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
  1. The details are intriguing, but ultimately we learn little more about what's in their heads.
  2. Might also be the best date movie ever, depending on your idea of a good time.
  3. Nothing short of majestic.
  4. Go for the gore (there's lots of it), but stay for the immortal line: "Now let's go find the body this arm belongs to."
  5. It manages to be a watchable, even enjoyable movie about and for girls, and in our world of candy-coated sparkly pink c---, that's a rare and commendable thing.
  6. Without the luminous Danes in the title role, Shopgirl would have the flair of an ordinary sales clerk.
  7. Forster should be commended for attempting something as daunting as the overreaching Stay, which despite all of its muddled logic and porous reality – or perhaps because of it – forces you to think, a genuine rarity these days.
  8. It's also a doozy of a comedy, matching the dark wit of Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer novels to the stylized theatrics of Matt Helm-era Dean Martin.
  9. There's also a little something smarmy about the interactions between the lawyers and their clients, all of whom are poor.
  10. In the end, however, Protocols of Zion illuminates manifestations of anti-Semitism without ever really elucidating or posing solutions to the problem.
  11. Plenty thought-provoking, but it's not much of a movie and ultimately inspires curiosity rather than passion.
  12. Far grislier than one ordinarily expects from black-and-white, Habitaciones Para Turistas is a real homemade fright.
  13. The Israeli comedy Ushpizin begins something like Guy Ritchie's "Snatch" and ends like the Coen brothers' "Raising Arizona" – in between it's a wholly original movie.
  14. The reality-show producer played by Walken is described by his assistant (Suvari) as having the attention span of a "ferret on speed." I'm sure he would love Domino.
  15. When she's (Dunst) off the screen, Elizabethtown goes dark and broody, stranding us with the morose Bloom during a third-act road trip that goes everywhere and nowhere at once.
  16. Such a monumentally bad remake of such an exceptionally chilling genre favorite.
  17. As cold and unseemly as that stiff found in the shower.
  18. A welcome and appropriate treat is the flurry of Bob Dylan tunes that can be heard playing in the background of this northern Minnesota story.
  19. There's so much ache in this plaintive little film that it almost makes you believe that the entire world is composed of estranged parents and children searching in vain for one another.
  20. One wishes perhaps for a more thumping conclusion, but what we have instead is something perfectly in the spirit of the piece, reaffirming that life, big and little, happens in 10 minutes chunks.
  21. Isn't teen heartache confusing enough without adding into the libidinal mix a bunch of buff scullers nicknamed the Queerstrokes?
  22. Langella is terrific in a small but critical role as CBS president William Paley, although the one essential problem with the film is that it never clearly delineates the jobs fulfilled by the cluster of other newsroom employees that are always huddled about.
  23. Tamyra, Tamyra, Tamyra. I didn't recognize you at first!
  24. Maintains a breezy charm throughout and contains many extremely funny sequences.
  25. The direction by Caruso adds little to the dynamics, although the script by Dan Gilroy offers the occasional gem. Nevertheless, Two for the Money is hardly a cineplex bargain.
  26. Never aims higher than the urinal.
  27. Every movie about the Holocaust should be this good, but few are.
  28. The hit-or-miss nature of the gags makes NBT too uneven to recommend, but it's a great calling-card movie for guys who want to become professional comedy writers.
  29. It packs a hefty emotional wallop.
  30. It's a ripping good yarn, to boot, breathlessly paced and seamlessly edited, but most important, resoundingly and surpassingly fun.

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