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Review of Merry Christmas (2006)

By Marrit Ingman (203) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 08 Nov 2019

The movie isn't perfect – Spielberg-slick, its power is sometimes dampened by melodrama that overstates its message – but it is compelling…

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Review of Acceleration (2019)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Nov 2019

Bar a brief boost from his performance as Konstantin Kovar in Arrow, nothing can save Dolph Lundgren from C-grade hell, digital squibs, and…

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Review of Last Christmas (2019)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Nov 2019

But you know what? It works. Director Paul Feig is not unfamiliar with traversing these waters of a slap and a tickle…

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Review of Cyrano, My Love (2018)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Nov 2019

It's absolutely at its best as a predictable if pleasurable story of unlikely success…

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Review of The Irishman (2019)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Nov 2019

Denying Scorsese's raw talent and experience as a filmmaker would be insanity – although the decision to digitally de-age his actors proves…

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Review of Midway (2019)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Nov 2019

Midway does a decent job of cramming in not only the eponymous three-day naval battle between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese…

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Review of Doctor Sleep (2019)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Nov 2019

He's (Flanagan) never trying to one-up Kubrick or King…

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Review of Playing with Fire (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Nov 2019

This mirthless comedy about a manly crew of smokejumpers helplessly babysitting a trio of rescued brats has more dead air in it than a radio…

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Review of Countdown (2019)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Oct 2019

Surprisingly, Countdown works best when it operates less as a Nineties horror homage and more as a modern horror-comedy…

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Review of Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Oct 2019

Terminator: Dark Fate is personified in the Rev-9. The new terminator is a nanite skin over a combat endoskeleton…

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Review of Harriet (2019)

By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Oct 2019

Like a classroom history lesson, the script by director Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard dutifully recounts the life of this extraordinary…

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Review of Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Oct 2019

If the screenplay pulls at threads that don’t always pay off, the actors and the thoughtful cinematography of veteran Dick Pope always ensure…

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Review of Portals (2019)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Oct 2019

Portals feels like a first pass at a bigger idea, and a framing mechanism that takes a wild series of closing turns sets up a much bigger –…

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Review of Portals (2019)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Oct 2019

Portals feels like a first pass at a bigger idea, and a framing mechanism that takes a wild series of closing turns sets up a much bigger –…

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Review of Pain and Glory (2019)

By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Oct 2019

An abundance of color is present in Pain and Glory but the shades are more muted than Almodóvar’s early color-saturated work…

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Review of Parasite (2019)

By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Oct 2019

In a year when the coy social mores of upstairs and downstairs have been filtered once again through the aristocratic monocle of Downton Abbey,…

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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Oct 2019

When looking at the one-two punch of The Lighthouse and The Witch, Eggers seems to find inspiration in how superstition and folklore blurred…

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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Oct 2019

When looking at the one-two punch of The Lighthouse and The Witch, Eggers seems to find inspiration in how superstition and folklore blurred…

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Review of Black and Blue (2019)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Oct 2019

Black and Blue is almost incoherently edited, dumping out chase scenes where characters round corners and enter rooms with absolutely no sense…

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Review of Jojo Rabbit (2019)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Oct 2019

Absurdist humor abounds throughout a story whose underlying themes echo Elvis Costello’s eternal question, “What’s so funny ’bout peace,…

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