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'Midnight Meat Train' Makes Few Local Stopsnew

This horror film, based on a Clive Barker short story, details the nightly exploits of a butcher who plies his trade nightly on human subway riders.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marjorie Baumgarten  |  08-08-2008  |  Reviews

'Pineapple Express' Is a Comic Rushnew

A winning "bromance" between stoners is at the heart of this shaggy pot story.
Austin Chronicle  |  Kimberley Jones  |  08-08-2008  |  Reviews

The Pants Begin to Fray in This Sisterhood Sequelnew

Female camaraderie, nostalgic sentimentality, and emotional catharsis are back in this sequel: The film hits its marks but lacks real depth.
Austin Chronicle  |  Josh Rosenblatt  |  08-08-2008  |  Reviews

Dead and Gone, But Not Forgottennew

The many pleasures of this riveting psychological thriller from France derive more from the perplexing questions it raises than the discovery of the answers.
Austin Chronicle  |  Josh Rosenblatt  |  08-01-2008  |  Reviews

Ask for a Recountnew

Kevin Costner’s new comedy may be timely, but that doesn’t make it funny or worthwhile.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marjorie Baumgarten  |  08-01-2008  |  Reviews

Oscar Winner Can't Redeem This Self-Help Melodramanew

Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.
Austin Chronicle  |  Josh Rosenblatt  |  08-01-2008  |  Reviews

This 'Mummy' Jumps the Sharknew

This third outing makes it abundantly clear that this once-fresh mummy franchise is dead in everything but name.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marc Savlov  |  08-01-2008  |  Reviews

An Odd Couple Finds a Twilight Lovenew

A septuagenarian love story from Spain, Elsa & Fred will likely warm the cockles of your heart, even though it’s hardly the stuff of great romance.
Austin Chronicle  |  Steve Davis  |  08-01-2008  |  Reviews

God Is in the Detailsnew

It's a film, not a miniseries, but this rendition's attention to the steep divides of class and religion in prewar England remains as sharply etched as ever.
Austin Chronicle  |  Kimberley Jones  |  08-01-2008  |  Reviews

Summer in the Citynew

An odd-couple pairing between a teenage pot dealer and the shrink with whom he trades weed for sessions anchors this story about coming of age in New York City during the Nineties.
Austin Chronicle  |  Kimberley Jones  |  07-24-2008  |  Reviews

'Mamma Mia!': For the Dancing Queen Withinnew

This film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of a catalog of Swedish disco hits retains all the fun but remains astonishingly silly.
Austin Chronicle  |  Kimberley Jones  |  07-18-2008  |  Reviews

Life Ain't Pretty in Gotham Citynew

Although the visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, this new Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our new age of anxiety.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marc Savlov  |  07-18-2008  |  Reviews

The Long and Winding Road of 'Brick Lane'new

Brick Lane shows us the life of a Bangladeshi woman, who moves to London to marry a man she's never met, keep house, raise a family, and eventually act on her squelched yearnings.
Austin Chronicle  |  Josh Rosenblatt  |  07-18-2008  |  Reviews

Werner Herzog Sits on the Bottom of the Worldnew

Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marc Savlov  |  07-18-2008  |  Reviews

Queer Cinema Figurehead Returns With 'Savage Grace'new

You can almost smell the desperation in the twisted psychosexuality of Savage Grace, the film purportedly based on the true story of a mother-son relationship that went tragically wrong.
Austin Chronicle  |  Steve Davis  |  07-18-2008  |  Reviews

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