Austin Chronicle's Scores

Select another publication »
For 8,784 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,778 out of 8784
  2. Mixed: 2,559 out of 8784
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8784
8784 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Divine Intervention
    It’s ridiculous and smart, hilarious and terrifying, difficult to swallow and probably a necessary antidote to the cacophonous history of a land that all too often seems anything but holy.
  2. A Guy Thing
    As middling comedies go, this is neither as smart as it ought to be nor as dumb as you'd expect.
  3. National Security
    In the final analysis though, the only real thing being smuggled in National Security is unwitting patrons' admission fees.
  4. Kangaroo Jack
    Indeed, the largely computer-generated Jack acts the pants off his co-stars, which can and should be taken with a whole trough full of salt.
  5. City of God
    A marvelous achievement that refuses to avert its gaze from the poetry and the insane savagery of the hopeless.
  6. Just Married
    Overall, Just Married doesn't really take -- it has a shelf life about as short as the disastrous honeymoon -- but in the moment, it's cute, if corny. It'll do.
  7. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    A great, bizarre, and ultimately very, very unique film.
  8. Love Liza
    Me, I’ve now seen the movie three times and I’ve laughed and I’ve cried. It comes the closest to any movie experience I’ve had in re-creating the aftermath of unexplained suicide. Sometimes there just aren’t any answers.
  9. Nicholas Nickleby
    Although Nicholas Nickleby occasionally evidences a simplicity that resembles a Junior Scholastic production, the movie's enthusiasm is contagious.
  10. Max
    Ultimately, Meyjes focuses too much on Max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured, dull artist and monster-in-the-making.
  11. The Hours
    Near-perfect in every way, The Hours is a compelling meditation on making the most of what we're given in life. For some, it may be too cerebral a film experience, but for those who blissfully fall into its finely tuned modulations, The Hours is timeless.
  12. The Pianist
    Szpilman takes to performing sonatas in thin air, eyes closed, those jittery fingers stroking nothing but air. It's a wonderful moment in a wonderful, ghastly film, and one of the most moving arguments for the redemptive powers of art ever made.
  13. Chicago
    Delicious.
  14. Pinocchio
    By film's end I was fantasizing that Peter Stormare would drop by with his "Fargo" wood-chipper in tow, but it was not to be. Appalling.
  15. Catch Me If You Can
    Everything about this swift and gorgeous and tremendously enjoyable film is played out in a rush of staccato edits, crisp performances, and charmingly giddy subplots that coalesce into Spielberg's most purely entertaining movie in years.
  16. The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Isn't going to make anyone's head explode with joy, but it is sweet and sporadically funny in its own loopy way.
    • Austin Chronicle
  17. Two Weeks Notice
    It's a botched job through and through, made all the more distressing by Bullock's recent announcement that she's throwing in the romantic comedy towel for a while.
  18. Morvern Callar
    Ramsay is experimental, unconventional, and forever reaching at the gorgeousness in grief and despair. Her film moves slow as molasses, slow as paint drying -– and all the better to see the colors and the complexities.
  19. Spider
    Cronenberg’s nonlinear narrative is trying at times – it keeps you nearly as off-kilter as the characters, and surely that’s intentional – but as a character piece about madness and stymied dreams, it’s remarkably realistic.
  20. Narc
    Fresh and raw like a blown-out vein, Narc takes a walking-dead, cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it.
  21. Gangs of New York
    The best Scorsese we've seen in a decade.
  22. Antwone Fisher
    If treats like this are evidence of Washington's special gifts as a filmmaker, Antwone Fisher promises great things for the future.
  23. 25th Hour
    Isn't Lee's most personal piece, but it may very well be his most mature.
  24. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    God forbid this should ever play on an IMAX screen -- the concussive soundtrack and relentless visuals would likely strike viewers deaf and blind (but what a way to go!). Simply breathtaking.
  25. Evelyn
    The film is at its best when painting the atmosphere and detail of 1953 Dublin.
  26. Maid in Manhattan
    What the movie lacks is spark and sizzle. There's no palpable chemistry between Lopez and male lead Ralph Fiennes, plus the script by "Working Girl" scribe Kevin Wade is workmanlike in the extreme.
  27. Star Trek: Nemesis
    Nemesis, by comparison, is about as exciting as a Tribble on Vicodin.
  28. Intact
    Intriguing and stylish.
  29. Drumline
    Good, clean fun, with none of the icky aftertaste so common to “family friendly” ware, Drumline proves irresistible in more ways than one.
  30. The Hot Chick
    One might expect that with such low goals the film might have at least hit its target more often than it does. Schneider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »