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Andrew O'Hehir

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:: Salon.com , Sight and Sound

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47%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" It surely belongs to the category of baroque, overblown, megalomaniacal spectacles dubbed "film follies" by longtime Nation film critic Stuart Klawans." — Salon.com Posted May 8, 2013
80%	Something in the Air (2013)	" It's a terrific film, wonderfully atmospheric and alive ..." — Salon.com Posted May 2, 2013
78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" [Black] strikes a tone of pseudo-edgy frat-boy black comedy that's so retro it's almost charming." — Salon.com Posted May 2, 2013
51%	Post Tenebras Lux (2013)	" A mesmerizing combination of opaque art-house cinema, personal reflection and class-based rural thriller, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' "Post Tenebras Lux" casts a strange and powerful spell." — Salon.com Posted May 1, 2013
75%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" It's a nifty entertainment that's always easy on the eyes and gains just a bit of dramatic weight as it moves forward." — Salon.com Posted Apr 30, 2013
46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" Michael Bay sends a clear message to those of us who've been making fun of him: He's been in on the joke the whole time." — Salon.com Posted Apr 25, 2013
58%	At Any Price (2013)	" For me the breakthrough in "At Any Price" comes from 59-year-old Dennis Quaid, cementing his character-actor renaissance with what may be the nastiest role of his career." — Salon.com Posted Apr 24, 2013
56%	Oblivion (2013)	" The sly, surprising and visually magnificent Tom Cruise vehicle that has forced me - and many other people, I suspect - to revise my first opinion of director Joseph Kosinski." — Salon.com Posted Apr 19, 2013
42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" The enigmatic spell of enchantment it casts is a work of complex artistry, and the sneering reviews say more about the critics, I am afraid, than about the film or its director." — Salon.com Posted Apr 11, 2013
64%	Antiviral (2013)	" Cronenberg achieves a kind of heightened reality that does not resemble the real world but possesses its own internal logic." — Salon.com Posted Apr 9, 2013
87%	Upstream Color (2013)	" What I discern here is the work of a unique visual stylist and collage artist who's creating obsessive-compulsive allegorical puzzles, whose underlying philosophy is deliberately unclear. " — Salon.com Posted Apr 4, 2013
86%	About Sunny ()	" It's a worthwhile recession-era drama built around a terrific performance." — Salon.com Posted Mar 29, 2013
94%	Room 237 (2013)	" This movie about a labyrinth with a monster at its center is itself a labyrinth, [Ascher] tells us; better leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind you if you hope to get out." — Salon.com Posted Mar 28, 2013
95%	The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003)	" The long and eventful fishing trip Dad drags the boys on is simultaneously a very real voyage through the Russian wilderness and also, like, a Jungian trip, man." — Salon.com Posted Mar 27, 2013
81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" The movie looks great throughout, blending action, urban drama and family melodrama with a dark, thrumming undertone that holds them together." — Salon.com Posted Mar 26, 2013
70%	Wrong (2013)	" As this wry, dry and glittering near-masterpiece proclaims, life is full of wrongness, but also full of mystery and wonder." — Salon.com Posted Mar 26, 2013
69%	New World (2013)	" No one in American movies has made a crime opera this good in years." — Salon.com Posted Mar 21, 2013
43%	Admission (2013)	" You can take the kids, you can take grandma; everyone will be ever so slightly entertained." — Salon.com Posted Mar 20, 2013
60%	Game 6 (2005)	" For fans of DeLillo, Keaton and/or either team in that classic Series, this curious little picture is worth tracking down." — Salon.com Posted Mar 18, 2013
89%	The World According to Dick Cheney ()	" Cheney's political odyssey is literally like no one else's." — Salon.com Posted Mar 14, 2013
79%	Reality (2013)	" This is a movie that will reward multiple viewings, from a filmmaker of tremendous technical ability, humor and heart." — Salon.com Posted Mar 14, 2013
38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" Is this really what the audience wants? A deliriously unhinged setup and larger-than-life characters, abruptly devolving into a mind-numbingly familiar story with a totalitarian happy ending?" — Salon.com Posted Mar 13, 2013
66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Whatever other charges you want to level against "Spring Breakers" - such as incoherence, plotlessness, salaciousness and mind-numbing monotony - it has no lack of high concept." — Salon.com Posted Mar 12, 2013
90%	Beyond The Hills (2013)	" One of the year's most powerful films." — Salon.com Posted Mar 11, 2013
39%	The ABCs of Death (2013)	" An enormously impressive and massively indulgent cornucopia of 26 short films from all over the world." — Salon.com Posted Mar 7, 2013
60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" It's not like there's zero fun factor here, by a long shot - but the fun comes yoked to a long-winded and predictable story with lots of dead spots." — Salon.com Posted Mar 7, 2013
