Austin Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- Music
For 8,793 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 6.7 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: 4,786 out of 8793
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Mixed: 2,560 out of 8793
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Negative: 1,447 out of 8793
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Kimberley Jones
More often than not The Heat is just stupid-funny, which circles us back to McCarthy, motor-mouthing four-letter fury like an operatic aria. She sells Mullins as delightfully unhinged and fairly radiating with rage, and it’s irresistible.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jun 26, 2013
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Matthew Monagle
If you’re looking for a thrilling whodunit, there’s nothing in this film that hasn’t been done – and done better – a dozen times before.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 3, 2018
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Calling To Wong Foo campy doesn't do the film justice: The film camps it up but still allows us to believe in the characters. Snipes and Swayze are so successful in exploring their feminine sides that all of their future roles should be played in drag.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
In the end, Machete may not be all that original, but it is fresh – fresh as a steel blade to the gut.- Austin Chronicle
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Richard Whittaker
Bennett’s true genius is not merely in his words – although few have ever achieved his flair for simplicity and wit. It’s in his compassion.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jan 15, 2026
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Maintains a breezy charm throughout and contains many extremely funny sequences.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The performances are likable and there's nothing really wrong with the story -- other than the fact that Nutley hardly has any story to tell.- Austin Chronicle
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Sarah Hepola
Often elegant, at times frustratingly uneven, comedy that is hopelessly in love with theatre, poetry, and -- for once -- marriage.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The film is an atmospheric work, a period piece set in the 1840s during the dawn of the Age of Photography with a dense and moody visual style that befits its Brönte-esque subject matter.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
There’s much to applaud and much to knock in this Disney action adventure. Tomorrowland breaks the mold and becomes something quite original, while at the same time it ballyhoos its inspirational message to an extent that deadens the narrative.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 20, 2015
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Steve Davis
Bigelow stages the film's action sequences with a brutal efficiency (they almost redeem the movie), but she can't keep the increasingly silly script in check.- Austin Chronicle
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True believers make for sloppy documentarians and that What Would Jesus Buy? is stuck in neutral because of its director’s almost total lack of intellectual and psychological curiosity.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
As romantic comedies go, Danish helmer Susanne Bier’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning "In a Better World," percolates more than it froths – but that’s a good thing.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 29, 2013
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Josh Kupecki
Unfortunately, Deneuve’s performance is not enough to elevate On My Way from the dredges of narrative tedium. Bettie may have gotten her groove back, but, in the end, the price the audience pays isn’t worth it.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 30, 2014
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Jenny Nulf
Where Mad Max: Fury Road was lean, Three Thousand Years of Longing feels like a rough draft that should have stayed in a dusty bin somewhere in the middle of a tourist shop.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Aug 23, 2022
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Josh Kupecki
The film offers elliptical hints as to what evil may or may not be lurking in the house, a four-story set designer’s dream.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 13, 2016
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Marjorie Baumgarten
In the end, however, Protocols of Zion illuminates manifestations of anti-Semitism without ever really elucidating or posing solutions to the problem.- Austin Chronicle
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Richard Whittaker
First time writer-director Zoé Wittock takes an absurd idea and imbues it with such heart, soul, and beauty that you'll automatically look past the inherent ridiculousness. Instead, you'll simply absorb its glowing sense of wonder.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Feb 11, 2021
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Richard Whittaker
Sometimes charmingly fantastical, Over the Moon definitely doesn't have the fairytale elegance of Keane's earlier work.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 14, 2020
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Marjorie Baumgarten
McNeil’s first-time film direction is capable but his screenplay suffers from a few too many cliches.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 16, 2018
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Marjorie Baumgarten
It’s too bad, then, that Justin Chadwick’s film does not offer a more substantial portrait of the man, whose passing is a fresh wound to mourners and curious onlookers worldwide.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Dec 18, 2013
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Richard Whittaker
After the gimmicky Saw 3D: The Final Chapter, the clunky semi-reboot of Jigsaw, and the misguided Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Saw X feels like a welcome return to form.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Marc Savlov
There's no denying the kick you get from seeing Borgnine (forever lovelorn Marty to me, when he's not tooling around my head as Cabbie, from John Carpenter's Escape From New York) and company kick ass, take names, and go batshit crazy one last time.- Austin Chronicle
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Steve Davis
At best, Goosebumps is a who’s who in the Stine literary oeuvre, featuring characters who were terrifying on paper but rendered toothless here.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 21, 2015
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Kimberley Jones
Magic Farm feels more like a work-in-progress than a final draft.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 8, 2025
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Kimberley Jones
Either way, Beatty has taken an object of enduring fascination and made him … not so much.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Nov 23, 2016
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Marjorie Baumgarten
A political thriller with topical currency, Spartan delivers the goods.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Gleefully silly fun, with a few core concepts on the nature of time, space, and la-la-la-love thrown in for good measure. And who can resist a puffin, anyway?- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
It's mad, bad nonsense of the summer, popcorn variety, disposable but oh-so-much fun to endure, a roller coaster on a wobbly cinematic track.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Manages to get by on wry smarts, barbed asides, and plenty of Barrymore's comic grace.- Austin Chronicle
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