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Chris Garcia

Chris Garcia's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% 3/4 EDIT “Aronofsky wants to upset us. He does that well. But I'm not sure to what end. His message is a tired one; existential nosedives, especially when drug-fueled, have occupied screens for years. It's the medium itself he so grandly rejuvenates.” – Austin American-Statesman Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Superman Returns (2006) 72% 2/4 EDIT “It's the fault of director Bryan Singer [that the film falters], who reveres the old-school basics of the Christopher Reeve "Superman"... while hoping to reinvent the franchise with computer animated overkill and big ideas sunk by the absence of logic.” – Austin American-Statesman Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% EDIT “A smart dinosaur is a boring dinosaur, and Jurassic Park III is lousy with scaly brainiacs. ” – Austin American-Statesman Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible III (2006) 73% 3/4 EDIT “...a sleek, punchy thing that glides with a professional efficiency verging on the ho-hum. It's fun. It's stupid. It thrusts you against your seat, knotted, wired.” – Austin American-Statesman May 16, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible II (2000) 58% EDIT “M:I-2 is the successful wedding of acting and directing. It cruises and leaves you woozy. ” – Austin American-Statesman May 8, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% 2/4 EDIT “It's pretty but emotionally destitute -- all craft, no art.” – Austin American-Statesman Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% 2/4 EDIT “It's dazzling, and a deadly bore.” – Austin American-Statesman Apr 16, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% 4/4 EDIT “Perversely entertaining but not without glitches, "American Psycho" is crafted with lavish mathematical precision.” – Austin American-Statesman Apr 5, 2025 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% 3/4 EDIT “A rollicking, perfectly enjoyable dose of Disney meringue.” – Austin American-Statesman Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Mulan (1998) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Puncturing the period stuffiness of its animated features with incongruous bits of pop culture ephemera is the puritanical studio's bid at hipness. It works improbably well. But it's Mulan's quaint unhipness that makes it such a respite. ” – Austin American-Statesman Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 43% 2/4 EDIT “Planet of the Apes is a dumb movie disguised as a smart one, a two-toned misfire that's as striking as it is silly and leaden as it is campy.” – Austin American-Statesman May 1, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% 3/4 EDIT “An optimist who ministers doughy affirmations instead of insight, Crowe had made a frustratingly minor film, whose superficial delights are plentiful and lasting rewards scarce. ” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Serious human drama unfurls with the plainly stated immediacy of Italian neo-realism, Satyajit Ray's classic Apu Trilogy, and the new Iranian cinema. Like those films,"Runner" finds grandeur in its quietude and intimacy in its spaciousness.” – Austin American-Statesman Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Y tu mamá también (2001) 90% 3/4 EDIT “It is Cuarón's answer to the surplus of boneheaded American teen-sex capers that at once romanticize and trivialize juvenile sexuality, and he approaches the subject with refreshing candor. ” – Austin American-Statesman Sep 9, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% 3/5 EDIT “What Soderbergh has done is texturize flat surfaces, creating a rather convincing illusion of something profound. ” – Austin American-Statesman Sep 7, 2023 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% EDIT “Luhrmann's postmodern pastiche is so ripe it rots. It irritates when it should exhilarate and bores when it should bedazzle. ” – Austin American-Statesman Aug 30, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% 2/5 EDIT “If there is sense to be made at this point, I was too disengaged to register it. Mulholland Drive has been described as "hypnotic" and "entrancing." Is that the same as glazed boredom?” – Austin American-Statesman Jul 10, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% 3/5 EDIT “After a spectacular start, the movie, absent of anything compelling to say, crumbles under the weight of its splashy self-importance.” – Austin American-Statesman Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Armageddon (1998) 43% 3.5/4 EDIT “Armageddon is slam-bang sensory overkill. It's loud. It's heavy-handed. It's melodramatic. It's an explosion of baroque excess that splats on the screen and bludgeons the audience into a collective migraine. It's the best American movie of the year.” – Austin American-Statesman Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Godzilla (1998) 20% 1.5/4 EDIT “The movie is breathtakingly unfunny and unscary. It just sits there, zombie-eyed, spittle dribbling down its chin. ” – Austin American-Statesman Feb 14, 2023 Full Review The Truman Show (1998) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “A totally fresh experience. ” – Austin American-Statesman Feb 2, 2023 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% 3/4 EDIT “[Gladiator] succeeds on two fronts. One is the unabashed neato-ness of man-eating tigers and of warriors toiling in hand-to-hand combat. The other is the intellectual thrills exerted by the film's meticulous recreation of Rome.” – Austin American-Statesman Nov 1, 2022 Full Review The Faculty (1998) 58% 3/4 EDIT “Essentially, the movie is a grand pastiche, folding the high school social dynamics of The Breakfast Club and the paranoid undercurrents of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and John Carpenter's The Thing into a high-gloss puff pastry.” – Austin American-Statesman Oct 5, 2022 Full Review Girlfight (2000) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Michelle Rodriguez, cutting a dazzling figure in her first acting role, plays Diana Guzman, a raw product of a broken family in the Brooklyn projects. Despair and anger find articulation in her sharpshooting fists.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 25, 2021 Full Review Zombieland (2009) 89% B+ EDIT “This well-rounded lark by first-time feature director Ruben Fleischer deftly juggles violence, humor and heart for a friendly, disarming package that still delivers the horrific body count that genre fans hunger for.” – Austin American-Statesman Sep 22, 2014 Full Review
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