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College (Fish)Bowlnew
This British coming-of-age drama and romantic comedy is fairly predictable, although the charming actors manage to keep the story's characters just this side of stereotype and mediocrity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Starter for 10, Tom Vaughan
Space Is the Placenew
This note-perfect film by the Polish brothers could almost be a relic from another age, an inspirational drama about staying true to one's dreams no matter the social, economic, or emotional cost.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
On the Short Listnew
And the Oscar goes to ... see the five nominees and judge for yourself.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-15-2007 |
Reviews
A Recipe for Indigestionnew
Jesus Christ, the original sin eater, has his hands full with a bunch of superstitious Appalachian immigrants from Wales in the 1850s.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Five Degrees of Separationnew
The filmmaker and an all-star cast create this somber murder mystery that has little mystery but is filled with a deep foreboding about the anguish that dominates some women's lives.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Karen Moncrieff, The Dead Girl
I Found My Fill on BlackBerry Hillnew
At Sundance, a renewed 'Focus on Film' amid celebrity worship and the frantic search for the next big thing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-01-2007 |
Movies
Battle Hymnnew
In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-18-2007 |
Reviews
A Celebration of Womennew
No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodovar, and Volver is his ode of love to women's congress and fortitude.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Aromatic Musingsnew
Adapted from Patrick Suskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Jackboots and Dragonfliesnew
Pan’s Labyrinth catapults Guillermo del Toro to the top ranks of international filmmakers: His dark and fertile imagination appears to have no limit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
A Certain Qualitynew
This movie with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett is a hothouse psychodrama, full of outrageous and florid sentiments that are made semipalatable by the quality of the craftsmanship involved.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Notes on a Scandal, Richard Eyre
Onward Christian Horrornew
A Christian psychological horror thriller, Thr3e nevertheless adopts the extreme-horror tactics currently in vogue in movies such as the Saw continuum.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Robby Henson, Thr3e
Fertile Film Hatches Stillborn Ideasnew
Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
All Along the Watchtowernew
Matt Damon abandons the cat-and-mouse theatrics of his Bourne identity to play the reserved fictional functionary whose life serves as the prism through which this film examines the early years of the CIA.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd
The Empire Strikes Backnew
The ever-astonishing filmmaker Mel Gibson continues his (probably unintentional) study of the mortification of the flesh through the ages.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson
