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Tricks and Some Treatsnew
Two rival magicians are locked in a lifelong quest for supremacy, which leads them down a slippery slope of hairpin twists and triple-turns in this Christopher Nolan movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
A Postgrad State of Mindnew
Writer/director/actor Bujalski has been branded the “emo Cassavetes”: His movies have an astoundingly lifelike rhythm full of small moments that only add up to something bigger later on.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Songs in the Key of Lifenew
This film captures a fair amount of this band's electric charge and documents its 2004 reunion tour.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
The New Catechismnew
Montiel's debut feature about growing up in Astoria, Queens, in the mid-Eighties is full of the filmmaker's instinctive brio and inchoate ideas as well as the elaborations of a brilliant ensemble cast.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
My Little Ponynew
Girls and their horses. They're grist for this new update of Mary O'Hara's beloved novel My Friend Flicka.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Flicka, Michael Mayer
What If?new
More sleight of hand than persuasive drama, this what-if story about the aftermath of a presidential assassination is technically seamless but dramatically hollow.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Godspace Is the Placenew
Life-affirming lessons about a generous, forgiving God and the redemptive possibilities of love and charity dominate this movie based on Neale Donald Walsch's bestseller.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
From Apolitical to Radical in Apartheid South Africanew
Rabbit-Proof Fence's Phillip Noyce again explores the havoc and repercussions caused by white interlopers toward indigenous peoples.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Catch a Fire, Phillip Noyce
The Heroic Underbellynew
The first half of the film continues Clint Eastwood's ongoing deconstruction of America's hero myths, but then detours into some uncharacteristically sentimental mulch.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Wigging Outnew
Don't fear the film's early reviews from Cannes, which too often slighted it for being fluffy (it isn't, though its heroine is) or ahistorical (it isn't, though it is contemporary).
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola
Grudge Matchnew
Japanese director Shimizu may be the only director in history to have helmed a pair of Hollywood remakes of his two biggest hit films and managed to screw up both of them.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Takashi Shimizu, The Grudge 2
The War at Homenew
WWE wrestling champion John Cena makes his film debut in this action film.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Bonito, The Marine
Purim Pageantrynew
Despite a title that makes it sound like a tell-all about a one-night-stand with Elvis Presley, this movie is actually about the Jewish heroine, Queen Esther.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Roky Roadnew
Detailed here is the long, tangled saga of Erickson, the visionary lead singer of the 13th Floor Elevators, whose trip to fame detoured though mental institutions.
Austin Chronicle |
Audra Schroeder |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
The Killer Withinnew
It's another Truman Capote picture about how the author wrote In Cold Blood -- and it stands solidly on its own merits.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Douglas McGrath, Infamous
