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Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) 93% EDIT “196 minutes of some of the finest filmmaking.” – Austin Chronicle Sep 22, 2024 Full Review Green Ghost & the Masters of the Stone (2021) 60% EDIT “A mash-up of películas de acción, supernatural family drama, and light humor, it wears its heart – and its influences – on its avocado-accented, superheroic sleeve.” – Austin Chronicle May 4, 2022 Full Review Unplugging (2022) 14% EDIT “Unplugging is hamstrung by its ricocheting tone and undercut by sequences that probably provoked chuckles during the initial read-through but too often fall flat in the finished product.” – Austin Chronicle Apr 21, 2022 Full Review Master (2022) 75% EDIT “An arresting feature debut from Director Mariana Diallo, Master gingerly walks the tightrope between outright supernatural horror and a criticism of the enduring power of monied white privilege.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 16, 2022 Full Review Bitch Ass (2022) 70% EDIT “Bitch Ass’ numerous subtexts address everything from the consequences of systemic racism within the African-American community to the implications of being different in urban Black America.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 16, 2022 Full Review Barbarians (2021) 53% EDIT “Dorfman's debut feature is a corker of a good time to watch and rife with some juicy subtexts regarding class, British colonialism, and toxic masculinity.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 11, 2022 Full Review Freeland (2020) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Freeland has precious little dialogue, so Fairchild conveys her unspoken inner feelings using only her face and eyes. In this she excels, radiating calm, outrage, despair, and melancholic memories.” – Austin Chronicle Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Small Engine Repair (2021) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Small Engine Repair is a real American horror story, skillfully shot, perfectly cast and acted, and carrying a sorrowful message that resonates with brutal truth.” – Austin Chronicle Sep 9, 2021 Full Review We Need to Do Something (2021) 54% 3/5 EDIT “O'Grady, working from Booth's tightly knit script, gives the audience a master class in claustrophobic horror movie minimalism, preferring to focus on the four cornered family members as fear and uncertainty hobble their rational wits.” – Austin Chronicle Sep 2, 2021 Full Review The Colony (2021) 54% 2.5/5 EDIT “Certainly lead adult actor Arnezeder has panache to spare, as does Bousinna, but the muddled storyline defeats them time and time again, no matter how perfectly angry/hopeful their lines are.” – Austin Chronicle Sep 1, 2021 Full Review The East (2020) 70% 3/5 EDIT “The East is an unrelenting condemnation of the Netherlands' misguided attempt to return its colonial outreach to a time long gone while hitting most (if not all) of the "doomed war" niche genre movie tropes without ever actually teetering into cliche.” – Austin Chronicle Aug 17, 2021 Full Review Joe Bell (2020) 39% 2/5 EDIT “Joe Bell is preaching to the converted and unlikely to draw in the type of audience that actually needs to hear its pleas for kindness in a mean and wild world.” – Austin Chronicle Jul 22, 2021 Full Review F9 The Fast Saga (2021) 59% 2.5/5 EDIT “It's a Fast and the Furious film but this time clunkier, minus much of the snappy gutter panache of 2001's original.” – Austin Chronicle Jun 25, 2021 Full Review Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “Truman & Tennessee is a fascinating but melancholy mash note to the enduring friendship of two genius misfits who, despite constant self doubt barely masked by a raconteur's seeming insouciance.” – Austin Chronicle Jun 18, 2021 Full Review Holler (2020) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “For all the scenes of desperate people doing desperate things in order to stave off literal starvation while working dead-end or downright criminal jobs, Riegel somehow manages to imply short, sharp shock of actual hope by film's end.” – Austin Chronicle Jun 10, 2021 Full Review The Carnivores (2020) 76% 3.5/5 EDIT “Medel's perfectly raw and queasily realistic performance of an already insecure mind coming wholly unhinged, and cinematographer Adam J. Minnick's canted camera setups and dreamy-dreary color palette, The Carnivores is a slow burning bad dream.” – Austin Chronicle Jun 5, 2021 Full Review Los Hermanos/The Brothers (2020) 100% 3/5 EDIT “A brief history lesson that touches on communist Cuba's food rationing system discussed while the brothers venture out into Havana in search of an elusive bottle of soy sauce feels unnecessary, but that's a minor misstep in an otherwise embracing film.” – Austin Chronicle Jun 1, 2021 Full Review Duty Free (2020) 85% 3/5 EDIT “As director/son Regis chronicles his mother's story over a three-year period, we get to know her in singular detail, and what emerges is the exact opposite of what audiences may assume.” – Austin Chronicle May 6, 2021 Full Review The Outside Story (2020) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “A savvy examination of the importance of community, The Outside Story meanders along with Charles and his chance encounters with others in his neighborhood.” – Austin Chronicle Apr 29, 2021 Full Review Vanquish (2021) 5% 2/5 EDIT “It's all about that futuristic superbike, actually. The plot mechanics, action set pieces, and characters arcs - or lack thereof - are all dreadfully overfamiliar, resulting in a cream puff of a thriller.” – Austin Chronicle Apr 16, 2021 Full Review Wojnarowicz (2020) 97% 4/5 EDIT “McKim's documentary is as jangly and urgent as its subject and his art, and it packs a melancholy wallop, using the artist's own running commentary via cassette tape.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 25, 2021 Full Review Alien on Stage (2020) 95% EDIT “Inspiring and uplifting in equal amounts, Harvey and Kummer's fangs-and-all documentary is, like its subject, one of a kind.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 25, 2021 Full Review Gaia (2021) 84% 4/5 EDIT “Fans of Jeff VanderMeer's "Southern Reach Trilogy" and its Annihilation adaptation, and lovers of the defiantly feminine and vengeful natural world will find plenty to chew on in Gaia.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 24, 2021 Full Review The Hunt for Planet B (2021) 88% EDIT “Director Nathaniel Kahn's documentary ranges far afield from just the challenges of building the James Webb under constant threat of budgetary cuts.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 22, 2021 Full Review Dark State (2021) EDIT “That might be your cup of Bilderbergian-flavored hydroxychloroquine paranoiac politics but I found it to be yet another depressing reminder of how far we've fallen.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 18, 2021 Full Review
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