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Last Tango in Haitinew
North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Heading South, Laurent Cantet
In the Beginning There Was the Wordnew
Like the very word this documentary examines, F*ck can be found all over the place.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: fuck, Steve Anderson
American Dreamersnew
This ensemble piece set in a rural mobile-home park has a solid emotional center despite some dramatic mood swings.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dreamland, Jason Matzner
A Day Unlike Any Othernew
Bobby looks at the lives of some everyday people who are about to get caught up in the avalanche of history when they become witnesses to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bobby, Emilio Estevez
Can You Change the Past?new
If the science fiction in Déjà Vu has more to do with fiction than science, it’s not as though the movie ever pauses long enough for that realization to fully take hold.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Déjà Vu, Tony Scott
Backstage at the Back Lotnew
Although it attempts to skewer Hollywood, this new comedy from Christopher Guest and his loyal troupe of improv actors doesn’t have even a drop of affection for its characters.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
11-22-2006 |
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All Wetnew
Like some epic figure of yore, writer/director Aronofsky has allowed his hubris to get the better of him: The Fountain is a dry hole.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
Cop a Pleanew
Bob Odenkirk directs this comedy written by the Reno 911! team, but consider this one disarmed and extremely pointless.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bob Odenkirk, Let's Go to Prison
Rock Your Socks Off, Babynew
How much you'll love (or loathe) JB and KG's passion for the power chord and all it entails will depend, most likely, on your familiarity with the duo beforehand.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Art and Politicsnew
Documentarian Freida Lee Mock presents her subject as a play in three acts, but the academic and fragmented structure obscures the warmth of this playwright.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Not Ready to Make Nicenew
The Dixie Chicks struggle for the right to sing and speak.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Disjointed Time/Space Continuumnew
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a woman who keeps seeing a murder victim in her dreams. What would Buffy do?
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Return, Asif Kapadia
Raw Nervesnew
Welcome to L.A. -- the one where everyone has a gun, a shaved head and a closet full of sleeveless undershirts.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Ayer, Harsh Times
Down Antarctica Waynew
Raise your flippers in praise of these animated yet flightless fowl, who sing and dance and fight the eco-wars.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Happy Feet, George Miller
Not So Happy Mealnew
Linklater and Eric Schlosser's noble and worthy film about meat processing and consumption smacks of good-guy agitprop and fails as a character-driven narrative.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2006 |
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