Fences
Denzel Washington scores big in August Wilson's great American play
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Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Vessel
Faith-based art film is simple and eloquent
"...Latin American coastal village remains numbed by a horrible tragedy 10 years ago: An unanticipated tsunami devastated an elementary..."
Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Kiwi comedy offers a wealth of belly laughs
"...Hec is a taciturn recluse, barely uttering a word. Tragedy strikes, and that sends Ricky and Hec into the..."
July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
The Idol
The true story Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winner of Arab Idol
"...After a great personal tragedy befalls young Assaf, The Idol advances 10 years or..."
May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Invitation
Girlfight director Karyn Kusama helms dinner-party thriller
"...Still depressed from a tragedy that severed his marriage two years ago, Will (Marshall-Green)..."
April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
The History of King Lear
A long-reviled revision of Shakespeare's tragedy proves fascinating as revived by the Hidden Room Theatre
"...a happy ending on King Lear? Deface this titanic tragedy of Western lit by keeping alive Lear and his..."
Nov. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Big Stone Gap
An Appalachian "spinster" learns the truth about her past
"...Ave since their school days. Opening night concludes in tragedy, with the death of Ave’s mother. Ave is unmoored,..."
Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Everest
Ace ensemble cast enacts the real-life story of a doomed climbing expedition
"...The world’s highest summit ominously presides over the chaotic tragedy in Everest with a serene yet brutal authority. There’s..."
Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Maps to the Stars
David Cronenberg's film, with a script by Bruce Wagner, is a darkly humorous moral fable aimed at Hollywood.
"...it rests quite comfortably in the realm of Greek tragedy, dealing in incest, ghosts, and devastating family secrets. It..."
Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Big Hero 6
Witty charm, lively animation, and a swift pace help this animated superhero story rise a cut above.
"...robotics program a shot. It isn’t long before a tragedy leaves the already orphaned Hiro nearly family-less, but remaining..."
Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss
I Origins
The director of 2011's Another Earth is back with a another appealing yet fuzzy story about rift between empiricism and spiritualism.
"...just as the characters reach their happiest point, sudden tragedy strikes and the film cuts ahead seven years. Now..."
July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Joe
Nic Cage and David Gordon Green are at the top of their games in this Larry Brown story, while young Tye Sheridan is an actor who's already achieved greatness.
"...accurate term than Southern Gothic to describe the spartan tragedy that lies at the heart of this narrative. Brown’s..."
April 11, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Kill Your Darlings
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Allen Ginsburg in this sweet and sour story about the loves and collegiate years of some of the Beat writers.
"...became socking; It’s a gas, a hoot, and a tragedy all in one...."
Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Parkland
The events surrounding the assasination of JFK are witnessed through the eyes of those who were there in this made-in-Austin film.
"...whose hands were literally and metaphorically bloodied in the tragedy’s aftermath experienced the shock with greater immediacy and intensity...."
Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Satyagraha
Indian film.
"...and Amrita Rao. Not reviewed at press time. Personal tragedy leads an ambitious young man to join forces with..."
Aug. 30, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The New Juarez
This partisan film essay attacks both the United States and Mexican governments for the massive violence in Juarez.
"...passionately partisan regarding a very important and hard-to-fully-comprehend human tragedy...."
April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black
The Oranges
The great ensemble cast is the highlight of this movie about a 50-year-old man who falls in love with his best friend's daughter, who is half his age.
"...out whether this is the stuff of comedy or tragedy. It doesn’t help matters that the characters are sorely..."
Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Monsieur Lazhar
In a Montreal classroom, adolescent students and their Algerian substitute teacher help one another cope with grief. The film was an Oscar nominee.
"...immigrant who volunteers his services after reading about the tragedy in the newspaper...."
May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Albert Nobbs
This melancholy picture is distinguished by Glenn Close's vanishing act in the titular role.
"...you bring to it. In the end, everything's a tragedy...."
Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Rockstar
A young man in Delhi dreams of becoming a rock idol but meets only ridicule in this Bollywood film and seeks to correct the problem.
"...He decides his middle-class life has sequestered him from tragedy, which is the common thread in rock-star biographies, so..."
Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Incendies
A powerful and eloquent anti-war drama, this French-Canadian film unites the personal with the political in a stunning manner.
"...piercing as a sudden bolt in an ancient Greek tragedy. Villeneuve adapted the film from a play by Wajdi..."
June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Everything Must Go
Will Ferrell stars in this offbeat drama that's based on a Raymond Carver short story.
"...Go isn't a comedy, but it's not entirely a tragedy, either, and it straddles this razor's edge with a..."
May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Leaves of Grass
Edward Norton plays dual roles as twin brothers from Oklahoma in this off-kilter mash-up of comedy and drama that co-stars Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss.
"...switcheroos, well, that's something to savor. Part comedy, part tragedy, and wholly fascinating, Nelson's Leaves of Grass is strangely..."
Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Brothers
This drama is inferior in practically every way to Danish director Susanne Bier’s original – but now with more U2!
"...U2! – Brothers draws from two rampaging traditions, Greek tragedy and romantic melodrama, and renders both weirdly inert. Maguire..."
Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Damned United
The Damned United is much more than a soccer movie; it's practically Shakespearean in its depiction of the tragedy of Brian Clough, manager of the Leeds United Football Club for only 44 days.
"...overconfident Clough, The Damned United is Shakespearean in its tragedy. That's hardly a new viewpoint to anyone who pays..."
Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Time Traveler's Wife
This romance is based on a popular novel in which the comings and goings of a time traveler wreak havoc on his marriage.
"...dour dramatics.) There’s no epicness here, and no real tragedy, either. Everybody dies; so what if the time traveler..."
Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Wendy and Lucy
From the director of Old Joy comes this minimalist story about a girl (the elfin Michelle Williams) and her dog getting by in society's margins.
"...of the New Recession Cinema? Like De Sica’s neorealist tragedy about postwar Italy, Wendy and Lucy expertly (and presciently)..."
Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Wrestler
In the latest film from Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Rourke rips his tattered name from the dustbin of history with his portrayal of an aging professional wrestler.
"...Aronofsky and screenwriter Robert Siegel are less interested in tragedy than they are the intimacy that develops between men..."
Jan. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Australia
Baz Luhrmann teams with fellow Aussies Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman for this romantic action-adventure epic.
"...to control: Luhrmann wants it all – comedy and tragedy, bombast and wet-eyed sentimentality. When it works, his kid-in-a-candy-store..."
Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Traitor
This Don Cheadle movie is a rare Hollywood creature: an action picture with ambiguity, a blockbuster with more questions than answers, a shoot-’em-up thriller with a sense of moral and geopolitical ambivalence.
"...a country could do. Equal parts political thriller, personal tragedy, and social commentary, Traitor is the most fun you..."
Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Bullock Texas State History Museum
