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Andrew O'Hehir

Andrew O'Hehir

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:
Salon.com , Sight and Sound
Total Reviews:
1158

Worst Reviewed Films

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86% Inception (2010) " Inception may have been directed by Christopher Nolan, but Nolan's dreams are apparently directed by Michael Bay." — Salon.com
Posted Jul 15, 2010
6% The Last Airbender (2010) " I can see why Shyamalan was attracted to this material, but the results are clunky even by his recent standards." — Salon.com
Posted Jul 1, 2010
9% Grown Ups (2010) " You find yourself chuckling at a lonely gag that halfway works -- not that I can remember any right now -- and end up shivering with cold sweat, convinced that watching Grown Ups has permanently damaged your sanity and intelligence." — Salon.com
Posted Jun 24, 2010
12% Jonah Hex (2010) " It isn't just that no effort is expended on old-fogey ideas like character development; it's more that Hayward doesn't even try to make individual scenes make sense." — Salon.com
Posted Jun 18, 2010
11% Killers (2010) " Bungled rather than flat-out terrible." — Salon.com
Posted Jun 7, 2010
15% Sex and the City 2 (2010) " When Carrie asks Big, "Am I just a bitch wife who nags you?" I could hear all the straight men in the theater -- all four of us -- being physically prevented from responding." — Salon.com
Posted May 26, 2010
15% A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) " This moody, lifeless movie rips off lines, scenes, dream sequences and character kills from Craven's film ... while draining them of energy, suspense and meaning." — Salon.com
Posted Apr 30, 2010
19% The Back-up Plan (2010) " Stan and Zoe's fateful meeting is supposed to be screwball-awkward but instead comes off as skin-crawlingly uncomfortable, and despite the entirely conventional demands of the plot, the duo never seem remotely at ease with each other." — Salon.com
Posted Apr 22, 2010
61% Breaking Upwards (2010) " While Alex Bergman's photography is often impressive, Wein's editing has the short attention span of a Hollywood movie, without the accompanying cocaine rush." — Salon.com
Posted Apr 8, 2010
68% Shutter Island (2010) " Scorsese is pushing, I guess, for something that combines a '40s horror-thriller with a contemporary psychological tragedy. What he ends up with is more like a Hardy Boys mystery directed by David Lynch." — Salon.com
Posted Feb 18, 2010
18% Valentine's Day (2010) " A Garry Marshall movie has to be funny in order to be anything at all, and this one is so deeply involved with its pseudo-meaningful roundelay of beautiful but inexplicably lovelorn people as to be teeth-grindingly, mind-warpingly boring." — Salon.com
Posted Feb 11, 2010
62% Howl (2010) " It's done pretty well as a poem up till now, and more than once during Franco's reading, I simply closed my eyes and listened." — Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
45% Until the Light Takes Us (2009) " That's all fascinating as far as it goes, but to some degree Vikernes is playing his liberal American guests." — Salon.com
Posted Dec 10, 2009
64% Adam (2009) " I'm sorry to report that beyond that educational element and the delicate performances of Dancy and Byrne, I found Adam dramatically limp, predictable and in a curious way even retrograde." — Salon.com
Posted Jul 30, 2009
29% Deadgirl (2008) " Much of the allegorical force Harel and Sarmiento's film has built up is undone by its utterly conventional, lameass-switcheroo ending, which may be an indication that more than enough virtual ink has been spilled on this subject." — Salon.com
Posted Jul 22, 2009
84% Tyson (2009) " Half-appealing, half-pathetic." — Salon.com
Posted Jul 16, 2009
51% The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) " Helgeland's story is so formulaic and the characters so stock that we're just sitting there waiting for these guys to perform like circus animals." — Salon.com
Posted Jun 12, 2009
25% Friday the 13th (2009) " This Friday the 13th is glossy, good-looking garbage, acted out by a cast of big-chested androids (male and female alike) and with the original series' rough edges smooved over." — Salon.com
Posted Feb 12, 2009
13% The Informers (2009) " People sometimes had ordinary, reasonably polite conversations, even in the '80s. Not absolutely all the talking was affectless mumbling, angry recriminations, drug deals or TV news about Ronald Reagan." — Salon.com
Posted Jan 23, 2009
21% The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) " If this is the best the human race can do, forget it." — Salon.com
Posted Dec 11, 2008
50% Antarctica (2008) " Ambition and a roomful of good-looking guys isn't quite enough." — Salon.com
Posted Dec 3, 2008
87% Lola Montès (The Fall of Lola Montes) (The Sins of Lola Montes) (1955) " In some odd way, the huge production scale and marvelous widescreen color scheme make Lola Montès seem more distant and artificial than Ophüls' smaller-scale black-and-white films." — Salon.com
Posted Oct 10, 2008
69% Religulous (2008) " [Maher's] scattershot and ad hominem attacks against many different forms of religious hypocrisy don't add up to a coherent critique, and he's not qualified to provide one." — Salon.com
Posted Oct 3, 2008
48% Towelhead (2007) " This third-act redemption raises Towelhead several notches, but it still ends up feeling like a well-acted and well-intentioned after-school special, a long way from the vividness and texture of Ball's television work." — Salon.com
Posted Sep 12, 2008
82% Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) " It's literally difficult to believe that the person who made this picturesque, clueless, oddly misanthropic picture also made Annie Hall and Crimes and Misdemeanors." — Salon.com
Posted Aug 15, 2008
75% Elegy (2008) " It's beautiful, but nobody involved was ever sure what the movie was actually about, or why they were making it." — Salon.com
Posted Aug 8, 2008
43% What We Do Is Secret (2007) " With all his devotion to getting the story right -- and that's a worthy goal, don't get me wrong -- Grossman never captures the insanity and terror, or for that matter the seductive allure, of nihilist L.A. punk in its early years." — Salon.com
Posted Aug 5, 2008
56% Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008) " A clumsy if well-intentioned work of recycled propaganda, a mixture of hard evidence, random anecdote and far-flung inference that may convince some viewers that a clear verdict can be rendered on that impossibly murky event." — Salon.com
Posted Aug 1, 2008
80% Chevolution (2008) " The Cannes Che, probably a film no one will see again, is a big, sprawling, ambitious mess. It's less a grand-opera mess than a beautifully constructed machine whose parts don't all quite work together." — Salon.com
Posted May 22, 2008
43% Blindness (2008) " Earnest and dreary." — Salon.com
Posted May 15, 2008
49% Before the Rains (2008) " So pretty and so utterly lifeless you can almost smell the embalming fluid coming off the screen." — Salon.com
Posted May 9, 2008
39% Dark Matter (2008) " It's an inelegant experiment that captures many intriguing moments as they pass, but ends up utterly baffled by the question of how its delightful central character becomes a tabloid-ready monster." — Salon.com
Posted Apr 10, 2008
80% The Hammer (2007) " If you liked Rocky Balboa you should be in good shape, since it's exactly the same movie, just aimed at a teeny-tiny-bit younger demographic and with an affectless leading man who avoids hambone acting by not acting at all." — Salon.com
Posted Mar 19, 2008
81% The Business of Being Born (2008) " No one, male or female, pregnant or childless, who sees The Business of Being Born will ever see the hospital maternity ward as a normal environment again." — Salon.com
Posted Jan 10, 2008
40% The Grand (2008) " As my idol Joe Bob Briggs used to say, that's an awful lot of plot getting in the way of the story." — Salon.com
Posted Jan 7, 2008
65% The Kite Runner (2007) " Maudlin, implausible and dull." — Salon.com
Posted Dec 13, 2007
65% Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei (The Weeping Meadow) (2004) " The Weeping Meadow doesn't offer quite enough sugar for its harsh medicine to go down easily." — Salon.com
Posted Nov 15, 2007
58% A Slice of Lynch (2007) " Lynch offers a fascinating view of Lynch's irascible personality." — Salon.com
Posted Oct 25, 2007
23% Slipstream (2007) " I'm glad that Hopkins has apparently been using the bland, middlebrow stage of his acting career to experiment with massive doses of psychotropic chemicals and open the doors of perception and all that. Next time, maybe he'll just write a manifesto." — Salon.com
Posted Oct 25, 2007
88% Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) " What you see in it says more about you than it says about Lumet and his straightforward, throwback-style entertainment, which is richly played and dazzlingly blinged up with sex and drugs, but virtually devoid of human insight or narrative ambition." — Salon.com
Posted Oct 25, 2007
84% Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007) " Black White & Gray raises provocative questions but can't answer them, or even frame them with total clarity." — Salon.com
Posted Oct 18, 2007
36% Sleuth (2007) " It has a certain edge and daring, or more to the point it pretends to. That goes some distance toward concealing that Sleuth is a horrible mismatch of writer and material." — Salon.com
Posted Oct 11, 2007
51% The Bubble (Ha Buah) (2007) " Fox does better in his serious dramatic mode than he does with light comedy, at least to my taste." — Salon.com
Posted Sep 6, 2007
10% The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007) " So far, so good, right? Not really." — Salon.com
Posted Sep 6, 2007
64% The Nines (2007) " The movie never fails to be crisply written and cannily delivered, but it's way too steeped in TV-culture inside jokes for its own good, and August's attempts to suffuse the whole thing with ontological or theological meaning are ultimately pretty dumb." — Salon.com
Posted Aug 29, 2007
30% Goya's Ghosts (2007) " Goya's Ghosts...has no clear purpose, no clear message and no clear central character. Like most costume dramas these days, it dwells on the gore, filth and violence of the past -- but toward what end is never apparent." — Salon.com
Posted Jul 19, 2007
57% Interview (2007) " This veneer of pseudo-adult psychological realism doesn't stop the film from being trashy, awkward and implausible, something like a stage play that might have seemed challenging in 1976." — Salon.com
Posted Jul 11, 2007
27% Evening (2007) " In its pursuit of superior craftsmanship and high-minded lyricism, Evening constantly risks sliding down the slippery slope into inept sentimentality and self-caricature." — Salon.com
Posted Jun 27, 2007
64% Broken English (2007) " Despite its schizophrenic nature and often disagreeable characteristics, Broken English has flashes of something. You might say it has an integrity of purpose, if not of execution." — Salon.com
Posted Jun 21, 2007
70% Ocean's Thirteen (2007) " It's watchable, colorful and intermittently funny, but given the level of talent on display, it's reasonable to want more than that." — Salon.com
Posted Jun 2, 2007
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