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A Chinese Box of Secretsnew
This breezy Chinese-American coming-out comedy has a big cast, but the film belongs to Joan Chen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Alice Wu, Saving Face
Retread Has Some New Groovesnew
This deluxe retread is sort of annoying, but it’s so scrappy and persistent that it seems kind of cute in spite of itself.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-24-2005 |
Reviews
Duff Enufnew
Less a feature film than 90 minutes of tweenage feminine wish fulfillment, The Perfect Man is like Teen People come to life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Rosman, The Perfect Man
The Bus Doesn't Stop Here Anymorenew
Instead of reworking the original TV show’s subject matter regarding class and marriage, Honeymooners is plodding mimicry featuring a predominantly African-American cast.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Schultz, The Honeymooners
Anyone Home?new
A young man steals into people's apartments and adopts their identities in this largely wordless Korean drama.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron
Spare the Music, Spoil the Childnew
A box-office smash in its native France, this kindly and spirited film doesn’t exactly break the mold of the heartwarming, humanistic boarding-school dramedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-20-2005 |
Reviews
A Roost of One's Ownnew
Well-considered, beautifully made, and often gripping in its narrative, this film epitomizes the best the documentary format can offer.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-13-2005 |
Reviews
Lots of Waxy Build-upnew
This remake of the 1953 horror classic is mostly rote but occasionally creepy, with some putatively clever jibes at a certain high-profile hotel heiress.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: House of Wax, Jaume Collet-Serra
What Goes Around Comes Aroundnew
Nominally the story of a 13-year-old girl who longs for a baby, Todd Solondz's latest is provocative, wicked, even bleakly funny, and ultimately empty.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz
House of Painnew
Here’s an interesting surprise: Dour, dry David Duchovny’s directorial debut is more weepy than creepy, a conventional coming-of-age story that flashes back to 1970s New York City.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Duchovny, House of D
A Long-Form Taster's Choice Commercialnew
This Ashton Kutcher/Amanda Peet romance film is a lot like mediocrity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Lot Like Love, Nigel Cole
’Til Death Do Us Partnew
Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ray McKinnon, Chrystal
Across the Great Dividenew
Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche star in this John Boorman political drama about the work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Boorman, In My Country
The Newlywed Gamenew
The premise of this gleefully jaundiced mockumentary is simple: A filmmaker pays the expenses of a Queens doorman buying a bride from Burma in exchange for the opportunity to film the proceedings.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-08-2005 |
Reviews
Fresh Mountain Airnew
An off-the-grid family copes with depression and a tax audit outside Taos, N.M., in this warm and unusual drama directed by Campbell Scott and starring Joan Allen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-02-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Campbell Scott, Off the Map
