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Richard Whittaker

Richard Whittaker's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Send Help (2026) 94% 2.5/5 EDIT “All so very much what one could expect from Raimi when he doesn’t have a strong studio hand keeping him in check. If you like his signature raisin soup, Send Help will be a gut buster. But it really seems like this latest batch has started to curdle. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 23% 0/5 EDIT “A premise that’s endlessly more reactionary than it seems to realize and delivered with such intellectual dishonesty and overwhelming incompetence that the ticking clock feels like a threat. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 22, 2026 Full Review In Cold Light (2025) 43% 2/5 EDIT “In Cold Light is far better constructed and executed than its generic, straight-to-video title might imply, but it’s too monotonous – in the literal meaning of the word – to reach its aspirations or to really use its cast.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a reminder that the constant smears against human rights organizations and aid agencies are vile slanders by people who want this to happen again and again and again.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “A reenvisioning of Elgar’s Catholic devotional that ties it in a profound and moving fashion to the time and place of The Choral, and the underlying idea that a little music, a little companionship, can’t stop the horror but it can provide a respite.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Night Patrol (2025) 59% 2.5/5 EDIT “Luckily, the plentiful and creative gore splatters enough blood and ichor to provide camouflage disguising those shortcomings. Or rather, enough to make Night Patrol entertaining – just not enough to completely obfuscate what it could have been.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “The process of learning Darol’s nature and weaknesses becomes an act of healing for both, and a poignant metaphor for how we cannot avoid the future, much as we may try.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 15, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “DaCosta finds new elements of pathos and even comedy, both centered around Fiennes’ tragicomic performance as the man closing the book on that last chapter of history.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 2.5/5 EDIT “It’s the other elements, about trust in the media and the loss of universally known and respected figures like Heckman, that seem especially underdeveloped, especially by comparison to the documentary.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “A cavalcade of strange images that take the language of cinema into his sleeping fantasies and bring it back more vibrant than ever. ” – Austin Chronicle Jan 2, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 86% 2/5 EDIT “We Bury the Dead is already too slow and mournful to pass as popcorn entertainment, and it’s rarely quite thoughtful enough to bring its art house horror aspirations to life.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 2, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Yet while Polinger has crafted a period piece, there’s a chilling immediacy to these struggles within what’s supposed to just be a fun time for the boys.” – Austin Chronicle Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “Win or lose, you’ll still kind of want Marty to take a punch to the schnozz. But at least you’ll understand why he’s that way.” – Austin Chronicle Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Yet it’s still a touching depiction of two people in love. At the end of the day, Brewer reminds us, it’s all about hands touching hands.” – Austin Chronicle Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% 1/5 EDIT “By the time the final act slithers on the screen, Gormican has abandoned any sense of originality and just props the film up on nostalgia-manipulating cameos and clumsy, overused needle drops.” – Austin Chronicle Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3.5/5 EDIT “If future films deliver similar spectacle and true, epic filmmaking, then this lengthy sequel can afford to be a prelude.” – Austin Chronicle Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% EDIT “When what Billy and Charlie are really up to is revealed, it turns the original’s sick-making nature into a fun little morality tale with the wicked getting exactly what they deserve.” – Austin Chronicle Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “Here, [Fuller] takes a story that should be horrifying – an orphaned child who turns to her murderous neighbor for assistance and revenge – and makes a fairy tale of it. ” – Austin Chronicle Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “With Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, [Tarantino] finally gets to complete his own work of cinematic archeology, and what he exhumes springs to life like the first time it was projected. Viva Kill Bill!” – Austin Chronicle Dec 4, 2025 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 68% 3/5 EDIT “The bittersweet moral is that changing the world never happens overnight, on our planet or another.” – Austin Chronicle Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “The heart of the story remains Hopps and Wilde, and the sparkling, witty, and endearing energy between them. ” – Austin Chronicle Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “Wake Up Dead Man is a cunning and entertaining mystery, a return to form for the franchise. ” – Austin Chronicle Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 3/5 EDIT “As much as The Carpenter’s Son threatens to swallow you whole, and as much as it probes the oft-ignored darkness inherent in the Bible even outside of the Apocrypha, its thesis remains a little too academic to move the soul. ” – Austin Chronicle Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 3/5 EDIT “When it’s really up to speed, The Running Man laps the competition.” – Austin Chronicle Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “Schuster-Koloamatangi plays Dek with a certain pompous exasperation that, even under layers of latex and CG, is undeniably and deliberately hilarious. If it bleeds, you can laugh at it. ” – Austin Chronicle Nov 6, 2025 Full Review
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