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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

Worst Reviewed Films

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
50%	A Wink and a Smile (2008)	" A Wink and a Smile struck me as 90 minutes of narcissism with a hyper-feminist slant, and no erotic charge whatsoever." — New York Observer Posted Apr 29, 2009
64%	Duplicity (2009)	" Mr. Gilroy has outsmarted himself by pulling too many switches in his narrative. He then fails to recover by coming up with a smash ending that pulls all the scattered pieces together." — New York Observer Posted Mar 18, 2009
33%	Sherman's Way (2009)	" Sherman's Way manages to be a road movie that never gets very far because it keeps going around in circles." — New York Observer Posted Mar 4, 2009
18%	Reunion (2009)	" Since no one in the cast is a household name, the series of confessions and critiques resemble nothing so much as actors' auditions." — New York Observer Posted Mar 4, 2009
25%	Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)	" I can't really recommend this movie in these perilous times, except for viewers in search of a nostalgic chuckle or two." — New York Observer Posted Feb 11, 2009
89%	California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) (Endless) (2007)	" At its present length it sprawls shamelessly in terms of the ultimate futility of its narrative." — New York Observer Posted Jan 21, 2009
78%	Doubt (2008)	" John Patrick Shanley's Doubt left me less moved than querulously dissatisfied despite the impressive performances of Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis in all the key roles." — New York Observer Posted Dec 31, 2008
68%	Revolutionary Road (2008)	" It simply doesn't play as well as it reads." — New York Observer Posted Dec 17, 2008
61%	The Reader (2008)	" Despite the efforts of [all involved], the Holocaust remains the elephant in the room that deadens the elements of surprise and suspense we have been conditioned to expect in screen narratives." — New York Observer Posted Dec 3, 2008
11%	Lake City (2008)	" There is very little wasted motion, to be sure, but also very little real-life like ambience." — New York Observer Posted Nov 19, 2008
76%	OSS 117: Le Caire Nid d'Espions (OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) (2008)	" I have never been a particular admirer of either James Bond or Austin Powers, and could hardly be expected to be overjoyed by a 'cross between them.' Hence, I was hardly surprised when I didn't crack a smile over the antics of Mr. Jean Dujardin." — New York Observer Posted Oct 23, 2008
62%	Changeling (2008)	" Mr. Eastwood, particularly, with his finely honed noirish instincts, should have sprinted more and cantered less." — New York Observer Posted Oct 22, 2008
46%	Constantine (2005)	" I deeply loathe the Heaven-and-Hell genre to which this cinematic comic-book spectacular belongs." — New York Observer Posted Oct 18, 2008
34%	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	" Mr. Lee has stretched his material in so many different directions that one is left with unacceptable levels of religiosity and sentimentality in the overall context of the naked brutality we have witnessed." — New York Observer Posted Sep 24, 2008
13%	The Women (2008)	" As much as I enjoy current actresses like Ms. Bening and Ms. Ryan even in a lost cause, I cannot recommend the latest reenactment of The Women as anything special." — New York Observer Posted Sep 10, 2008
78%	Burn After Reading (2008)	" Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading, from their own screenplay, strikes me as one of the most willfully awful movies I've ever seen." — New York Observer Posted Sep 10, 2008
37%	Savage Grace (2007)	" Savage Grace is a film strictly for avant-garde festivals, at which even minimal exposition is at a premium." — New York Observer Posted May 28, 2008
45%	Mister Lonely (2007)	" I will end with the faint praise of Mister Lonely as the least offensive of the works in the Korine canon." — New York Observer Posted Apr 30, 2008
25%	Sex and Death 101 (2007)	" The film has its moments of wit and lucidity, but these are few and far between." — New York Observer Posted Apr 2, 2008
82%	Hors de Prix (Priceless) (2006)	" Pierre Salvadori's Priceless has been heralded as a French box office hit, which suggests that the French have become as corrupt and materialistic as some commentators insist that we are." — New York Observer Posted Mar 19, 2008
67%	Ezra (2008)	" The film is awash with good intentions, and the actual atrocities are vividly depicted and chilling... but the film loses its momentum when it attempts to analyze the evils of poverty, anarchy and violence." — New York Observer Posted Feb 13, 2008
11%	Fool's Gold (2008)	" The movie lost me right from the beginning, when I couldn't accept any of its plot premises and didn't believe in any of its characters." — New York Observer Posted Feb 6, 2008
44%	redacted (2007)	" Curiously, Mr. De Palma makes very little effort to comprehend the wrongdoers in his version of Iraq. Their vile language and clear class inferiority distance them from any pity or understanding from the average audience member." — New York Observer Posted Nov 14, 2007
35%	Southland Tales (2007)	" An example of a sophomore jinx encountered by radically experimental directors after their first effort proved to have more traction with audiences and critics than they had anticipated." — New York Observer Posted Nov 7, 2007
