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Andrew Sarris

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:: New York Observer , New Yorker , The Atlantic
Critics' Group:: National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews:: 1059

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
90%	S�raphine (2009)	" The film is a commendably worthy endeavor, and I am almost ashamed that my ingrained hedonistic attitude toward movies prevents me from recommending S�raphine more enthusiastically." — New York Observer Posted Jun 10, 2009
71%	Tetro (2009)	" Despite all its longueurs and extreme aggravations, Tetro deserves to be seen as the late work of one of the cinema's most accomplished masters of mise-en-sc�ne." — New York Observer Posted Jun 10, 2009
96%	Herb and Dorothy (2008)	" Herb & Dorothy describes and amply illustrates the extraordinary saga of the Vogels, who double-handedly built one of the most important collections of Minimalist and Conceptual Art in history with their modest salaries." — New York Observer Posted Jun 3, 2009
81%	Okuribito (Departures) (2009)	" The ultimate beauty of the film rests in its symbolic details that bridge the abyss between the living and the dead. As the French might say, it is to make one cry." — New York Observer Posted Jun 3, 2009
80%	Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (2009)	" What elevates the film to something more than a talking-heads documentary is the rapport established between Mr. Glaser and Ms. Keys on a project they both saw as a visual and verbal love letter to New York City." — New York Observer Posted May 20, 2009
33%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" I cannot completely condemn a movie that has been very competently written, directed and acted, any more than I can blame Mr. Schwarzenegger for all the woes he has encountered while trying to govern California." — New York Observer Posted May 20, 2009
46%	Management (2009)	" In this Springtime of our Discontent, Management offers a bit of sunny but not entirely silly escapism." — New York Observer Posted May 13, 2009
61%	Adoration (2008)	" As for Mr. Egoyan, he remains an auteur at the highest level of cinematic creation, and even one of his lesser films, like Adoration, deserves to be seen." — New York Observer Posted May 6, 2009
86%	La Ventana (The Window) (2008)	" The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement." — New York Observer Posted May 6, 2009
22%	Jazz in the Diamond District ()	" The music, with its infectious energy, together with Ms. Cameron's onstage charisma makes Jazz in the Diamond District well worth seeing." — New York Observer Posted Apr 29, 2009
96%	Revanche (2009)	" One of the most compelling assemblages of character studies I have seen so far in this too-often-dismal year of moviegoing." — New York Observer Posted Apr 22, 2009
56%	The Soloist (2009)	" Mr Downey and Mr. Foxx both turn in Oscar-worthy performances in their very strenuous and detail-drenched roles." — New York Observer Posted Apr 22, 2009
92%	Etz Limon (Lemon Tree) (2009)	" Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations." — New York Observer Posted Apr 15, 2009
84%	State of Play (2009)	" It is Mr. Crowe who lends State of Play a sense of perpetual urgency as he traverses the corridors of power in search of massive wrongdoing at the risk of his own life." — New York Observer Posted Apr 15, 2009
95%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" A darkly poetic parable of the solitude of human existence, somewhat ameliorated by the occasional generosity of the human spirit." — New York Observer Posted Apr 8, 2009
63%	Lymelife (2008)	" The sterling ensemble portrayals of Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Hutton and the Culkin brothers on the male side and Ms. Hennessy, Ms. Nixon and Ms. Roberts on the distaff side make Lymelife worth seeing, especially in these dire times." — New York Observer Posted Apr 8, 2009
37%	Gigantic (2009)	" The various twilight performances of the veteran players deserve a look, as do the always interesting appearances of Mr. Dano and Ms. Deschanel. Only the sparks are missing this time." — New York Observer Posted Apr 1, 2009
46%	The Education of Charlie Banks (2009)	" I fully recommend The Education of Charlie Banks to anyone looking for something truly and subtly different." — New York Observer Posted Mar 25, 2009
76%	Un Baiser s'il vous pla�t (Shall We Kiss?) (2009)	" The French cinema continues to be the source of our most timelessly enchanting romantic entertainment." — New York Observer Posted Mar 25, 2009
90%	Hunger (2009)	" A harrowing yet lyrical account of the fatal hunger strike of Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, in 1981." — New York Observer Posted Mar 18, 2009
94%	Tokyo Sonata (Tokyo Sonata) (2009)	" Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year." — New York Observer Posted Mar 11, 2009
90%	Carmen and Geoffrey (2009)	" Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob's Carmen & Geoffrey is one of the most revelatory dance films I have ever seen." — New York Observer Posted Mar 11, 2009
72%	Sunshine Cleaning (2009)	" Sunshine Cleaning is made of sterner stuff than the usual chick flick, and is well worth the time of all serious moviegoers." — New York Observer Posted Mar 11, 2009
96%	Fados (2009)	" Casts a wondrous spell as the third installment of the Spanish director's musical trilogy, which also includes Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998)." — New York Observer Posted Mar 4, 2009
73%	Tokyo! (2008)	" The cumulative strangeness of Tokyo! is consistent with the previous eccentricities of the three directors, and is well worth the time of any moviegoer looking for something different in their movie diet." — New York Observer Posted Mar 4, 2009
