Josh Kupecki
Josh Kupecki's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Austin Chronicle
Movies reviews only
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Master Gardener (2022) |
What Schrader has crafted with Master Gardener is a fable of redemption. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Wild Life (2023) |
It’s a biographical portrait of the Tompkins, yes, but its focus is geared more toward their conservation and rewilding efforts and, more poignantly, toward Kristine. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Somewhere in Queens (2022) |
Somewhere in Queens is alloyed family sitcom nostalgia sourced from stronger materials. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) |
The cast is uniformly excellent and delivers enthusiastic performances, even the ones played by puppets, and the pacing is lively and not at all boring. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 30, 2023
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Join or Die (2023) |
Pete and Rebecca Davis have created a lively if superficial entreaty to become more civically engaged - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Angel Applicant (2023) |
An illustration of the willingness to be able to consider those existential questions, living like a Greek chorus in the mind, with a bit less fear and a bit more peace. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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The Lady Bird Diaries (2023) |
As a portrait of a public figure reassessed during a seminal chapter of American history, The Lady Bird Diaries is an essential addition to the record. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Moving On (2022) |
It’s dull and wearisome and any attempts to resonate do so in the most calculatingly maudlin ways. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Full Time (2021) |
Full Time never loses the focus of what it is, which is one of the best thrillers of the year. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) |
It feels more like a portent to the waning sustainability of the franchise. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 27, 2023
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Saint Omer (2022) |
Saint Omer is no small feat. It is riveting and uncompromising cinema of the highest order. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 12, 2023
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Corsage (2022) |
It's leaden handling of the material sinks just about everything else going for it. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 05, 2023
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White Noise (2022) |
Here, forays into broad comedy and slapstick falter, drawing attention in all the wrong ways... Still, the entire cast is pitch-perfect, everyone inhabiting their roles with an expert ease. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 08, 2022
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There There (2022) |
There There skews its world ever so slightly, arriving at some nicely off-kilter insights amid its non sequiturs, but for all its neat tricks, function is definitely following form here.
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| Posted Nov 23, 2022
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Last Flight Home (2022) |
Last Flight Home becomes a deeply moving inquiry into what the measure of a man truly is - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Oct 27, 2022
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Stars at Noon (2022) |
Minor Claire Denis is still Claire Denis. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Old Man (2022) |
An uninspired, mechanical tale, derivative of a first draft Twilight Zone. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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The Good House (2021) |
It’s a mixed bag for sure, but The Good House ultimately displays enough self-assurance to overshadow its contrivances. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Sep 29, 2022
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Waiting for Bojangles (2022) |
Waiting for Bojangles exists to merely further romanticize mental illness as just another characteristic of being a free spirit, just too good for this world. She ain’t heavy, she’s just quirky. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Sep 01, 2022
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The Territory (2022) |
There are no easy answers in The Territory, just a plea for awareness, for intervention. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Aug 18, 2022
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Emily the Criminal (2022) |
While turning to a life of crime to get out of debt isn’t the most original concept, Ford’s decision to keep his camera on Emily’s face for most of the film elevates the material, for Plaza’s performance is the draw here. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Aug 11, 2022
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Fire of Love (2022) |
A portrait of two people who were equally and obsessively single-minded in their life’s pursuit... that is the heart of Fire of Love. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jul 28, 2022
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Both Sides of the Blade (2021) |
Human beings can be really complicated. And thankfully, there are filmmakers around like Claire Denis who make films such as Both Sides of the Blade to remind us of that complexity. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jul 14, 2022
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Murder at Yellowstone City (2022) |
There are many moments in Murder at Yellowstone City that will strike you with either affectionate familiarity or, more likely, eye-rolling embarrassment. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jun 23, 2022
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After Blue (2021) |
A Sapphic blending of Westerns and mythology. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jun 02, 2022
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Have You Heard About Greg? (2021) |
This inspirational doc profiles journalist Greg O’Brien’s continued fight with the still-incurable disease that is mercilessly erasing the minds of more than 50 million people on the planet. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted May 05, 2022
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We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) |
A fractured portrait of teenage malaise, of deceptions (both of self and others), and of the awkward probing of a cocoon’s inner shell. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Apr 21, 2022
