Joy Ride (2023)
90%
B+
EDIT
“Cola is the pace-setter; while Park's character is the fish-out-of-water protagonist, it's Lolo whose emotional beats the audience follows, from zany confidence to truly heartfelt pain. Put Cola in every movie immediately.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 27, 2023
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Bottoms (2023)
91%
A
EDIT
“A big, loud, expertly crafted love story about teenage lesbians, written from a deeply queer sensibility and letting its ladies get messy, is a heavyweight champ in my mind.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 20, 2023
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Problemista (2023)
85%
A-
EDIT
“A big creative explosion like Problemista is bound to bleed past the edges of the feeble human mind, though. For all its beautiful collectivism, perhaps its most sophisticated trick is making room for the power of self.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 20, 2023
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Evil Dead Rise (2023)
85%
A
EDIT
“Wicked, effed-up, heartfelt and witty: Evil Dead Rise is a nearly perfect continuation of a cult-favorite franchise.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 20, 2023
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
87%
A-
EDIT
“There's never a wink. Even in a movie that feels like two Godzilla-sized eyelids staring right at the audience before closing together, Nicolas Cage's calculations are his own.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 20, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
46%
B-
EDIT
“Quantumania has the goods. It lets Majors take new big bad Kang out for a joyride without feeling like he’s just slumming it in an Ant-Man picture.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 20, 2023
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
91%
A-
EDIT
“Glass Onion flexes the durability of Johnson's twist on a classic genre formula and the adaptability of its central sleuth.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 20, 2023
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
93%
A
EDIT
“Much like a hallucinogen might cause you to cycle through every human emotion and see your life laid out end to end — theoretically — this film has an ability to dazzle built into every kinetic, colorful, madcap frame.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 16, 2023
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The Whale (2022)
64%
D
EDIT
“At every moment when subtlety might afford Charlie humanity or control of his own story, Aronofsky takes the lurid path.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 15, 2023
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Babylon (2022)
57%
B
EDIT
“A filthy, funny, frenetic film that might be the weirdest holiday-season release in recent memory.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 15, 2023
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Missing (2023)
89%
B+
EDIT
“When it’s not registering on the Gasp-o-Meter, Missing finds just enough nuance between its browser tabs.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 10, 2023
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
84%
B
EDIT
“Through the fight with Namor, Wakanda Forever again crafts a conflict where the antagonist, bloodthirsty though he may be, isn't wrong, exactly, when it comes to the threat of colonialism and oppression.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Nov 11, 2022
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The Menu (2022)
88%
A-
EDIT
“At its best, The Menu feels like Clue with more perfectly plated bone marrow. Do they give Michelin stars for movies?” –
Austin American-Statesman
Sep 30, 2022
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Smile (2022)
80%
C+
EDIT
“Eventually, though, Smile just starts swinging a club in the air, like with a tired thread about hereditary mental illness.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Sep 29, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022)
38%
B-
EDIT
“If director Olivia Wilde’s 1950s-flavored thriller was game-changingly good, or even Showgirls bad, then the sordid firestorm surrounding the film could cement its place in the pop culture canon. Instead... it’s something stranger: fine.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Sep 23, 2022
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Elvis (2022)
77%
B-
EDIT
“No matter the interpretation, the power of a myth like this never left the building.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Jun 23, 2022
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The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022)
87%
A
EDIT
“Newbies don't need to know much going in, and longtime fans will probably be happy that Bouchard and team don't use the movie as an opportunity to shake up the status quo.” –
Austin American-Statesman
May 26, 2022
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
96%
B+
EDIT
“Top Gun: Maverick... is a revivified mummy with a jet thruster strapped to its bandages, taking great pains to repeat all of the 1986 version's beats at maximum velocity. A mummy with a jet pack is, however, a fantastic thing.” –
Austin American-Statesman
May 26, 2022
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Inbetween Girl (2021)
84%
A
EDIT
“A graceful, existential film of captivating substance. ” –
Austin American-Statesman
May 18, 2022
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
73%
A-
EDIT
“Give it up for horror-schlock auteur Sam Raimi, who does the impossible and makes a corporate-owned cash cow look like something he furiously scrawled into his dream journal.” –
Austin American-Statesman
May 6, 2022
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The Northman (2022)
90%
B
EDIT
“Eggers exhumes the bones of a primal myth and arranges them in spectacular fashion, no doubt. But just as The Northman itself is interested in scrying meaning from old ways, you'll want to find something to take away here.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Apr 22, 2022
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Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
86%
B+
EDIT
“The movie feels comfortingly/chillingly familiar, in a blood-and-screams sort of way. And yet, armed with Pete Davidson in a pink sweatsuit and a crackling, Gen Z-baiting script that roasts modern society, it's a rare bird.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 18, 2022
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X (2022)
94%
B+
EDIT
“Horror movies often do this Trojan horse thing where they tell us something about society or about our inner selves. In X, there are no shortage of high-minded ideas to fish out of the entrails.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 18, 2022
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After Yang (2021)
89%
B+
EDIT
“We’re never privy to the full lives of even our most beloved, the movie believes. Isn’t it nice, when they’re gone, that there will always be more of them to discover?” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 4, 2022
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The Batman (2022)
85%
B-
EDIT
“That willingness to play with the pop art of it all, even as it’s very much doing a modern, grim-and-gritty blockbuster thing, is the truest joy of The Batman.” –
Austin American-Statesman
Mar 4, 2022
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