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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

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

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

'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

'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

'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

'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

'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

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

'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

'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

'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

'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

'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

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