Austin Chronicle

The History of Concrete paints a compelling portrait of what a weird world we live in.

Subpar CG is hidden behind so much foliage that the rare moments in which la Boiúna is visible are embarrassing, and the rest of the time the audience is squinting to work out what’s going on.

Maybe Cruise and Iñárritu are a perfect pairing. There is no denying their underlying skill, their ability to captivate the camera and create works that are superficially scintillating. Yet the end result is rendered inert by their own overbearing narcissism. In its attempt to be great art, Digger becomes neither great nor art.

Primetime, like the early 2000s TV show To Catch a Predator that this film lays bare, is in turn icky, undaunted, questionable, and compellingly watchable.

Though the musicians who frequently declared themselves the best band in the world might be more universally bestowed a different superlative – the band with the most acrimonious breakup – directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, who helmed 2022’s equally sentimental Aughts-NYC indie rock doc Meet Me in the Bathroom, spend little time on it here.

Maybe Hope was intended as a successor to The Host, but instead it degenerates into an unholy chimera of Attack on Titan and A Quiet Place, frittering away all that early promise in a truly baffling denouement.

A quasi-sequel to his 2014 shoot-’em-up The Guest, Onslaught dives deeper into its rabbit hole of mad science and mass murder.

With a major movie studio’s backing, or in a different era of moviemaking, you can imagine a glossier approach to The Sun Never Sets – one with bigger stars and a more programmatic script, without the off-brand soundtrack. But I liked this shaggy version very much. It’s never glib; it’s undergirded with compassion.

Co-written by director Lan Hongchun with Zheng Xuanxuan, Yang Leng, and Zhu Liyun, the script deals with the complexities of identity and migrant integration in subtle fashion.

Coyote vs. Acme isn’t just funny. It’s Looney Tunes funny. The kind of gut-busting, roll-in-the-aisles hilarious that has you laughing halfway through the joke because the delivery is so perfect, and you’ll laugh even harder because the payoff, predictable as it has to be, is a legitimate hoot.