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Review of Encanto (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Nov 2021

With its bold visual sense and fanciful storyline (credited to six writers, no less), Encanto feels like a companion piece to Coco, but it…

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Review of King Richard (2021)

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

The interplay of setback and triumph of the sports film genre, here informed by both racial and socioeconomic concerns, is comfortably familiar,…

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Review of House of Gucci (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Nov 2021

House of Gucci isn't aggressively bad, but it is undeniably tedious, threadbare, and unengaging…

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Review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Nov 2021

Ghostbusters: Afterlife may not change cinema in the way the original did, but it’s a worthy next generation…

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Review of Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Nov 2021

That's where Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is most fascinating, in its exploration of the blurred lines between what who writers (and filmmakers)…

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Review of She Paradise (2021)

By Lina Fisher (2) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Nov 2021

Never bordering on cheesy, She Paradise is a heartfelt ode to the strength it takes to learn to stand up for yourself in a painful world…

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Review of India Sweets and Spices (2021)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Nov 2021

While India Sweets and Spices adds a veneer of depicting the contemporary Indian American experience, beyond the gorgeous lehengas and saris,…

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Review of The Power of the Dog (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Nov 2021

Campion and her cast do an extraordinary job of bringing all these characters in midway through their own private traumas, and Dunst brings…

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Review of The United States of Insanity (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Nov 2021

The United States of Insanity is as much a portrait of a long-ignored, mocked, and lambasted band, and the subculture that surrounds it, as…

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Review of tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

By Sarah Jane (34) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Nov 2021

I’m not sure tick, tick…Boom! is for everyone. People who like Rent/Larson and musical fans in general will love it…

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Review of Belfast (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Nov 2021

The micro-homilies proliferate, the stagy drama heightens, and subtlety gives way to a little pandering…

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Review of Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)

By Trace Sauveur (69) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Nov 2021

Watching this vaguely preternatural, shoddily animated interpretation of a beloved character parade around really makes you feel the disconnect…

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Review of The Souvenir: Part II (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 08 Nov 2021

At heart, The Souvenir Part II is a film about filmmaking as art, industry, and identity…

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Review of The Beta Test (2021)

By Trace Sauveur (69) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Nov 2021

It’s an erotic thriller set-up matched with the sort of morally dubious character that would have De Palma’s ears perked, but it plays…

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Review of Dead & Beautiful (2021)

By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Nov 2021

There’s a hollowness to its beauty, as much as there is with its messaging…

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Review of Red Notice (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Nov 2021

Red Notice barely feels like a film, which is fine…

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Review of Spencer (2021)

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

Co-fabulists Pablo Larraín and writer Steven Knight have made a film that marries the former’s elliptical, experimental style with the latter’s…

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Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Nov 2021

Wain's psychosis is shown from the inside, the Victoriana giving way to psychotronic visions that re-create Wain's futurism and dalliances…

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Review of Finch (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 03 Nov 2021

Sapochnik has delved into bleak futures before, with his 2010 brutal forced-organ-donation capitalist satire Repo Men, but Finch is much closer…

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Review of Eternals (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Nov 2021

There’s been an urge to excuse the director and blame the studio, arguing that Zhao just didn’t fit into the strictures of the MCU…

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