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The Police Procedural Meets the Avant Gardenew
There's a reason why this FBI agent who's chasing a serial killer has constant headaches: He's in the middle of a murky movie that mixes arch style with police procedural.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: E. Elias Merhige, Suspect Zero
This Hero Is No False Idolnew
If Douglas Sirk had made martial arts movies they probably would have looked something like Zhang Yimou's stunning new opus.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Zhang Yimou, Hero
Boys Gone Mildnew
Three buddies light out into the wilderness in search of hidden treasure and a male-bonding experience -- but not too much male bonding, if you know what we mean.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Brill, Without a Paddle
Wipe-Outnew
This surfing doc has come to sanctify its subject rather than to explore it.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-13-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Stacy Peralta, Riding Giants
Dead Man Walkingnew
Clive Owen stars as the sad, taciturn anchor of this modern film noir by Croupier's Mike Hodges.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-06-2004 |
Reviews
Presidential Politics – With Strings Attachednew
Is it Gulf War syndrome or justified paranoia? The Manchurian Candidate thrills again.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
It Takes a Villagenew
A tiny French Canadian fishing village tries to woo a doctor to take up permanent residence.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-23-2004 |
Reviews
Film Riffs That Evaporate in Smoke and Steamnew
Jim Jarmusch's new brew is lukewarm.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-23-2004 |
Reviews
Are You My Mother?new
A story about a Mongolian camel and her newborn calf becomes a transfixing lesson about the rhythms of life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-16-2004 |
Reviews
These Robots Have a Few Loose Screwsnew
This summer, Will Smith saves the world from … robots.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Alex Proyas, I, Robot
Paris Is for Loversnew
Before Sunset is a fluid, engaging, charming, frustrating, funny, and lively movie. Linklater's characters have seasoned in the nine years since they met, their outlooks are not as carefree as they were in their youth, and their responsibilities in life have multiplied and grown roots.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-08-2004 |
Reviews
Like Father, Like Sonnew
Melvin Van Peebles' son Mario pays tribute to his father's groundbreaking blaxploitation film Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, and also settles a few old Oedipal scores along the way.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Will Smooth Flight Prove Audience Delight?
Steven Spielberg enters his Capra period with this optimistic melting-pot tale starring pal Tom Hanks, whose underused comic instincts come to the fore.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Spielberg, The Terminal
World Romp Free of Pomp
Jackie Chan finally emerges as a plausible English-language star in this international romp that's as light as a hot-air balloon.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Will Smooth Flight Prove Audience Delight?new
Steven Spielberg enters his Capra period with this optimistic melting-pot tale starring pal Tom Hanks, whose underused comic instincts come to the fore.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-17-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Tom, Barry, Stanley, Chi, Luna, The Terminal, Hanks, Catherine, Diego, Kumar, McBride, Pallana, Saldana, Shabaka-Henley, Tucci, Zeta-Jones, Zoe
