is playwright-actor-director..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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