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Jazz Age Gone Wildenew
Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan is here set among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin' on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: A Good Woman, Mike Barker
Momma's Got the Same Old Bagnew
It's a shame to again witness Martin Lawrence squander his considerable comic talents under a fat suit and fake breasts in this shoddy sequel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Big Momma's House, John Whitesell
Schoolhouse Reichnew
Every movie about the Holocaust should be this good, but few are. Heartbreaking and brutal, its tale of two boys training together at an elite school is as intimate and truthful to its characters as it is powerfully topical and politically brave.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Before the Fall, Dennis Gansel
The New Texas Family Planningnew
Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
01-30-2006 |
Sex
The Parent Trapnew
Felicity Huffman’s commanding, gender-bending performance is the primary reason to see Transamerica.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Cartoon Cascadenew
Know this going in: Sex and violence are the currency of Spike & Mike’s gory, twisted economy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savolv |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Who's Minding the Kids?new
Nanny McPhee is something of a rarity: a movie for children that is about children and their world.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Kirk Jones, Nanny McPhee
Missionaries at End of Spitnew
Members of the violent Waodani tribe of Ecuador kill five Western missionaries, but as a result they choose to abandon their kill-or-be-killed ways.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: End of the Spear, Jim Hanon
Interesting Distribution, Unspectacular Movienew
Soderbergh’s film is likely to be remembered as the adequate but unspectacular first volley in Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s modern experiment in vertical film integration.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Shipping Outnew
Annapolis is a thick but hardly meaty slice of old-school Hollywood hokum.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Justin Lin, Annapolis
Boy Meets Girl, Againnew
Instead of a great story about the conflicted origins of the American nation, Terrence Malick interrupts his transcendental observations for a dopey love story between John Smith and Pocahontas.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Terrence Malick, The New World
Going to the Wellnew
Unoriginal but pleasantly prosaic, Allen's latest is a diverting story of crime, love and luck that conducts itself with a refreshing absence of moral judgment.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
Coming Up Emptynew
Albert Brooks again sallies forth where others fear to tread, although his comic results are more mildly amusing than riotously funny.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Perplexing But Not Terrifyingnew
Although long on style and concept, this film lacks the primal urgency of Shimizu’s 2003 J-horror blockbuster Ju-on.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Takashi Shimizu, Marebito
On the Hooknew
This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
