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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 |
Reviews
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
