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Hidden Wondersnew
The strange artwork and life of primitivist Harry Darger is given dimension by master documentarist Jessica Yu.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-11-2005 |
Reviews
Don't Go Into the Closetnew
Although the film has the look and feel of an old dark house horrorthon, there’s simply not much else to it beyond a brief and unrealized subplot about all those missing kids emblazoned on the back of your morning milk being the victims of Boogey-napping.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Boogeyman, Stephen T. Kay
Eastwood Delivers a Knockoutnew
Glorious performances and Eastwood's confident direction result in a film that transcends the rules of its genre and shows us, with an unvarnished simplicity, how human beings struggle to come to terms with the unthinkable.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
02-05-2005 |
Reviews
Pot Calling the Tea Kettle Blacknew
With this period piece set in 1950 London, British filmmaker Mike Leigh delivers his best picture in some time, and with it he seemingly aims to provoke conversation about the ethics of abortion.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Leigh, Vera Drake
Wedding Bell Bluesnew
Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-05-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Clare Kilner, The Wedding Date
An Unsentimental Educationnew
Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
Shadow Playnew
There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Uwe Boll, Alone in the Dark
Viewing the Sexual Predator as a Human Beingnew
Writer-director Nicole Kassell’s debut film is a lean drama anchored by subject matter which, although difficult, remains distantly disquieting yet never challenging.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nicole Kassell, The Woodsman
Horsing Aroundnew
Just as the titular zebra, Stripes, is not really a horse of a different color, this kids' picture is not a movie of a different stripe.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Frederik Du Chau, Racing Stripes
About a Mannew
In Good Company is a sincere but serviceable-at-best dramedy from Paul Weitz, one-half of the fraternal team that has already brought us two studies about the development of the human male (for adolescent horndog stage, see American Pie; for Peter Pan syndrome, About a Boy).
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Weitz, In Good Company
Soap and Daggers in Ninth Century Chinanew
The swooning visuals, the expert choreography, the teasing love story, and the puzzle-piece plot all combine to give this martial arts movie the spirit of a star-cross'd swashbuckler.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Hope Amid the Madnessnew
Don Cheadle, in the finest performance of his career, headlines this true-life story about the "Oskar Schindler of Kigali, Rwanda" during the massacres of 1994.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
No Pass, No Playnew
Come to this movie for the prominent hip-hop soundtrack and glossy sports action; leave with a message about teamwork, decency, and self-respect scorched into your brain.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Coach Carter, Thomas Carter
Write What You Knownew
Every young writer goes through a Charles Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it." So say the many peoople who knew him in this comprehensive documentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-13-2005 |
Reviews
Stop in the Name of Lovenew
Leave it to the French to fashion an anguished psychological thriller that, in its last moments, also turns out to be a tender love story.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: red lights, Cédric Kahn
