Austin Chronicle's Scores
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For 8,783 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: 4,778 out of 8783
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Mixed: 2,558 out of 8783
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Negative: 1,447 out of 8783
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Steve Davis
There’s no sense of trepidation in The Quiet Ones, because suspense requires a cogent storyline to either create or defy the viewer’s expectations. This lack of plausible narrative is either the result of lazy filmmaking or shortcut editing. Either way, you lose.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 30, 2014
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Fool’s Gold is the latest romantic comedy from Tennant, who is very possibly the worst director working in Hollywood today. "Fools Rush In." "Ever After." "Sweet Home Alabama." Hitch: I ask you, has anyone done more in the last 10 years to make love seem totally unappetizing?- Austin Chronicle
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Russell Smith
What I can't accept, however, is talents such as Reno, Garcia, Tomlin, and Molina wasting away in a movie like this. As punishment for their complete lack of artistic integrity, all four of them should be forced to sit in a room for all eternity watching The Pink Panther 2 over and over.- Austin Chronicle
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Josh Kupecki
It is a bland, clawless comedy; a cautionary tale of a high concept gone horribly, horribly wrong.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jul 23, 2014
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Looks and tastes an awful lot like a TV movie of the week.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Granted, it's breezy enough in a retro-chic kind of way, but the meh factor is too high to overcome for all but the hardiest of J-Lo die-hards.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jan 4, 2019
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Marjorie Baumgarten
One well-staged sequence in a parking garage is the film's only memorable moment- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
With token computer graphics thrown in to pad an already overlong script, Ghost In the Machine gamely tries to hop aboard the Virtual Reality bandwagon and only succeeds in crashing the Net.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Again. Via Red’s experiences as a young man and wildcatter, Jason learns that money cannot buy happiness. What the viewers learn is that money can’t buy a good movie either.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 4, 2013
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Louis Black
Before I Go to Sleep still offers a near encyclopedic look at what not to do.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Nov 5, 2014
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Marjorie Baumgarten
In an inspired bit of casting, Lyle Lovett plays the dad of the goofy-looking Diz/Gil. That these two could be related might be the only believable touch in this whole misfired thing.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
But let's face it. This whole movie is based on stereotypes.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Apart from the smutty giggles that derive from the mere mention of the Focker family surname, this third entry in the now 10-year-old comedy franchise falls flat.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Dec 24, 2010
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Marc Savlov
Still, "The Haunting" these films are not.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 31, 2015
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Marc Savlov
A storyline that makes less sense than the current state of tech stocks on the Nasdaq.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
A paint-by-numbers romantic comedy, but without the heart or laughs to make it work.- Austin Chronicle
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Josh Kupecki
Channeling your inner child, you may find solace in Hotel Transylvania 2, but in the end it has no bite, doing continued disservice to the Universal monsters it scabs out, and adding another soiled feather to Sandler’s cap of mediocrity.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 24, 2015
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Sarah Hepola
The goal of Drive Me Crazy is simple: to sell tickets by selling fantasy.- Austin Chronicle
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Steve Davis
Sure, Peeples has a nice (if unmemorable) voice, but the vapid storyline with fantastic overtones transports Jem and the Holograms into another dimension, one that’s utterly flat. Control. Alt. Delete.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 31, 2015
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Marc Savlov
While expertly executed animation-wise and passably entertaining for very young kids (less so, their parents), is still as dull as the hull on Rocketship X-M.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Overstays its welcome by at least a half hour. But, assuming that cute Camaro stays in the picture, I expect we’ll all be back for the planned round three.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
One extended joke on the fallibility of texting ghetto slang to your buddies rings out above the others, but the vast majority of the buffoonery is subpar wigga-schtick, and so witless that not even some seriously slamming tracks from the likes of So Solid Crew, Ms. Dynamite, and DMX can save this white-chocolate meltdown.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Dear George Lucas: What gives with this Eragon jazz? I mean, gee whiz, did you seriously think that we wouldn't recognize you, the Great Man, as the guiding, um, FORCE behind this dull retelling of "Star Wars"?- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
It's only at film's end that you realize the whole soggy, overlong mess isn't going to go anywhere.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Instead of true grit and gutshot black-hatters, director Les Mayfield has crafted what may well be the world's first Tommy Hilfiger Western.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
The story is a shambles, incoherent throughout, veined with tirelessly wearying flashbacks, hallucinations, and just plain old lousy storytelling.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
The film is an ingenious, deranged, bloated, and just plain batshit crazy riff on advertising and the mad men and women it creates and/or consumes. Heady stuff, but it's no "How to Get Ahead in Advertising." This film is absolutely mental, and not in a good way, either.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 12, 2012
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Steve Davis
If only Bullock could have foreseen how bad Premonition would turn out to be, she would have spared herself (and us) a lot of agony.- Austin Chronicle
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