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South of Heaven
Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly hold on to love on the run
"...local crime lord Price (Colter, elegantly low-key in his violence). But what matters is that love story, his puppy-dog..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Many Saints of Newark
Nothing holy about this Sopranos prequel
"...to be Tony Soprano’s coming-of-age tale, revealing the cyclical violence and the inflexible if cruel code of famiglia-style justice..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Beth Sullivan

Pressure Grows for Austin to Settle With Protesters Injured by APD
Nearly a dozen of those most seriously injured last summer are suing the city
"...Eighth Street that at times spilled onto I-35, with violence intended as riot control. They beat and gassed protesters..."

Sept. 24, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
True story of police killing comes to visceral, dreadful life
"...desperately trying to keep from his apartment, rightly fearing violence. There is also the medical attendant (Rose), who is..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Card Counter
Oscar Isaac takes the biggest gamble of his life
"...demons and is set on a path of potential violence and personal destruction. This time the man in question..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

This Job Will Change Your Life
Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle
"...answering machine that began something like, "So you like violence, hunh? Well, I'll show you some violence." And then..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Jesse Sublett

Flag Day
The Penn family gets in the skin of a counterfeiter and his daughter
"...echoes of his own real life, well-documented transgressions of violence and abuse within his depiction of Vogel. As John..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Protégé
Outdated action flick wastes Maggie Q in double entrendres
"...in thoughtfully fleshing out her character. If the extreme violence against women doesn’t turn your stomach, never fear –..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Cody Song

No Man of God
Elijah Wood dissects the mind of Ted Bundy
"...balancing a seemingly normal life with acts of horrifying violence. Hagmaier wasn't assigned to interview him to necessarily extract..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sundance Short Film Tour 2021
Best of the fest in these perfect miniatures
"...a black box theatrelike setting and figurative depiction of violence inflicted on Black people, the short has an intentional..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

6:45
Time loop horror relives a perfect and perfectly terrifying day
"...leave the audience a little queasy: not at the violence (after seeing Julie’s throat graphically cut and Bobby’s neck..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Suicide Squad
James Gunn's bad guys doing good prove DC needs to get silly
"...anyone looking for a Groot-esque figure of adorable clumsy violence, the potentially hungry King Shark (voiced by Stallone) and..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Go ninja, go ninja, GO! Wait, wrong toy line …
"...work on Warrior, an HBO Max series depicting gang violence and nationalism in 1870s San Francisco, represents arguably the..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Jungle Cruise
Take the Disney ride with Emily Blunt and the Rock, straight to adventure
"...“ish” is a nod to the not-negligible amount of violence that accompanies a boilerplate story about a botanist (Blunt,..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pig
Nicolas Cage’s porcine drama is a transformative soliloquy about love and loss
"...unconventional action-thriller, a porcine Unforgiven. Yet while there is violence, it is as something to pass through, not inflict...."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
A joyous historical document of the Harlem Cultural Festival
"...Martin Luther King, Jr., countless civilian victims of police violence. The Harlem Cultural Festival emerged as a salve for..."

July 2, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

The Forever Purge
The politics are still there, but the kills and thrills disappoint
"...while the two emerge from Purge night unscathed, the violence spills into the following day as right-wing soldiers emerge..."

July 2, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Siberia
Dafoe and Ferrara head to the frozen north
"...down a rockface. What details there are - loves, violence, children, parents, strangers, an obsession with black magic -..."

June 25, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Drunk Bus
Unlikely friends comedy makes all the right turns
"...sequence from Boogie Nights (just with a lot less violence and a pun that will make New Wave fans..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Riders of Justice
Mads Mikkelsen is out for revenge in this sweet, strange Danish tragicomedy
"...pain that he can punch – or, as the violence escalates, shoot – in the face...."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

New Order
Bleak Mexican drama puts cold social horror into bloody revolution
"...other scions, suffer through a gauntlet of rape, sexual violence, and degradation, as her family desperately tries to negotiate..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Killing of Two Lovers
Traumatizing tale of a collapsing marriage is a taut masterpiece
"...the movie, without any backstory to explain the explosive violence that might occur in this unsettling introduction?..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Why Darren Lynn Bousman Came Back For Spiral
Rock, racks, vices and games: the story behind the new Saw
"...18 months of protest, and renewed attention on police violence. The script was written in 2018, and filmed in..."

May 12, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Undergods
Post-Apocalyptic-ish portmanteau shows future shocks, future promise
"...that anchor them in ideas of greed, capital, and violence...."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Initiation
Updated campus slasher flick gets the tech right, but not much else
"...maze of an administration building marks a marathon of violence. Yet even when the killings reach their crescendo, there..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Shane Pfender

The Rise and Fall of Jason Dusterhoft (and His Frenemies)
A trip down APD's Memory Lane, from the Chronicle archives
"...again in 2010 after allegations of drunk driving and violence against a former girlfriend (also an APD officer); this..."

May 7, 2021 News Feature

APD Releases Incident Video of Gonzales Shooting
Escalating quickly
"..."This disgusting insinuation places blame on victims of police violence and communities of color," he said. "Alex Gonzales did..."

May 7, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Forces Within the (Task) Force: The Working Groups
"...• Violence Survivor Services and Prevention The Voices of the People..."

April 30, 2021 News Feature

Monday
Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough let love slip and slide
"...works always seem to dissolve into acts of unexpected violence that give an easy narrative out. In his English-language..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Shatara Michelle Ford Wants to Make You Uncomfortable
The Test Pattern writer / director explains how microaggressions from white Austinites taught them how to write about trauma
"...to Promising Young Woman and other thrillers about sexual violence. When Ford talks about the film, however, it's racial..."

April 16, 2021 Screens Feature by Selome Hailu

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