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Review of Chasers (1994)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 23 Apr 2001

It's just a good ol' bad ol' low-road road movie, a throwback to thirty years ago, a picture with hairy arms and a brew in one fist…

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Review of In the Name of the Father (1993)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 07 Feb 2001

For in relating the true story of Conlon's wrongful conviction and 15-year imprisonment, Sheridan has used the tools of the filmmaker to evoke…

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Review of Titus (1999)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Apr 2000

A spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema…

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Review of The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

The film is unapologetically sweet and hopeful, but it's said the heart's true home is the water, that its nature is to bob atop the cares…

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Review of So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

Mostly you spy the red flags that shout Troubled Production and We Don't Know What to Do With This Script…

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Review of Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

Kenneth Branagh's return to Shakespeare captures the Bard's captivating comic romance at the peak of flavor…

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Review of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

While it's sad the filmmakers didn't lavish more detail on the characters' faces and fluidity of their movement, the picture is still dynamic…

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Review of Clifford (1994)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

Grodin's a fine foil and Steenburgen has some lovely, loopy bits, but their characters are handled mildly, almost naturalistically, and that…

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Review of James and the Giant Peach (1996)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

I hope we don't have to wait another quarter-century for the next great Dahl adaptation, but for a film as good as this one, I'll wait…

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Review of Forrest Gump (1994)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Sep 1998

A remarkable balance of sentimentality and harshness, darkness and light…

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Review of Richard III (1995)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 26 Feb 1998

The cast, a who's who of British stars, is terrific, filling the drama with urgency…

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Review of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 16 Dec 1997

Austin Powers is the kind of movie Mel Brooks used to make -- extravagantly funny, with plenty of juvenile humor, but as much or more of it…

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Review of That's Entertainment! III (1994)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Jun 1997

Perhaps sensing that audiences will believe they have already savored the finest MGM musical moments in That's Entertainment…

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Review of Remember the Night (1940)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Sep 1994

In its way, Remember the Night is as full of the improbabilities of any of the more familiar Christmas movies that we ritually rewatch in this…

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Review of Days of Heaven (1978)

By Robert Faires (35) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Apr 1981

Some movies are like Dorothy's twister; they just pick you up and whisk you away from the commonplace world you know to a world wondrous and…

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