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Rock & Roll Residuenew
With an award-winning performance by Maggie Cheung, Clean is one of the most emotionally honest movies about drug addiction ever made.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Olivier Assayas, Clean
Permanent Wavesnew
This documentary shows how real power flows not from the barrel of a gun but rather a can of hairspray.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Breaking Ranksnew
The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Zeiger, Sir! No Sir!
Til Death Do Us Partnew
This film, which examines the second-class status of women in traditional Hindu society is beautiful yet sad, a tale drenched in centuries of stagnant, holy water.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: water, Deepa Mehta
Wedding March to No Man's Landnew
This story about an arranged marriage taking place in a remote outpost of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights will be familiar to anyone ever caught in an avalanche of red tape.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eran Riklis, The Syrian Bride
World Cup Appetizernew
From East L.A. to the soccer fields of England, this rags-to-riches story sticks closely to the sports movie formula.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-12-2006 |
Reviews
Magic Kingdomsnew
This fantastical story mixes battles, magic, romance and mistaken identities for a lovely but unsatisfying blend.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Chen Kaige, The Promise
The Day the World Changednew
United 93 is a sober, humanistic portrait of America’s literal "first responders," who in an instant were forced to wrap their heads around a new, unfathomable reality.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
Balancing Actsnew
Bring It On scribe Jessica Bendinger writes and directs this teen movie set in the world of competitive gymnastics, and features leotard-clad girls who learn to stick together to fight injustice.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jessica Bendinger, Stick It
Home Friednew
Steve Buscemi directs this story about a lovable loser who moves back in with his off-kilter family in Indiana.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim
Good Sportsmanshipnew
Rob Corddry of The Daily Show stars as a professional paintball athlete looking to reclaim his former glory in this genial but uneven mockumentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-21-2006 |
Reviews
Family Feudnew
Soap melodramatics masquerade as high art in this south-of-the-border drama about a love triangle and marital infidelity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
Big Girls Don't Defynew
Comedian Mo’Nique’s first starring film vehicle suffers from a bad case of undernourishment.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nnegest Likké, Phat Girlz
Throws in Everything -- and the Towelnew
This fun but ultimately disappointing mistaken-identity thriller has style galore, which may actually be the crux of its problem.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lucky Number Slevin, Paul McGuigan
DeLillo Strikes Outnew
Novelist Don DeLillo's first foray as a screenwriter uses the legendary sixth game of the 1986 World Series as the central metaphor in this film starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Game 6, Michael Hoffman
