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Hail Mary Footballnew
A born-again high school football coach draws on a higher power to inspire his team to victory.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
11-17-2006 |
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James Blondnew
This is the James Bond origin story wherein we get to discover, along with incoming blond Bond Daniel Craig, where 007 got his suave daredeviltry.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Casino Royale, Martin Campbell
Kick Out the Jamsnew
Crammed with grainy, shot-on-the-fly mid-80s video footage, recent interviews, and a genuine love for its subject, American Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten moment in maximum rock 'n' roll history.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Hardcore, Paul Rachman
O Lucky Mannew
This first feature by Georgian-born French immigrant Gela Babluani marks a memorable debut: It's a taut and stylish thriller despite its brutal psychological duress.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: 13 (Tzameti), Gela Babluani
Jigsaw's Puzzle Filled Innew
In the context of the Saw franchise, the third time's the proverbial charm, with oodles of backstory ladled atop the proceedings.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw III
Road Trippingnew
Old Joy is an accurately observed moment between post-adolescence and parenthood, when friends cling or scatter, and circumstances force buried feelings to the fore.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy
Bowl of Laughsnew
Unlike so many kids movies these days, Flushed Away's characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
11-02-2006 |
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Going My Way?new
This mockumentary provides some of the most fearless acts of transgressive comedy in years.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-02-2006 |
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The Curse of Quixotenew
Terry Gilliam misfires completely in this dreary, unfocused, and exhausting psychodrama.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry Gilliam, Tideland
Off-Kilter Kinshipnew
This film depiction of Augusten Burroughs' hellish childhood is tonally fractured and features a series of performances that pitch and yaw between "normal" and utterly mad.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running With Scissors, Ryan Murphy
Pomp and Circumstancesnew
This Helen Mirren starrer provides a glimpse of the British monarchy at a contemporary crossroads between supreme dominance and utter irrelevancy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Frears, The Queen
Tricks and Some Treatsnew
Two rival magicians are locked in a lifelong quest for supremacy, which leads them down a slippery slope of hairpin twists and triple-turns in this Christopher Nolan movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
A Postgrad State of Mindnew
Writer/director/actor Bujalski has been branded the “emo Cassavetes”: His movies have an astoundingly lifelike rhythm full of small moments that only add up to something bigger later on.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-27-2006 |
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Songs in the Key of Lifenew
This film captures a fair amount of this band's electric charge and documents its 2004 reunion tour.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2006 |
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The New Catechismnew
Montiel's debut feature about growing up in Astoria, Queens, in the mid-Eighties is full of the filmmaker's instinctive brio and inchoate ideas as well as the elaborations of a brilliant ensemble cast.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2006 |
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