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Few 'Sideways' Glancesnew
The critics' No. 1 choice turned out to be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten, Steve Davis, Kimberley Jones and Marc Savlov |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Haunted-House Movie Is Completely Vacantnew
Darkness is a godawful mess, a Eurotrash horror film for the new millennium.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Darkness, Jaume Balagueró
High-Flying Tycoonnew
Scorsese's best film in years is a work of bravura, classic Hollywood filmmaking.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Up, Up, and Awaynew
Sticking closely to the tone of its predecessor, this remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film lacks the tang of the original, and trades the late-vintage Jimmy Stewart for the shirtless Dennis Quaid.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-16-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: John Moore, Flight of the Phoenix
A Hepcat's Paradisenew
Like Soderbergh’s Ocean's Eleven and 1960’s Rat-Packing original, Ocean's Twelve is an elaborate and delightful excuse to get the screen’s biggest and most gorgeous stars in the same film.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-09-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Ocean's Twelve
Exsanguinators and Other Evildoersnew
Originality is in as short supply as shirt buttons as Wesley Snipes' high-tech vampire slayer meets up with what appears to be a steroidal Eurotrash pimp playing Dracula.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-09-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Blade: Trinity, David S. Goyer
Everyone's a Player in the Game of Lovenew
Love’s fractured fairy tale, writ small and petty and almost too real to bear without flinching.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-03-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Closer
Holiday Pap and Circumstancenew
Christmas With the Kranks is a film so utterly denuded of genuine holiday charm that it ranks with Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as one of the most jaw-droppingly abysmal seasonal efforts yet released.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
You Can Call Me Alnew
Oliver Stone has achieved the impossible: He's made the life of Alexander the Great seem boring.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander
Old Flame Still a Scorchernew
Part colorful noir, part scatterbrained comedy, Testosterone envisions the severed tether of a presumably functional relationship.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: David Moreton, Testosterone
Fun With Dolls and Jennifer Tillynew
Over-the-top gore is the rule when Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their anatomically incorrect offspring.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Mancini, Seed of Chucky
When Obsession Is the Family Businessnew
Odd casting and unimaginative, workmanlike direction make the painfully overlong National Treasure an exercise in mediocrity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: National Treasure, Jon Turteltaub
Engine Troublenew
There’s Christmas magic in Zemeckis’ film, but there’s also a bizarre, palpable sense of unease that's due to the animation style, which despite its faithful replication of author Chris Van Allsburg’s painterly compositions, doesn’t translate all that successfully to the screen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Zemeckis, The Polar Express
Blues Film Lights a Sparknew
Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
Caribbean Cruisingnew
After the Sunset is possibly the ideal film to more or less ignore while lounging poolside and sipping Jamaican rum, 100-proof pap.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brett Ratner, After the Sunset
