Marjorie Baumgarten
Tomatometer-approved critic
On Swift Horses (2024)
52%
“On Swift Horses presents a potent picture of the faultlines simmering below the American surface.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 18, 2025
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Opus (2025)
41%
2/5
“Opus is an attack on media mouthpieces and mindless sycophants, but its barbs only scratch the surface before the inevitable mayhem takes over.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 13, 2025
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My Uncle Jens (2025)
“Vahabpour’s film is a gentle human story that grounds the specific in the universal.
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Austin Chronicle
Mar 12, 2025
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Zodiac Killer Project (2025)
85%
“Any students and/or devotees of the true-crime spree rampant in our modern storytelling will find Zodiac Killer Project a must-see.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 9, 2025
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East of Wall (2025)
100%
“Beecroft’s storytelling technique could stand greater development, but her sense of place and mood is spot-on.” –
Austin Chronicle
Feb 6, 2025
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The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024)
71%
“The knockout performances make the The Rule of Jenny Pen worth seeing, but there is not much more substance propping up this endeavor.” –
Austin Chronicle
Sep 26, 2024
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Megalopolis (2024)
45%
2.5/5
“Though the film is a jumble that oftentimes leaves its top-notch cast unmoored and renders its science-fiction elements somewhat anemic... Megalopolis is truly one from the heart, an outpouring from one cinephile to his tribe.
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Austin Chronicle
Sep 26, 2024
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Blink Twice (2024)
75%
“Although Kravitz’s pacing sometimes flags, she emerges as a distinctive storytelling talent determined to prick the comfortable contours of our accepted fictions and realities.” –
Austin Chronicle
Aug 22, 2024
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The Greatest Hits (2024)
49%
“Perhaps it’s asking too much for a time-travel romance to conform to rules of logic, but The Greatest Hits never strikes the right chord.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 18, 2024
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The Uninvited (2024)
85%
“Conner’s dialog and images are succinct and well-crafted, and enough good things cannot be said of this spectacular cast who bring their characters to life with precision and intriguing fascination.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 13, 2024
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
92%
4.5/5
“Rarely have I left a movie theatre more thrilled or invigorated as I did after leaving Pulp Fiction.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 1, 2024
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All That Breathes (2022)
99%
4/5
“All That Breathes instills admiration and wonder while also subtly implicating human beings in a responsibility for the upkeep and furtherance of life.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 30, 2023
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Joy Ride (2023)
90%
3.5/5
“Despite the narrative through line being somewhat disjointed, the individual sequences shine like comedic jewels that further cement the characters’ relationships.” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 20, 2023
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Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
100%
“The film uses a vast array of archival footage and interviews to bring the recent past to life, often building sections into pulsating impressions that reflect its subject and an overall musicality. ” –
Austin Chronicle
Mar 14, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023)
87%
2.5/5
“Infinity Pool is a film that does not shrink from its transgressions.” –
Austin Chronicle
Jan 26, 2023
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Empire of Light (2022)
45%
3/5
“We may come to Empire of Light like moths to a flame but, ultimately, the film’s glow lacks incandescence.” –
Austin Chronicle
Dec 8, 2022
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The Fabelmans (2022)
92%
3.5/5
“Inevitably a self-indulgent yet delightful origin story,” –
Austin Chronicle
Nov 23, 2022
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Bones and All (2022)
82%
4/5
“Dark and bloody, definitely; but also, at times, sweet and hopeful.” –
Austin Chronicle
Nov 17, 2022
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Holy Spider (2022)
82%
4/5
“A very effective thriller. ” –
Austin Chronicle
Nov 10, 2022
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Armageddon Time (2022)
76%
4/5
“What it lacks in explicit moral structure the film more than makes up for in historic sensibility.” –
Austin Chronicle
Nov 3, 2022
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Tár (2022)
91%
4.5/5
“As masterful as the character it portrays, TÁR is a textured, finely calibrated, stunningly composed, and thoroughly contemporary study.” –
Austin Chronicle
Oct 20, 2022
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
72%
2.5/5
“Instead of skipping lightly over rough seas, Triangle of Sadness bobs to shore like a floating sarcophagus.” –
Austin Chronicle
Oct 13, 2022
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Carmen (2022)
100%
2.5/5
“The final warm embrace of the people who had previously scorned Carmen wraps the film in a feel-good ending that rewards the viewer’s concern for her general welfare and erases the sting of the repressive and patriarchal customs.” –
Austin Chronicle
Sep 22, 2022
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The Silent Twins (2022)
69%
3/5
“The twins’ baffling but compelling story is one that touches on artistic impulses, racial division, female identity, idiopathic psychology, the inadequacies of our educational and psychiatric institutions, and so much more.” –
Austin Chronicle
Sep 15, 2022
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Fanny: The Right to Rock (2021)
100%
“The movie serves as an eye-opening look into one of the most important bands of whom too few people have heard...Heavily punctuated with performance clips, the film gives the kind of visual and aural testimony that mere history books cannot.” –
Austin Chronicle
Jun 9, 2022
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