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Fatherhood Scorednew
The Rock plays a quarterback whose life is altered by the daughter he didn't know he had.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Andy Fickman, The Game Plan
Working It Outnew
When a Seattle man is transferred to India due to outsourcing, he overcomes his aversion and becomes the eventual poster boy for immersing, life-altering travel.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: John Jeffcoat, Outsourced
BIble Stories for Modern Timesnew
Paul Haggis and Tommy Lee Jones deliver a scorching film that's part police procedural, part family melodrama, and all about our national failures in Iraq.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
09-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah
Backstabbernew
The Assassination of Jesse James may be the world’s first epic of misguided hero worship.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
09-21-2007 |
Reviews
'Ladron' is a Caper Soaked in Latin Flavornew
This Spanish-language caper film, made in Los Angeles, offers grand entertainment and sociological import.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-31-2007 |
Reviews
'Moliere': WIll the Real Moliere Please Stand Up?new
This ragtag biographical portrait plays something like Meet the Parents vs. Shakespeare in Love: A Farce in Three Acts.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-23-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Laurent Tirard, Moliere
'Macbeth': Updated and Outsourcednew
This Australian film puts a modern, hyperstylized spin on an old tale: Should it be, "Out, damned spot" or "Off, damned Ray-Bans"?
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Geoffrey Wright, Macbeth
No Exitnew
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul creates a baffling yet intriguing film of meandering abstractions.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
07-13-2007 |
Reviews
Wedding Bell Bluesnew
A couple seeks connubial advice from a celibate with an affinity for Popeye impressions.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
07-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ken Kwapis, License to Wed
'Knocked Up': The Parent Trapnew
Although it's extremely funny in bursts, Judd Apatow's new comedy flirts once too often with schmaltz before toppling into melodrama in its third act.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Judd Apatow, Knocked Up
'After the Wedding': To Flee or Not to Fleenew
An expat Danish aid worker in Mumbai returns to Copenhagen to meet with a benefactor, only to discover that the world is even smaller than it seems.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
05-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Susanne Bier, After the Wedding
'The Page Turner': Payback in Minor Keysnew
In this quiet, French revenge film, a creeping malevolence wreaks havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
05-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Denis Dercourt, The Page Turner
A Shaggy Wilson Storynew
The Wilson brothers deliver this shaggy comedy -- which was written and directed by Luke and Andrew and co-stars Luke, Owen, and seasoned pros Harry Dean Stanton, Seymour Casssell, and Kris Kristofferson.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
05-18-2007 |
Reviews
Poker Platitudesnew
This romantic drama is set against a Las Vegas background and stars Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore, but it rolls snake eyes all the way.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Curtis Hanson, Lucky You
The Political Becomes Personalnew
Ken Loach paints a grim realist portrait that captures the solemnity of an Ireland turning on itself and the tragedy of two brothers spiraling away from each other.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
