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Bad Girls Are Even Betternew
Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
Stuck Inside of Nowherenew
Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Light and Darknew
An amusing road trip through Ukraine leads to epiphanies of history and memory in actor Liev Schreiber's only partially illuminating adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Mass Appealnew
An R&B singer rediscovers his roots in this faith-based drama that successfully captures the ecstatic experience of gospel performance despite having no other narrative momentum.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob Hardy, The Gospel
Falluja Fields Forevernew
In this amazingly candid documentary, soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division talk about their lives and their mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, just weeks before the full strength of the Sunni insurgency is unleashed.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Seek and Ye Shall Findnew
Kirk Davis’ slick film, adapted from the stories of Christopher Cook, plunges into Texas' small-town religious mores and comes up with some insightful revelations in this character-driven pastiche.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kirk Davis, Screen Door Jesus
The New American Nightmarenew
This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joseph Castelo, The War Within
Man and His Best Friend, Plus One Rabbitnew
This new animated comedy is a brilliantly conceived and executed bit of Brit wit, perfect for both kids and their parents and anyone even remotely interested in laughing themselves silly.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Kitchen Storiesnew
This frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting film about working in the restaurant industry is technically inept and wholly crude.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob McKittrick, Waiting ...
Bet Your Lifenew
Pacino again plays another Mephistophelean type who mentors McConaughey's ex-jock in the intricacies of his tout service, offering tips to betters on the Vegas line, but the film is about as fresh as a day-old betting slip.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: D.J. Caruso, Two for the Money
The Substance of Lifenew
This adaptation of Haruki Murakami's eponymous short story is a delicate little curio, lighter than air and gravely philosophical at once.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jun Ichikawa, Tony Takitani
A Tough Habit to Breaknew
The plot realistically mimics a teenager's adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker
Faulty Mathnew
As with many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness loses something in its translation to celluloid.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Madden, Proof
Let's Twist Againnew
Some may doubt the need to once more bring Dickens's tale to the screen, but Polanski's deft adaptation proves that there's still life in that well-worn story of a boy who beats the odds.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski
In a Family Waynew
Even if these Shoes are not perfectly stitched, the fit is nevertheless comfortable and the look is polished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes
