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Review of Raging Fire (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Aug 2021

If you can sit through the occasional sermon about the role of police in modern society, you’ll find yourself in the lap of true action greatness…

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Review of Free Guy (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Aug 2021

Free Guy takes the time to create something unique and grounded and make us care about the future of these NPCs…

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Review of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Jul 2021

Compared to other Hollywood blockbusters, Snake Eyes is better than fine — but there are hundreds of Asian and Southeast Asian action…

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Review of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 19 Jul 2021

Ultimately, Tournament of Champions remains a welcome balance of YA and horror, featuring inventive puzzle sequences with enough talent on…

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Review of The Forever Purge (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Jun 2021

The Forever Purge does have its finger on the pulse of America at a particularly violent moment in time, but for a series defined by…

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Review of Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 21 Jun 2021

The film struggles to carve out a distinct aesthetic for its violence, alternating between crass comedy and cartoonish violence with no…

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Review of Us Kids (2020)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 07 Jun 2021

The sad truth is that Us Kids feels a bit too much like the thing the students hoped to avoid: a celebration of a moment in time, not the…

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Review of Jallikattu (2019)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Jun 2021

The challenge for the audience is to simply keep up…

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Review of A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 26 May 2021

Perhaps this approach makes A Quiet Place II the cinematic answer to downloadable content, a standalone adventure that offers new levels…

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Review of Final Account (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 May 2021

Final Account is about today as much as yesterday, and that makes it perhaps the most urgent World War II documentary of them all…

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Review of Profile (2018)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 May 2021

Those obsessed with first-person and screenlife films may want to explore Profile from a strictly technical standpoint, and they are…

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Review of Wrath of Man (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 May 2021

Wrath of Man may soon occupy the same rarified air as Joe Carnahan’s The Grey, another film anchored by an aging action star that…

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Review of Limbo (2020)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Apr 2021

Limbo may be a smiling teardown of any society that actively facilitates the deportation of its most vulnerable inhabitants, but there’s…

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Review of Limbo (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Apr 2021

Limbo may be a smiling teardown of any society that actively facilitates the deportation of its most vulnerable inhabitants, but there’s…

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Review of Limbo (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Apr 2021

Limbo may be a smiling teardown of any society that actively facilitates the deportation of its most vulnerable inhabitants, but there’s…

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Review of SAS: Red Notice (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Apr 2021

Anyone who spent the ‘90s in the Action-Adventure section of their local video store will find a kindred spirit in SAS: Red Notice…

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Review of The Unholy (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Apr 2021

It’s a credit to Brown, Morgan, and Sadler that the story works at all…

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Review of The Father (2020)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Mar 2021

Only those who have been through this experience – who have cared for a loved one who has dementia – can speak to the accuracy of this…

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Review of Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Feb 2021

Had the creative team sharpened the focus just a little – and perhaps cast someone a bit more charismatic than, well, whatever it is that…

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Review of The Little Things (2021)

By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Jan 2021

Whatever points The Little Things scores for a morally ambiguous ending are washed away in the hours it takes to get there…

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