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About a Mannew
In Good Company is a sincere but serviceable-at-best dramedy from Paul Weitz, one-half of the fraternal team that has already brought us two studies about the development of the human male (for adolescent horndog stage, see American Pie; for Peter Pan syndrome, About a Boy).
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
01-13-2005 |
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Tags: Paul Weitz, In Good Company
Soap and Daggers in Ninth Century Chinanew
The swooning visuals, the expert choreography, the teasing love story, and the puzzle-piece plot all combine to give this martial arts movie the spirit of a star-cross'd swashbuckler.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
01-13-2005 |
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Hope Amid the Madnessnew
Don Cheadle, in the finest performance of his career, headlines this true-life story about the "Oskar Schindler of Kigali, Rwanda" during the massacres of 1994.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-13-2005 |
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Tags: Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
No Pass, No Playnew
Come to this movie for the prominent hip-hop soundtrack and glossy sports action; leave with a message about teamwork, decency, and self-respect scorched into your brain.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-13-2005 |
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Tags: Coach Carter, Thomas Carter
Write What You Knownew
Every young writer goes through a Charles Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it." So say the many peoople who knew him in this comprehensive documentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-13-2005 |
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Stop in the Name of Lovenew
Leave it to the French to fashion an anguished psychological thriller that, in its last moments, also turns out to be a tender love story.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-06-2005 |
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Tags: red lights, Cédric Kahn
Psychic Friends Networknew
That droning sound you hear is White Noise.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Geoffrey Sax, White Noise
DiG This!new
DiG! transcends the typical "rock movie" format and aspires to something greater: an examination of why we create and what we receive from art.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dig!, Ondi Timoner
Few 'Sideways' Glancesnew
The critics' No. 1 choice turned out to be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten, Steve Davis, Kimberley Jones and Marc Savlov |
01-06-2005 |
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Bobby Darin's Show-Biz Race Against Timenew
More "Splish" than "Splash," this biopic about the life of pop crooner Bobby Darin is practically a one-man Kevin Spacey show.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-29-2004 |
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Tags: Kevin Spacey, beyond the sea
Haunted-House Movie Is Completely Vacantnew
Darkness is a godawful mess, a Eurotrash horror film for the new millennium.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-29-2004 |
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Tags: Darkness, Jaume Balagueró
Epic Tone and Milquetoast Lovers an Ill Fitnew
The director of Amélie reunites with that film's star, Audrey Tautou, for this World War One love story.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
12-22-2004 |
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People Who Need Peoplenew
You can Fockerize Meet the Parents all you want, but this new movie is a lame sequel to the comic hit of 2000.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-22-2004 |
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Tags: Jay Roach, Meet the Fockers
Living in the Real Worldnew
Bill Cosby's animated kids get a live-action makeover.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Fat Albert, Joel Zwick
We All Live in a Yellow Submarinenew
Bill Murray won't get the elusive Oscar for this one -- for all its visual majesty, The Life Aquatic is too slight -- but the film is nevertheless a funny, bewildering, and giddy spectacle.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
12-22-2004 |
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