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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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The School Duel (2024) 79% 3/5 EDIT “Equally, the despairing denouement becomes only more and more inevitable, but that’s really the film’s point: how hideously successful and accepted this inhuman system has become. In that regard, Wiseman hits center mass.” – Austin Chronicle May 7, 2026 Full Review Two Women (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “A one-note joke in the original, here it becomes one of the most important psychological beats for the character. ” – Austin Chronicle May 7, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “As Bauman falls deeper and deeper into the mysteries of Bilberry Inn, McCarthy masterfully reminds us that a ghost can be real and a metaphor, as the scares demand.” – Austin Chronicle Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Mārama (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “What makes Mārama intriguing is that this becomes the background for a story of cultural revenge, even if the conventions of the genre often threaten to engulf those more subtle aspects,” – Austin Chronicle Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Animal Farm (2025) 27% 1.5/5 EDIT “The tonal disconnect between the subtext and the delivery leaves this Animal Farm wobbling like the first time Napoleon tries to walk on two legs.” – Austin Chronicle Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 72% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s in the final act that Lowery embraces the Catholic and Gothic grandiosity of his own conceit. ” – Austin Chronicle Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 68% 3.5/5 EDIT “Even at the couple’s most murderous, they keep a certain sad warmth to Dan and Lisa, and an unexpected hope that maybe these two axe-wielding kids can make it work after all.” – Austin Chronicle Apr 23, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “It may well be that Ozon has made the best possible conventional adaptation of the book. Yet maybe it requires a more unconventional touch to truly translate Camus' point. ” – Austin Chronicle Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “A fresh new addition to contemporary J-horror, one that deftly warps the characters around its own rules without rendering them merely props for the next shock. ” – Austin Chronicle Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% 0.5/5 EDIT “Faces of Death is dull and thoughtless, its attempts to smash influencer culture into voyeurism feeling artificial. ” – Austin Chronicle Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 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) 74% 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) 94% 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) 90% 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) 44% 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) 81% 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) 64% 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) 67% 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
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