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Cluelessnew
Historically, Nancy Drew may be the best teen detective around, but in this new screen incarnation, she is definitely no spy kid.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Fleming, Nancy Drew
Darkness Fallsnew
The second in a Russian science-fiction trilogy is a fantastic sight to behold, but don't try explaining the plot.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Day Watch, Timur Bekmambetov
Love Is Blindnew
A documentary portrait of a mutually obsessive, interdependent, tabloid-fodder marriage that's going on 30 years.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Crazy Love, Dan Klores
'Severance': Not Just Another Day at the Officenew
This British horror comedy ricochets from violence to vengeance to outright survivalism, with comedy -- some brilliant, some less so -- underlying it all.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Smith, Severance
'Provoked': The Burning Bednew
What should have turned out as a terrific movie about the crime of spousal abuse has instead received the equivalent of a ham-handed molestation by director Jag Mundhra.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jag Mundhra, Provoked
'Offside': Girls, Goals, and Ballsnew
Deeply immersive, thought-provoking, and quite often funny, this film depicts the resourcefulness women in Iran must rely on in order to enter a stadium to watch, no less play, soccer.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jafar Panahi, Offside
'I'm Reed Fish': Advertisements for Myselfnew
The ultimate indie self-indulgence, this film (with a script by Reed Fish) is weighed down in its own coming-of-age angst.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Reed Fish, Zackary Adler
'Hostel: Part II': Where It's Always Check-Out TImenew
Roth has accomplished the near impossible: He's crafted a vastly superior sequel to Hostel, one that supersedes the original's sadistic quotient, gore effects, and narrative subversiveness.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Eli Roth, Hostel: Part II
Ready for His Close-Upnew
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, is truly a spiritual leader for the 21st century.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
'Once': Singing the Praisesnew
This delicate Irish import, which stars the frontman of the Frames, is an insightful and endearing reimagining of a familiar genre: the musical.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: John Carney, Once
'Mr. Brooks': Addicted to Killingnew
Serial killers are a dime a dozen in this often beguiling but essentially ludicrous movie that stars Kevin Costner in an unconventional role.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bruce A. Evans, Mr. Brooks
'Knocked Up': The Parent Trapnew
Although it's extremely funny in bursts, Judd Apatow's new comedy flirts once too often with schmaltz before toppling into melodrama in its third act.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Judd Apatow, Knocked Up
'Jindabyne': Gone Fishingnew
The Australian director of Lantana returns to similar psychological terrain with this drama based on a Raymond Carver short story and starring the fantastic Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jindabyne, Ray Lawrence
'Gracie': Soccer Scrumnew
Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth) tells this more-or-less true story of one New Jersey girl's struggle to play soccer in the male-dominated sports world of the late 70s.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Davis Guggenheim, Gracie
'Beyond the Gates': Machete Madnessnew
With infinite grace but no real suspense, this film bears dramatic witness to the Rwandan ethnic genocide of the last decade.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
