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Now More Like It Ought to Benew
The movie Peckinpah made in between Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch – Major Dundee – was a troubled picture from the get-go.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-20-2005 |
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Final Grade Is Life or Deathnew
In this stale thriller, young FBI profilers have a hard time figuring out who is picking them off, one by one.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Renny Harlin, Mindhunters
Daddy Dearestnew
An acute observation of the ways in which we fail to communicate marks this French film, which won the screenwriting award at last year's Cannes Film Festival.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Agnès Jaoui, Look at Me
Once and Future Kingdomsnew
Ridley Scott's Crusades epic is a historical spectacle on the order of Gladiator and a dissection of war, as gritty and illuminating as Black Hawk Down, that takes flight when it becomes a canvas for ideas and ideologies in action.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven
The Winters and Our Discontentnew
Neither a change of seasons nor truly wonderful performances can breathe life into this dismally enervated drama.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Josh Sternfeld, Winter Solstice
Don't Pay Upnew
A mirthless comedy about venal people doing stupid things, King's Ransom has little chance of box-office success.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Byrd, King's Ransom
Corruption and Complicitynew
Based on the book by Fortune writers Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, this film documents the collapse of Enron in vivid detail and with cinematic flourish.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-30-2005 |
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Rough Road Aheadnew
The Baja 1000, the longest and shaggiest off-road race in the world, is captured in a middle-of-the-road documentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dana Brown, Dust to Glory
Tower of Babelnew
Although The Interpreter is intelligent, intriguing, and topical, it's hampered by its own good intentions, too many plot convolutions, and character ambiguities that try to pass for suspense.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Sydney Pollack, The Interpreter
Mamas, Let Your Sons Grow Up to Be Cowboysnew
The actor Scott Caan makes a strong debut as a writer-director in this atmospheric character study in which he also co-stars with Shawn Hatosy, Jeff Goldblum, and Kelly Lynch.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dallas 362, Scott Caan
Remodeling a Haunted Housenew
A dream home on Long Island is not all it's cracked up to be: The family inside sees dead people.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-14-2005 |
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Home Alonenew
Nobody Knows is the rare film that successfully tells its tale of childhood from the children’s point of view, forgoing easy sensationalism and poignancy for naturalism and honesty.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nobody Knows
Anger Managementnew
The two fantastic performances by Joan Allen and Kevin Costner that anchor The Upside of Anger are the reason to see this contemporary drama about romance between two flawed adults.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Binder, The Upside of Anger
Atlanta Clippersnew
Amiable distaff offering from the Barbershop franchise is presentable, but uses too much narrative relaxer.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-02-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Beauty Shop, Bille Woodruff
Down Eden's Pathnew
An insular father-daughter relationship comes apart in writer-director Rebecca Miller's drama, which stars her actor-husband Daniel Day-Lewis.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-02-2005 |
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