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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Richard Whittaker
Faces of Death is dull and thoughtless, its attempts to smash influencer culture into voyeurism feeling artificial.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 6, 2026
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Marrit Ingman
Aiming to break the land speed record for poop 'n' piss jokes.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
A work of near-existential pointlessness. It's true to the anarchic, silly spirit of the original clowning, but there's very little else to it.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Apr 12, 2012
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Josh Kupecki
A slick but slight film that unfortunately resurrects everything that was problematically self-indulgent about so many New York rom-com indie films that have come before. This is irrelevant navel-gazing at its most tepid. Nothing (new) to see here, folks.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 30, 2015
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Kimberley Jones
The politest way to assess Spike Lee's latest polemic is to call it too ambitious. "An unholy mess" might come closer to the truth.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Director Brill makes no stylistic advances from his recent work with Adam Sandler (Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds), and shows no signs of seeking growth or improvement.- Austin Chronicle
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While the impressive cast inspires a sense of hope, The Oh in Ohio's childish storytelling, paper-thin character development, and general unfunniness combine to make one bad movie.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
I'd use the term science fiction to describe Skyline but the movie decidedly lacks both science and fiction.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Nov 17, 2010
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Steve Davis
The snap of a twig, the rustle of a branch – that’s about as scary as it gets in The Forest, a supernatural horror movie afraid of its own shadow.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jan 13, 2016
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Marc Savlov
Bonuses all around, but a double one for Perabo, the only cast member to survive this dull-as-dirt Cave with her actorly integrity intact.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Perhaps these are dark times, both onscreen and off, but even if they are not, London Has Fallen is an hour-and-a-half of viciously Us vs. Them, Trump-style bad filmmaking on all known levels.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Mar 2, 2016
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Marc Savlov
The movie feels mechanical all the way through, leaving Sadek's debut an inauspicious and ill-lubed affair.- Austin Chronicle
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The cast, particularly Liotta, walk around with befuddled expressions on their faces, perhaps wondering what on earth they’re doing in this movie and how they can find a new agent ASAP.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
It's all infuriatingly simplistic, and the performances help matters little. Quinn and McTeer are wholly uncompelling.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
I saw the original version of this same story 28 years ago. It was called "Scanners" and it blew my mind for real. Push just blows.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
The only actors who walk away unscathed are Kattan -- the best thing in a very bad movie -- and former cover girl Shaw.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
In his English-language debut, Wirkola dabbles in everything but commits to nothing, making for an unmemorable brew best left untasted.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Jan 30, 2013
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Marc Savlov
Regardless, the upside is that Shut In is cinematic Sominex for those in need of a 90-minute nap, a thousand yawns, and zero thrills.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Nov 16, 2016
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- Posted Mar 16, 2016
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Kimberley Jones
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.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
Wretched. And while the dirtiest, low-rottenest part of me wouldn’t mind watching the institution of Ben/Jen get reamed, the heft of the blame should be shouldered by Hollywood vet Martin Brest, who wrote an incoherent, incompetent script and further mangled it with his direction.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
This is one horror franchise that's burned itself out, and then some – not even the rare shock cuts to nothing much at all will startle anyone over the age of 8.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Oct 24, 2012
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Very slick and extremely silly, not to mention aptly titled, Fair Game is just that - a noisy actioner so inanely scripted, acted, and directed that it practically begs you to make fun of it.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Despite cute kids, tough dads, and problems controlling bed-wetting and farts, Daddy Day Camp should just limp off to the nurse's tent and call it quits.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
This fourth and, presumably, final entry into the ever-deteriorating Hellraiser series is by far the worst of the lot: a jumbled, unsatisfying, and ultimately boring glimpse into the past, present, and future of the notorious cenobite affectionately known as “Pinhead”.- Austin Chronicle
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Josh Kupecki
The whole thing reeks of a spooky Halloween episode of Law & Order that will have your parents shaking their heads in acknowledgment, and you dear reader, shaking your head in disbelief.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Sep 27, 2017
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