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Flight Clubnew
Calling John Hughes: Former Freaks and Geekster Paul Feig has got your number.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Feig, Unaccompanied Minors
Last Tango in Haitinew
North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Heading South, Laurent Cantet
In the Beginning There Was the Wordnew
Like the very word this documentary examines, F*ck can be found all over the place.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: fuck, Steve Anderson
Can You Change the Past?new
If the science fiction in Déjà Vu has more to do with fiction than science, it’s not as though the movie ever pauses long enough for that realization to fully take hold.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Déjà Vu, Tony Scott
All Wetnew
Like some epic figure of yore, writer/director Aronofsky has allowed his hubris to get the better of him: The Fountain is a dry hole.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
Not Ready to Make Nicenew
The Dixie Chicks struggle for the right to sing and speak.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Down Antarctica Waynew
Raise your flippers in praise of these animated yet flightless fowl, who sing and dance and fight the eco-wars.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Happy Feet, George Miller
O Lucky Mannew
This first feature by Georgian-born French immigrant Gela Babluani marks a memorable debut: It's a taut and stylish thriller despite its brutal psychological duress.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: 13 (Tzameti), Gela Babluani
Pomp and Circumstancesnew
This Helen Mirren starrer provides a glimpse of the British monarchy at a contemporary crossroads between supreme dominance and utter irrelevancy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Frears, The Queen
The New Catechismnew
Montiel's debut feature about growing up in Astoria, Queens, in the mid-Eighties is full of the filmmaker's instinctive brio and inchoate ideas as well as the elaborations of a brilliant ensemble cast.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
What If?new
More sleight of hand than persuasive drama, this what-if story about the aftermath of a presidential assassination is technically seamless but dramatically hollow.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
The Heroic Underbellynew
The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths, but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Purim Pageantrynew
Despite a title that makes it sound like a tell-all about a one-night-stand with Elvis Presley, this movie is actually about the Jewish heroine, Queen Esther.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
The Killer Withinnew
It's another Truman Capote picture about how the author wrote In Cold Blood -- and it stands solidly on its own merits.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Douglas McGrath, Infamous
Despotly Seeking Idinew
Forest Whitaker becomes dictator Idi Amin in a ferocious performance that often dwarfs the more ordinary aspects of this picture.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-12-2006 |
Reviews
