AltWeeklies Wire
Kitchen Storiesnew
This frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting film about working in the restaurant industry is technically inept and wholly crude.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob McKittrick, Waiting ...
A Tough Habit to Breaknew
The plot realistically mimics a teenager's adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker
Firefly Morphs Into Serenitynew
Joss Whedon's Western/sci-fi hybrid (which was canceled from TV but greenlighted for the movies) evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original Star Wars films.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joss Whedon, Serenity
Golf Championsnew
The improbable but true triumph of 19-year-old amateur American golfer Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S. Open is given the David-and Goliath-treatment.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Nice Guys Finish ...new
Director Michael Showalter misses a terrific opportunity to pull back the curtain on "the other guy" -- and ends up making a pretty good case for why the sad sack never gets the girl.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Showalter, The Baxter
Love Interruptednew
At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: 2046, Wong Kar Wai
Some Things Are Best Left Undiscoverednew
A musician and an actress circle and sniff, and generally run through every cliché in the why-can’t-we-be-together playbook.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Meiert Avis, Undiscovered
Meet the Parentsnew
With this film built on a host of remarkably nuanced Southern characters, first-time filmmaker Phil Morrison announces himself with assurance and uniqueness of vision.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Junebug, Phil Morrison
Cherry Poppingnew
Truly a standout, this is a gross-out comedy that makes its audience go "awwww" as much as it goes "ewwww."
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-18-2005 |
Reviews
When the Music's Overnew
Gus Van Sant concocts an abstruse film "loosely inspired" by the end of Kurt Cobain’s life.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Last Days
Not Another (Troubled) Teen Movienew
Suburban drug-addled teens with dysfunctional parents take a stab at profundity, but Chumscrubber, a soft satire at best, is dogged by a feeling of been-there, done-that.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Arie Posin, The Chumscrubber
Rabies Alertnew
Convinced that one is the loneliest number, a divorced woman uses man's best friend to catch a new mate.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-28-2005 |
Reviews
Love, Sex, and Everything Elsenew
A movie about master manipulators and the people who love them is rife with surprises.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-28-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Roos, Happy Endings
Forget Your R.S.V.P.new
The film’s sour tone, unremarkable direction, and bewildering characterizations of sexuality and race will probably not hurt the comedy's charm at the box office.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Jumping-Off Pointsnew
This intersecting story that follows a half-dozen New Yorkers over the course of one long day to night is intellectually engaging and genuinely surprising, although not terribly risky.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Terrio, Heights
