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Forget Me Notnew
Based on a short story by Alice Munro and confidently directed by actress-turned-director Sarah Polley, this drama starring the stunning-as-ever Julie Christie is a penetrating story about love's mysteries.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Away from Her, Sarah Polley
Homeward Boundnew
Despite the presence of three acting powerhouses -- Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan -- this movie about three generations of "difficult" women never rings true.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Garry Marshall, Georgia Rule
Poker Platitudesnew
This romantic drama is set against a Las Vegas background and stars Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore, but it rolls snake eyes all the way.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Curtis Hanson, Lucky You
After the Gold Rushnew
This amazing-looking Mexican epic is a work of historic fiction by a first-time filmmaker, and focuses on the aftermath of the takeover in 1519 of the Aztec empire by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortes.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Innoculation Nationnew
This continuing story of a populace that fears infection from a "rage virus," forges ahead with panic-paced sequences of graphic, random violence.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Pie-Eyed for 'Waitress'new
Despite a storyline that involves an unplanned pregnancy, various affairs, spousal abuse, maternal ambivalence, and food-service employment, Waitress is an optimistic comedy about getting past your mistakes and making the best of life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adrienne Shelly, waitress
'Civic Duty': Neighborhood Snitchesnew
The line separating civic duty from vigilantism is the focus of this paranoid thriller set squarely in the new age of terrorism.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Civic Duty, Jeff Renfroe
Oh, the Tangled Webs We Weavenew
When cascading through the cityscape, Spider-Man 3 still makes us gasp with delight, but on Earth those gasps come solely in reaction to the cynical dreariness of the script.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 3
'The TV Set': Network Bluesnew
David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver star in this dyspeptic drama about the work of creating television shows.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
05-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jake Kasdan, The TV Set
Cavorting With Caninesnew
In his directorial debut, Mike White embraces the awkward with this story of a woman (played by Molly Shannon) who just wants to be loved.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike White, Year of the Dog
The Political Becomes Personalnew
Ken Loach paints a grim realist portrait that captures the solemnity of an Ireland turning on itself and the tragedy of two brothers spiraling away from each other.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Silence Is Chartreusenew
At once eerie, picaresque, and evocative, this is a daring and breathtakingly constructed documentary about the Carthusian monks of the French Alps, who have taken a vow of silence.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Into Great Silence, Philip Groning
Interminable Islandnew
Steve Austin stars in this WWE-produced movie about a death row convict who is brought to a remote island to fight nine other killers to the death for a televised bout.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Scott Wiper, The Condemned
Verhoeven Returns With Dutch Treatnew
Although in many ways a characteristically perverse Paul Verhoeven spectacle, this Dutch World War II resistance story is more morally shaded as well as handsomely mounted and suspenseful.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Book, Paul Verhoeven
Traveloguenew
Exploring and exploding borders with Cine las Americas: Festival Preview.
Austin Chronicle |
Various Authors |
04-20-2007 |
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