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Marjorie Baumgarten

Marjorie Baumgarten

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Publications:
Anchorage Press , Austin Chronicle , Variety
Total Reviews:
2589
Total QuickRatings:
2

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3/5 90% Inequality For All (2013) " [Robert Reich] headlines this documentary in which he explains his views about the United States' current economic woes. It's something he manages to do engagingly and with great clarity." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 4, 2013
3/5 46% Parkland (2013) " Parkland adds no significant knowledge to history or conspiracy theorists, but such details as the way Zapruder's scrunched-up eye pops wide open when he witnesses what will be forever imprinted on his retina and amateur film are vivid." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/5 93% Still Mine (2013) " Lovely performances by Cromwell and Bujold, as well as those playing their extended family of children and friends, are understated yet truthful. And it's good to be reminded that love that withstands a lifetime is a most precious thing." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 27, 2013
2.5/5 83% Don Jon (2013) " Although the film's character portraits are vividly drawn, they remain largely one-dimensional." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 27, 2013
1.5/5 16% Baggage Claim (2013) " Baggage Claim should be left behind at the carousel." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 27, 2013
3.5/5 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " The unembellished emotional honesty conveyed in the indie drama Short Term 12 is so expertly handled that it carries the viewer past any hesitations harbored regarding the film's overly familiar storyline." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 20, 2013
2/5 34% Salinger (2013) " A distractingly bombastic music design starts at a thundering pitch and has nowhere to go but further." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 20, 2013
2.5/5 59% Afternoon Delight (2013) " Afternoon Delight has many small pleasures but falls far short of reaching the G spot." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 13, 2013
1/5 18% The Ultimate Life (2013) " This new film's contrived storyline is long on melodrama and short on surprise." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3/5 96% Cutie And The Boxer (2013) " Heinzerling allows us to read whatever we want into this picture. The endless struggle for money and professional recognition is either a curse or a raison d'être." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 30, 2013
2.5/5 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " [It] amounts to little more than a big, wet kiss to the group's worldwide legions of young, female fans " — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 30, 2013
3.5/5 83% Computer Chess (2013) " It's idiosyncratic, actively noncommercial, and doesn't follow the rules -- like playing a game of chess on a board with no squares." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 23, 2013
4/5 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " David Gordon Green's latest film has the amusing buoyancy of a lark but the existential depth of a head-scratcher. The film entertains, puzzles, and strays outside the lines." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 16, 2013
3/5 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Lee Daniels' The Butler is a straightforward film that puts the recent past in our grasp." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 16, 2013
4/5 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " The Act of Killing allows the victors a forum to elaborate on their story, and, by their own hands, these aged conquerors unwittingly rewrite aspects of the history that has propped them up for so many decades." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3.5/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " The Woody Allen mojo is at work in his latest film, which gets an extra boost from Cate Blanchett's extraordinary performance as a Park Avenue matron brought low by the recent financial crisis." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 9, 2013
2.5/5 90% The Attack (2013) " Answers prove more elusive than the questions. " — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 2, 2013
3/5 63% 2 Guns (2013) " Maybe it's just an expression of relief after a summer of superheroes and fantasy scenarios, but 2 Guns is a refreshing blast." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Aug 1, 2013
1/5 14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " It's a paint-by-numbers approach in which the film's comedy and drama both fall flat." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 26, 2013
1/5 69% V/H/S/2 (2013) " None of the pieces is terribly original in concept, the performances are mostly as shaky as the camerawork, and the connecting thread is stretched pretty thin." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 26, 2013
3/5 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " Fruitvale Station is a heart-rending stop; just remember that the line doesn't end there." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 26, 2013
3/5 47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " Even though I'm So Excited! doesn't soar, the film is a fun flight." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 26, 2013
3/5 95% The Hunt (2013) " Mikkelsen makes you empathize with Lucas every step of the way and helps make The Hunt a real moral nail-biter." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 26, 2013
0.5/5 8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " The Land of Lazy can crown a new king because with Grown Ups 2 Adam Sandler has officially nabbed the throne." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 19, 2013
