Film Reviews

Adam McKay deftly explains the 2008 housing collapse and financial crisis better than has been done before.

Sisters is a painful experience that will leave you longing for the comforts of home.

You can shelve any worry you might have had about The Force Awakens, it’s awesome.

Netflix let Adam Sandler make a movie. The resulting Ridiculous Six is about as insipid as you can imagine and then some.

Macbeth is arguably the greatest Shakespearean adaptation in at least a decade, if not ever.

We never quite fell under Brooklyn’s spell.

Victor Frankenstein is by no means terrible, but that doesn’t mean it’s particularly good either.

Thanks for ruining Mockingjay, Hollywood!

By not playing to normal Christmas movie expectations, The Night Before becomes a special kind of Christmas movie.

Click bait might be king today, but old school journalism, as depicted in Spotlight, will never be out of fashion.

Labyrinth of Lies offers a unique perspective on a nation’s attempts to regain its soul.

Riddled with tropes, cliches, and sentimentalism, My All American is the perfect argument for updating the sports movie formula.

The 33 could have been really, really bad. Blessedly, it’s not.

Love the Coopers is every bit as tedious as actually going home for the holidays.

The Austin Film Festival, which dedicates its focus on the role of the screenwriter in the motion picture process, drew to a close at the end of the week, wrapping up its 22nd year. “This is the best festival we’ve ever had… that started with a tornado” joked one of the MCs while introducing the […]

[rating=5.00] It’s easy to forget, in our modern world, the painstaking fight for universal suffrage that beset not only our country, but countries around the world. History tends to gloss over the realities of the struggle, writing so that the world simply woke up one day, realized we were wrong, and made the appropriate changes. […]

[rating=9.00] It never fails to grab headlines or touch our hearts or incite our imaginations with rage when news breaks about a kidnapping victim being freed from the confines of their prisons. We talk about the horror, the PTSD, and the brutality, but we never really think about it. Really, it’s almost too terrible to […]

[rating=5.00] Bond movies are a special genre. They fit into a mold laid out early on in the history of the silver screen, pushing action, love, and betrayal. Though the Bond men have cycled in and out of the public sphere, there’s always that understanding that 007 will return to kill some bad guys, solve […]

[rating=8.00] I’ve often wondered what the movie The Notebook would like it if it wasn’t packed to the gills with trite sentimentalism and forced messaging. That’s a snobbish perspective, I admit, but the movie’s popularity baffled me upon its release, and its continued popularity continues to baffle me. My cinematic snobbery aside, there’s something about […]

While the frequency of showings may have died down a little at “the writer’s festival,” there were some centerpiece films still highlighting the schedule. While The 33 and Brooklyn commanded around-the-block lines, there also some smaller films still to be seen at the 22nd annual Austin Film Fest. Here’s how the fifth and sixth days […]