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The Sounds of Musicnew
Admiring documentary about Robert Moog, the inventor of the music synthesizer, reveals little that hasn't been heard before.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Hans Fjellestad, Moog
Sex and the Married Mannew
Kinsey enshrines the scientist at the expense of a more rigorous and more profound scrutiny.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey
Holiday Pap and Circumstancenew
Christmas With the Kranks is a film so utterly denuded of genuine holiday charm that it ranks with Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as one of the most jaw-droppingly abysmal seasonal efforts yet released.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
You Can Call Me Alnew
Oliver Stone has achieved the impossible: He's made the life of Alexander the Great seem boring.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander
Old Flame Still a Scorchernew
Part colorful noir, part scatterbrained comedy, Testosterone envisions the severed tether of a presumably functional relationship.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: David Moreton, Testosterone
Box Office Clamsnew
Nautical nonsense from a highly absorbent animated hero.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Fun With Dolls and Jennifer Tillynew
Over-the-top gore is the rule when Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their anatomically incorrect offspring.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Mancini, Seed of Chucky
When Obsession Is the Family Businessnew
Odd casting and unimaginative, workmanlike direction make the painfully overlong National Treasure an exercise in mediocrity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: National Treasure, Jon Turteltaub
Love in Vainnew
Filmed in a rather minimalist style, this adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel tells an unsettling story about a stalker’s effect on a relationship.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Michell, Enduring Love
Vision and Focusnew
First-time screenwriter Joe Conway merges his narrative voice with filmmaker David Gordon Green's visual poetics – with a little help from Terrence Malick.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-12-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Undertow
A Drama Queen Who Earns Her Titlenew
There are so few really great film roles written for middle-aged women that when one comes along and it stars the near-perfect Annette Bening, it’s disappointing that the rest of the movie does not equal her performance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Being Julia, Istvan Szabo
Caught in the Big Muddynew
Cross-pollinate the arthouse film with B-movie backwoods gothic, and you get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Undertow
Engine Troublenew
There’s Christmas magic in Zemeckis’ film, but there’s also a bizarre, palpable sense of unease that's due to the animation style, which despite its faithful replication of author Chris Van Allsburg’s painterly compositions, doesn’t translate all that successfully to the screen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Zemeckis, The Polar Express
Blues Film Lights a Sparknew
Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
Keeping Up With the Jones Sequelnew
Cast is excellent; movie is OK; men and women are soooo different.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-12-2004 |
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