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Shallow Waters Run Deepnew
There's a crisp little thriller anchored in this movie about pretty people wearing skimpy swimwear in a beautiful locale.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Stockwell, Into the Blue
French Affairsnew
This French romantic comedy is little more than a heap of cliches whenever the director and star Yvan Attal's real-life wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg, disappears from the screen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Happily Ever After, Yvan Attal
Golf Championsnew
The improbable but true triumph of 19-year-old amateur American golfer Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S. Open is given the David-and Goliath-treatment.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
When Families Collidenew
This new Bollywood film is a cross-cultural love story set in Mauritius.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dil Jo Bhi Kahey, Romesh Sharma
TIFF Notesnew
Here's what a critic took away from the Toronto International Film Festival.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-23-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films
Southern Exposurenew
Johnny Knoxville stars in this slapdash tale of wacky Southerners and midlife crises that feels like a compilation reel of Blue Collar TV outtakes and Coen Brothers-lite quirkiness.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Expect Turbulencenew
Aiming to be a Hitchcockian-type thriller set within the tight quarters of a jetliner, this Jodie Foster vehicle runs aground.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Flightplan, Robert Schwentke
Here and Nownew
Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, this French film’s on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth and some of the spirit of the French New Wave.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Tout de Suite, Benoit Jacquot
Teen Techno Horrornew
A tech-centric but bloodless teen horror thriller works best as a stinging critique of post-adolescent whininess.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Wadlow, Cry_Wolf
Unforgettablenew
A hitman who's losing his memory to Alzheimer's anchors this absorbing Belgian policier that's tightly wound and expertly unraveled.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Roller Boogienew
Hot-wiring a penchant for sports film truisms to some seriously spot-on Seventies nostalgia, Bow Wow headlines this easygoing portrayal of teenage camaraderie and its attendant difficulties.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Malcolm D. Lee, Roll Bounce
Matrimonial Blitznew
New black comedy by Spanish absurdist De la Iglesia involves murder and the plight of a playboy blackmailed into marriage.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Meet the Newlywedsnew
Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Sundance Into the Sunsetnew
An Unfinished Life never transcends its simple storyline to charter original ground, but it is the kind of movie you cannot fault too terribly much, primarily because its heart seems to be in the right place.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Comedy as Funeral Dirgenew
Less a movie than a longform, live-action Celebrity Death Match between its leads, this wheezing comedy may herald the death knell of the interracial buddy-cop farce.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man