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Dual (2022) |
Stearns’ film is less interested in examining the complexities of our duality than it is with displaying our societal follies with an irony and disaffection that is Stearns’ trademark. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Apr 14, 2022
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Out of the Blue (1980) |
As anthropology, Out of the Blue is engrossing; as a social document, it is essential; but as undiluted raw power, it is absolute. No filter. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 29, 2022
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Alice (2022) |
From a strictly conceptual standpoint, there’s a lot of potential here, which is why it’s such a drag to report that the film is, well, you know, a real drag. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 17, 2022
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Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets (2022) |
While the fix may always be in, it’s stories like these, the glimpse of that shimmering matrix, the wizard shoes sticking out from the bottom of the curtain, that are the new mythology. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 16, 2022
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Lover, Beloved (2022) |
Lover, Beloved is an earnest love letter to a literary eccentric uniquely skilled in illuminating the more forlorn regions of that restless four-chambered organ. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 16, 2022
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The Thief Collector (2022) |
Secret, double lives are always intriguing stories because, well, don’t we all have one, if just in our head? - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 14, 2022
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The Long Walk (2019) |
An elegiac mystery that coyly reveals just enough of its secrets to carry us along the path, but would have benefited from a few more shafts of light breaking through to that blood-soaked jungle floor. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 03, 2022
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2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Documentary (2022) |
No one should look to the homogenous Academy for anything other than the status quo. All perfectly fine. But also: cautious and dull. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 24, 2022
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Strawberry Mansion (2021) |
With a modest budget that belies the eye-popping visuals at play, filmmaking duo Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney have affectionately crafted a sweet romance surrounded by the tart crunch of satire. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 17, 2022
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Sundown (2021) |
Roth’s performance is utterly absorbing. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 03, 2022
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Flee (2021) |
In sharing his story with the world, Amin and Rasmussen have given us a truly generous gift. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 27, 2022
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Last and First Men (2020) |
Last and Future Men is a haunting film of melancholic beauty, but hidden within are stubbornly persistent elements of hope. Just listen patiently. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 27, 2022
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Uppercase Print (2020) |
What emerges is a radical way of looking at the shifting illusions of history. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 20, 2022
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King Car (2021) |
King Car has moxie and its heart is in the right place, even if it feels like dialectic materialism for motorheads. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 06, 2022
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Celebration (2018) |
Celebration is at turns beguiling, fascinating, and true, which is what one should want and need out of a documentary. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 28, 2021
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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) |
Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth is an outstanding gem of form and content, and I take solace that future generations of English students now have a new text to learn from. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 22, 2021
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) |
An eyeball-slicing polemic by a bomb-throwing provocateur. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 16, 2021
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The Truffle Hunters (2020) |
While I don't have a strong desire to sample the haute cuisine of white truffles, I do have an intense compulsion to wander around the countryside with Fiona, Titina, and Birba. Especially Birba. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 03, 2021
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King Richard (2021) |
Smith's work here is quite effective; he expresses Williams' temerity with an easygoing slyness that is seductive enough to (briefly) look past problematic questions of exploitation. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 24, 2021
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India Sweets and Spices (2021) |
A bland, uninspired story cut from a well worn template. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 18, 2021
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Spencer (2021) |
[Stewart's] interpretation of Diana is risky, but it is also the glue that holds this brilliantly odd and lavishly shot film together. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 04, 2021
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El Planeta (2021) |
El Planeta orbits around an aesthetic and sensibility rooted in Eighties indie films. But mother and daughter have a comfortable chemistry that surpasses the deadpan material. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Oct 28, 2021
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The French Dispatch (2021) |
Save for Wright, and perhaps Del Toro, the distance is rarely breached, the archness lacks the heart. They're all just another object to quickly admire in this ultimately exhausting film. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Oct 21, 2021
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