Marjorie Baumgarten, Author at The Austin Chronicle

The Austin Chronicle’s Top 10 Movies of 2025

by Kimberley Jones, Richard Whittaker and Marjorie Baumgarten December 18, 2025

The Austin Chronicle’s Top 10 list, listed alphabetically, is the combined effort of Chronicle film critics Kimberley Jones and Richard Whittaker and film critic emeritus Marjorie Baumgarten, who was this week named the Austin Film Critics Association’s first Member Emeritus. Avatar: Fire and Ash Blue Moon Frankenstein It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme Nouvelle […]

Film Review

Is This Thing On? Review: Consciously Uncoupling Under the Spotlight

by Marjorie Baumgarten December 18, 2025

Let’s call the whole thing off, thinks a couple when their 20-year-long marriage appears to have run out of steam. That’s the starting point of the movie Is This Thing On?. It’s the third directorial outing from Bradley Cooper following A Star Is Born and Maestro, and like those two films, Is This Thing On? […]

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Austin Film Festival Review: Sentimental Value

by Marjorie Baumgarten October 31, 2025November 17, 2025

The things we are reluctant to say to one another are the things that are on the tip of the tongue in Joachim Trier’s new film. Perhaps, more precisely, the muffled emotions are buried in the tongue-and-groove woodwork in the old Norwegian house that, in a different time, had sheltered the protagonists of Sentimental Value. […]

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Austin Film Festival Review: Eternity

by Marjorie Baumgarten October 27, 2025October 28, 2025

After my 80-something-year-old aunt died, she was buried next to her husband. Her second husband. Her first husband had been a young man when death came to him. The cemetery where her first was buried was the same one where my aunt now lay, and was located only a few yards away from where she […]