The Wedding Banquet (2025)
88%
3/5
“In a film that pays sweet tribute to chosen families, these three actors [Yuh-Jung, Chen & Gladstone] elevate their less-tested colleagues.” –
Austin Chronicle
Apr 17, 2025
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Make Me Famous (2021)
100%
“Juicy archival footage of stylish scenemakers and art shows held in tenement slums is paired with dishy interviews with Brezinski’s contemporaries.” –
Austin Chronicle
Apr 7, 2025
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The Friend (2024)
84%
2.5/5
“The Friend is all soft edges.” –
Austin Chronicle
Apr 3, 2025
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Secret Mall Apartment (2024)
100%
3.5/5
“Secret Mall Apartment – a seriously fun film – commits in kind.” –
Austin Chronicle
Apr 3, 2025
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Bob Trevino Likes It (2024)
95%
3/5
“Best to meet Bob Trevino on its own terms – with open arms and an unjudgey heart.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 27, 2025
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Eephus (2024)
100%
4/5
“Eephus is suffused with a sincere love for baseball but not overburdened with holiness about the game.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 20, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
3.5/5
“At a silkily dispatched hour and a half, Black Bag is perfectly portioned and entertaining as all get-out.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 12, 2025
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Mickey 17 (2025)
77%
“Everybody here is going for broke, from Naomi Ackie’s force-of-nature turn as Mickey’s lover to Mark Ruffalo as the mission’s rich... eugenicist leader, all veneers and fake tan, to Bong himself, nimbly snaking between class satire and creature feature. ” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 6, 2025
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My Dead Friend Zoe (2024)
95%
3.5/5
“Morales is a stealth stunner, going the distance from comic relief to the film’s emotional crux.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 3, 2025
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Love Me (2024)
47%
3/5
“Stewart and Yeun hold the eye, but the film overinvests in their human avatars.” –
Austin Chronicle
Jan 31, 2025
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I'm Still Here (2024)
97%
3.5/5
“Through the meat of the movie, I’m Still Here is unassailable: a gripping story, sensitively performed, with outstanding production and costume design effectively reproducing the era. ” –
Austin Chronicle
Jan 31, 2025
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Hard Truths (2024)
95%
4/5
“Hard Truths is in fact quite generous in its exploration of a woman in profound pain, and you want to meet it with the same compassion.” –
Austin Chronicle
Jan 24, 2025
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
97%
4/5
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat relates not just Lumumba’s assassination but the larger role the Congo, a nation rich with natural resources, played in the Cold War, and the so-called Congo Crisis’ surprising intersections with midcentury American jazz. ” –
Austin Chronicle
Jan 7, 2025
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
2.5/5
“Problem is, it’s an intentionally opaque characterization, in a film overcrammed with musical performances – onstage, in the studio, on the bed noodling on a new song – which basically means half the movie is like watching pretty good karaoke. ” –
Austin Chronicle
Jan 7, 2025
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
4.5/5
“It’s a gorgeous piece of filmmaking, with Corbet and co-writer Mona Fastvold cannily writing in opportunities for cinematographer Lol Crawley to razzle-dazzle.” –
Austin Chronicle
Dec 12, 2024
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All We Imagine as Light (2024)
100%
3.5/5
“Small in its movements and thoughtful in its observations, All We Imagine As Light is quietly resonant.” –
Austin Chronicle
Dec 12, 2024
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Bird (2024)
86%
4/5
“What struck me more was the film’s interpretation of Bailey’s coming of age not as something to be mourned or that comes on too soon. Instead, it’s an activation.” –
Austin Chronicle
Dec 4, 2024
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A Real Pain (2024)
96%
3.5/5
“These characters have become so dear; I longed for something more climactic, more cathartic for them. Still, for the time we have with them, they make terrific company.” –
Austin Chronicle
Nov 14, 2024
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Time Travel Is Dangerous (2024)
82%
“The Eighties aesthetic runs throughout, and spiritually, Time Travel Is Dangerous! is something of an 8-bit charmer, full of practical effects and the anything-goes wackiness that engined action-comedies of the era.
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Austin Chronicle
Oct 28, 2024
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Look Back (2024)
100%
3.5/5
“The heady buzz of creation. The stillness of grief. The heart-expanding-five-times-its-size joy of a perfect day with a friend. It’s all there. I just wanted more of it.” –
Austin Chronicle
Oct 17, 2024
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Saturday Night (2024)
78%
3/5
“The glibly entertaining Saturday Night presents like we’re all friends – the clubhouse vibes make for a fun hang...” –
Austin Chronicle
Oct 10, 2024
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The Outrun (2024)
82%
4/5
“Ronan, and her empathic director, catch without words the sensation of when someone who has been buried under unfathomable pain and grief and trauma discovers they still have the capacity for joy. I” –
Austin Chronicle
Oct 3, 2024
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Lee (2023)
67%
2/5
“While that may have been true to Miller’s nature, the gritted-teeth one-noteness of it is exhausting.
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Austin Chronicle
Sep 26, 2024
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Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024)
75%
3.5/5
“Seeking a woman denied a voice, Jones has made herself the star of her own film, doing all sorts of things, like roller skating and consulting a tarot reader, that will make doc purists clutch their pearls, a sidelong pleasure of the piece. ” –
Austin Chronicle
Sep 12, 2024
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Will & Harper (2024)
99%
3.5/5
“Harper and Will both come off like good eggs, and the tears wept on both side are liable to goose sincere tears of your own.” –
Austin Chronicle
Sep 12, 2024
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