"Sara Condo/Lindsay Hutchens" at Permanent Collection

One photographer considers the mother she had while another ponders the mother she thought she'd be

"...photographs capture various keepsakes that were owned by her mother, and a video tracks her mother's journey out west..."

May 8, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

2015 Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Short Films: Program A

Program A consists of the two longest doc shorts, and they’re among the best of the batch.

"...the title’s Joanna – a Polish blogger, wife, and mother who has terminal cancer – and her inquisitive young..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Amreeka

In this delightfully human and sweetly comic ode to the contemporary immigrant experience in a post-9/11 “Amreeka,” a Palestinian mother and son create a world of possibilities.

"...a mammoth metal assemblage and spiritual icon, the figurative "mother of exiles" forever welcoming the tired, the poor, the..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mister Foe

Equal parts sweet and perverse, this Scottish coming-of-age story about a teenage voyeur is unpredictable and compelling and premieres exclusively in Austin.

"...Things apparently started going badly for Foe after his mother's death in a boating accident two years ago, which..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Self-Medicated

It contains some freshman mistakes, but this microindie has such dramatic momentum, such a need to tell its story, that it's well worth a look.

"...desperate measures. (Writer/director/producer/star Lapica dedicated the movie to his mother.) Seventeen-year-old Andrew (Lapica) is hell on wheels: drinking, smoking..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Italian

An Italian couple’s decision to adopt a Russian boy creates a troubling situation for young Vanya, who doesn't want to leave the country without meeting his birth mother.

"...miles away before knowing the identity of his birth mother and whether she might want him back. That is..."

March 16, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Night Listener

This taut, wiry exercise in eerie bad vibes, about a writer-cum-radio personality and a disturbing teenage literary sensation, is emotionally dense but never fully takes flight.

"...the boy, who lives in rural Wisconsin with his mother Donna (Collette), via a phone call, which then leads..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of alleged teen author J.T. Leroy, Asia Argento's film describes a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.

"...foster home back into the clutches of his drug-addled mother, Sarah (Argento), who immediately takes him (in what can..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nobody Knows

Nobody Knows is the rare film that successfully tells its tale of childhood from the children’s point of view, forgoing easy sensationalism and poignancy for naturalism and honesty.

"...that happened in Japan in 1988 in which a mother of four – ages 4 through 12 – abandoned..."

April 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

"...on the staircase in Mildred Pierce, the relationship between mothers and daughters onscreen took a prickly turn. The masochistic..."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Titanic Town

"...Costello's novel, it tells the true story of working-class mother Bernie McPhelimy (Walters), whose one-woman crusade on behalf of..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Conceiving Ada

"...intellectually dense, occasionally bewildering meditation on Victorian proto-feminist and mother of what is now considered to be the very..."

June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Walk on the Moon

"...she has ever slept with and having become a mother herself when she was yet a teenager, Pearl is..."

April 9, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

"...for his age, Noura is able to accompany his mother Djamila (Ben Abdallah) to the Turkish baths, which are..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

AFF Review: Paper Tiger

Drama explores the trauma of loss and the immigrant experience

"...that, it strives to explore the complexities of a mother’s love...."

Oct. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Naomi Brady

Empowering the Syrian Refugee Community One Mediterranean Recipe at a Time

A mother's story of falafel and family

"...plays in connecting people to memories of home. "My mother-in-law, like many who flee their homes due to unfortunate,..."

May 10, 2019 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

Ben Is Back

The opioid crisis invades a family Christmas in this timely drama

"...and stirring up his family’s (not unearned) mistrust. His mother Holly (Roberts) gives him 24 hours, but she’s on..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Chef Flynn

New York's young culinary genius is an enfant adorable

"...club parties hosted in the living room of his mother’s San Fernando Valley home. To cultivate their son’s passion..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Red Sparrow

Erotic spy thriller is Fifty Shades of Gorky Park.

"...Lurching away from the high-budget arthouse controversy of Mother!, Jennifer Lawrence returns to action as Dominika Egorova, a..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

I, Tonya

Belated biopic redress for America's skating punchline

"...Harding is barely supported and often abused by her mother LaVona (Janney, having a blast sucking down More cigarettes..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

A Dark Song

Black magic goes awry in this taut thriller

"...A lost child and a keening mother, an ominous manse in Wales, and the intricacies of..."

May 26, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Shallows

Blake Lively is trapped by a shark on her own bikini island

"...a medical student grieving over the loss of her mother from cancer. An avid surfer (she hails from Galveston),..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Me Before You

A paraplegic and his quirky caregiver form a bond in this British romance

"...From the Mother of Dragons, a mother of a volte-face: Game of..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

UT Murder Coverage Misses the Point

Article's portrayal of suspect's mom demeaning, judgmental

"...Texarkana.) Others, like the nine-paragraph profile of his absent mother that went live four minutes beforehand, fuel negative rhetoric..."

April 22, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Joy

Jennifer Lawrence rises above family dysfunction in this comic biopic

"...in the uneven Joy, the feministic biopic about single mother and family caretaker Joy Mangano, the Long Island entrepreneur..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Big Stone Gap

An Appalachian "spinster" learns the truth about her past

"...Gap’s large cast of quirky characters. Her Italian immigrant mother sews the costumes. Ave’s best friend, a randy bookmobile..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Final Girls

Smart homage to the cheesy campsite horror films of the Eighties

"...scream queens in the slasher film is her late mother (Akerman). What’s a final girl to do?..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Seventh Son

Fantasy film about an apprentice Spook battling Julianne Moore's evil witch.

"...albeit stifling, teenage rut and away from his beloved mother (Williams) by a shaggy, reclusive warrior (Bridges, looking like..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mom's Night Out

The moms take a girls' night out and leave the kids home with their hapless dads. Chaos reigns.

"...May like a 6-year-old who cobbles together a homemade Mother’s Day card with crayons, construction paper, and some glue...."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Carrie

Sin never dies.

"...– with the bloody birth of Carrie to her mother Margaret White (Moore), a religious fanatic who accepts the..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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