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Honky-Tonk Love Storynew
Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as the musician Johnny Cash, whose rise, fall, and resurrection we watch as he does the Benzedrine 12-step in order to earn the love of country-and-gospel sasspot June Carter.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Bombs Awaynew
Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That's the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
Potter Tots Grow Up Lotsnew
This fourth Potter film is qualitatively different from the first three: It doesn't linger on gothic curlicues, and it emphasizes the emotional development of its characters with dramatic interplay rather than expressionistic, atmospheric gloom.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Portrait of the Artist as a Gay Ladnew
Dorian Blues has wit, humor, good performances, and clever technique, which catapult the film into the front ranks of coming-out movies.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dorian Blues, Tennyson Bardwell
Off the Tracksnew
The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is a thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages the viewer's sympathies.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mikael Hafstrom, Derailed
All Spelled Outnew
Myla Goldberg's novel about spelling-bee fever, a family in chaos and religious/mystic exploration arrives on the screen with all its faults intact but few of its charms.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Anything Can Happennew
Jon Favreau and Dax Shepard discuss Zathura.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
Game Onnew
With his follow-up to Elf, director Jon Favreau sticks with family-friendly filmmaking, this time delivering a bang-up version of Chris Van Allsburg's bestselling children's book Zathura.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
The Corpse Isn't the Only Thing That's Stiffnew
Master filmmaker Atom Egoyan goes for the mainstream with this new murder mystery, but sadly his aim is way, way off.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
Bollywood Baublenew
In a country famous for its exhaustively over-the-top filmmaking, India's Shaadi No. 1 is an extreme case: a maddeningly manic comedy-romance painted in vibrant shades of neon pink and Day-Glo violet.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dhawan, Shaadi No. 1
Austen Reduxnew
This fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's masterpiece starring Keira Knightley presents a witty and lovesick skirmish of the sexes that exceeds all expectations.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joe Wright, Pride & Prejudice
Deep Freeze Comedynew
A mockumentary about the members of a Frozen Food Enthusiasts Club is funny when it stays on topic but becomes scattered when it strays.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
50 Cent Short 2 Bitsnew
The film story of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's tough road to success is so melodramatic that if it weren't real it would be laughable.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Seaside Dalliancesnew
The French still like to get their sex on, a fact confirmed again and again in this breezy, featherweight sex farce.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Fowl Playnew
Disney's first all-CGI, made-in-house, animated feature is painful for all ages, despite a voice-talent roster to make the angels weep.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chicken Little, Mark Dindal
