Austin Chronicle's Scores

For 8,778 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 6.7 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:
8778 movie reviews
    • 74 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The film delivers some of the most spectacular and intricately choreographed martial arts fighting ever seen on film.
  1. The result is total immersion in the moment of the music, sure to send jazz fans over the moon.
  2. At its core, a very manipulative piece of work.
  3. Hardly lives up to its name -- bedeviled is more like it.
  4. Fails to create a seamless and believable web of measured performances and period color.
  5. Worth a look.
  6. Shamelessly dull.
  7. The comedy is often harsh and cruel.
  8. A potpourri of issue-oriented drama enlivened by superlative performances and smart dialogue.
  9. One of the most deadly dull "SNL" spinoffs.
  10. An inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.
  11. One
    All in all, this is perhaps one of those films you applaud more for design than execution while hoping at the same time that its boundary-testing restlessness becomes more widely influential.
  12. Bizarre, even darkly comic at times. But it's also elegant and mannered.
  13. Like "Reservoir Dogs" by way of Ned Flanders, Mercy Streets is as earnest as Vacation Bible School and somewhat more cinematic.
  14. It's all about the little things, and the way in which the little things can steal into your heart in big ways.
  15. Too much is tossed into the ring and the last hour becomes a frantic swell of emotions and ideas, not all of which are exactly on point.
  16. The film itself is a muddle, all rapid-fire step-edits and grainy, blue-filtered hokum. What is good is Stallone.
  17. It delivers commendable entertainment value.
  18. Shoddy, brainless, pre-sold kids' entertainment.
  19. Capturing the nuances of quotidian life may not be everyone's cup of tea.
  20. Ultimately passable movie entertainment, but like most future in-laws leaves a feeling of something still desired.
  21. Haunts the memory long after you've left the theatre.
  22. A tone-deaf dramedy whose need to please is a pain in the neck.
  23. Funny and friendly and all-inclusive and unremarkable.
  24. A rousing, girl-positive, indie success story whose dynamic rhythms deliver a connecting punch.
  25. Falls short of both the social history lesson it so pointedly strives to impart and the sport it so roughly embraces.
  26. Makes for a playfully enthralling hour and a half.
  27. Sublimely ridiculous film.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    It has that bygone style, in which impossibly innocent ingenues suddenly break into blissfully tuneful song.
  28. Simply a lousy film from start to finish.

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