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Review of Breaking (2022)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 25 Aug 2022

The best thing in this movie is the performance by a cast that rarely falters. It’s solid, from top to bottom…

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Review of Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Jul 2022

Though the movie delivers its chuckles and elicits its sighs in a calibrated narrative arc that softens the hard edges of its late…

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Review of Benediction (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jun 2022

Less adventurous in structure than many in Davies’ oeuvre, Benediction is both expressionistic and vivid in recounting selected…

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Review of Benediction (2022)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jun 2022

Less adventurous in structure than many in Davies’ oeuvre, Benediction is both expressionistic and vivid in recounting selected…

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Review of Vortex (2022)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 May 2022

Unrelenting and inconsolable, with a smattering of compassionate moments, the superb Vortex brings to mind an observation attributed to…

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Review of Vortex (2022)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 May 2022

Unrelenting and inconsolable, with a smattering of compassionate moments, the superb Vortex brings to mind an observation attributed to…

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Review of The Aviary (2022)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Apr 2022

The Aviary, a modest mindf*ck of a thriller about two young women fleeing a cult in the New Mexican desert, goes round and round and round…

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Review of Mothering Sunday (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Apr 2022

While the movie’s nonlinear construction is its selling point, at least for those moviegoers who prefer a bit of a challenge, an…

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Review of Compartment No. 6 (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Mar 2022

For a while, you wonder whether the movie will become a thriller about the perils of solo travel, particularly for single females…

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Review of Death on the Nile (2022)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Feb 2022

At first, you fear this uncharted emotionalism may undercut the delicious pleasures of Christie’s clever plotting, this one being a…

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Review of The Tiger Rising (2022)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 19 Jan 2022

Director/screenwriter Giarratana occasionally summons up a lovely moment, although the overall tone is inconsistent…

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Review of American Underdog (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Dec 2021

While Levi gives you someone to genuinely root for, once the movie reaches Warner’s debut game for the Rams in 1999, all nuance goes out…

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Review of Nightmare Alley (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Dec 2021

All said, Nightmare Alley is something to be admired, rather than treasured. It’s big, classic moviemaking with a moral in the end…

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Review of West Side Story (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Dec 2021

Spielberg suppresses his worst tendencies in the uncharted territory of his first movie musical…

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Review of Encanto (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Nov 2021

With its bold visual sense and fanciful storyline (credited to six writers, no less), Encanto feels like a companion piece to Coco, but it…

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Review of Belfast (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Nov 2021

The micro-homilies proliferate, the stagy drama heightens, and subtlety gives way to a little pandering…

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Review of Becoming Cousteau (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Oct 2021

Though this capable documentary is comprehensively informative in so many ways (perhaps to a fault), the one thing it doesn’t quite…

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Review of The Addams Family 2 (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Oct 2021

With the exception of Kroll’s gravelly-intoned Uncle Fester, the voicework is sketchy, with Theron’s Seven-Sisters elocution bordering…

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Review of Cry Macho (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Sep 2021

Regardless of whether Cry Macho merits a rating of good, bad, or ugly, Eastwood’s mere presence, despite any perceived physical…

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Review of The Capote Tapes (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Sep 2021

It’s a titillating story of social suicide worthy of Capote’s imagination, had he only dared to inscribe it with his own words…

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