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The Doctor Isn’t In, But the Tax Attorney Isnew
Leconte’s film tells a surprisingly romantic tale of confused identity and psychoanalysis.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-20-2004 |
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Love Me Tendernew
Zach Braff’s feature film debut is a zealously dreamy tale of love, loss and ecstasy among twentysomething misfits in the brackish wilds of modern New Jersey.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Garden State, Zach Braff
Chumming the Oceannew
Open Water amounts to 79 minutes of footage of a pair of petty, pretty people freaking out over having to go to the bathroom in their wetsuits, and in the end you find yourself rooting for the sharks.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
A Sight to Seenew
You may know a certain blind swordsman from the pulp novels of Kan Shimozawa and the films of Shintaro Katsu, but this ain’t your daddy’s Zatoichi.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-20-2004 |
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Body, But No Soulnew
From the "You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Folks" files comes this unfeeling take on how Gram Parsons’ body went missing and reappeared a few days later in the desert, half-cremated.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-20-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: David Caffrey, Grand Theft Parsons
Insert God Herenew
By aping Hollywood's greying action genre tropes so faithfully, this evangelical film manages the rather remarkable feat of being neither alternative nor all that useful as a proselytizing tool.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-13-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jerry Jameson, Last Flight Out
All Sugar, No Spicenew
This modern-day fairy tale has a particularly high sugar content, but coasts by on the affability of its classy leads.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-13-2004 |
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Wipe-Outnew
This surfing doc has come to sanctify its subject rather than to explore it.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-13-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Stacy Peralta, Riding Giants
Stupidity Has Its Place in Naturenew
As director Nerenberg points out, repeatedly, in his amusing and horrifying documentary, the subject of human intelligence has been studied since time immemorial, but there are few treatises on the subject of human stupidity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Haiti's Jean Dominique Rememberednew
This hopeful documentary is a fitting capstone to the life of a man who made a difference in a time and place where it was (and is) so much easier not to.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-07-2004 |
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There's a Spot for this Village in The Twilight Zonenew
Shyamalan has played the same hand one time too many: he coasts into this village that is wracked by the wages of fear, manipulation, and forestry.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-06-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: M. Night Shyamalan, The Village
The Samurai as Family Mannew
A near masterpiece, this atypical samurai movie is more an epic of the heart than the battlefield.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-06-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Twilight Samurai, Yoji Yomada
Flying in on a Wing and a Prayernew
A desperate young woman from Colombia, who hopes to better her life, becomes a drug mule for the syndicate, transporting heroin to the States.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-06-2004 |
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Palm Readersnew
This is what happens when the "don't ask, don't tell" policy fails young lovers.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-06-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Little Black Book, Nick Hurran
Dead Man Walkingnew
Clive Owen stars as the sad, taciturn anchor of this modern film noir by Croupier's Mike Hodges.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-06-2004 |
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