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Amelia
Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's big-budget biopic.
"...far cornier era, rearranged scene by scene to imply lust, inner conflict, triumph, and grief. But most devastating to..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Measure for Measure
Setting Shakespeare's play in 1920s Savannah makes for a more resonant and timely drama
"...his fiancée pregnant. Something about Isabella awakens an uncharacteristic lust in Angelo, a lust so powerful that he makes..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Aliens in the Attic
A group of kids save their vacation home from extraterrestrials while keeping their clueless elders out of the loop.
"...but only the aforementioned Hoffman, who plays Bethany’s horn-dog lust interest, elicits any real notice, manipulated as he is..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Spirit
Graphic novelist Frank Miller delivers this film version of Will Eisner's classic comic-book series.
"...of the Spirit's world, much is made of his lust for them, all of them, but most specifically his..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Australia
Baz Luhrmann teams with fellow Aussies Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman for this romantic action-adventure epic.
"...That anything-goes – and will – mentality befitted the lust-addled teens of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and the..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Addiction and the Meaning of Life
"...punctuated occasionally by flashes of gaiety, joy, wonder, and lust (mainly lust) but ultimately adding up to nothing...."

Oct. 13, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Duchess
Keira Knightley stars as the titular Duchess, a legendary wit and arbiter of taste, but the film is a curiously inert: a whole lot of pomp and incircumstance.
"...asunder by her contradictory impulses toward maternal duty and lust for an upstart politician (an unremarkable Cooper). Part of..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Mulder and Scully, these once-keen buckers of bureaucratic BS and masters of the painfully engorged tease, have become deadly dull in this newest incarnation.
"...the film's running time in a morass of overrequited anti-lust. They've become deadly dull, these two once-keen buckers of..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Everyone's favorite stoner pals are back; this time running from the law after being mistaken for terrorists.
"...our heroes, who defuse geopolitical anxiety with post-racial, apolitical lust fulfillment. It’s the triumph of instinct over ideology, and..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Chapter 27
Jared Leto gains weight and lets it all hang out as John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, in this fictionalized account of what occurred at the Dakota.
"...philosophical possibilities, especially in our age of ever-increasing tabloid lust. The presence of Lohan – a celebrity whose every..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Steep
The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.
"...results and little more than snowshoes. It's this same lust for the final frontier – any final frontier –..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lady Chatterley
This new French version of the D.H. Lawrence story is tastefully presented but not nearly as scandalous and coarse as the published novel.
"...it lacking in some of the transcendence Lady Chatterley's lust is supposed to inspire...."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
"...Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul (Barsuk)..."

March 16, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Catch and Release
An archetypal date movie with a good heart, Catch and Release is the lightweight story of a widow (Jennifer Garner) who discovers that you never really know a person.
"...particularly Garner's, which necessitates her vacillating between sorrow, pity, lust, and love like some sort of emotional pinball, are..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Summer Fling
Art Palace's exhibition 'Summer Fling' offers a look at that ever elusive 'real thing' that is at once as disturbing, pleasurable, and seductive as art in Austin can get
"...the gentrified animals driving cars and trucks below. While lust, if not love, can reduce us to our inner..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Drive, He Said
In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive
"...already produced The Whimsy, and Rude Mechanicals had staged Lust Supper and Salivation, and Frontera had brought us David..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM
Our national self-doubt and self-conflict are nothing new, but what is new, in the last 40 years or so, is a state of confused and conflicted values. It is the signature of our era that we live in a world so unstable that its limits may be tested merely by a bumper sticker.
"...destruction, there were any "desperate spiritual outlaws" with "a lust to create." That question is still important, and here..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

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.
"...libidinous Cape Fear breakthrough, all thumbsucky sizzle and estrogenic lust that nonetheless fails to make much more of an..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

5x2
Ozon's film begins at the end and leads backward over the slow death of a couple's marital bliss, but even while we’re flipping through the snapshots of two people’s disenchantment with each other, it never feels tawdry or excessive or, for that matter, very interesting.
"...their bleak mutual future not yet a glimmer past lust; even then, Gilles is with someone else, his longtime..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Edukators
Sticking it to the man, German-style, is the subject of this smart, kicky little gem.
"...have as much fun as possible, and so the love-and-lust triangle among Jule, Jan, and Peter is the film’s..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bad News Bears
This genial remake is Billy Bob Thornton’s game all the way.
"...a screw-the-rules fast one on the Establishment with teenage lust n’ snot to spare. Punk as fuck, indeed. Richard..."

July 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bad Education
Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.
"...appropriately convoluted and dark, and involves blackmail, false identities, lust, drug addiction, and cover-ups, although Bad Education is not..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nói Albinói (Nói the Albino)
This bewitching Icelandic film mines frozen veins of resentment and quirky, black-ice humor.
"...hard for the equally wayward beauty. In love, or lust, or more likely from sheer boredom, the two begin..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In My Skin
Disturbing French drama about a woman who cuts her own skin as a prelude to gnawing on her flesh.
"...away at herself in an increasing imitation of carnal lust and auto-eroticism. The flesh reborn as a sapphically onanistic..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Buffalo Soldiers
On an American military outpost in Europe during the Eighties, the black market economy runs the show.
"...endure, and, later, fire and explosions and death. Ah, lust. Buffalo Soldiers has been getting tarred by certain individuals,..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...LUST MURDER BOX: Gloomy, desolate, and foreboding, Lust Murder Box..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

CQ
"...shirt and dark tie throughout, Paul is already in lust with starlet Valentine (Vogue model Lindvall), and so the..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Juwanna Mann
"...clueless rapper named Puff Smokey Smoke (Davidson) falls in lust with the appalled Juwanna. Given the cartoonishness of the..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Seven Deadly Sins
The seven short plays that make up iron belly muses' production Seven Deadly Sins aren't always pleasurable to watch, but several capture that desperation behind sins' commission and ask interesting questions about transgression itself.
"...vanity; Lisa D'Amour, sloth; Jessica Hedrick, envy; Naomi Iizuka, lust; Sherry Kramer, gluttony; Andrea Moon, rage; and Cyndi Williams,..."

April 26, 2002 Arts Review by M.B. Rice

Big Bad Love
"...Dickinson's creaky Southern matriarch can't tone down his crazed lust for life. Howard has wisely retrofitted this garish, summery..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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