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Summer Night
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-07-10
Like the repertoire of most bar bands, this all plays out like a cover – competently performed, but the original was better.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Spider-Man: Far from Home
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-06-27
Far From Home never forgets that it's a teen comedy-drama-romance, just wrapped up in a superhero story. But oh, that wrapping.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Our Time
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-06-26
It’s a shame that the narrative, with often astute and eloquent reflections on humanity, fails to cohere as a whole and gets bogged down by a common love triangle. Our Time is gorgeously filmed, but it is also vapid, and perhaps the languorous mind of this auteur needs to be shaken up.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Nothing Stays The Same: The Story of The Saxon Pub
A review by Richard Whittaker for Austin Chronicle2019-06-06
When Nothing Stays the Same is best is when it's about what it takes to survive, rather than indulging in handwringing: the flexibility, the raw business savvy melded with artistic vision that makes for great booking, and innovations like early evening residencies.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Running with Beto
A review by Richard Whittaker for Austin Chronicle2019-05-23
Modigliani's fly-on-the-wall documentary verges toward the hagiographic, but that's not the most damning criticism, because he makes the case of O'Rourke's quiet charisma.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
A review by Marc Savlov for Austin Chronicle2019-05-15
A fatalistic fantasy that positively bleeds, bruises, and blows holes in its stoic antihero even as the odds consistently favor his imminent demise.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Red Joan
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-05-01
International intrigue has rarely been less intriguing.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Avengers: Endgame
A review by Richard Whittaker for Austin Chronicle2019-04-23
What's best about Markus and McFeely's script is that they understand the characters.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Knife + Heart
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-04-10
For all the accurate comparisons to Brian De Palma and Italian giallo films – particularly in the murder scenes and M83’s synthy score, though it’s much more narratively cohesive – I see lots of other potential influences as well. There’s a seedy glamour and a noir sensibility that owes as much to Eighties films Vortex and Variety.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Black Mother
A review by Marc Savlov for Austin Chronicle2019-04-10
Like the culturally complex and often overwhelming island nation itself, Black Mother is a haunting and singular experience unlike any other.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
High Life
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-04-10
High Life is a meandering mess of symbolism, half-thoughts, ponderous exchanges, and emotional dead ends, one that confuses ambiguity for an unengaging air of vagueness.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Level 16
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-03-20
Level 16 is a mystery horror that gets darker as it unravels.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Ruben Brandt, Collector
A review by Marc Savlov for Austin Chronicle2019-03-20
This astonishing animated feature from first-time Slovenian director Krstić is required viewing for art history majors and anyone else with even a glancing interest in the works of everyone from Warhol to Gauguin, Diego Velázquez to Joan Miró.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
The Image Book
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-03-06
True, few of the cutup crew ever had the depth of knowledge or stylistic panache that Godard – one of the last remaining masters of the 20th century's most vibrant art forms – brings to the screen. But then, is The Image Book really a film? Godard himself has re-engineered it as an art installation, to be shown on a TV with speakers surrounding it, and that would probably be a better home.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
To Dust
A review by Steve Davis for Austin Chronicle2019-02-27
The real delight here, however, is Broderick’s mensch, a middle-aged man painfully aware that he’s become a loser.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Everybody Knows
A review by Marjorie Baumgarten for Austin Chronicle2019-02-20
Everybody Knows is not Farhadi’s best work, but he does deliver an affair to remember.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
A review by Steve Davis for Austin Chronicle2019-02-12
The movie’s constant meta-comedy recognition of the endearing yet aggravating earworm quality of the first film’s “Everything Is Awesome” theme song may be its most effectual in-joke.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Beyond the Night
A review for Austin Chronicle2019-01-30
The best ingredient is the way Ray relates to his son. Those moments – sometimes quiet, but often volatile – lift the film up from being a turgid episode of "Fargo" or "Justified."Read entire review on Austin Chronicle -
Back Roads
A review for Austin Chronicle2018-12-05
If you and the film find yourself on the same wavelength, there is a fair amount here to like. Like many actors moving behind the camera, Pettyfer may err a bit too much on the side of loud performances, but cinematographer Jarin Blaschke (The Witch) adds some much-needed desperation to these characterizations through his unsentimental depiction of rural Pennsylvania.Read entire review on Austin Chronicle
