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Review of Ascension (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Oct 2021

Focusing her camera on the rising cogs in the machine of China’s insatiable consumer culture, Jessica Kingdon expands on her 2017 short “Commodity…

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Review of The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Sep 2021

The phrase “searing indictment” is an overused idiom in the critic’s toolbox, but in this instance, it couldn’t be more appropriate…

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Review of Copshop (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 16 Sep 2021

Carnahan and co-conspirators Kurt McLeod and Mark Williams are clearly having a blast orchestrating this symphony of Grand Guignol…

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Review of The Lost Leonardo (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Sep 2021

While some of the re-creations of clandestine meetings and shots of faceless men transporting the painting can be a bit cloak-and-dagger cheesy,…

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Review of The Witches of the Orient (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Jul 2021

As he did with his previous doc, 2018’s John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, Faraut finds and obsesses over the rhythm of bodies in…

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Review of Fathom (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Jun 2021

Keeping the camera on Fournet and Garland may reduce the screentime of the actual humpbacks, but Xanthopoulos is more interested in the research…

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Review of Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Jun 2021

The film, anchored by interviews with Moreno and her co-stars and contemporaries, positions Moreno as a trailblazer, a barrier-breaker, and…

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Review of All Light, Everywhere (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Jun 2021

All Light, Everywhere’s roaming tangents always return to the heart (or the eye) of the matter, and that skill of orchestration is no mean feat…

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Review of Four Good Days (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Apr 2021

Both Glenn Close and Mila Kunis are very talented actors, but Four Good Days gives them absolutely nothing interesting to say or do…

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Review of Together Together (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Apr 2021

Watching Matt and Anna discover the parameters of their friendship, and the impact they have on each other’s lives, is quite rewarding…

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Review of Voyagers (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 08 Apr 2021

More thought seems to have gone into the future foodstuff and eating utensil design than in the narrative…

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Review of Chaos Walking (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Mar 2021

Chaos Walking is, as with any pop confection, catchy and has a solid beat, it’s just a shame that this tune is all too familiar…

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Review of Synonyms (2019)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Feb 2021

It is a brilliant high-wire act. Yoaz is utterly unpredictable at any given moment, and so too, is Synonyms…

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Review of Silk Road (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 23 Feb 2021

Silk Road is not without its pleasures – Clarke especially is fun to watch as he gets increasingly cornered with his shakedown shenanigans…

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Review of Some Kind of Heaven (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Jan 2021

Some Kind of Heaven effortlessly blends humor and pathos into a memorable and at times unsettling study on where life’s trajectory might…

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Review of Half Brothers (2020)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Dec 2020

With way too many tonal shifts and a narrative that trades cohesion for caprice, the film feels like riding shotgun with a toddler attempting…

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Review of Black Bear (2020)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Dec 2020

It is an exhilarating feat of control, and a scathing deconstruction of the sacrifices made in the name of art…

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Review of Collective (2019)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 19 Nov 2020

What makes Nanau’s film utterly compelling is the unfettered access he had to both the Sports Gazette journalists and to Minister of Health…

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Review of City Hall (2020)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Nov 2020

I cannot think of another film that plainly and comprehensively lays bare the both the complex apparatus at work, and the people dedicated…

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Review of The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Oct 2020

Part of the brilliance of Cummings’ performance is how he can turn on a dime, baring his soul one second and throwing off a well-timed jab…

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