Echelon
| C | Other Worlds 2022 | Kudos to this pair who wrote, directed, started in, ran cameras for, did post-production of—pretty much everything for this movie—during COVID. And they…
Polaris
| C | Other Worlds 2022 | Beautifully filmed. Intriguing approach to dialog (all made up language for this post-apocalyptic future). Nice use of the polar bear. And another kid…
Have Hold Take
| A- | Other Worlds 2022 | This creative team (writer/actress and director) brought The Fare to Other Worlds in 2018 and I loved it, so I had high expectations…
The Tomorrow Job
| B- | Other Worlds 2022 | An interesting mix of time travel and heist movies. The script was very complex but the filmmakers did a good job of keeping…
Violent Night
| A- | Other Worlds 2022 | The festival could not get the opening night movie to play (something in the digital protection could not be unlocked), so they persuaded…
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
| A+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | Wow! I was completely delighted by this movie! Such an amazing script, with so many twists and turns and interesting characters. And…
Moon Garden
| F | Austin Film Festival 2022 | Bother. From the trailer, this looked like a uniquely visual movie and I was excited to see it. It was visual, but…
Little Jar
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | From all the AFF movie trailers I could find, I was looking forward to this film the most. And it was marvelous.…
Blow Up My Life
| C+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | I knew we were in trouble about three minutes in. The movie starts with the main character in a graveyard (during the…
The Lost King
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2022 | A very good movie, but what else would you expect from co-writer Steve Coogan and director Stephen Frears? It's a dramatization of…