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Lessons in Babysittingnew
This remake of Fred Walton's 1979 film is a hollow, shallow and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon West, When a Stranger Calls
The Anti-Semitism Among Usnew
Levin investigates the reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism, but never really elucidates or poses solutions to the problem.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: marc levin, Protocols of Zion
Sellers' Marketnew
In this pointless rehash, Steve Martin inhabits the role of the bumbling French detective without a trace of the comic genius of Peter Sellers.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Shawn Levy, The Pink Panther
Happily Ever Afternew
This traditional romantic comedy with a lesbian twist has its charms, but for a movie about loving radically, it sure plays it safe.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
Thinning the Teenage Herdnew
It’s not going to nab any golden statuettes, mind you, but this shocker takes such exuberant, gleeful delight in the unspeakably gory dispatch of assorted teenagers that it may well be the most fun you’ll have at the movies all week.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Final Destination 3, James Wong
Bananaramanew
It's not perfect, but the big-screen debut of H.A. Rey's lovable monkey is faithful to George's gentle spirit while fully exploiting the possibilities of old-school, two-dimensional animation.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Rainbow Rocknew
This rambling, celebratory documentary covers performances from all six years of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival and manages to catch the laid-back, slow-fi charm of the actual event.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Coachella, Drew Thomas
Fly Away Homenew
The homilies are all there in this family-friendly feature about a cancer-stricken 10-year-old searching for the elusive morpho butterfly.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
02-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Léa Pool, The Blue Butterfly
Hustle and Snownew
At Sundance, the proving ground just got a lot more slippery.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Not Quite a Movementnew
Slamdance features tenderness, anger, and a very steep slope.
Austin Chronicle |
Spencer Parsons |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Ride Lonesomenew
Anthony Hopkins' great performance as Burt Munro, the real-life New Zealand codger and Indian motorcycle enthusiast who in 1967 set a land speed record that still stands today, is not enough to crash through this unabashedly sentimental wall of schmaltz.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Landscaping the Romantic Comedynew
Think Bridget Jones' lovelorn but marriage-obsessed single woman, only make her a neat-freak, not a basket case, and a comely African-American, not a plumpish, pasty Brit in this genre-tweaking romantic comedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sanaa Hamri, Something New
The Remains of an Eranew
The final collaboration between director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is a gorgeous slice of Merchant/Ivoryisms that nevertheless fails to equal the team’s greatest works.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Populism Unbridlednew
This muckraking populist grab bag of a film isn't so much a documentary as it is a harried piece of grassroots agitprop.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
There's Nothing Like This Damenew
This staid British music-hall drama seems calculated to earn Judi Dench lots of award notices. Mission accomplished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
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