Promising Young Woman

Unevenness sabotages this takedown of "nice guy" culture

"...As a subversion to rape revenge films, it’s only halfway there. Mulligan’s Cassie is decorated..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Archenemy

Revisionist Superman riff brings new meaning to street-level superheroics

"...lines between implacable vigilante and unstoppable slasher in Canadian revenge psychothriller The Demolisher, Manganiello throws a brutish edge into..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gift Guide: John Prine

Crooked Piece of Time: The Atlantic & Asylum Albums (1971-1980) (Rhino)

"...five finest: (in order of greatness) John Prine, Sweet Revenge, Bruised Orange, and Storm Windows...."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Vanguard

Jackie Chan goes back to being Jackie Chan in this globe-trotting action-comedy

"...used as leverage to fund a violent act of revenge...."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Spell

Appalachian hoodoo horror flips the switch on hillbilly cinema

"...and Black magic are often a tool for righteous revenge, a connection to power and traditions taken away from..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: For the Sake of Vicious

Merciless revenger's tragedy never blanches from violence

"...time by mixing the home invasion thriller with both rape-revenge and gangland machinations. What could have been an unwieldy..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Thousand Cuts

Lives on the line as press freedoms are threatened in Duterte's Philippines

"...states, "He just offers not just change, he offers revenge."..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tainted

Cold Canadian crime drama wears its sins on its sleeves

"...Tainted feels like the kind of revenge thriller people used to make before John Wick. It's..."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Invisible Man

Universal Monsters update thrills as a high-octane Gaslight

"...horror to social commentary to action and, finally, to revenge, Moss’ performance is what holds the entire film together...."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Tread

Madness, paranoia, and a goddam homemade tank in this terrifying documentary

"...one saw coming, and which he saw as his revenge upon a broken world and a “good old boy”..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Rhythm Section

Blake Lively doesn't live up to her name in this flat spy romp

"...Scotland, to find out how exactly to exact her revenge. There follows at least three too many training montages,..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

6 Underground

Michael Bay proves again that he's no James Cameron

"...of its character development and central themes. Crafting a revenge narrative around a billionaire who funds his own private..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Acceleration

Inept action flick marks the end of any possible Lundgrenaissance

"...his steampunk sidekick, while trying to get her own revenge on the man she betrayed...."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Piranhas

Naples' juvenile gangsters are more than mini-goodfellas

"...seriously and are terribly competent in how they exact revenge, but Giovannesi indulges the childishness of his characters without..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Nightingale

Jennifer Kent's follow-up to The Babadook is a true historical horror

"...the process, it offers a degree of maturity few revenge films could hope to accomplish...."

Aug. 9, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Faster Than Sound: Vivien Goldman’s Lasting Echoes of Feminist Punk

Vanguard journalist brings new book to Austin, the Larriva family remembers their friend Elliott Smith, and local musicians pop up all over the place

"...In Revenge of the She-Punks, Goldman chronicles a similar lapse in..."

April 26, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Climax

Gaspar Noé's acid freakout dance-a-thon teaches us that drugs are bad, m'kay

"...debut, 1998's Seul Contre Tous, while its follow-up (2002's rape-revenge drama Irréversible) is the New French Extremity film it's..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Donnybrook

Backwoods crime drama with a social conscience is gruelingly bleak

"...grisly surrealism of another backwoods cousin, 2016 Mississippi River revenge drama My Father Die. It depends on its grueling..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...unrelenting acne and continual bullying, is granted a delicious revenge. (U.S. Premiere)..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Creed II

Predictable but still pleasurable new chapter and verse in the Book of Rocky

"...Munteanu) enters to challenge the new champ in a revenge bout brimming with backstory. Creed’s trainer and mentor, a..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Horror Short Brings Supernatural Rage to Slavery's Story

Capital City Black Film Festival's "Swing Low"

"...team of Detroit locals to bring this tale of revenge from the grave to life...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Screens Feature by Charlie Neddo

Death Wish

Bruce Willis picks up where Charles Bronson left off.

"...films romanticizing vigilante justice (though in truth, violent personal revenge has been a part of the movies since the..."

March 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fifty Shades Freed

Mr. and Mrs. Grey break out the whips one last time

"...than Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), Ana’s ex-boss who vowed revenge in the last film and has secrets of his..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Gay Place

Here and queer – UT Austin launches an LGBTQ Studies program

"...Greetings From Queer Mountain Ep. 57: Revenge! Everyone loves a good revenge story. So join yer..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...enough to prevent his death, but enough to inflict revenge on the people she holds culpable. Only future-her may..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Assessing This Year's Tumultuous Fantastic Fest

Notes from the subdued chaos at the Drafthouse

"...the audience seemed primed for the appropriately named feminist rape-revenge drama Revenge. At other screenings, responses were rawer, such..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...Kelly – Who Gives a Hoot? Michael Herschel – Revenge of the Star Survivors Kate Milford – Ghosts of..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest Fills the Card

Massive list includes closing night film

"...who hired Ichi is a fellow gangster out for revenge...."

Sept. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Person to Person

The New York ensemble subgenre gets some fresh air

"...through her (mostly theoretical) sexuality, the messy aftermath of revenge porn, and a mystery involving a rare Charlie Parker..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Michael Agresta

The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour's psychedelic Western

"...price). Arlen gets a gun and goes looking for revenge and winds up fostering the child of the cannibals’..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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