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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Russell Smith
In the end, though, the undeniable power and emotional richness of this film swing the balance toward the good.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
One of Disney’s best and most popular live-action movies, this one is a favorite among those who grew up in the Seventies- Austin Chronicle
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Russell Smith
As enjoyable as it is, it's hard to escape a sense of Analyze This being the work of competent talents who knew exactly where the good-enough line was and didn't feel particularly inspired to push far beyond it.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Even though Mrs. Hyde loses the trees for the forest, any movie starring Huppert (Elle, The Ceremony) is radiant, and it should be evident that tossing in a special effect or a message will be superfluous.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 23, 2018
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Benny's Video renders the viewer complicit in the actions unfolding so nightmarishly, forcing us to ask ourselves why we watch.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The true wonder of this low-budget movie, however, is its acquisition of the rights to so much of the previously mentioned music. It's almost exclusively Dylan and the Dead, but damned if you won't be stopping for some Cherry Garcia ice cream on the way home.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Mar 31, 2011
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Josh Kupecki
The film never lets these characters earn anything, despite everyone ending up moving on in Moving On. You’re advised to do the same, when it materializes as one of your viewing options.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Mar 15, 2023
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The screenplay by Erin Cardillo, Dana Fox, and Katie Silberman nails the mechanics of a rom-com, even if it takes Wilson’s delivery to drive the lessons home. Scenes are succinct and the movie comes in at 88 minutes even with a tacked-on song-and-dance video at the end (as a nod to the film’s wildly successful karaoke-bar sequence earlier in the film).- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Feb 14, 2019
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Marc Savlov
It's chilling what Fiennes can do with so very little; he looks like a wounded puppy half the time and sounds like one to boot.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Foster commendably stretches beyond her comfort zone with The Beaver, but in the end the film's high-concept premise is at war with its conventional direction.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 5, 2011
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Marc Savlov
This single film beats every other Hollywood action film of the past five years, hands down. It's not even close. Welcome back, Mr. Tsui.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The actresses are terrific together, and it’s nice to see Helen Mirren smiling onscreen for a change. And although Calendar Girls is resolutely pleasant, the movie never really goes much beyond that.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Not only is it interesting to follow the course of Gray's storyline, the movie is also equally interesting to view, even if the storyteller is just sitting in front of a desk most of the time.- Austin Chronicle
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Louis Black
There is an enormous amount of effort put into this film which at its end just seems like noise, wind, and dust.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 15, 2013
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Steve Davis
Mighty Aphrodite may take its thematic and structural cues from Greek tragedy, but it's second-rate Borscht Belt all the way.- Austin Chronicle
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Richard Whittaker
Unfortunately, almost none of that astonishing true story makes it into The Aeronauts, a mangled retelling that cuts out Coxwell and replaces him with Amelia Wren (Jones), a gestalt character based on several women aerial explorers of the time.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Dec 4, 2019
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Kimberley Jones
Exuding direct-to-Redbox energy, Fuze has enough plot twists to make it watchable. You’re just not liable to remember much of it afterwards.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 23, 2026
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Matthew Monagle
When director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2) eases up a bit on the self-satisfied action beats – Hobbs and Shaw spent almost every fight sequence jockeying for literal or metaphorical position – the film finds exciting ways to lean into Johnson’s larger-than-life physique.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jul 31, 2019
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The circus acts and the rehearsals, which are set to Katy Perry's "Fireworks," make the greatest use of the movie's 3-D capacities. Madagascar 3 may not rival the "greatest show on earth" but it's good enough to pack 'em in anyway.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jun 6, 2012
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Kimberley Jones
Goodhart’s film is a winner – sweet but not sentimental, tart without turning sour. The studio-produced romantic comedy may be flatlining, but who cares, so long as snappy indies like this one step up to fill the void?- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 21, 2016
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Marc Savlov
Surjik's skewed Canadian vision keeps WW2 from descending to the level of Thanksgiving leftovers, with frequent touches of out-and-out weirdness and the sure-footed knowledge that this is a comedy, period. It doesn't have to try to be anything more, and that, I think, is why it works so very well.- Austin Chronicle
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Marrit Ingman
It's not quite masterful enough to achieve all its goals, but Zucker is undeniably ambitious despite its relatively lowbrow and farcical approach.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Gifted may rely on the extremely old-school lovable-orphan-and-adopted-parent template, but there’s a certain emotionally complex realism to both the performances and the storyline that lifts the film beyond the obvious and the cliched.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Lone Survivor is a somber celebration of courage and endurance that manages to steer clear of jingoism and moral judgments.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jan 8, 2014
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Smallfoot also features some excellent physical comedy, some of which calls to mind the sight gags prevalent in the old Looney Tunes cartoons once produced by this studio (Warner Bros.).- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 26, 2018
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Marc Savlov
The overall tone of this rocket-paced updating is exhilaratingly giddy, making it by far Disney’s best animated film since "Mulan."- Austin Chronicle
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Richard Whittaker
House of Gucci isn't aggressively bad, but it is undeniably tedious, threadbare, and unengaging.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Nov 22, 2021
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Marc Savlov
Zealously nasty fun which, surprisingly, ends on something of a note of upbeat grace and familial redemption, Middle Men is more entertaining than 99% of 37% of the Internet.- Austin Chronicle
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As it stands, an extremely funny script and one J.K. Simmons do save the movie from being just a standard TV biopic of the week.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Dec 9, 2021
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