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Review of Free Guy (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Aug 2021

Free Guy takes the time to create something unique and grounded and make us care about the future of these NPCs…

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Review of Respect (2021)

By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Aug 2021

The casting is the only part of the movie that feels genuine, with Hudson channeling the Dreamgirls emotive performance that earned her an…

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Review of John and the Hole (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Aug 2021

Sisto's direction is a victory of glacial tone over actual content, and John and the Hole's frustrations outweigh its insight into the forces…

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Review of Nine Days (2021)

By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Aug 2021

In fact, I liked wrestling with Nine Days, liked feeling the act of moviewatching as an active, not passive, one, and the way Antonio Pinto’s…

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Review of Annette (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Aug 2021

In its mix of angsty formalism and sing-along fun, Annette may be the closest that musical cinema has come to when Brecht and Weill put a knife…

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Review of The Suicide Squad (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Aug 2021

Suicide Squad just never quite has the heart of Guardians…

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Review of Ailey (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Aug 2021

The impressionistic documentary Ailey communicates this visionary auteur’s comprehension of the art form: through his own words; through…

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Review of Stillwater (2021)

By Trace Sauveur (69) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Jul 2021

Over the course of its bloated run time, this strange hodgepodge of a film clumsily shifts gears between a family/legal drama, a fish-out-of-water…

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Review of Ride the Eagle (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Jul 2021

It may be about little more than a guy getting his head a little more straight than he thought it was and burying a few resentments that he…

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Review of Enemies of the State (2021)

By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Jul 2021

Enemies of the State fumbles along like a bad thriller, with shocking turns that land with a dull thud…

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Review of Jungle Cruise (2021)

By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Jul 2021

Dwayne Johnson may not be the world’s most nuanced actor, but he’s a marvelous showman…

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Review of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Jul 2021

Compared to other Hollywood blockbusters, Snake Eyes is better than fine — but there are hundreds of Asian and Southeast Asian action movies…

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Review of The Green Knight (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Jul 2021

Lowery’s version works because, like Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson’s rewriting of L.A…

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Review of How It Ends (2021)

By James Scott (3) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Jul 2021

For all the wincing indie-film humor, for all the celebs packed in for socially distanced scenes, the film succeeds most in the simplicity…

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Review of Val (2021)

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

Val, while often tragic, is also a deeply spiritual film: a benediction of forgiveness for those that wronged him, and a mea culpa to those…

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Review of Old (2021)

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

To be fair, at least Old captures the sense of time passing past too fast: Rarely have I felt more like my life was slipping away in the cinema…

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Review of Val (2021)

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

Val, while often tragic, is also a deeply spiritual film: a benediction of forgiveness for those that wronged him, and a mea culpa to those…

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Review of Joe Bell (2020)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Jul 2021

For all its hot button, au courant moral messaging, Joe Bell is preaching to the converted and unlikely to draw in the type of audience that…

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Review of Settlers (2021)

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

Ultimately, the slow boil bleakness of the script, with its subtle ruminations of what it is to go on in a time of hopelessness, is what marks…

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Review of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 19 Jul 2021

Ultimately, Tournament of Champions remains a welcome balance of YA and horror, featuring inventive puzzle sequences with enough talent on…

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