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Caribbean Cruisingnew
After the Sunset is possibly the ideal film to more or less ignore while lounging poolside and sipping Jamaican rum, 100-proof pap.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-12-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brett Ratner, After the Sunset
Austin Chronicle Movie Guidenew
The Austin Chronicle offers an up-to-date searchable online database of full-length reviews of thousands of films that have opened in Austin over the past 10 years. Current reviews are approximately 500 words. Capsules reviews, which generally run 125 to 175 words, are also available by request.
Austin Chronicle |
Various |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films
The Modern Metrosexualnew
Jude Law's new Alfie is less tramp and more scamp.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Alfie, Charles Shyer
Superheroes as Ordinary Folksnew
Watching The Incredibles is like mainlining a snappy, heady mix of comic-book shenanigans and modern parenting.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Bird, The Incredibles
Men Uncorkednew
A sophisticated date movie about male midlife malcontents and the women who love them comes from the director of Election and About Schmidt.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Alexander Payne, Sideways
Acting the Partnew
Victor/Victoria meets Shakespeare in Love at A Star Is Born in this gender-bending backstage story.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Eyre, Stage Beauty
Saints Alivenew
The story of one of Roman Catholicism's most beloved and modern saints earns no novenas.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Love and Warnew
Life during wartime is always difficult, but never more so than when you're in love, as this Czech movie demonstrates.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Ondrej Trojan, Zelary
Born Againnew
If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: birth, Jonathan Glazer
Charlie, We Hardly Knew Yenew
Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jim Van Bebber, The Manson Family
Bio Hazardsnew
Ray Charles, we can't stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Ray, Taylor Hackford
The Horror, the Horrornew
Saw is indeed a horror movie, but not necessarily in the manner the filmmakers intended.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
'Tarnation' Sensationnew
Jonathan Caouette's inexplicably perfect documentary of growing up gay in Texas is the astounding new face of do-it-yourself moviemaking.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
'Primer' Timenew
Writer/director/co-star Shane Carruth's sci-fi verite, Primer, snagged the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2004. His debut film is as densely layered with resonant ideas about the nature of time, friendship, and the process of invention as it is with the minutiae of the engineering field its characters inhabit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Primer, Shane Carruth
Say Amennew
Based on a novel by Bishop T.D. Jakes, a black evangelical preacher and author who also co-stars, this unusual film is part revivalist sermon, part narrative drama, and wholly urgent and engaging.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
