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Richard Whittaker

Richard Whittaker's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 4/5 EDIT “That Gosling and an animated rock can have one of the most moving friendships in recent cinema may restore a little bit of that rarest of resources: hope.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Capturing Bigfoot (2026) EDIT “No study has ever really looked at its creation and the impact upon the people caught up in its wake quite like Capturing Bigfoot.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Never After Dark (2026) 100% EDIT “It’s cold and coiled, like a snake in autumn, and its slow crawl towards a surprisingly violent end never seems less than earned or inevitable.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 14, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Undertone crawls under your skin and through your ears because of its eerie juxtaposition of sound and vision. ” – Austin Chronicle Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% 3/5 EDIT “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn what a keystone species is.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 2/5 EDIT “There are just too many moments in which Bale embraces melodrama and Buckley is chomping down on the scenery in a “more is simply more” fashion that simply highlights the film’s hastily stitched nature.” – Austin Chronicle Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “Laxe’s villain is the arbitrary universe, inflicting unearned horrors on the wicked and the innocent equally. His version of As-Sirāt is not a bridge but a seesaw, primed to fling any that cross to their doom.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 26, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 43% 4/5 EDIT “The chilling question that gives How to Make a Killing its delicious and unnerving frisson is how much of a Redfellow Becket really is.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “Luckily, there’s just enough of those entertaining moments to mean it may well grow on you.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% 4/5 EDIT “Onscreen, Lighton explores the imbalance between the two and gently leads the audience with sympathy and empathy to a perfect resolution that asks both to face their own dysfunction.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 98% 3/5 EDIT “Johnson and McCarrol’s weird mix of Jackass, Portlandia, and Letterkenny is undented, and their willingness to skirt the rules of copyright to make a reference work is still intact. Yes, even after all these years, the joke’s still funny.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% 2/5 EDIT “Yet again, the psychosexual classic tragedy has been turned into a well-crafted mass-market potboiler.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 63% 3/5 EDIT “There’s even a couple of particularly gnarly methods of death where half the fun is working out exactly what is happening to the soon-to-be-departed. ” – Austin Chronicle Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 54% 2/5 EDIT “Call it what it is: Luc Besson’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a copy of a copy. ” – Austin Chronicle Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 66% 2/5 EDIT “Making a movie about how annoyed you were that your label tried to force you to make a concert movie is just 103 minutes of Charli xcx relitigating an argument she already won, just with added product placement.” – Austin Chronicle Feb 5, 2026 Full Review OBEX (2025) 96% 3/5 EDIT “Its gentleness and incremental increases in weirdness are a feature, not a bug. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Arco (2025) 93% 2.5/5 EDIT “The result is something that feels like an adult’s idea of a sophisticated kids’ movie, its sense of adventure and imagination overruled and undercut by its tone of mature melancholy. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 2.5/5 EDIT “All so very much what one could expect from Raimi when he doesn’t have a strong studio hand keeping him in check. If you like his signature raisin soup, Send Help will be a gut buster. But it really seems like this latest batch has started to curdle. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 25% 0/5 EDIT “A premise that’s endlessly more reactionary than it seems to realize and delivered with such intellectual dishonesty and overwhelming incompetence that the ticking clock feels like a threat. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 22, 2026 Full Review In Cold Light (2025) 54% 2/5 EDIT “In Cold Light is far better constructed and executed than its generic, straight-to-video title might imply, but it’s too monotonous – in the literal meaning of the word – to reach its aspirations or to really use its cast.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a reminder that the constant smears against human rights organizations and aid agencies are vile slanders by people who want this to happen again and again and again.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “A reenvisioning of Elgar’s Catholic devotional that ties it in a profound and moving fashion to the time and place of The Choral, and the underlying idea that a little music, a little companionship, can’t stop the horror but it can provide a respite.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Night Patrol (2025) 53% 2.5/5 EDIT “Luckily, the plentiful and creative gore splatters enough blood and ichor to provide camouflage disguising those shortcomings. Or rather, enough to make Night Patrol entertaining – just not enough to completely obfuscate what it could have been.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “The process of learning Darol’s nature and weaknesses becomes an act of healing for both, and a poignant metaphor for how we cannot avoid the future, much as we may try.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “DaCosta finds new elements of pathos and even comedy, both centered around Fiennes’ tragicomic performance as the man closing the book on that last chapter of history.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 13, 2026 Full Review
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