Austin Considine

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The New York Times
For 15 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 26% higher than the average critic
  • 13% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Austin Considine's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Walk Up
Lowest review score: 40 House of Darkness
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Austin Considine
    Return to Dust
    China’s leadership has a history of suppressing art that spotlights the failings of its ruling class and ideology, which is exactly what Li’s film does, with a script that feels only occasionally overwritten. That he succeeds without making it feel like homework — which is to say beautifully, humanely — is presumably what made the film so threatening.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Austin Considine
    White Building
    The film’s loose plotting and secondary character development can leave a few too many hanging threads, but its sense of place is so palpable you can almost smell the smoky city markets, the sweat, the hormones.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Austin Considine
    Passion
    Passion has a low-fi, hangout feel, flush with the youthful indie energy and forgivable pretensions of an artist who believes that filmmaking matters. Hamaguchi is still a student but already finding his voice.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Austin Considine
    Walk Up
    A conversation falters. Another bottle is opened. Three people share drinks and their universe is completely reordered.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Austin Considine
    Are You Lonesome Tonight?
    Part exploration of the ravages of guilt, part homage to the stylish Hong Kong gangster flicks of the 1990s, “Lonesome” (written by Wen with Noé Dodson, Wang Yinuo and Zhao Binghao) wears its influences on its sleeve but is a cool and sophisticated debut feature.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Austin Considine
    The Novelist's Film
    A Chekhovian study in small moments and chance encounters, which is to say it is a study of human beings as they really live: ambiguously and without exposition, spontaneously and without tidy motives or resolution.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Austin Considine
    Stars at Noon
    The results are sometimes wobbly, but this much remains stable: No living director better understands the politics of sensuality, the terrible power of light and shadow on skin.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Austin Considine
    Casablanca Beats
    Hip-hop isn’t dead, the film energetically insists; it’s just been hiding in a Moroccan slum.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Austin Considine
    A Balance
    Takiuchi’s Yuko, in turns motherly and mercenary, is bewitchingly enigmatic: What drives her? Why does she still live with her father? Mercifully, we receive little back story; it’s enough that she is an ambitious woman, choked by ruthless double standards surrounding sex and autonomy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Austin Considine
    Costa Brava, Lebanon
    If a fuller sense of their humanity is sometimes lost to the ideas they serve, Akl has nonetheless produced a smart and sensitive film.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Austin Considine
    Olga
    Budiashkina, a Ukrainian gymnast in her acting debut, plays Olga beautifully as a guarded, stubborn teenager with the weight of exile on her shoulders, who refuses to quit but still needs her mother, who is stone-faced on the mat but still cries into a stuffed animal.

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