26%	Lions for Lambs (2007)	" Plays out as a mountain of self-righteously guilt-ridden rhetoric perched on a molehill of narrative." — New York Observer Posted Nov 7, 2007
64%	Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)	" Things We Lost in the Fire is certainly not a comedy, but it is definitely mordant with its two Big Themes: Loss and Addiction, both treated in a singularly heavy-handed manner, for which I blame primarily Mr. Loeb's screenplay." — New York Observer Posted Oct 31, 2007
95%	No Country for Old Men (2007)	" I may be clearly in the minority on this movie. It will almost certainly be number one on my list of movies that other people liked and I didn't." — New York Observer Posted Oct 24, 2007
33%	Rails & Ties (2007)	" Mr. Bacon, Ms. Gay Harden and Mr. Heizer are talented enough almost to bring off this fragile conceit -- almost, but not quite." — New York Observer Posted Oct 24, 2007
78%	Crazy Love (2007)	" It's too easy to feel superior to these two people and their marriage in hell for the sake of some easy (or even uneasy) laughter." — New York Observer Posted Sep 22, 2007
53%	The Bubble (Ha Buah) (2007)	" I am not sure what the point of the movie is supposed to be, but [director] Fox, his cast and his collaborators are singularly unconvincing in their abruptly shifting gears between comedy and tragedy." — New York Observer Posted Sep 12, 2007
61%	Dans Paris (Inside Paris) (2007)	" Structurally, it is mostly windup with very little delivery." — New York Observer Posted Aug 15, 2007
85%	2 Days in Paris (2007)	" Ms. Delpy and Mr. Goldberg are clearly talented and versatile enough to make a more plausible and convincing couple, but the helter-skelter view of Paris in this film never gives them the chance." — New York Observer Posted Aug 15, 2007
27%	Evening (2007)	" The novel is too dense, too multilayered, too overpopulated to make a satisfactory film that is also faithful to the book." — New York Observer Posted Jun 27, 2007
74%	The Boss of it All (Direkt�ren for det hele) (2007)	" The one last saving grace of this only marginally entertaining film is its refusal to avail itself of an ironically heroic sentimentality set up by its own narrative trajectory." — New York Observer Posted May 23, 2007
70%	Day Night Day Night (2006)	" All in all, it's a creepy subject for a movie -- especially when there is no payoff at the end." — New York Observer Posted May 23, 2007
86%	Paris Je T'aime (2007)	" After having seen the 18 pieces that made the final cut, I can't help wondering on what grounds the two rejected works were judged unworthy." — New York Observer Posted May 9, 2007
85%	The Blair Witch Project (1999)	" Where is the suspense? Where is the involvement? Where is the identification?" — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
67%	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)	" I remain skeptical about the ability of even the best American actors to read Shakespeare's lines without giving the impression that they are enduring very painful cultural root canal work." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
78%	Gladiator (2000)	" Ultimately, Gladiator is an honorable and inoffensive spectacle with nothing extraordinary to recommend it." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
80%	He Got Game (1998)	" At the end of Mr. Lee's movie, all you feel is the distraction of Mr. Lee's stylistic exhibitionism, without which, I concede, he might not be regarded as a genius in some quarters." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
50%	Summer of Sam (1999)	" This is trashy exploitation at its clumsiest. Once more, a Spike Lee movie has been undone by the earnestness of being important." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
93%	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	" I found it tediously manipulative despite its Herculean energy." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
83%	Magnolia (1999)	" What this film may have needed to get on its feet is some honest-to-goodness violence." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
67%	Dogma (1999)	" Dogma is more strained than funny." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
58%	City of Angels (1998)	" Strains to achieve the enchantingly sublime, but ends up sinking to the depressingly ridiculous." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
71%	eXistenZ (1999)	" I just don't happen to like puzzle films of any kind, but I must credit Mr. Cronenberg with more intellectual depth than most of his fellow pessimistic movie pranksters." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
64%	The Yards (2000)	" I can't remember when a film so well-acted and so well-rendered visually was also so oppressive to sit through." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
77%	Eyes Wide Shut (1999)	" I kept my eyes wide open all through Eyes Wide Shut and saw more control-freak unreality than visual genius around the edges of the cluttered compositions." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
68%	Analyze This (1999)	" [De Niro and Crystal] would seem to be perfectly cast as this oddest of odd couples, but something has gone wrong with the comic chemistry." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007
92%	Being John Malkovich (1999)	" By the time the tunnel worthy of the likes of Gulliver and Alice becomes a freeway clogged with bit players, a big chill has descended on all the characters." — New York Observer Posted Apr 27, 2007

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