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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 Test Pattern (2021)

By Selome Hailu (10) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Feb 2021

Ford’s commitment to implying trauma instead of visualizing it is more than just an impressive formal constraint…

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Review of Nomadland (2021)

By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Feb 2021

As usual, Oscar-winner Frances McDormand delivers a rich, physically detailed performance that leaves as much under the surface as above it…

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Review of Lapsis (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 16 Feb 2021

Witty, astute, perfectly absurd in a plausibly grounded way, and political without feeling like a polemic, Hutton' quiet satire is merciless…

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Review of Minari (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Feb 2021

That's the nuanced naturalism that makes Minari so captivating, so intimate: It doesn't tell a complicated story, instead letting the roots…

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Review of Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Feb 2021

Had the creative team sharpened the focus just a little – and perhaps cast someone a bit more charismatic than, well, whatever it is that…

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Review of The Mauritanian (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Feb 2021

The Mauritanian wants to be a fusion of Papillon and A Few Good Men, but it cannot work out whether it wants to make a purely emotive argument,…

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Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

By Selome Hailu (10) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Feb 2021

As Hampton, Kaluuya gives the best performance of his career…

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Review of The World to Come (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Feb 2021

In her sophomore film, director Fastvold, assisted by painterly cinematographer André Chemetoff, has envisioned a softer version of the American…

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Review of The Wanting Mare (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Feb 2021

Bateman's worldbuilding introduces stranger elements that are always counterbalanced by more grounded emotional developments, keeping the audience…

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Review of Earwig and the Witch (2021)

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

Combined with the glacially slow and uneventful narrative, the end result feels like a feature by a small, cheap animation studio in 2010 trying…

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Review of A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

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

Like code that works but inefficiently, the length is both a feature and a bug…

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Review of Atlantis (2021)

By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Jan 2021

Atlantis isn’t an easy film to watch, and it’s not meant to be…

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Review of Hunted (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Jan 2021

It's a hodgepodge of wildly divergent narrative styles, from the mystical to the grisly and into the ridiculous…

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Review of Supernova (2021)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Jan 2021

With these two actors in command, Supernova doesn’t just dare to speak the name of a love between two deeply committed men facing an untenable…

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Review of Supernova (2020)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Jan 2021

With these two actors in command, Supernova doesn’t just dare to speak the name of a love between two deeply committed men facing an untenable…

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Review of Malcolm & Marie (2021)

By Selome Hailu (10) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Jan 2021

All in all, Malcolm & Marie is less a coherent narrative than it is a beautified slideshow of ideas…

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Review of The Little Things (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Jan 2021

Whatever points The Little Things scores for a morally ambiguous ending are washed away in the hours it takes to get there…

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Review of Go Don't Go (2021)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 25 Jan 2021

Knapp's script is ultimately about how we are trapped in our own pasts, and even when they can seem like a pillow they can become an anchor…

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Review of Bloody Hell (2020)

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

It's delightfully frightful fun, a fine addition to the venerable and febrile tradition of Australian comedy-horror…

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