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The Lion in WInternew
Peter O'Toole, in an Oscar-caliber and -nominated performance, pulls off this tricky May-December relationship with colossal panache and sublime craft.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Michell, venus
Battle Hymnnew
In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tasteless Toonsnew
The boys are back with their hyper-filthy animation show.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-18-2007 |
Reviews
Once Upon a Time in Spainnew
Guillermo del Toro discusses fairy tales, fascists, and everybody's new favorite movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Celebration of Womennew
No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodovar, and Volver is his ode of love to women's congress and fortitude.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Stepping Outnew
Although littered with cliches and shopworn manipulations, this film's dance sequences are so captivating that it's almost possible to forget you've seen this movie a hundred times before.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Stomp The Yard, Sylvain White
Aromatic Musingsnew
Adapted from Patrick Suskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Jackboots and Dragonfliesnew
Pan’s Labyrinth catapults Guillermo del Toro to the top ranks of international filmmakers: His dark and fertile imagination appears to have no limit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
A Certain Qualitynew
This movie with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett is a hothouse psychodrama, full of outrageous and florid sentiments that are made semipalatable by the quality of the craftsmanship involved.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Notes on a Scandal, Richard Eyre
Barking Up the Wrong Treenew
It's a soggy true-crime drama -- too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alpha Dog, Nick Cassavetes
Onward Christian Horrornew
A Christian psychological horror thriller, Thr3e nevertheless adopts the extreme-horror tactics currently in vogue in movies such as the Saw continuum.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Robby Henson, Thr3e
The New Worldnew
This small gem of a film is about a small man doing small things in a very, very, very large world.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ramin Bahrani, Man Push Cart
Suburban Gloomnew
A modern Emma Bovary and her should-have-been Mr. Right discover that while their suburban American lives may yet have a second act, it could well end up as a tragedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Little Children, Todd Field
Familiar Lesson Plannew
Although based on a true story, this is another movie in which the cute white lady goes into an irascible high school and makes everybody love learnin'.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Fertile Film Hatches Stillborn Ideasnew
Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
