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Hell House Comes Home
Modern relevance resurrects Christian horror show in new restoration
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.
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Fantastic Fest Review: Wild Horse Nine’s Hit Men on Holiday
John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play buddies during the CIA’s heyday
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Primetime Review: The Evil That Men Do
Robert Pattinson is brilliant in this layered examination of 2000s-era hidden-camera show To Catch a Predator
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Fantastic Fest Review: DogGod
Banned Thai film puts dog worshippers on short leash
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Two Prosecutors Review: Bolshevism and Its Discontents
Russian prison story evokes the absurdity of Gogol and Kafka
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SXSW Film Review: The Saviors
A film that asks whether the people renting your guesthouse are terrorists or just plain weirdos
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The Austin Chronicle’s Top 10 Movies of 2025
The year’s best feature films, plus critics lists
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Is This Thing On? Review: Consciously Uncoupling Under the Spotlight
Sometimes a stand-up’s microphone is more than a microphone
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Austin Film Festival Review: Eternity
I Married Joan: What a girl, what a whirl, what a life