Austin Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
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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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Where Over Her Dead Body should soar with blistering verbal gymnastics, it limps with empty sass about weight gain and skin blemishes; where it should race with inventive comic set-pieces, it slogs with extended flatulence sequences and gags about lifting overweight dogs.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Genre fans and newcomers alike should skip this monstrosity and go rent "Ginger Snaps" instead.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Even the requisite gore is sub-par, so it's not even neat when some poor sap explodes and his entrails whiz by. Perhaps Gordon should go back to mining H.P. Lovecraft's territory.- Austin Chronicle
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Russell Smith
Proof positive that heavy underground buzz doesn't necessarily imply merit or even intrinsic interest.- Austin Chronicle
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Louis Black
Few characters are well-drawn, rivalries substitute for real group dynamics, and the dancing is chaotic, showy, and confusing.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 25, 2013
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Kimberley Jones
Not just narratively crude but aesthetically ugly, Men, Women & Children’s framing occasionally cuts characters off at the forehead, in effect lobotomizing them. I couldn’t think of a better metaphor for this brainless splotch of self-important scaremongering.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 15, 2014
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Marjorie Baumgarten
After his disastrous outing in 200X with "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," there was no direction for Murphy to head but up in terms of another space alien movie. Indeed, Meet Dave is a step up, but that's only in relation to Pluto Nash.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Grown Ups is exactly, beat for beat, what the previews would have you believe: a depressingly predictable, two-chuckle deconstruction of what Sandler sees as the modern American male.- Austin Chronicle
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Richard Whittaker
9 Bullets just constantly misfires, and never gets better than the inadvertent comedy of Worthington pulling a gun on a dog as a negotiating tactic.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 20, 2022
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Misbegotten is the only way to describe this remake of the 1975 film based on Ira Levin's cultural-zeitgeist novel.- Austin Chronicle
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- Posted Aug 7, 2013
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Steve Davis
All icing, with a few crumbs devoted to the notion that it is futile to resist the heart's desires.- Austin Chronicle
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This movie is what might happen if "Grey’s Anatomy" crossed frequencies with "What Lies Beneath," but that actually sounds like it might be good, and this is not.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 4, 2017
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Trace Sauveur
This hunk-of-junk piece of IP commodification truly can’t be regarded with any further value other than that: a transactional piece of content.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jun 7, 2023
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Marc Savlov
Highlander 3 has an edge over its prequels in that it's so shoddily directed that it's probably a great deal of fun to watch after a couple of six-packs. Actually, that's probably the only time it might be fun to watch, and I'm not going to be the guy to put that theory to the test for you.- Austin Chronicle
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Steve Davis
The improbabilities pile up on top of each other in Mrs. Winterbourne, an anxious-to-please romantic comedy about mistaken identity that sounds vaguely familiar.- Austin Chronicle
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Louis Black
If A Goofy Movie was one-fifth as demented as Tiny Toons, it might have been worth watching. Instead it is bland, a barely television-length cartoon stretched out to fill a feature, and not much fun.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Do yourself a favor: Go rent Hardy's original film, watch it, and then try and get it out of your head. You never, ever will.- Austin Chronicle
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Despite the game cast and some marvelously atmospheric cinematography from Oscar-winning DP Dion Beebe, The Snowman is a slog.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 25, 2017
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It comes across as yet another in a long line of poorly produced horror/paranoia bloodbaths, short on everything except cheesy effects.- Austin Chronicle
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- Posted Oct 25, 2017
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Marc Savlov
Dream House is neither haunting (as the marketing appears to promise) nor all that original. But it does, thank goodness for small favors, have Elias Koteas.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Kimberley Jones
They have some fun playacting at class warriors on the lam – and Seyfriend, it must be said, rocks a killer bob – but it's all just big-budget dress-up in a futurescape that reeks of phoniness.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Nov 2, 2011
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Louis Black
The film is so flat and tired it really doesn’t deserve the vehemence of this review. It’s like chastising a completely airless tire for not rolling.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jan 21, 2015
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Instead of putting the high in high school, this film is the kind of drug movie that gives pot smokers a bad name.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 31, 2012
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Marjorie Baumgarten
If someone had spent half as much time thinking about the characters in Airborne as thinking about what filters to apply to the camera, then there might have been a semi-decent teen action movie here.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Promises thrills galore but delivers only limp non-frights and predictable yawns.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Nothing is very funny in this movie, and everything is predictable.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
In the final analysis though, the only real thing being smuggled in National Security is unwitting patrons' admission fees.- Austin Chronicle
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