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The New American Nightmarenew
This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joseph Castelo, The War Within
Man and His Best Friend, Plus One Rabbitnew
This new animated comedy is a brilliantly conceived and executed bit of Brit wit, perfect for both kids and their parents and anyone even remotely interested in laughing themselves silly.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
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Kitchen Storiesnew
This frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting film about working in the restaurant industry is technically inept and wholly crude.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob McKittrick, Waiting ...
Bet Your Lifenew
Pacino again plays another Mephistophelean type who mentors McConaughey's ex-jock in the intricacies of his tout service, offering tips to betters on the Vegas line, but the film is about as fresh as a day-old betting slip.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: D.J. Caruso, Two for the Money
The Substance of Lifenew
This adaptation of Haruki Murakami's eponymous short story is a delicate little curio, lighter than air and gravely philosophical at once.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jun Ichikawa, Tony Takitani
A Tough Habit to Breaknew
The plot realistically mimics a teenager's adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker
Faulty Mathnew
As with many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness loses something in its translation to celluloid.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Madden, Proof
Let's Twist Againnew
Some may doubt the need to once more bring Dickens's tale to the screen, but Polanski's deft adaptation proves that there's still life in that well-worn story of a boy who beats the odds.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski
In a Family Waynew
Even if these Shoes are not perfectly stitched, the fit is nevertheless comfortable and the look is polished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes
Kicking It Aroundnew
The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
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Who Knows What Evils Lurk in the Heartnew
Cronenberg's new horror film implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what do we acquire from our environment?
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-29-2005 |
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Firefly Morphs Into Serenitynew
Joss Whedon's Western/sci-fi hybrid (which was canceled from TV but greenlighted for the movies) evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original Star Wars films.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joss Whedon, Serenity
Free Films in Fijinew
In this documentary, producer's rep John Pierson moves with his family to Fiji, hoping to leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a foreign culture, and, best of all, screen movies for the natives.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Reel Paradise, Steve James
A Fractured Fairy Talenew
The work of fantasist Neil Gaiman finally makes it to the screen with its innate sense of wonder intact, despite this sporadically overstuffed package of magic, mystery, and masked madwomen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dave McKean, MirrorMask
Pin Moneynew
This documentary about Americans' love of bowling traces our fascination through the sport's glory decades and eventual decline to its recent revival.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-29-2005 |
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