78%	12 (2007)	" It is well worth seeing if only for the insights into contemporary Russian society. The acting of all 12 jurors is exemplary, in both versions." — New York Observer Posted Feb 25, 2009
92%	Katyn (2009)	" As a portrait of hell on earth, Katyń deserves to be seen by anyone with a feeling for history, however horrifying it may be. Actually, it puts just about every other horror movie to shame." — New York Observer Posted Feb 18, 2009
90%	Must Read After My Death (2007)	" I can recommend this film with the proviso that you don't have to accept it at face value. For myself, I found its frankness entrancing." — New York Observer Posted Feb 18, 2009
82%	Two Lovers (2008)	" The acting is all first-rate, and Mr. Gray and his cinematographer, Joaqu�n Baca-Asay, have captured their locale in its most somber stages, as if to emphasize the essential sadness of the two love stories, and the chill they induce in the viewer." — New York Observer Posted Feb 11, 2009
91%	Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008)	" A very localized canvas of the 'criminal empire' with five interwoven strands of the narrative, each one leading to the same fatalistic ending, attesting to the ultimate invincibility and inevitability of this 'empire.'" — New York Observer Posted Feb 4, 2009
60%	Senki (Shadows) (2007)	" [The] two very attractive leads, Mr. Nacev and Ms. Stanojevska, were picked out of a pool of aspirants in Macedonia and its neighboring countries. Actually, they are so arresting together that it is truly unearthly." — New York Observer Posted Jan 28, 2009
86%	Medicine for Melancholy (2008)	" Mr. Jenkins and his co-leads, Mr. Cenac and Ms. Heggins, achieve stretches of buoyancy and brio in their search for a romantic epiphany that never comes." — New York Observer Posted Jan 28, 2009
83%	Kirschbl�ten - Hanami (Cherry Blossoms) (2008)	" It is a seldom-told story in an essentially youth-oriented, escapist movie industry, but when it is told sublimely well, as it is by Ms. D�rrie now, and by McCarey in 1937, and by Ozu in 1953, it becomes a film for the ages." — New York Observer Posted Jan 21, 2009
96%	Waltz with Bashir (2008)	" Waltz With Bashir plays out as one of the most profoundly explosive animated documentaries I have ever seen, and is clearly one of the best pictures of the year." — New York Observer Posted Dec 31, 2008
70%	Last Chance Harvey (2009)	" Mr. Hoffman, now past 70, and Ms. Thompson, inching toward 50, still retain enough buoyancy to keep the picture afloat. And the rest of the cast kicks in with flawless ensemble support." — New York Observer Posted Dec 31, 2008
34%	Adam Resurrected (2008)	" I can tentatively recommend it if only because there has never been anything like it in the history of cinema as far as I can remember." — New York Observer Posted Dec 10, 2008
80%	Gran Torino (2009)	" Caps [Eastwood's] career as both a director and an actor with his portrayal of a heroically redeemed bigot of such humanity and luminosity as to exhaust my supply of superlatives." — New York Observer Posted Dec 10, 2008
31%	While She Was Out (2008)	" The spectacular ending will make every harried housewife in the world ecstatic." — New York Observer Posted Dec 10, 2008
92%	Frost/Nixon (2008)	" With the awards season swirling around us, Mr. Langella and Mr. Sheen will be hard to overlook when all the prizes are dispensed." — New York Observer Posted Dec 3, 2008
85%	Wendy and Lucy (2008)	" To her credit, Ms. Reichardt never allows her camera to become a voyeuristic witness to a young woman in distress. Instead, it remains focused on a largely indifferent American landscape of strangers in perpetual motion to nowhere." — New York Observer Posted Dec 3, 2008
55%	Australia (2008)	" I must confess that I might have been harder on Mr. Luhrmann's film if I had not remained entranced by Ms. Kidman." — New York Observer Posted Nov 26, 2008
71%	Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (2008)	" One of the most remarkable movies of the year." — New York Observer Posted Nov 19, 2008
44%	Tussenstand (Stages) (2007)	" The burden placed on the actors is an immense one, and they respond magnificently to a very loosely controlled form of filmmaking." — New York Observer Posted Nov 12, 2008
94%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" Much of the film is so overwhelming as sheer mass spectacle that it serves as a sobering view of an overpopulated part of the world that defies any judgmental analysis." — New York Observer Posted Nov 12, 2008
87%	Un Conte de No�l (A Christmas Tale) (2008)	" A Christmas Tale is a film experience to be seen and savored for its exquisite delineation of human feelings and foibles." — New York Observer Posted Nov 12, 2008
72%	Eden (2008)	" The acting alone makes this picture well worth seeing." — New York Observer Posted Nov 5, 2008
100%	Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)	" Even though the film is inescapably fragmented and catch-as-catch-can as cinema, its heart is pure and infinitely compassionate." — New York Observer Posted Nov 5, 2008
33%	The Guitar (2008)	" You have to see it for yourself. It is that out-of-the-depths triumphant." — New York Observer Posted Nov 5, 2008
69%	Synecdoche, New York (2008)	" Mr. Hoffman is emerging as one of our greatest actors, and he alone makes this film worth seeing." — New York Observer Posted Oct 29, 2008
68%	Plus Tard (One Day You'll Understand) (Later) (2008)	" The casting of 80-year-old Jeanne Moreau provides much of the raison d'�tre for the project. It is only the latest manifestation of the deep respect the French cinema has always shown for its aging actresses and actors." — New York Observer Posted Oct 29, 2008

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