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Oh! Calcutta!new

Mira Nair's complex meditation on family, relationships, and identity, traces the saga of two generations of an Indian-American family, as outlined in Jhumpa Lahiri's bestselling novel.

Austin Chronicle | Toddy Burton | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Mira Nair, The Namesake

Forgive Us Our Sinsnew

The Lookout, an odd caper story, marks Scott Frank's directorial debut after years of working as a screenwriter on movies like Get Shorty and Out of Sight.

Austin Chronicle | Josh Rosenblatt | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Scott Frank, The Lookout

Call in the National Guardnew

This sequel to last year's remake is as witless and simpleminded as the irradiated humanoids that serve as the franchise's bad guys.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Martin Weisz, The Hills Have Eyes II

The Cost of Happinessnew

French film wonders what it takes.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Felicia Feaster | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Avenue Montaigne, Daniele Thompson

Creature Featurenew

This manic monster party from South Korea cleverly updates the Japanese monster-movie genre while offering a witty and sweet look at what's left of the nuclear family.

Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Bong Joon-ho, The Host

Mock Turtlesnew

Back on the screen for the first time since the early 90s, the Ninja Turtles are now animated via CGI, though their plot and character details got lost in the shuffle.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Kevin Munroe, TMNT

Hola Afghanistannew

Jesus Feliciano is a Mexican national who joins the Marines to gain U.S. citizenship and returns home from Iraq with a nasty case of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Austin Chronicle | Josh Rosenblatt | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Iraq, WAR, in, Carl Colpaert, G.I. Jesus

It Came From the Rivernew

Somewhere between plainly campy horror flicks and the cheery spoof of Shawn of the Dead lies The Host.

Eugene Weekly | Molly Templeton | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Bong Joon-ho, The Host

Sorry, Charlienew

The past is catching up to Charlie Fineman.

Eugene Weekly | Jason Blair | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Mike Binder, Reign Over Me

What the Opposite Sex Wantsnew

Writer/director Mars Callahan keeps his characters talking from the first frame to the last -- and like all great chatterers their preferred topic is love and all its variations.

Austin Chronicle | Josh Rosenblatt | 03-29-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Mars Callahan, What Love Is