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Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle 4 days ago 3/5 Clayface never achieves the cerebral complexity of even the more crowd-pleasing Cronenberg flicks, but then it’s never really aiming that high. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle 4 days ago 3/5 Mirren’s characterization is less nuanced, but she appears to derive such glee, embodying this nasty piece of work, one can hardly begrudge her for letting a little spit fly as she chews the scenery. Go to Full Review A Talent for Murder (2026) 78% - -

Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle 4 days ago 3.5/5 It is interesting; how could it not be, in this land of casual avalanches and provocative questions raised about what is legal, what is fair, and what is right? Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 91% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle 4 days ago 3.5/5 Tragedy is like fire: it can warm the heart, or burn the world, and Wicker is cunning enough to hide and finally illuminate its resolution like the best of fables do. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle 4 days ago 4/5 Wildwood is a perfect reminder of the incalculable value of the artist’s hand, even if it is moving an armature on a puppet one tiny gesture at a time. In those motions, there is life and magic. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 100% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 16, 2026 3.5/5 Fielder and Oppenheim still undeniably and unsettlingly force us to examine our own preconceptions and firm belief in our ability to discern the subjective and the objective. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 98% - -

Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle Oct 16, 2026 2.5/5 I’ll never begrudge an opportunity to spend time in Austen’s world, and Oakley does bring some unique stylings. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 76% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 16, 2026 4/5 Seemingly exhaustive as Musk may be, it could benefit from an accompanying volume on what fault in our society allowed such an obvious flim-flam artist to become so powerful. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 16, 2026 2/5 Eleazar has such a firm grasp of who Misty is, of both how she sins and is sinned against, that Rock’s failures can almost be overlooked. Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 60% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 15, 2026 4/5 Russell’s reduction of the crowd to a jeering mass, repeating whatever was said last and cavorting to their own destruction, seems disturbingly prescient, but maybe that’s because that’s the way it’s always been. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 15, 2026 1.5/5 What gets Whalefall through are some spectacular set pieces and Morton’s spectacular underwater cinematography, but neither can hide that this is the smartest possible version of a truly dumb movie. Quite honestly, both we and the whales deserve better. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 73% - -

Julian DeBerry Austin Chronicle Oct 14, 2026 For Hou, articulating the expected isn’t the desired option for coming to terms with uncontrollable circumstances. By placing individual expression at the fore of a ruptured backdrop, he allows a perspective that is as insightful as it is idiosyncratic. Go to Full Review A City of Sadness (1989) 100% 90%

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 12, 2026 What Curcio does have is a perfectly depicted story of twentysomethings in the post-financial security era, each navigating the complexities of their little interwoven relationship. Go to Full Review Play House (2026) 100% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 8, 2026 3.5/5 The strength of Ali’s performance as a man pondering why he both craves and rejects violence, and reassessing his role in his family, is something to believe in. Go to Full Review Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026) 96% - -

Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle Oct 8, 2026 3/5 Yet, that corniness works in favor of The Social Reckoning’s sincere and defining outrage at corrupt systems, a combination Sorkin has in common with another adapter of his work, Rob Reiner. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 8, 2026 4/5 Naza is such an effective warning. It shows how supposedly impartial data can be used to enable bloodlust. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 2, 2026 Through Tinkham and Woloson’s gentle grasp of the tragic silliness of the situation, the old mantra of “keep calm and carry on” is no longer a worn-out meme, but a defense of sorts against the dying of the light. Go to Full Review Littermates (2026) - - - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 2, 2026 Yet Sick feels anemic because there’s no diagnosis, no real attempt to bind the narrative together for a purpose. Go to Full Review Sick (2026) 91% - -

Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Oct 1, 2026 1/5 Nelson never seems sure where the big snake is just a big snake, or a malevolent force of nature, or that demigod Mother of the Waters. Go to Full Review Beware Boiúna (2026) 58% - -

Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle Oct 1, 2026 4/5 Wilson is mulling the big questions here. Eventually we arrive at the same corny but apt conclusion as those runners, doggedly rounding the block: It’s the journey, not the destination. Go to Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 97% - -