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An Odd Couple Finds a Twilight Lovenew
A septuagenarian love story from Spain, Elsa & Fred will likely warm the cockles of your heart, even though it’s hardly the stuff of great romance.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
08-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Elsa & Fred, Marcos Carnevale
Queer Cinema Figurehead Returns With 'Savage Grace'new
You can almost smell the desperation in the twisted psychosexuality of Savage Grace, the film purportedly based on the true story of a mother-son relationship that went tragically wrong.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
07-18-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Savage Grace, Tom Kalin
Thou Shalt Notnew
This family-oriented adaptation of the Book of Exodus is the inaugural film in a planned franchise of crudely animated Bible stories.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
'The Ten': Thou Shall Notnew
Quirky comedy sketches illustrate each of the Ten Commandments.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Wain, The Ten
Married With Childrennew
Zach Braff and Amanda Peet play husband and wife who deal with a new child and an old flame in this featherweight comedy that never steps outside its comfort zone.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
05-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Ex, Jesse Peretz
Halle Berry: Call Your Agentnew
The fishy smell that permeates Perfect Stranger comes from all of the red herrings flopping around this absurdly plotted Hollywood thriller.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
04-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: James Foley, Perfect Stranger
Ciao, Russianew
An Italian couple's decision to adopt a Russian boy creates a troubling situation for young Vanya, who doesn't want to leave the country without meeting his birth mother.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
03-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrei Kravchuk, The Italian
The Story Is Only Skin-Deepnew
The three personas Eddie Murphy adopts in this film literally fill the screen, but the script doesn't serve his multidimensional talents.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Robbins, Norbit
We Are Familynew
Dreamgirls is an infectious experience of sequins and songs that lives up to the hype.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
Standing on Shaky Groundnew
This well-meaning social drama about the intersecting lives of a dysfunctional, upper-middle-class family in suburbia and the residents of a deteriorating public-housing project is flimsy at best.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Matt Tauber, The Architect
Disjointed Time/Space Continuumnew
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a woman who keeps seeing a murder victim in her dreams. What would Buffy do?
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Return, Asif Kapadia
Creepy Weepienew
This oddly dispassionate film about a young man dying of cancer is the French antidote to those Hollywood weepies in which the heroine courageously faces her own mortality with every hair in place.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
09-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: François Ozon, Time to Leave
The Fruits of Democracynew
Using the Iraqi democratic elections in early 2005 as its focal point, this powerful documentary is the sad lament of Iraqis who truly want the best for their homeland, despite seemingly overwhelming odds.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
08-28-2006 |
Reviews
Code Warriorsnew
This faithful adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller treats the novel as if it were a sacred text, even though it's basically a Hardy Boys mystery dressed up in provocative attire.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ron Howard, The Da Vinci Code
A Conspiracy in the White Housenew
This serviceable action thriller disintegrates into an implausible mess that's barely salvaged by the presence of old pros like Michael Douglas and Kim Basinger.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Clark Johnson, The Sentinel
