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'Beautiful Creatures' embraces "classic stupidity"new

There is exactly one fascinating line of dialog in writer-director Richard LaGravenese's faux gothic Beautiful Creatures.
San Antonio Current  |  Jeff Meyers  |  02-13-2013  |  Reviews

Michael Haneke's 'Amour' holds a mirror to Death's harrowing facenew

In Michael Haneke's Amour, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are an affectionate elderly French couple enjoying their twilight years in comfort.
San Antonio Current  |  Jeff Meyers  |  02-13-2013  |  Reviews

'The Hobbit', a less unexpected journey than you might thinknew

If there's one word that describes The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey it's "more." More action. More digital effects. More characters. More background exposition.
San Antonio Current  |  Jeff Meyers  |  12-13-2012  |  Reviews

A Q&A with director Sacha Gervasinew

For filmmaker Sacha Gervasi, reinvention has been both an inevitable professional trajectory and a personal test of will.
San Antonio Current  |  Jeff Meyers  |  12-05-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

'In the Loop' is a Dark Satire for Dark Daysnew

Taking his cue from The Office, Armando Iannucci delivers a deliciously corrosive backstage view of the Iraq War years, as Brits and Yanks danced around what they knew was a foregone conclusion of their own making.
San Antonio Current  |  Jeff Meyers  |  08-12-2009  |  Reviews

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