Austin Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- Music
For 8,787 reviews, this publication has graded:
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41% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
| Highest review score: | The Searchers | |
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| Lowest review score: | Gummo |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4,781 out of 8787
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Mixed: 2,559 out of 8787
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Negative: 1,447 out of 8787
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Richard Whittaker
Brimming with cornball humor and overt sentimentality, there’s something compelling within the film’s unyielding commitment to its own idiosyncrasies, not to mention the emotionally cogent backbone.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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Marc Savlov
It's pure Bedlam, but for genre fans, Scorsese makes it feel like coming home.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Simultaneously creepy and hilarious, this is the perfect slice of Grand Guignol for a humid summer's night.- Austin Chronicle
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Richard Whittaker
Unabashedly warped and horny, Morgan knows exactly when to set off the depth charges lurking in the waters of Bone Lake, making its big, filthy reveal feel like the inevitable result of the characters’ urges.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 2, 2025
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Likely to be remembered more for its method of manufacture and release than for any inherent qualities of its own. It will also become one of the many fascinating footnotes in the always provocative career of Steven Soderbergh.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Despite a third-act tendency to gather a few spare genre clichés as it rolls along (Guns! Drugs! Angry siblings!), Robinson's film is a cut above the rest.- Austin Chronicle
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Richard Whittaker
A loving, gory, ribald slasher flick that is both serious about the genre and gruesomely ridiculous.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Nov 15, 2023
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Kimberley Jones
It’s an enjoyable enough exercise in teen angst triumphing.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
It has a classic Hitchcock scenario in which a man is mistaken for a murderer, but the film lacks humor and suspense. Even the great cast is unable to make much headway with this torpid thriller.- Austin Chronicle
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The finished product is two hours of fist-clenching action, suddenly violent and steadily horrifying.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Mar 27, 2019
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Marc Savlov
Severance is a British horror-comedy that, from the get-go, has two distracting strikes against it.- Austin Chronicle
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Steve Davis
Araki's self-described “guerrilla” style of filmmaking has just the right edge here, yet is polished enough not to distract. In this respect, Totally F***ed Up is a much better film than Araki's last effort, The Living End. Although the teenaged ennui in the film sometimes comes off as hip nihilism, there's no question that the pain and turmoil depicted is anything but heartfelt.- Austin Chronicle
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Sarah Hepola
A humble comic fable, puttering along with a sunny grin, a goofy sentimentality, and not much else.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
One of the most eloquent tales in ages of dysfunctional love – between a man and his ideals, between a country and its government, and, in the end, between Evey and V.- Austin Chronicle
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Steve Davis
Starts off promisingly by empathetically depicting the fear and anger children feel when their parents separate, but ultimately its human emotions are dominated by goblins, trolls, and other CGI-generated creatures running amok on the screen.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
There are worse accusations to hurl at a filmmaker than that she has too much empathy for her characters, but in the case of Oh, Hi!, it stymies the potential in its provocative premise and holds a pretty good movie back from greatness.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jul 24, 2025
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The movie offers glimmers of truth about the aging process, but there is always the sense that Moss only wades knee-high into this river.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Adamson's pulled a more morally nuanced rabbit (or badger, actually) out of his directorial hat this time out, and the result is a far more engrossing film than its predecessor.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
A model and artist’s muse turned photographer who shot unforgettable images of Europe at war, Miller was then largely forgotten by the establishment, until her son revived her work after her death in 1977. Underappreciated in her time, one wishes better for her than this underwhelming biopic.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 26, 2024
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Richard Whittaker
Solo is at its best when it keeps to the basics, and does them subtly.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 22, 2018
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Marc Savlov
A pleasantly vicarious slice of summertime falderol, innocuous in its presentation and often genuinely fun.- Austin Chronicle
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Louis Black
The film provides more of the same and nothing startlingly innovative, but what's here is good.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 1, 2013
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Marc Savlov
Weaver essays the new hotmama Ripley with wry, good humor -- you can tell she's having a ball playing this unstoppable die-cast she-wolf.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The window Hollywoodland offers into old-style workings of the company town is fascinating to behold, however the film doesn't always know where to direct our gaze.- Austin Chronicle
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Just when you're about to give up on this seemingly sorry excuse for an action movie, the picture does an about-face in a matter of minutes, and pushes the tension level way into overdrive and transforms suddenly into a solidly entertaining thriller.- Austin Chronicle
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For a heavy-duty subject, Call Jane is anything but, moving along almost like a lighthearted Lifetime movie.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 26, 2022
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Marjorie Baumgarten
One of the most intelligent, engaging, and gut-bustingly funny revelations to come along in a while.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The movie is, ultimately, a fascinating victim of its own ambitions.- Austin Chronicle
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Louis Black
Boseman as Jackie Robinson and Beharie as Rachel Robinson both deliver terrific performances, and the cast of managers and ballplayers – are excellent. Harrison Ford plays Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey as a larger-than-life eccentric, seeming almost like a demented Orville Redenbacher at times.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 10, 2013
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