Richard Whittaker
Richard Whittaker'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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Monolith (2023) |
Monolith seduces the audience to walk what seems to be the harder path of unsettling unease - a path that soon becomes a slippery slope into heartstopping fear. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 27, 2023
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The Lost King (2022) |
Hawkins evokes a certain British contrariness, a polite determination to do the right thing, and a quiet indignation when the same is not done for her. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 23, 2023
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Deadland (2023) |
It's an unrelenting border noir whose understated delivery and brooding sensibilities really benefit by being leavened by those occasional fantastic elements. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 21, 2023
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You Can Call Me Bill (2023) |
There's an earnestness, an openness from a celebrity who is deeply aware that their fame cannot save them. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Air (2023) |
Affleck remains one of the directors who can disguise a powerful parable as giddy, crowd-pleasing entertainment. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Raging Grace (2023) |
Raging Grace is too gleefully ridiculous to live up to its didactic ambitions, and too on-the-nose to let its wings of crushed velvet madness truly spread.
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Evil Dead Rise (2023) |
There are elements of all those prior summonings, making Evil Dead Rise a chimera that is somehow unique. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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The Artifice Girl (2022) |
It's a complex and captivating sci fi fable... but told with touching intimacy. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 15, 2023
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Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023) |
It's most interesting when it truly lets Moore be complicated,
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| Posted Mar 15, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) |
Even in the hail of bullets, shrieking needle drops, and blinding lighting effects, John Wick: Chapter 4 still works as a cohesive, linear film with a strangely philosophical heart. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 14, 2023
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BlackBerry (2023) |
There's none of the calm philosophizing you might expect from a Sorkin-esque take on this, but instead a visceral, rounded look at the bizarre confluence of accidents and manipulation needed to unleash a legitimate game changer. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 14, 2023
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) |
It captures the joy of failing, running away, and coming up with a great solution that somehow just works, which is the real experience of any good D&D campaign. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 11, 2023
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The Quiet Girl (2022) |
The Quiet Girl unfurls gently... it seems so simple but leads only to possibilities, and one word – said twice – that will be engraved upon your heart. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Children of the Corn (2023) |
It's all so ridiculous and implausible. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Mar 02, 2023
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The Civil Dead (2023) |
At its dead but lively heart, it's an awkward buddy comedy, with real-life friends, collaborators, and co-writers Thomas and Tatum bouncing off each other with a laid-back, laconic yet vulnerable vibe. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 21, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
Quantumania goes big, but it never forgets that Ant-Man is our guy. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 16, 2023
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The Elephant 6 Recording Co. (2022) |
Maybe structure is not the point. Like much of the music, it's more about the vibe. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 15, 2023
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The Outwaters (2022) |
It becomes a mood more than a narrative. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive - Scherzo of Deep Night (2022) |
Humorless and clunky, for much of Scherzo you'll be desperately hoping for a full-on Leeroy Jenkins moment, just to alleviate the tedium. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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The Amazing Maurice (2022) |
An entertaining way to convince kids to pick up the book. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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Iron Butterflies (2023) |
Iron Butterflies becomes suitably haunting. It's a place where a regular documentary would not find itself: a place to scream silently at the sins committed against those 298 people - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) |
Boring is a word that never applies to Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, the captivating interview-based documentary, amplified by re-enactments and endless stock footage and archival material. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Squaring the Circle (2022) |
Corbijn manages to capture their you-know-it-when-you-see-it Hipgnosis style through his own crystalline lens, even in his archival selections. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) |
The further into his life the documentary goes, the less insightful it becomes. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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birth/rebirth (2023) |
Maternal horror with a clinical twist. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Living (2022) |
Living is even further removed from the The Death of Ivan Ilyich than Kurosawa's film. It is even smaller and more intimate, and much of its suppressed wonder comes from a career-best performance from Nighy. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 26, 2023
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When You Finish Saving the World (2022) |
The simplification to fit into the tauter film version strips away much of the nuance and replaces it with a message about intergenerational disconnect that verges on trite. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Alice, Darling (2022) |
It takes audiences deep into the experience of a traumatic relationship with compassion, understanding and well-placed anger, and yet leaves you with one wish for Alice: the space to breathe. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022) |
Scarlet Bond collapses into the hourlong, supposedly epic but ultimately low-stakes multifront battle de rigueur in too much anime right now. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Skinamarink (2022) |
A mishmash of Creepypasta aesthetics captured in a cerulean-and-violet haze marred by carefully inserted scratches, and borderline inaudible ASMR rumblings complemented by hisses and pops. For 100 minutes. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 12, 2023
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The Old Way (2023) |
The Old Way is at first glimpse merely a classic revenger, but it's also vintage low-key Cage, with that acid little twist that makes it all the more fascinating. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Jan 05, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
Frenetic as Babylon is, Chazelle himself remains clear-eyed. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 22, 2022
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Bad Axe (2022) |
This is a family story – of a time, a place, an event, a community – in all its rich and quiet nuance, with all the members, related by blood or by affection, given their space. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 15, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
Avatar: The Way of Water transforms from simple wonder to something truly jaw-dropping. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Spoiler Alert (2022) |
Spoiler Alert is at its best when it's not afraid to be mawkish, sentimental, soppy, honest, and downright charming. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 08, 2022
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Hunt (2022) |
Hunt is an ugly morality play, briskly told and given chilling, crackling energy by Lee and Jung. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 01, 2022
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Nr. 10 (2021) |
A slightly silly and thematically threadbare disappointment.
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| Posted Dec 01, 2022
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The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022) |
The Quintessential Quintuplets actually has real heart, and a surprising maturity. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Dec 01, 2022
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The Eternal Daughter (2022) |
Truly haunting.
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| Posted Dec 01, 2022
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The Inspection (2022) |
A powerful, poignant, and complicated look at what people will do for acceptance. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 23, 2022
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Strange World (2022) |
A rewarding continuation of the studio's recent narrative fascination with overcoming divides rather than evil.
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| Posted Nov 23, 2022
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Thirteen Lives (2022) |
Thirteen Lives is a beautiful depiction of the power of working together for hope. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 21, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
Soup to nuts, The Menu is satisfying and rich, yet lean and cutting. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) |
Like a well-curated sampler CD... It's cool, but you'll be left wanting full albums of the bands you liked anyway. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |
The interpersonal storylines, the tackling of the connections between grief and rage and flight, are some of the deepest and most nuanced in the franchise's history. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Sam & Kate (2022) |
Sam & Kate doesn't try to elicit big emotional responses, but that's exactly why it gets them. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 07, 2022
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Aftersun (2022) |
Aftersun is lyrical without ever being obtuse, and it's a film that flourishes when attention is paid to details. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Nov 03, 2022
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Eternal Spring (2022) |
I's a chronicle of what it means to be on the receiving end of real oppression, wrapped up in a crime procedural... a film that demands to be seen. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Oct 27, 2022
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Final Cut (2022) |
Like the original, it's heart is in the right place, and that may well be enough for this smart remake. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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Something In The Dirt (2022) |
The end result is captivating yet slippery, and could be off-putting if it wasn't for the dynamic and cunning appeal of Benson and Moorhead. - Austin Chronicle
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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