What if the struggles in your past prepared you for a better future? This hopeful message propels writer-director Riz Story’s indie drama “A Winter Rose.” Unfortunately, the film’s...

Polar opposites compose many great stories, and love and war are two of the most timeless. “Allied” is hardly the first film to depict a wartime romance that blossoms in Casablanca, but despite...

“You know what scares me about giving up? It’s easy.”  In 1991, a brutal car wreck left champion boxer Vinny Pazienza with a broken neck. Doctors said his chances of walking again...

Decoding language is a dynamic exchange. The linguist poses a question, gets a response, then interprets it based on what came before. Watching Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi masterpiece “Arrival”...

 “I’m pregnant” are the two words that break the first of many long silences in “Loving,” a film in which few words often carry significant weight. Director Jeff Nichols...

In every war there are two battles: the outer battle between armies and the inner battle of morals. Rarely has a film dramatized both as bluntly and beautifully as “Hacksaw Ridge.” Director...

There’s a place for minimalism, a time for subtlety and a moment for silence. But rarely has a film so blatantly overused all three that it forgot to tell a story.  Writer-director Kelly...

Long before Hilary Swank and Jared Leto won Oscars for honest, powerful portrayals of LGBT characters, many films misrepresented and ignored members of the LGBT community. Below, The Daily Texan compiled...

Some movies are meant for a Friday night with a bucket of popcorn, not Sunday night at the Oscars. Judging a franchise action flick by its ability to be artful, original and profound will doubtless disappoint....

“We are tied forever now, the three of us,” laments Rachel (Emily Blunt) at the end of “The Girl on the Train.” “Bound forever by the story we share.”  On paper,...

Peter Berg opens “Deepwater Horizon” a mile beneath the sea, where mounting oil pressure threatens to rupture the rig’s base. Berg only builds the cinematic pressure from there.  “Deepwater...

The Seven have checkered pasts, little to lose and even less fear of a death they think is imminent. When they ride into battle to liberate a tiny town from a tyrannical miner, they go for broke. Like...

When Austin’s main airport was moved from Mueller to Bergstrom in 1999, an expanse of empty aircraft hangars was left behind. In them, Austin-based film director Richard Linklater envisioned the...