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Beantown by Way of Hong Kongnew
Watching this new film by Scorsese is tantamount to falling in love with the director all over again.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Franken Sense and Mirthnew
The film follows around comedian and politico Franken without managing to either inflame or inspire the viewer or add much new information to Franken's already well-documented history.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2006 |
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Fancy Footworknew
Jet Li's final martial-arts epic is fittingly peripatetic, finding the Hong Kong superstar ricocheting across the screen from action set-piece to emotional overload and back again.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ronny Yu, Jet Li's Fearless
Groundednew
This story of the Lafayette Escadrille squadron, who become the first U.S. fighter pilots, is surprisingly inert.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-28-2006 |
Reviews
Dream Loversnew
Michel Gondry's film is messy, confusing, painful, and ultimately utterly rewarding, thanks in no small measure to the unfettered talents of Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-22-2006 |
Reviews
An Anti-Love Storynew
Jan Svankmajer's creepy-crawl slowly becomes one of the most mordantly beautiful of the director's films, an asylum-set anti-love story with mobile body parts and splashy theatrics.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jan Svankmajer, Lunacy
Lovers Quarrelnew
You could say Paul Haggis' script for The Last Kiss is something of a Garden State redux, but Zach Braff's character here is less fanciful, less melodramatic, and far more prone to doing the thoughtless things men tend to do.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Last Kiss, Tony Goldwyn
Gosling Goes for Realismnew
Ryan Gosling's bleakly hopeful turn as crack-addicted teacher Dan in Half Nelson is matched by the smoldering realism of newcomer Shareeka Epps.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Half Nelson, Ryan Fleck
100-Proof Bukowskinew
Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bent Hamer, Factotum
Few Gaspsnew
Belgian horror romp Calvaire is so dead-set on being disturbing that it ends up tripping over its own hobbled feet.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Calvaire, Fabrice du Welz
Honest and Realnew
An astonishing twinning of wild imagination and drop-dead realism, Brothers of the Head is simply the most poignant and exciting mockumentary about (conjoined) sibling rivalry, revelry, and reversal of fortunes ever made.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-11-2006 |
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True Gritnew
Mark Wahlberg plays footballer Vincent Papale in this story about how he captured a spot on the Philadelphia Eagles team in an open tryout.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ericson Core, Invincible
Thirties-Era Gangster Rapnew
OutKast has been operating as two separate and distinct musical personas for at least three years now, and Idlewild unwisely continues this trend into the cinematic realm.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Barber, Idlewild
Remember North American Soccernew
The unexpected rise and meteoric fall of the North American Soccer League in the heady, silly mid-Seventies is chronicled for the first time in this charmingly chatty documentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-13-2006 |
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Heaven's Solid Sendersnew
Galan's reverential look at Grammy-winning "Texican" rockers Los Lonely Boys is a document of persistence, passion, and some of the finest rock 'n' roll since Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely exit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-13-2006 |
Reviews
