Austin Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- Music
For 4,484 reviews, this publication has graded:
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2% same as the average critic
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61% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.8 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 54
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,119 out of 4484
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Mixed: 1,430 out of 4484
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Negative: 935 out of 4484
4,484
movie reviews
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
Virtually flawless performances and directorial execution render The Fighter one of the most thrilling movies of 2010.- Posted Dec 17, 2010
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Steve Davis 100
It's the most compelling American movie to come around in a long, long time.- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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Marjorie Baumgarten 100
The story winds its way over the material, forcing the characters and the viewers to constantly reassess everything they have seen and heard.- Posted Feb 9, 2012
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Marc Savlov 89
Loud, hilarious, and enormously entertaining, 24 Hour Party People makes you want to toss current FM radio out on its pre-fab, corporate-sponsored backside. And not a moment too soon. -
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Marc Savlov 89
It's an audacious, affecting, and unexpectedly hilarious debut, and most definitely the most original film I've seen all year. -
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Steve Davis 89
The dialogue is scattered with so many beautiful gems that conversations glitter. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Wildly entertaining, "Shakespeare in Love" minus the Bard and the babe, but with substantive style to burn. -
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Kimberley Jones 89
The characters in The Claim suffer under the weight of very big things -- betrayal, abandonment, disease, death -- but they do so quietly, stoically, until, by God, they just can't take it anymore. -
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Marc Savlov 89
The images this war photographer shoots are beyond awful, but there's just no looking away. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
Director David Gordon Green has made a work of uncommon beauty and intelligence, one that is smart enough to trust its characters and the technical contributions of its crew. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
As good as it ever was, and improved slightly by hindsight, experience, and extra cash. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
Unruly girls around the world are liable to find these Bandits stealing their hearts. -
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Kimberley Jones 89
It's all about the little things, and the way in which the little things can steal into your heart in big ways. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Sellbinding, distressing, and possessed of a dark and terrible beauty. -
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Marrit Ingman 89
The result is total immersion in the moment of the music, sure to send jazz fans over the moon. -
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Critic Score 89
The documentary has no narration, and uses excellent expository camerawork to say things that no narrator could equal. -
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Marrit Ingman 89
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. -
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Marc Savlov 89
New and amazing -- it takes you back to the days when French filmmaking and French filmmakers were the darlings and saviors of the cinematic cutting edge. It's a great film, simply told, and a pleasure to watch. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Kempner's documentary is a streamlined, gorgeous piece of work, full of revelations of time, place, and person. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Nearly a perfect film, from its bold and epic man-vs.-nature conflict to the breathless scripting, editing, acting, and direction. -
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Marrit Ingman 89
The film is dignified rather than dour, full of rich imagery. -
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Russell Smith 89
Anyone who can watch this film and deny that the Sex Pistols were one of the four or five most exciting and indelibly brilliant rock groups ever is pumping formaldehyde, not blood, through his veins. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
Only a quite over-the-top character played by Raquel Welch strikes any false note. Otherwise, Tortilla Soup is a real chef's special. -
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Marc Savlov 89
Seems more like a subtle, elegiac tone poem than an indictment of human banality and the evil that men do. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
This political satire that's as fresh and exhilarating as anything we've seen come out of Hollywood in quite some time. -
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Russell Smith 89
Fonda brings all of his childhood frustration and angst to the screen in one of the year's most unexpectedly brilliant acting performances. -
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Marjorie Baumgarten 89
A handsomely constructed and executed movie, the kind of effort that deserves appreciation, on its own terms, for what it both dares and accomplishes. -
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Kimberley Jones 89
Cue the footage of Cockettes in spangles and glitter, high-kicking and belting out show tunes at the top of their lungs. Damn, it looks grand. -
