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It's a Dog's Worldnew
We smell penguins, even though Eight Below's animals are really a pack of sled dogs in a dandy new man-and-dog movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eight Below, Frank Marshall
The Anti-Semitism Among Usnew
Levin investigates the reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism, but never really elucidates or poses solutions to the problem.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: marc levin, Protocols of Zion
Hustle and Snownew
At Sundance, the proving ground just got a lot more slippery.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
There's Nothing Like This Damenew
This staid British music-hall drama seems calculated to earn Judi Dench lots of award notices. Mission accomplished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Momma's Got the Same Old Bagnew
It's a shame to again witness Martin Lawrence squander his considerable comic talents under a fat suit and fake breasts in this shoddy sequel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Big Momma's House, John Whitesell
The Parent Trapnew
Felicity Huffman’s commanding, gender-bending performance is the primary reason to see Transamerica.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Interesting Distribution, Unspectacular Movienew
Soderbergh’s film is likely to be remembered as the adequate but unspectacular first volley in Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s modern experiment in vertical film integration.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Boy Meets Girl, Againnew
Instead of a great story about the conflicted origins of the American nation, Terrence Malick interrupts his transcendental observations for a dopey love story between John Smith and Pocahontas.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Terrence Malick, The New World
Going to the Wellnew
Unoriginal but pleasantly prosaic, Allen's latest is a diverting story of crime, love and luck that conducts itself with a refreshing absence of moral judgment.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
Leaving (and Returning to) the Nestnew
Despite an overreliance on metaphor and symbolism, this is an affecting little film about characters who struggle with issues connected with adoption, homophobia and loss.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Loggerheads, Tim Kirkman
Urban Update for a Classicnew
This animated retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story has sass but little imagination.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Riding the Rangenew
The Chronicle's reviewers run down the best films of 2005.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten, Steve Davis, Kimberley Jones and Marc Savlov |
01-05-2006 |
Movies
Tags: yearinreview2005
Bloodsuckers and Supersuckersnew
This video-game-to-movie adaptation poses no threat to German filmmaker Uwe Boll's reputation as the modern-day Ed Wood.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: BloodRayne, Uwe Boll
Ghost Town Tokyonew
The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Slasher From Down Undernew
Wolf Creek is an accomplished Aussie version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; it's also a viscerally told slasher film that manages to do an awful lot with very little.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg McLean, Wolf Creek
