Den Blå Orkidé (The Blue Orchid)
| C+ | Austin Film Festival 2020 | This movie was a moody European art house flick. Erotic, some nudity. More visual than anything else. What little story there was…
Paper Tiger
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2020 | I was expecting a message movie about school shootings, or maybe a character study about how a student becomes a shooter. Instead,…
Función Velorio (Wake Show)
| C | Austin Film Festival 2020 | The filmmakers say they were making a movie about race and class issues in Peru. But for me, the focus on the…
Good
| C | Austin Film Festival 2020 | Decent film examining the definition of family and the relationships between fathers and children. I just didn’t see any subtlety here. All…
Nine Days
| A | Austin Film Festival 2020 | This was a delightful and thoughtful film! The literal surface is about what it takes to be human. But underneath, it is…
After We Leave
| B | Other Worlds Austin 2019 | This film was very much a mixed bag. Some marvelous imagery like in the trailer, followed by boring direction (close-up on each…
Just Mercy
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2019 | Good film, well worth the time. It didn’t feel like a message film to me (though it apparently had one)—just felt like…
Ford v Ferrari
| A | Austin Film Festival 2019 | The first studio film I’ve seen at the festival this year, and it was really good! Excellent acting, of course. Interesting drama…
Undertow
| C | Austin Film Festival 2019 | From the trailer, I thought it would be more avant-garde and psychological. Instead it was a straight-up drama, somewhat psychological. I don’t…
A Patient Man
| D | Austin Film Festival 2019 | When I first saw the trailer, I wasn’t interested in seeing this one. But I heard some people talking it up and…