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Shooting Starnew
Sienna Miller nails Edie Sedgwick's gamine naivete in this biopic, but the film feels far too pat for its own good.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Factory Girl, George Hickenlooper
Reality Shapes Fantasy Realmnew
Once again, don't fear the trailer. This excellent screen version of the Newbery-winning novel is not about fairies and enchanted forests, but about kids who feel as though they don't fit in.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bridge to Terabithia, Gabor Csupo
Space Is the Placenew
This note-perfect film by the Polish brothers could almost be a relic from another age, an inspirational drama about staying true to one's dreams no matter the social, economic, or emotional cost.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-22-2007 |
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Passions of the Mindnew
Unfortunately, what makes British abolitionist William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him dull: his single-mindeded righteousness.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Amazing Grace, Michael Apted
On the Short Listnew
And the Oscar goes to ... see the five nominees and judge for yourself.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-15-2007 |
Reviews
Whack-a-Molenew
The career of Robert Hanssen, the brilliant real-life FBI spy whose exploits as a double agent caused a great many deaths, should be the mole story to end all mole stories, but it is not.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
02-15-2007 |
Reviews
Same Old Songnew
Drew Barrymore plays lyricist to Hugh Grant's has-been musician in this Valentine's Day romantic comedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
02-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Lawrence, Music and Lyrics
An Endangered Speciesnew
This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-15-2007 |
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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
A Recipe for Indigestionnew
Jesus Christ, the original sin eater, has his hands full with a bunch of superstitious Appalachian immigrants from Wales in the 1850s.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-09-2007 |
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Noshing on Nazisnew
Who would have thought mass murder and cannibalism could be so dull?
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Hannibal Rising, Peter Webber
Five Degrees of Separationnew
The filmmaker and an all-star cast create this somber murder mystery that has little mystery but is filled with a deep foreboding about the anguish that dominates some women's lives.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Karen Moncrieff, The Dead Girl
I Found My Fill on BlackBerry Hillnew
At Sundance, a renewed 'Focus on Film' amid celebrity worship and the frantic search for the next big thing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-01-2007 |
Movies
Mama Triednew
With a lazy, cliche, and rabid plot and paper-thin character development, this comedy's idea of fun involves the intergenerational discussion of orgasms.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
02-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Because I Said So, Michael Lehmann
Out of Africanew
This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three "lost boys" of the Sudan, chronicling their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-01-2007 |
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