Ann Richards’ Texas Texas just wasn’t ready for Ann Richards. With her icy bouffant and bottomless well of political venom, Richards was the ultimate outlier in an old boys’ network that has long dominated goings on in Austin. She should have been a character on Dallas. Or the subject of a Dolly Parton song. Yeah, she was a hell-raiser and a ball-breaker, but that’s as far as Keith Patterson and Jack Lofton are willing to go. Plenty of screen time is given to Richards’ famous utterances—such as saying George H. W. Bush “was born with a silver foot in his mouth” or wishing banqueters “the money of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat”—but very little is spent on her struggles or even her personal life. Sure, it’d be nice if today’s Democratic Party had balls as big as Richards’, but this loving biopic is paint-by-numbers adulation. I wouldn’t be surprised if clips of this are played as interstitials during this summer’s Democratic National Convention. —Benjamin R. Freed Screens Thursday, June 21 at 6 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre 1, and Saturday, June 23 at 4:30 p.m. at AFI Silver Theatre 2.