Things We Lost in the Fire

This film starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro is an impeccably constructed and perfectly paced drama of domestic and internal volatility.

"...film, Del Toro plays Jerry Sunborne, a fortysomething junkie living in squalor in downtown Seattle who’s forced to re-examine..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

28 Days Later

A zombie picture, with lots of topical updating.

"...coma in a hospital ICU to find himself completely alone. In one of the most chilling cinematic images of..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

X2: X-Men United

"...Marvel Comics’ popular and long-running series about mutant superhumans living, loving, and kicking some righteous bad-guy booty when they’re..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...it best: "She never let herself be beautiful before." Living With Ghosts Griffin hasn't changed all that much. Her..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Gun Shy

"...enough to give any man pause), Charlie's sick of living life as a deep-cover agent, on the run, moving..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lovers on the Bridge

Carax's stridently anti-romantic romance is curiously full of extravagant visual panache.

"...stridently anti-romantic romance. His lovers live a hand-to-mouth existence, living in the wreckage of Paris' oldest bridge while it..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Life's in Turnaround

"...film. Splick Featherstone (Schaeffer) and Jason Little (Ward) are living in turnaround -- having experiences so separated from any..."

Aug. 29, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Gift

"...died from a heroin OD, and Perry is reminiscing alone. This “semi-autobiographical” (there's the standard “Any similarity to persons..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mistress

"...L.A. hack who directs instructional cooking videos for a living. His wife (Metcalf) is back in New York trying..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Morbius

Marvel's living vampire gets a Sony Spidey-verse spinoff

"...dark and brooding superheroes, and then there's Morbius the Living Vampire. Originally created in 1971, he was one of..."

April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Live in Public

The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.

"...transformed some vacant NYC cellar/loft space into a communal living experience that was monitored in every conceivable way by..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reservation Road

Crime and Punishment comes to New England in this story about the aftermath of a child's death.

"...(Ruffalo), our accidental Raskolnikov, a lawyer and divorced father living alone in small-town Connecticut who’s on his way home..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Donnie Darko

This unnerving, electrifying film provides a unique take on the teen psyche in modern suburbia.

"...Directed by: Richard Kelly. Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Noah Wyle, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Katharine Ross, Mary McDonnell, Patrick..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...honor at risk. Without seeing a reason to stay living in Curitiba, he leaves there looking for Sara, a..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jojo Rabbit

Anti-hate satire in the ruins of the Reich finds heart and humor in the chaos

"...rabbit at a Nazi Youth drill camp – lives alone with his mother Rosie (Johansson), a vibrant and vital..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Free Solo

Staggering mountaineering achievement mixes vertigo with wonder

"...– has performed the ascent “free solo.” That is, alone and without the use of any ropes or other..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Night School

Kevin Hart goes back to school. Sadly, not comedy school.

"...Living far, far beyond his means while wooing his lady..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Problem With K2, Downtown Austin’s Most Dangerous Drug

APD cannot depend on big busts alone to solve the problem

"...effects took hold from a fateful puff. For those living unsheltered within the area and struggling to get back..."

March 16, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Collector

From the writer and director of Saw 4-6 comes this horror film about a handyman who tries to rob his employers' home but finds it rigged with a lethal maze.

"...sharks who have promised to make her life a living hell (although it already seems pretty hellish to begin..."

July 31, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Splinter

Apart from its shape-shifting fungal porcupines from outer space, this horror film has little else to recommend.

"...shaky-cam land. Splinter initially gets by on sheer weirdness alone; reanimated roadkill sprouting wicked-looking black spines is not a..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miss Potter

This Renée Zelweger movie about the life of Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter lacks dramatic tension and a sense of purpose.

"...million copies worldwide. Not bad for a single girl living in London. In Miss Potter, which starts just as..."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Pacifier

Vin Diesel plays a Navy SEAL who draws diaper duty.

"...Not for a minute. Cross-pollinate Kindergarten Cop with Home Alone 3, and you still have a hardier hybrid than..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Shaun of the Dead

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

"...the zombie epics of George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) to enjoy this supremely engaging and jaw-droppingly (literally)..."

Sept. 24, 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.

"...legend atop it. It’s loud – the cannon fire alone could wake the Alamo dead – and its sense..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Death to Smoochy

"...an idealistic, somewhat dim children's entertainer given to clean living and true-blue values. The jaded, cynical Wells despises this..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sixth Day

"...think.” The future, hopefully, will prove that wrong, though living in a society with refrigerators that keep you posted..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Full Speed (A Toute Vitesse)

"...follows the shifting allegiances between a cluster of friends living in the French countryside. Quentin (Cervo), who is not..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Glimmer Man

"...Unfortunately, his latest vehicle, The Glimmer Man (the title alone inspires ridicule), is just far too generic to reach..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Richie Rich

"...obnoxious youngster with way too much money, left home alone (again) to tangle with scheming adults. Cheap shots aside,..."

Dec. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Meow Wolf: Origin Story

How the legendary art collective beat the world and kept its soul

"...that was his aesthetic. It appears he was not alone in this, as that city has the third-largest art..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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