This week in Austin screenings 1/23-1/29.
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Regarding Osgood Perkins’ feature film The Monkey, I didn’t laugh. But we can go deeper than that.
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Fans of the previous film will likely call it the first great horror movie of the year, and, like Samson with his lunch of brains, even the haters might find some big ideas to chew on.
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Anno's commentary is neither moralistic nor celebratory towards digital video. It is, as all of his work is, rooted in a deep empathy that finds a spark of hope within a pit of blue-black despair.
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After an eight year gap between her last two films, Lynne Ramsay demonstrates all her strongest skills for using textural impressionism to complicate what could be taken as a straightforward domestic drama.
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Searching for Satyrus gracefully threads together larger social issues like climate change and ethnic conflicts with a deeply resonant story of family and legacy.
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This week in Austin screenings 1/16-1/22.
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Ten movies to watch at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, from Charli XCX and Gregg Araki to Natalie Portman and Macon Blair.
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Two women, separated by centuries and circumstance, enact the same ritual: to remain nothing but themselves, no matter how lonely the weather.
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This one is, to use a technical term, a doozy.
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Our 4th annual community-voted Top 10 list is here: the objective, undeniable, irrefutable Top 10 films of 2025 as determined by the Hyperreal Film Club community.
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This week in Austin screenings 1/9-1/15.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 ramps up the stakes and scares, resulting in something sure to delight fans.
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Song Sung Blue is hardly lacking in biopic cliches, but shows real juice with its tortuous reversals of fortune and hard-won working-class sentiment.
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This week in Austin screenings 12/19-1/8.
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Brooks politically neuters the movie to the point of inanity in his attempt to show that a pure heart can win
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The rhythm of devotion is what drives The Testament of Ann Lee, the latest film from director Mona Fastvold.
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Hello Out There’s comic moments click. Its dramatic moments stick. It’s as incisive in its study of Minnie and Rex’s foibles as it is gentle in its treatment of their navigating their lives.
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Ann Marie Allison’s You’re Dating a Narcissist! whiplashes between being an effective and affecting exploration of parenting after your children reach adulthood at its best and too-broad and surprisingly poorly made at its worst. And Daniel Roebuck’s Tuesday’s Flu, a well-acted crime story and character study that never rises above “ok.”
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