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Review of Casino Royale (1967)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 17 Nov 2006

What, no jet packs? No world-conquering supervillains orbiting the planet? No preference for shaken martinis…

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Review of Happy Feet (2006)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 17 Nov 2006

The animation dazzles. The baby birds are fluffy darlings. The script has its moments, the dance bits are a blast…

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Review of Casino Royale (2006)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 17 Nov 2006

What, no jet packs? No world-conquering supervillains orbiting the planet? No preference for shaken martinis…

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Review of Fast Food Nation (2006)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 17 Nov 2006

Linklater and Schlosser have plenty to say. They just fail to say it cohesively…

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Review of Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006)

By Andrew Lewicky (1) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 17 Nov 2006

These two movies - one about family and one about freedom - never quite dovetail…

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Review of Casino Royale (1954)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 17 Nov 2006

What, no jet packs? No world-conquering supervillains orbiting the planet? No preference for shaken martinis…

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Review of Stranger Than Fiction (2007)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 10 Nov 2006

Stranger Than Fiction might be film, but it moves like a novel: a literate, unhurried tale marked by softly wrought reflections on the self-made life…

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Review of A Good Year (2006)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 10 Nov 2006

A Good Year builds so much fairy-tale contrivance with such boisterous high spirits that it's exhausting to keep feeling good about feeling good…

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Review of Harsh Times (2005)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 10 Nov 2006

It's an ugly, brutal picture, and it's not about 'times' but rather timeless macho posturing run amok…

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Review of Stranger Than Fiction (2000)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 10 Nov 2006

Stranger Than Fiction might be film, but it moves like a novel: a literate, unhurried tale marked by softly wrought reflections on the self-made life…

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Review of Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)

By Joey Guerra (3) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 10 Nov 2006

A sentimental valentine to a man who, underneath it all, simply wants to move people with his message…

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Review of Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 10 Nov 2006

Stranger Than Fiction might be film, but it moves like a novel: a literate, unhurried tale marked by softly wrought reflections on the self-made life…

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Review of American Hardcore (2006)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 03 Nov 2006

Instead of an insightful look at disaffected youths finding an outlet for angry energy in rock rages, American Hardcore is a slanted history…

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Review of Driving Lessons (2006)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 26 Oct 2006

Driving Lessons doesn't represent a zenith in the subgenre, and it trades on some feeble character ploys, but it's a kick to watch Julie Walters…

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Review of The Queen (2006)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 26 Oct 2006

We see not only the inner corridors of power, but also sense the inner workings of the royal mind…

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Review of Running with Scissors (2006)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 26 Oct 2006

It's one of the most clear-headed -- and twistedly entertaining -- views of drug dependency and insanity I've ever seen…

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Review of Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 19 Oct 2006

Flags of Our Fathers may well be an accurate depiction of war-zone tumult and its psychic wounds, but that does not make for a cogent narrative…

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Review of Man of the Year (2006)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 12 Oct 2006

Man of the Year isn't Movie of the Year…

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Review of The Last King of Scotland (2006)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 12 Oct 2006

See the movie for Whitaker alone: He's possessed by evil and possesses it wholly, rendering the film (and everyone in it) his plaything…

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Review of Shortbus (2006)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 12 Oct 2006

Despite the buzz about its hard-core hanky-panky, writer-director John Cameron Mitchell paints a bland, bleak portrait of navel-gazing New…

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