87%	The Silence (2013)	" "The Silence" is more like an intriguing work of misdirection than a great crime film, but it has a dreamlike and disturbing undertow you won't soon forget, and Odar is unquestionably a director to watch." — Salon.com Posted Mar 6, 2013
25%	Phantom (2013)	" "Phantom" has a pulpy B-movie intensity and economy to match its cast of quality character actors." — Salon.com Posted Feb 28, 2013
67%	Stoker (2013)	" "Oldboy" director Park Chan-wook's first American movie is so bad I wonder whether his other movies were ever good." — Salon.com Posted Feb 28, 2013
60%	Rubberneck (2013)	" Immediately put me in mind of the classic slow burn of vintage thrillers like Fritz Lang's "M" and Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom"..." — Salon.com Posted Feb 21, 2013
78%	Red Flag (2013)	" If it's all reasonably familiar indie-comedy terrain, it's delivered at a brisk, economical clip with plenty of laughs, and a series of running gags that keep getting funnier." — Salon.com Posted Feb 21, 2013
92%	No (2013)	" A troubling, exhilarating and ingeniously realized film that's part stirring political drama and part devilish media satire ..." — Salon.com Posted Feb 14, 2013
15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" Pretty much three well-staged action sequences strung together with the dumbest imaginable connective tissue." — Salon.com Posted Feb 14, 2013
45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" Plays like a funnier, edgier, Southern-gothic knockoff of the "Twilight" universe, with a distinct liberal-secular sensibility and without the virginal sexuality, po-faced seriousness or undertones of Christianity." — Salon.com Posted Feb 13, 2013
65%	The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013)	" I'm not sure that director and co-writer Chris James Thompson's film sheds any new light on why Dahmer committed his crimes, but I'm also not sure that anything is gained by trying to look too deeply into such a disordered personality." — Salon.com Posted Feb 12, 2013
20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" Considering that it starts out with two distinctive and likable stars and a reasonably promising premise, "Identity Thief" reaches impressive heights of laziness and idiocy." — Salon.com Posted Feb 8, 2013
92%	Lore (2013)	" If "Lore" is an upsetting and uncomfortable film set in a morally bleak landscape, it also offers a guardedly optimistic vision of the possibility of human change." — Salon.com Posted Feb 7, 2013
85%	Side Effects (2013)	" We'd like to believe that our SSRIs and MAOIs will bring us happiness, that love is real, that art or spirituality can offer transcendence. Steven Soderbergh would like to remind us that it's all a trick, and we're on our own." — Salon.com Posted Feb 6, 2013
16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" Seriously, this is one of the strangest and most painful films in recent memory." — Salon.com Posted Feb 5, 2013
80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" "Warm Bodies" sounds a lot better in theory than it turns out to be in practice." — Salon.com Posted Feb 1, 2013
100%	The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action (2013)	" As unreliable as the Academy Awards may be at every possible level, it's a relief to encounter the 2013 Oscar-nominated shorts ..." — Salon.com Posted Jan 31, 2013
95%	The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation (2013)	" As unreliable as the Academy Awards may be at every possible level, it's a relief to encounter the 2013 Oscar-nominated shorts ..." — Salon.com Posted Jan 31, 2013
75%	Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (2013)	" As unreliable as the Academy Awards may be at every possible level, it's a relief to encounter the 2013 Oscar-nominated shorts ..." — Salon.com Posted Jan 31, 2013
87%	Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013)	" We should be grateful to Herzog for bringing us this remarkable footage, but the real subject of "Happy People" may be his yearning for an imaginary paradise he can't have." — Salon.com Posted Jan 25, 2013
60%	John Dies at the End (2013)	" What may be the most freewheeling and imaginative film of Coscarelli's checkered career, loaded with tripped-out mood and nicely balanced between humor, horror and an underlay of genuine sweetness." — Salon.com Posted Jan 24, 2013
36%	LUV (2013)	" Both for good and for ill, "LUV" has a film-school feeling about it, and channels a legacy of fatalistic American crime cinema that includes "Mean Streets" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."" — Salon.com Posted Jan 17, 2013
59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" To call this a good movie is really a stretch; it's more like 38 percent of a good movie. But it probably has just enough dumb fun and pointless violence and car chases to seem like a highly viable option for large numbers of people this weekend." — Salon.com Posted Jan 17, 2013
100%	Birders: The Central Park Effect (2013)	" [A] revelatory little film ..." — Salon.com Posted Jan 15, 2013
79%	Quartet (2013)	" This is a lovely film directed with delicacy and taste, profoundly alive to the rhythms of its actors and characters, which gives its superlative British cast of stage and screen legends the time and space they deserve." — Salon.com Posted Jan 10, 2013

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