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Sticking it to the man, German-style, is the subject of this smart, kicky little gem.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-18-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hans Weingartner, The Edukators
Strolling for Dollarsnew
This film is a singularly dreadful example of what can happen when potentially capable comedians check their brains at a committee meeting and go slumming for dollars.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-18-2005 |
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Hoodoo You Think You're Fooling?new
A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Iain Softley, The Skeleton Key
Scenes From a Former Marriagenew
Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Saraband
When the Music's Overnew
Gus Van Sant concocts an abstruse film "loosely inspired" by the end of Kurt Cobain’s life.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Last Days
War's a Snoozenew
The single dullest war film of the past decade comes from the once promising director John Dahl.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Dahl, The Great Raid
It Ain't Heavy … It's Four Brothersnew
A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Four Brothers, John Singleton
Wild Seeds and the Flowers of Youthnew
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch
Backwoods Throwbacknew
The remake is about as deep as Jessica Simpson's cleavage.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Traveling Manchildnew
A grueling journey is undertaken by a Vietnamese teen to find his absent mother in Ho Chi Minh City, and then his father, a former G.I., in Texas.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Not Another (Troubled) Teen Movienew
Suburban drug-addled teens with dysfunctional parents take a stab at profundity, but Chumscrubber, a soft satire at best, is dogged by a feeling of been-there, done-that.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Arie Posin, The Chumscrubber
Bilingual Scandal-Mongeringnew
John Leguizamo plays a TV reporter in Ecuador in a film that examines the ethics of tabloid journalism.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Crónicas, Sebastián Cordero
Bollywood Film Honors The Godfathernew
Although Sarkar is an original story, its saga of a boss of the people who dispenses justice that might otherwise be denied has many similarities to the Coppola masterpiece.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ram Gopal Varma, Sarkar
Rabies Alertnew
Convinced that one is the loneliest number, a divorced woman uses man's best friend to catch a new mate.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-28-2005 |
Reviews
Fight or Flightnew
Masterful aerial action sequences don't compensate for earthbound plot.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-28-2005 |
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