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Review of Yesterday (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 26 Jun 2019

As the whimsical setup in Yesterday deteriorates until its unimaginative conclusion, the familiar Lennon/McCartney collaborations (along…

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Review of Pavarotti (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Jun 2019

This love letter dedicated to opera’s biggest rock star, the larger-than-life Luciano Pavarotti, achieves something most documentaries…

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Review of Shaft (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Jun 2019

Times sure have changed since the old Shaft made women swoon by simply treating them like sh*t…

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Review of Too Late to Die Young (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Jun 2019

Perhaps the bigger canvas here is a native daughter’s tribute to the resiliency of the people of her homeland…

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Review of Rocketman (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Jun 2019

As in the Mercury biopic, an unexpected performance by a relatively untried actor in the central role anchors Rocketman…

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Review of Walking on Water (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 23 May 2019

The movie remains patchy as it continues to jump somewhat arbitrarily from day to day without fully realizing its subject matter…

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Review of Trial by Fire (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 May 2019

It’s a tale full of sound and fury, signifying something that’s nothing less than appalling…

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Review of Breakthrough (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Apr 2019

For a movie focusing so intently on personal faith, it doesn’t much trust your independent capacity to find religious, spiritual, or…

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Review of Five Feet Apart (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 19 Mar 2019

Perhaps the fault lies not in our stars, but in our shameless need for a sappy ending…

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Review of Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 Mar 2019

Screenwriters Nina Fiore and John Herrera have modernized Keene’s decades-old storyline without completely chucking the quaint qualities…

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Review of To Dust (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Feb 2019

The real delight here, however, is Broderick’s mensch, a middle-aged man painfully aware that he’s become a loser…

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Review of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Feb 2019

The movie’s constant meta-comedy recognition of the endearing yet aggravating earworm quality of the first film’s “Everything Is…

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Review of What Men Want (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Feb 2019

Henson aside, the most memorable performance comes from musician Erykah Badu in the smallish role of a trippy, weed-dealing psychic…

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Review of A Dog's Way Home (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Jan 2019

Some kids may find the whole affair traumatic, particularly when the poor pooch finds herself dehydrated and chained to a corpse in the…

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Review of Destroyer (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Jan 2019

Speaking in a barely audible rasp bordering on monotone, Kidman bravely submerges herself in a performance with some genuinely harrowing…

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Review of Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Dec 2018

For no matter how derivative this carefully calculated sentimental journey may be, there’s still an undeniable magic in its voice and its…

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Review of Chef Flynn (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Dec 2018

While the movie principally focuses on Flynn’s professional aspirations, including his desire to be accepted as a chef in his own right…

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Review of Creed II (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Nov 2018

The casting is solid, with an even more pumped-up Jordan once again anchoring the movie as the conflicted young boxer in the title…

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Review of Nobody's Fool (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Nov 2018

In the end, you feel like you’re the victim of a cruel bait-and-switch, lured into thinking Nobody’s Fool would be a crappy but…

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Review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Nov 2018

Grant punctuates almost every piece of Hock’s dialogue with an absurd gesture or facial expression – the theatricality of his portrayal…

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