Austin Mother Deported With U.S. Citizen Children

Looking for traces of the vanished Denisse Parra Vargas

"...was a quick and quiet affair. Undocumented immigrants don’t leave much of a paper trail. In America, deportations are..."

May 16, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World, every MCU film reviewed

"...heroes, but there's still some avenging to be done. Now Captain America: Brave New World, the 35th feature in..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Miyazaki, Hot Boys, Jane Austen Improv, and More Recommended Events

The weekend is looking ... a little weird

"...and star of the stage. Mary Frith – better known to her adoring fans and infuriated sheriffs as Moll..."

July 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Restaurant Review: Craft Omakase

This elite, 22-course omakase menu is exactly as filling as it sounds ... but we wouldn’t skip a single course

"...new omakase opening this week” inevitably becomes “... really? Another one?”..."

May 31, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Tobin

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...investigative books (and maybe a bodice ripper?), but by November, its grounds will be used for a more exalted..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Medieval

Brutal historical epic gives gritty, accessible life to a Czech icon

"...roles – movies like Hell or High Water and Leave No Trace – Ben Foster offers audiences a blend..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Scrubs Star Judy Reyes Looks Back as the Cast Reunites at ATX TV Festival

"I can't even get over the fact that it's been 20 years"

"...of surreal comedy and sensitive drama, pratfalls and pain, leave an indelible mark on television. "I can't even get..."

June 3, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Wednesday

The buzzy, the brave, the thrash-able twee-pop

"...2019 began to radiate the hype and hysteria it’s known for with Phoebe Bridgers showing up to ringlead her..."

March 17, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

Hunter Hunter

Is that a wolf’s howl, or something worse?

"...The most traumatizing sound in a horror movie is not a a broken bone, or a gushing wound. It's..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

With Unrest a Possibility, Has APD Learned Its Lessons?

Law and disorder

"...that appears to be unfolding, in which there is no clear or likely winner for at least a couple..."

Nov. 6, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

It's Knives Out For Rian Johnson at Fantastic Fest

The Last Jedi director's latest to close fest

"...throw in Christopher Plummer, Chris Evans, Lakeith Stanfield, Michael Shannon, and Jamie Lee Curtis, plus Star Wars: The Last..."

Aug. 20, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

American Woman

Sienna Miller pulls pages from a journal of loss in small town

"...There's no wound deeper than uncertainty. Someone dies, you find the..."

June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Critics Release 2018 Awards Nominee Lists

Roster includes new stunt and mo-cap categories

"...Film Critics Association has just released the list of nominees for its 2018 film awards, and The Favourite is..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2018

"...artistry in front of and behind the camera. 2) Leave No Trace..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Matthew Monagle’s Top 10 Films of 2018

"...of a broken cowboy who must move beyond – not reclaim – his family tradition. 3) Leave No Trace..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Richard Whittaker’s Top 10 Films of 2018

"...No film was more hilarious, lyrical, or needed. Daveed Diggs..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Chronicle Top 10 Films of 2018

Our favorite films from our least favorite year

"...2018 will be looked back on for anything cinematically (not that historians will lack material from this year), it..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Steve Davis’ Top 10 Films of 2018

"...performances by Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant. 4) Leave No Trace..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Marc Savlov’s Top 10 Films of 2018

"...Where there's fire, there may not always be smoke, but this South Korean slow-burner enkindles..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Leave No Trace

Into the woods in this moving family drama

"...outsider. But there are some who, for whatever reasons, cannot comply and choose to turn their backs on society...."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Upgrade

Surprisingly smart techno-thriller goes for the brain and the jugular

"...You know transhumanism is having a moment in popular culture when..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Steve Van Zandt’s Soulfire

Springsteen henchman and Sopranos boss hits the road and classrooms

"...Miami Steve Van Zandt, Silvio Dante, Frank Tagliano – a phone call with the E Street Band..."

May 24, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Black Panther Comic Writer Evan Narcisse on Heroes and Afro-Futurism

From Austin to Wakanda

"...follows the story of T'Challa, the king of a technologically advanced African nation called Wakanda, which has hidden itself..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Screens Feature by Moisés Chiullán

Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...Stanwyck and MacMurray torched the screen in Billy Wilder's here's-how-you-do-noir Double Indemnity, the two did a slow-burn comic waltz..."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...125 films. 85 world premieres. 11 North American first time looks, and 51 feature debuts. The..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Who Killed Vicki Nisbett? And Is She Even Dead?

No verifiable crime scene, no murder weapon, no motive, and no body

"...25-year mystery of what happened to Vicki Nisbett, whom nobody has seen or spoken to since Dec. 14, 1991...."

Jan. 27, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Thanksgiving as a Refugee in America

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

"...bombings was unimaginable. "We never even thought we would leave our city, never mind our country," said Othman...."

Nov. 25, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Review: Kyōten Sushiko

Exceptional nigiri is served with few frills

"...Phan is adding a few new chapters. Sure, there's no hollers of "no soup for you," but one can't..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Food Feature by Melody Fury

Point Austin: In Defense of the Public Square

We need to keep rejecting publicly the preposterous notion that ubiquitous guns make us safer

"...see the lengthening list of Austin and Texas businesses announcing that they'll ban weapons in their venues – not..."

Jan. 15, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Fun Fun Fun Fest: Benjamin Booker

Delta blues to Black Flag with a dose of Southern Gothic

"...dweller’s material – both Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson leave behind their trace elements in Booker – but there’s..."

Nov. 7, 2015 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

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