Audra Schroeder
Audra Schroeder's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Austin Chronicle
The Daily Dot
Movies reviews only
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The Menu (2022) |
The story, penned by Will Tracy and Seth Reiss, is expertly paced, punctuated by gorgeous title cards announcing the dishes. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Decision to Leave (2022) |
A detective thriller noir that tries to get you to feel something for its flawed protagonists. But they’re a little too quiet. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Skinamarink (2022) |
Skinamarink expertly recreates the feeling of being between sleep and consciousness—of waking up weird. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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The Trip (2021) |
The Trip thankfully steps back from the sadness of a crumbling relationship and instead presents its chaotic flipside - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 28, 2021
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Natalie Palamides: Nate - A One Man Show (2020) |
There's no resolution at the end of the hour. Nate takes off on his motorcycle, in a cloud of smoke. Now you're left sitting with the feelings. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Dec 15, 2020
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Sound of Metal (2019) |
Riz Ahmed gives a standout performance in this moving film. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Dec 08, 2020
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Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine (2020) |
I get that Cooper and friends are trying to mirror the feeling of doom-scrolling, but the result is more like an SNL cold open gone rogue. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Nov 04, 2020
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Bad Hair (2020) |
Justin Simien's latest throws a little too much at the screen. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 23, 2020
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) |
Does Borat's schtick still work when politicians show us who they are every day? - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 21, 2020
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) |
Two hours under the influence of Charlie Kaufman. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Sep 04, 2020
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Boys State (2020) |
A fascinating and bleak exploration of teenage boys playing politics. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Aug 14, 2020
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Pandora's Box (1929) |
The way the camera lingers on Brooks is voyeuristic; she, in turn, is oblivious to the fact we're there - the scene where she swings on the arm of muscle-head producer Rodrigo Quast is a classic example. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jun 16, 2020
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Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020) |
Gadsby makes it an accessible show, even if it's intertwined with its predecessor. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted May 28, 2020
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Michelle Wolf: Joke Show (2019) |
Wolf has mastered the joke structure, so that even when stating, "White women, it's time to admit we're part of the problem," she has a counterpunch(line) and doesn't lose the audience. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 18, 2020
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While Bamford tempered expectations early on in the special, it's not because she doubts herself or her material. She's arrived at a place where she knows herself-and her brand-better. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 17, 2020
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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) |
That the franchise has retained a devoted audience speaks to Condor's complete command of the role, and while the sequel still has chemistry, it feels a bit confined by its love triangle. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 18, 2020
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Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty (2020) |
Sweet & Salty keeps a celebratory tone throughout, but the last 20 minutes are a little more self-reflective, as Feimster assesses where she is now-and how she could be the representation she lacked. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 05, 2020
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Leslie Jones: Time Machine (2020) |
Jones pauses a couple of times to genuinely be in the moment, and though much of the hour leans on surveying the past and making observations (not all of them groundbreaking), there's a bigger takeaway: Take up space now. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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Ilana Glazer: The Planet is Burning (2020) |
Glazer is a gifted performer-energetic, physical, and quick with an impression. She has a voice that people are drawn to. But there's a sense that she's still finding her footing in this medium. And that's OK. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jan 09, 2020
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John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) |
John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch excels at amplifying those weird moments of pre-adolescence, when you're trying to assert yourself more but aren't always taken seriously because you're "just a kid." - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Dec 30, 2019
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Rattlesnake (2019) |
Unfortunately, Rattlesnake is more concerned with Katrina paying her debt than any deeper discussions of morality. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 28, 2019
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Fractured (2019) |
Fractured is the latest Netflix original thriller that feels like it was assembled in a factory, its keywords blinking to life: distant father, dissatisfied wife, vague trauma, man obsessed, save family. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 23, 2019
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Jenny Slate: Stage Fright (2019) |
Slate-like so many women-has more than one self, and she shows us a few of them in Stage Fright. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 23, 2019
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Jojo Rabbit (2019) |
There's a nagging feeling that Jojo Rabbit is giving us the kid-gloves version of the story. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Color Out of Space (2019) |