3/5 84% Fill the Void (2013) " Using the advantage of personal familiarity with an insular religious community of Haredi Jews in Tel Aviv, Rama Burshtein has created a small jewel of a narrative." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 19, 2013
1.5/5 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Long after Only God Forgives concludes, only its scuzziness remains. This artistic misfire will forever be knocking on heaven's door." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 19, 2013
3/5 65% Turbo (2013) " By the time Turbo reaches the finish line, this new iteration of the fable about pursuing one's dreams no matter how unlikely they seem joins the winner's circle without quite nabbing the trophy." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3/5 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " There's no denying Pacific Rim is the best film of its kind. It remains to be seen whether the film's epic clawing and clanking satisfies a pent-up demand equal to its ambitions." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 11, 2013
2/5 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " The Lone Ranger stokes the legend but its smoke signals only add to the haze." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jul 3, 2013
3.5/5 82% Dirty Wars (2013) " This is a film you skip seeing at your own risk." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 28, 2013
3/5 96% A Band Called Death (2013) " The story of Death sure adds an interesting and virtually unknown footnote to the annals of punk rock." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 28, 2013
3/5 50% White House Down (2013) " White House Down is amply endowed with enough tension, humor, and calamitous action to ensure it a solid berth in the summer box-office sweepstakes." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 27, 2013
2/5 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " The problem with The Bling Ring is that it feels as soulless as its young protagonists." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 20, 2013
3/5 67% World War Z (2013) " World War Z comes across as a smart and ambitious horror movie, a bio-disaster film along the lines of Contagion or 28 Days Later." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 20, 2013
2.5/5 75% The East (2013) " The images are sharp even when the film's ideas are not." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 14, 2013
3/5 84% This Is the End (2013) " Even with this film's comedy strategy being the "let 'em all fly and see what sticks" approach, it's amazing how adhesive so much of this is." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 13, 2013
2/5 50% Now You See Me (2013) " Although Now You See Me lures us with its razzle-dazzle, the film really has little up its sleeve." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 7, 2013
3.5/5 95% Stories We Tell (2013) " As with her other films, when Sarah Polley takes it upon herself to tell us a story, you can bet it's a tale well-told and one that you'll want to hear." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 7, 2013
2.5/5 38% The Purge (2013) " After establishing this interesting premise, writer/director James DeMonaco only scratches the surface of its implications before devolving into a creepy roundelay of murders and deaths averted." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Jun 6, 2013
3.5/5 74% Love Is All You Need (2013) " There are smiles and laughter to be found in Love Is All You Need, but they're not the gossamer sort that evaporate in the moonlight." — Austin Chronicle
Posted May 31, 2013
4.5/5 98% Before Midnight (2013) " Before Midnight surpasses the two previous films in this trilogy in terms of its intelligence, narrative design, and vivacity. It's a grand accomplishment, and I feel greedy about wanting to see this film series continue." — Austin Chronicle
Posted May 23, 2013
3/5 75% Pieta (2013) " The performances of these two leads are compelling and the Cheonggyecheon area can almost be seen as another character in Kim's morality tale." — Austin Chronicle
Posted May 17, 2013
2.5/5 72% Renoir (2013) " Renoir is great at capturing some of the details of daily life within this unique household and conveying an Impressionist atmosphere on film, but as far as telling us a story, the film is a washout." — Austin Chronicle
Posted May 10, 2013
3.5/5 100% Trash Dance (2013) " In addition to being fascinating to observe the process over time, Garrison's focus is a smart move since his midrange camerawork doesn't fully capture the magnitude and magnificence of the show." — Austin Chronicle
Posted May 3, 2013
3/5 55% The Company You Keep (2013) " This chase film combines elements of the thriller and newspaper procedural to create a contemporary saga about political idealism, stone-cold realities, and the repercussions of past deeds on future innocents." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 26, 2013
3/5 85% Upstream Color (2013) " Meticulous and abstruse, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color is an idiosyncratic film that invites explication but defies total understanding." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 19, 2013
1.5/5 65% Starbuck (2013) " What begins as a cute idea grows annoyingly sentimental before it is through." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 19, 2013
2.5/5 44% To The Wonder (2013) " To the Wonder will be required viewing for all students of Malick -- and by that I mean every cinephile -- but it's not likely to escort viewers into states of transcendence." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 12, 2013
3/5 92% The Sapphires (2013) " Exuberant but fairly formulaic." — Austin Chronicle
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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