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Review of Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Oct 2018

Most important, there are the photographs themselves – lots of them – which director Freyer freely uses to illustrate Winogrand’s…

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Review of Free Solo (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Oct 2018

Even the documentary crew, composed of seasoned climbers and longtime friends, can barely watch their buddy painstakingly move up the peak…

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Review of The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 03 Oct 2018

The beauty of Redford’s rock-steady performances over the last six decades or so is that he never showed off, and yet always commanded…

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Review of Little Women (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 25 Sep 2018

A serviceable cast of unfamiliar actors (the exception: Thompson as the family matriarch, Marmee); a serviceable script that takes few if…

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Review of The Little Stranger (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Aug 2018

Don’t expect any hokey scare tactics here…

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Review of 40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Aug 2018

40 Years in the Making is a cliquey undertaking that leaves you mostly on the outside looking in, but after witnessing the joy of its…

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Review of The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 08 Aug 2018

Despite the often unsettling subject matter, this adaptation of Emily M…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Jul 2018

Burnham’s sociological precision as a screenwriter and director, however, would likely not feel as genuine if not for Fisher in the…

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Review of Three Identical Strangers (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Jul 2018

Three Identical Strangers may not achieve the kind of redemptive catharsis we wish for here, but it achieves something almost as…

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Review of Boiling Point (1993)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Jun 2018

Bigelow stages the film's action sequences with a brutal efficiency (they almost redeem the movie), but she can't keep the increasingly…

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Review of Breath (2017)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 Jun 2018

It’s one of the few narration-dependent films in recent years in which the words don’t get in the way of the story…

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Review of Breath (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Jun 2018

It’s one of the few narration-dependent films in recent years in which the words don’t get in the way of the story…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 31 May 2018

It’s a daunting task to mount a stage production of the play these days, given the college-lit symbolism embodied by its hapless titular…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 31 May 2018

It’s a daunting task to mount a stage production of the play these days, given the college-lit symbolism embodied by its hapless titular…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 May 2018

It’s a daunting task to mount a stage production of the play these days, given the college-lit symbolism embodied by its hapless titular…

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Review of Breaking In (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 16 May 2018

With more than a passing nod to the far classier Panic Room, this derivative seat-squirmer has a few good moments in spite of Johnny…

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Review of Disobedience (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 May 2018

All three principal actors – Weisz, McAdams, and Nivola – give effectively constrained performances…

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Review of Totally F***ed Up (1994)

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

Araki's self-described “guerrilla” style of filmmaking has just the right edge here, yet is polished enough not to distract…

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Review of Traffik (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 25 Apr 2018

If this movie demonstrates anything, it's that this capable actress [Paula Patton] deserves better than just being known as the ex-Mrs. Robin Thicke…

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Review of I Feel Pretty (2018)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Apr 2018

What ultimately disappoints here, however, is the conventionality of the movie’s narrative arc, its mushy characterizations (as the…

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