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Rush Hour 3
It's The Bourne Ultimatum's evil twin, relying, as it repeatedly does, on tired, cookie-cutter, cliché action set-pieces.
"...ago) falls flat faster than most of Chan's goofy line readings – he's never quite mastered the idiomatic inflections..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Trial and Error
"...Theron, Rip Torn and Austin Pendleton. There's a very fine line between formulaic comedies and bizarre torture devices that..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival Review: Petite Maman
Whimsical French coming-of-age drama evokes Miyazaki
"...When Céline Sciamma was doing the press rounds for Portrait of..."

Oct. 27, 2021 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Down the Rabbit Hole With Something in the Dirt
Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson explain their favorite conspiracies
"...There's a fine line between being intrigued and being fixated - and..."

Nov. 23, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Record Reviews
"...or talented but that her internal divining device is fine-tuned and promises to unearth subjacent reserves for ages to..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Are You Decent?
Dudley & Bob and the footsoldiers in the FCC's war on pop culture
"...With Glass machine-gunning his lines, Dudley warily stands near the cutoff switch for Glass'..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Texas Platters
The Scabs
"...in large part to the consistency of the ubiquitous Grooveline Horns and the straightforward production of bassist Bruce Hughes..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Kitchen Scales
The cost of Austin fine dining
"...industry has hit national news, the same issue in fine dining has largely gone unnoticed...."

Dec. 25, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Justice League
Another ho-hum entry to the DC Extended Universe
"...hope and thrown into chaos. In other words, a fine time then for a nefarious alien god named Steppenwolf..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Records
Jeff Beck
"...Fans of straight ahead blues-rock, a tradition Beck helped define, will savor the sole live track "Brush With the..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

A Guy Thing
"...and occasionally look aghast. Both Stiles and Blair are fine comics in their own right as well, but again,..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moonlight and Valentino
"...morass. Each of these women has a fascinating story line and these actresses all do fine work adding depth..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Reviews
Recommended
"...this genuinely affecting comedy-horror film that updates the Dracula lineage to present-day New York City. The movie follows the..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Record Reviews
"...As David St. Hubbins once said, "There's a fine line between stupid and clever." A comedy/novelty band making..."

July 7, 1995 Music Review

Austin FC Fans Prepare to Pack the Trains on MetroRail
The Red Line turns Verde
"...requiring patrons to wear shirts. Boarding the MetroRail Red Line at Kramer Station, the six young men, two of..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

The Best of Enemies
Unlikely alliances grow as conversation finds common ground in this historical true-life drama
"...stronghold Durham was finally dragged kicking and screaming into line with other proudly Southern cities in terms of integration...."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Celling of Sundance
Sundance Film Festival Report
"...tubes of lip moisturizer and rumpled tissues. Instantly, they define their bearers as "players," and the only position of..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A la Mala
Mexican comedy about a woman who makes her livelihood flirting with other women's men.
"...with a polished technical sheen and it features a fine central performance by Aislinn Derbez as Mala. The story,..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Stages of Inebriation
To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question
"...used judiciously - only after the actors know their lines and only once per show...."

July 3, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Meet Bill
Aaron Eckhart stars in this middle-aged wake-up call whose message – trust yourself and find your inner child – is tired but expressed with a whole lot of enthusiasm.
"...he’ll just bring you down. From this film’s first line, it’s clear our protagonist is in the throes of..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...design fails to refute evolutionary biology, it does a fine job of refuting itself...."

July 25, 2003 Column

Chapter 4: The Nineties!
March 1991 -- December 2000
"...streets closing down clubs, leaving people waiting in long lines. This had never been a problem before, and we..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Friends With Benefits
This Mila Kunis/Justin Timberlake rom-com is smart enough to decry Hollywood’s romantic clichés but never savvy enough to truly subvert them.
"...not only seems effortless but also is very funny, line to line. The middle of a movie is often..."

July 22, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ring in the HollyDaze
Holiday Movie Previews
"...important than trophies and applause is the inescapable bottom line. Simply put, the holiday season is the most lucrative..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

San Andreas
This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a guffaw
"...scenes of everything west of the titular tectonic fault line either crumbling into dust, going up in fireballs, or..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

P2
Horror overtakes a woman on level P2 of a parking garage, and the film's suspense plays on our collective unease with being alone, at night, surrounded by concrete and rebar.
"...with the late-leaving, workaholic Angela (Nichols) – and she declines – you realize right away there's going to be..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eastern Promises
In Cronenberg's film about the Russian mob in London, the director and star Viggo Mortensen relates a corker of a story.
"...Machinist and, more recently, Rescue Dawn. Watts is equally fine, but her character has nothing in the line of..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Superbad
Cera and Hill are comic gold in this comedy, which is from the Judd Apatow stable and which has credits populated with refugees from Arrested Development.
"...of – and one that all of the saturated one-liners, cute nicknames, quirky period details, neat turns of phrase,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Shawn Badgley

The Shaggy Dog
There are precious few surprises here, but this breezy remake starring Tim Allen is a painless affair.
"...oh-so-apropos. Surprisingly, this remake, which shuffles the original teencentric storyline into one more focused on the harried workaday world..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Daltry Calhoun
Johnny Knoxville stars in this slapdash tale of wacky Southerners and midlife crises that feels like a compilation reel of Blue Collar TV outtakes and Coen Brothers-lite quirkiness.
"...of wacky Southerners and midlife crises that boasts several fine performances but, on the whole, feels like a compilation..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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