Austin Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- Music
For 4,612 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 54
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Positive: 2,186 out of 4612
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Mixed: 1,472 out of 4612
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Negative: 954 out of 4612
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Barry Sonnenfeld's stunning cinematography and the sharply etched characterizations make this film one for the ages. -
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Kimberley Jones
It's huge and bewildering and it hurts to watch, but it hurts so good it's gorgeous. -
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Russell Smith
In this magnificent, profoundly tragic film, Nolte and Coburn each turn in career-best performances as a father and son who embody the ancient, seemingly ineradicable male pathology of violence, retribution, and the slow death of the soul. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
I can think of no other movie that has dared to analyze grief and its aftermath with such naked honesty and precision. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
This is a movie to love, that touches you in places you never suspected, that shows you that the road less traveled is the road to your dreams. -
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Kimberley Jones
It’s a movie made of moments, the antithesis of "plot-driven," but the sum of these moments is magnificent, the culmination of so many elements: acting, scripting, score (by locals Michael Linnen and David Wingo), and cinematography. -
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But in the genre, as both a movie and a conscious addition to the ongoing celluloid Western mythology, the film is a masterpiece, a stunning and awe-inspiring statement. -
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Marc Savlov
Such gorgeous explosions, such a terrible vision, such an amazing work of art. Go. Now. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
An amazing work, a film that seems to gurgle up from the American heartland, resonant and fully formed, ripe with possibilities. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Amy Heckerling’s portrait of high school/shopping mall life in Southern California is still just about as good as it gets...The panoply of teen types and turmoils is dead-on accurate. -
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Steve Davis
Its simplicity belies an emotional complexity that will linger in your mind like a gentle dream. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
As sad and poignant and potentially hopeful as it is amusing. The movie is our story as much as it is Schmidt's, no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
It's paved with delightfully irregular and unanticipated bits of business that stimulate the viewer to stay fully alert, while renewing our faith in the sheer joy of watching movies. -
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As disturbing as it is well-made, this low-budget indie is a thoroughly original piece of work. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
A movie that amply delivers on the epic promise of its title, entertaining, enlightening, and emboldening viewers with its deceptively simple premise and execution. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
One of the most exciting movies of this, or any other, year. It's smart, funny, and wonderfully crafted and performed. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Just about as great as a movie's ever gonna be... As for the storytellng, The Godfather is an intricately constructed gem that simultaneously kicks ass. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
By the end of the movie, it’s no longer possible to know anything with certainty -– so convoluted, contradictory, pathological, and long ago have the events become. It’s a movie that will have you talking and thinking for hours. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Very satisfying. Classic storytelling, modern techniques. And the images: This movie has embedded so many strange and new mental pictures in my head that I'm not able to shake free. Yet, neither would I want to be free. -
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A marvelous achievement that refuses to avert its gaze from the poetry and the insane savagery of the hopeless. -
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A chilling classic, the movie is a scabrous satire about human deviance, brutality, and social conditioning that has remained a visible part of the ongoing public debate about violence and the movies. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
A wildly inventive, unrelenting thrill that amazes us with its visual and intellectual treats and dazzles us with its ongoing ingenuity. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
More lethal than a nuclear waste dump, Kubrick's komedy at least kills us with laughter... It's one of the greatest - and undoubtably the most hilarious - antiwar statements ever put to film. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Ghost World resists convenient closures and summaries and some may take issue with its open-endedness. But anything else would have been phony, and Enid would never have stood for it. -
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Steve Davis
Near-perfect in every way, The Hours is a compelling meditation on making the most of what we're given in life. For some, it may be too cerebral a film experience, but for those who blissfully fall into its finely tuned modulations, The Hours is timeless. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten
This modern cult classic is a triumphantly dark comedy directed by one of the film world's truly original visionaries, Terry Gilliam. "Imagination" is this futuristic film’s middle name. -
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