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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- Austin Chronicle
- Posted May 23, 2018
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Marc Savlov
We're treated to such a broad panoply of godawful dialogue, righteously shoddy acting, and, worst of all for an action blockbuster of this sort, subpar effects work, that's it's all you can do not to giggle helplessly.- Austin Chronicle
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Nearly as much fun as a case of scabies, Beverly Hills Ninja transports the viewer into a mystical realm where pratfall is king and mediocrity is its own reward.- Austin Chronicle
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Bad and baffling from the get-go, probably the only good thing to come out of this Rollerball is the boon it gives the porn industry in terms of another ready-made title to spoof.- Austin Chronicle
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The film feels like a truly awful "Saturday Night Live" sketch padded out to such unholy lengths as to make "It's Pat" seems like a comic masterstroke.- Austin Chronicle
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College, a film so persistently loud and annoying that it single-handedly makes the case for drugging yourself with a roofie.- Austin Chronicle
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Marrit Ingman
You'd have to be a real a..hole to hate this movie, loaded as it is with adorable animals. Sadly the task falls to me.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
The only remotely entertaining aspects of Insidious come from Whannell and Sampson as a comic pair of hypercompetitive hipster ghost hunters, and even that schtick is repeated ad nauseam.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Mar 31, 2011
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So much is going on, and so many bizarre and seemingly random subplots collide in Dreamcatcher, that the film feels like some crazy patchwork quilt sewn by a schizophrenic seamstress. It’s not only confusing, but dull, as well.- Austin Chronicle
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Steve Davis
And the rest of the movie? Same screaming, same endless chases, same breasts, same blood, same axe, same lack of explanation, same ending primed for another sequel. Is there a pattern emerging here? In short: same as it ever was, same as it ever was.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
This biting parody of flyover-state beauty contests feels like a bad made-for-TV movie of the week.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Make Ben Stein some more money (and get a good, mordant chuckle while you're at it) by checking out this loopy, factually befuddled documentary that should manage the not-inconsiderable feat of insulting Christians, Jews, Muslims, and those nutty sci-guys who go in for Darwin by way of bad teeth and Einsteinian hair styles.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
It's only February but I can already name the year's winner of Most Thoughtless Gay Stereotype in Film award. The dubious honor goes to The Roommate.- Austin Chronicle
- Posted Feb 9, 2011
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Reaches toward new heights of comic laziness and succeeds beyond anyone's wildest expectations.- Austin Chronicle
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I've rarely seen a movie as hostile as this one, both to its audience and to its protagonists, and I don't think I realized before just how mean-spirited comedy can get (and I was raised on the Three Stooges).- Austin Chronicle
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Steve Davis
I'll maim, chop, slash, and I'll kill, Just as I please.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
It boggles the mind that Saddam Hussein and assorted cohorts have finally won their rightful place in the global noose while various and sundry villains associated with this third entry in the Santa Claus franchise of flaccidly feel-good, winter nostrums will no doubt be allowed to walk the Earth with nary a qualm nor backward glance.- Austin Chronicle
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The only question audiences are likely to be asking their higher power in the wake of viewing the film is, "What the fuck?"- Austin Chronicle
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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.- Austin Chronicle
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Marrit Ingman
The kind of winking, disingenuous youth comedy that tries to play it both ways, dangling the twins as fetish objects and then yanking them back on the leash because, you know, this is a family film.- Austin Chronicle
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Marrit Ingman
Wiper doesn't exploit the possibilities of his setting, so the only conflict is the fighting, the only suspense comes from waiting for the next character to pop out from behind a tree and do something possibly interesting.- Austin Chronicle
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Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace is a bad movie, wrongheaded in its concept and empty in its execution.- Austin Chronicle
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Steve Davis
Jawdroppingly bad, this adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1980 novel about a talking ape named Amy and a fabled lost city deep in the jungles of central Africa is as sophisticated in execution as a Jungle Jim movie.- Austin Chronicle
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- Posted Apr 17, 2013
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