Austin Chronicle's Scores
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For 8,778 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 6.7 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: 4,774 out of 8778
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Mixed: 2,557 out of 8778
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Negative: 1,447 out of 8778
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The obvious thing is to say that Keep the River on Your Right has unfortunately bitten off more than it can chew -- but not more than we can digest.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Once you've seen it all once I bet you'll wish you were watching "Groundhog Day" -- again.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Enemy at the Gates is a disappointment primarily because it seems so rich with possibilities.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
Starts out as a lark, but veers into grittier, more emotionally complex territory -- just like a real relationship -- that the film doesn't have the chops to sustain.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
It's the type of film that begs to be called “charming” and by doing so instead ends up grating.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Herzfeld also wrote the screenplay, and so its leaden and obvious tone and the resulting dearth of delicacy rests squarely on him.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
Ao relentlessly, gleefully dumb -- without being the slightest bit sardonic -- that you just can't help but guffaw … or groan … but probably both.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
A limp and lackluster affair that telegraphs its feel-good smarm miles in advance.- Austin Chronicle
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Marrit Ingman
The film probably won't draw in audiences who aren't already fans of the quirky, subtitled pastoral, but it's more than worth a look.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
The fictionalization of their journey is simply not that engrossing, nor are their alter egos, with their tightly scripted character arcs.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Christian filmmaking has entered a new phase in which its creators have discovered how to soft-pedal their message under wraps of a conventional story.- Austin Chronicle
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Marrit Ingman
The script is simultaneously boring and breathlessly busy, and it really gives Arquette a beating, as scene after scene subjects him to electrocution, dog attack, encasement in bubble wrap, public pantlessness, assault by the hearing-impaired, a fishbowl on the head, and gluteal paralysis caused by poisonous sea urchins.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Plenty of killings abound, nevertheless the film is a masterful -- albeit warped -- love-story-cum-road-movie that revolves around three of the most invigorating performances of the year.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The movie's bright touches belong primarily to Brooke Smith.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Selick is widely and rightly regarded as a master of surreal, dark humor, and wildly inventive animation technique, and Monkeybone is the first tarnish on his otherwise spotless reputation.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
The end result is overkill en extremis. There is such a thing as too much. And 3KMTG is much too much.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
It's impossible to shake the feeling that these are merely actors -- albeit good ones.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Proving once again that no matter how many times you remake a film it's tough to top the original.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Get out your handkerchiefs. No, scratch that -- get out a pair of windshield wipers and staple them to your brow. Perhaps they'll obscure the screen.- Austin Chronicle
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Marrit Ingman
The film never gets too far beyond disposable youth fare, best consumed like mouthfuls of sugary cereal.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Misfires on so many levels that we have to wonder if there is more than one meaning to this story's wild boars.- Austin Chronicle
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Marc Savlov
Reaches toward new heights of comic laziness and succeeds beyond anyone's wildest expectations.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The entire cast is marvelous and capable of conveying continents of emotion with a furtive smile or arched brow.- Austin Chronicle
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Kimberley Jones
Head Over Heels whitewashes the originality and, well, weirdness Waters showed in his first film, although it's impossibe to imagine anything starring young poster-pups Potter and Prinze Jr. could be particularly edgy.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
The loosely scripted story is further burdened with clunky dialogue and performances, shoddy continuity.- Austin Chronicle
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Marjorie Baumgarten
A stylistic tour de force, one that wordlessly emotes and wears its emotions on its literal silk sleeves.- Austin Chronicle
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Marrit Ingman
That rarest of creatures: a coming-of-age dramedy whose (nearly) teenage stars are natural actors, whose direction is unforced, and whose sexual themes are treated with candor and humor.- Austin Chronicle
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