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Review of Iris (2015)

By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 May 2015

The cult of Iris caught like grassfire, and the film catches this nonagenarian nonpareil, ever in her defining owl glasses and heavy jewelry,…

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Review of Lambert & Stamp (2014)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 May 2015

At times, it’s a bit like being cornered and regaled by actor Bill Nighy’s aging rocker Billy Mack from Love Actually, but certainly more…

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Review of Where Hope Grows (2014)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 May 2015

Chris Dowling’s second feature at first seems anodyne enough, but once the plot mechanics kick into high gear, the film becomes as unsurprising…

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Review of Iris (2015)

By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 May 2015

The cult of Iris caught like grassfire, and the film catches this nonagenarian nonpareil, ever in her defining owl glasses and heavy jewelry,…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 May 2015

Unstoppable and righteous, it roars across the no-lane hardpan like the four-iron horseman of the kinetic apocalypse, amped up on bathtub crank…

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Review of Cobb (1994)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 May 2015

You end up feeling -- despite Jones' dead-on performance -- like you've been cheated. It looks good. It feels right…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By William Goss (413) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 May 2015

Mostly succeeds in spite of the apparent strain to serve the agendas of both its loyal audience and its fledgling stars…

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Review of Hot Pursuit (1987)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 May 2015

Nothing in the film remotely resembles any location between San Antonio and Dallas, the beginning and end points of its labored trajectory…

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Review of Hot Pursuit (2015)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 May 2015

Nothing in the film remotely resembles any location between San Antonio and Dallas, the beginning and end points of its labored trajectory…

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Review of Barton Fink (1991)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 May 2015

For once, the Coen brothers' neurotic filmmaking style works to their advantage; it's giddily appropriate for a movie about a man who's losing…

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Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 May 2015

Tykwer's camera can assault the audience with the rankest of imagery, but not even once does it come close to distilling the actual aroma of…

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Review of Find Me Guilty (2006)

By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 May 2015

Ultimately works a great deal better than you might expect…

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Review of Coraline (2009)

By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 08 May 2015

Stays remarkably true to a kid's-eye perspective and dormant fears…

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Review of 15 Minutes (2001)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 08 May 2015

Herzfeld also wrote the screenplay, and so its leaden and obvious tone and the resulting dearth of delicacy rests squarely on him…

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Review of Don Juan DeMarco (1994)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 07 May 2015

Although flawed in many respects -- it's not as smooth and silky a movie as it could have been -- Don Juan DeMarco nevertheless evokes a romantic…

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Review of The D Train (2015)

By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 May 2015

Although The D Train doesn’t completely live up to its potential, the film earns lots of points for treading a distinctive path through a…

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Review of At First Sight (1999)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 May 2015

Director Irwin Winkler and his cast obviously hope to shed light on the boundaries of love, and instead come up with a walloping case of the…

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Review of Welcome to Me (2015)

By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 May 2015

Welcome to Me isn’t laughing with Alice, but at her, in what seems like a harsh reaction to mental illness…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 May 2015

She’s (Mulligan) got the best lopsided smile in the business, and she uses it well to size up her three bachelors. They’re just no match for her…

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Review of Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 May 2015

Consider this yet another nail in the Eighties coffin…

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