I'm all here for a recontextualization of Lovecraft's work, but by the end of the film... it felt like I'd only watched half the story. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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In the Shadow of the Moon (2019) |
Unfortunately, this film is not Zodiac, and its protagonist's obsession with a killer becomes caricature by the film's third act. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Dolemite Is My Name (2019) |
But as a movie about who we make movies for, it works on a couple of levels. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) |
This film is for a new generation, with new fears to exploit. But will it stay with them? - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Aug 09, 2019
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Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It? (2019) |
It's an engaging spin on the traditional standup special, even if robot Whitney is still working on her delivery. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 31, 2019
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Girls With Balls (2018) |
Clocking in at just 80 minutes, Girls with Balls is a fun, schlocky ride that you can passively view, but you won't necessarily get invested in the characters. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 27, 2019
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Iliza: Confirmed Kills (2016) |
Confirmed Kills finds the comedian taking a more muscled approach to her observations about men and women, which provide the foundation for her standup. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 18, 2019
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Brad Paisley's Comedy Rodeo (2017) |
This is obviously a special for Paisley fans, and the jokes are fairly low stakes. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 17, 2019
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Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein (2019) |
Maybe FMMF is part of a new approach to presenting sketch comedy to viewers in fun-size bites that take a while to digest, and leave you wondering what you just watched. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 17, 2019
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Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019) |
It's hard to separate that sentiment from the fact that Right Now is still a carefully constructed performance. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 09, 2019
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Midsommar (2019) |
Much of Midsommar's two-and-a-half-hour runtime is cushioned with trippy sequences, sun-bleached images, and drawn-out pagan rituals-a feel rather than a story. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 03, 2019
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Wanda Sykes: Not Normal (2019) |
Sykes manages to balance the personal and the political in a way that doesn't feel heavy-handed, even if comedians commenting on Trump has now become de rigueur. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted May 21, 2019
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Wine Country (2019) |
It makes you wonder if Wine Country would have been funnier if its stars weren't playing characters, just being themselves. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted May 09, 2019
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Anthony Jeselnik: Fire in the Maternity Ward (2019) |
Even if you were to voice a critique, like that perhaps the special needs less material about baby-dropping, it sounds absurd when you say it out loud. Jeselnik wins. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted May 03, 2019
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Nate Bargatze: The Tennessee Kid (2019) |
Not all the jokes in Nate Bargatze: The Tennessee Kid engage, but Bargatze is a good storyteller. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 27, 2019
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The Dirt (2019) |
The biopic works a little too hard to suggest that they were really just good boys from broken homes who got sucked into the void of music industry excess. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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Amy Schumer Growing (2019) |
Her eye toward the future gives Growing some clarity and shape, even if she stumbles a few times trying to figure out this new chapter of adulthood. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Everybody's Everything (2019) |
But this isn't a document of judgement or blame. It's a family's meditation on grief and loss; it starts with chaos and ends with calm. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) |
The Inventor does a lot of telling but not a lot of showing. We still don't know Holmes any better at the end. Is she just an invention too? - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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Knock Down the House (2019) |
Lears started filming Ocasio-Cortez while she was still tending bar, and it really is exceptional how much footage of the political and personal journey she captured. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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Us (2019) |
As with Get Out, Us plays with the idea of privilege and domesticity, and trades out the trauma of the Sunken Place for a shadow world, "as above so below" writ large. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner (2019) |
I found myself reacting to some of the material like Romano was my own father telling me a bad joke: that closed-mouth smile and silent nod. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 06, 2019
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Fyre Fraud (2019) |
Proper event planning can actually pull off a win. Now how many people did Hulu convince to watch? - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jan 18, 2019
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Fyre (2019) |
"Capture everything," the directive for documenting the lead-up to the festival, yields a bounty of expository content. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jan 14, 2019
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Cam (2018) |
It treks even deeper into the maw for an imaginative and terrifying look at the prism of online identity. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Nov 20, 2018
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) |
It's frenzied, jumbled, morose-much like The Other Side of the Wind. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Nov 03, 2018
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