Andy Webster

Andy Webster

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography:
New York Times film critic.
Publications:
New York Times
Total Reviews:
192

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
2.5/5 —— Grace Unplugged (2013) " Feels like a religious tract more than a movie." — New York Times
Posted Oct 5, 2013
2/5 0% Nothing Left to Fear (2013) " The familiar special effects are not the most disappointing element here. It's the squandering of the talented Ms. Heche, who is given top billing but almost nothing to do. " — New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
2/5 —— 36 Saints (2013) " A modest effort only fitfully attaining its aims." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2013
4/5 73% 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013) " The variety of physical perspectives lends a vivid you-are-there aspect to this record of the Zuccotti Park protest in New York in 2011, which spawned similar demonstrations ... around the world." — New York Times
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2.5/5 50% Drew: The Man Behind The Poster (2013) " At length, the cheerleading (capped with fawning fanboys at San Diego Comic-Con) becomes a mildly taxing torrent. And Mr. Struzan, while an agreeable presence, is not an especially engrossing speaker." — New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/5 54% Spark: A Burning Man Story (2013) " Since we can't all attend Burning Man, we can be thankful for "Spark," which is probably the next best thing." — New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/5 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " "Sea of Monsters" is diverting enough - the director, Thor Freudenthal, is savvy with effects and keeps his young cast on point - but it doesn't begin to approach the biting adolescent tension of the Harry Potter movies" — New York Times
Posted Aug 6, 2013
3.5/5 71% Frankenstein's Army (2013) " Narrative depth may be in short supply, but the energy, invention and humor are bracing. And let's face it: Sometimes cheese tastes good." — New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3/5 37% Dealing With Idiots (2013) " The results are amusing if predictably mild." — New York Times
Posted Jul 16, 2013
1/5 8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " This is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance." — New York Times
Posted Jul 12, 2013
2/5 69% V/H/S/2 (2013) " Erratic perspectives and high-strung camera movements predominate, ricocheting from one gory tableau to another." — New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3.5/5 —— Magic Camp (2013) " A spry and revealing examination of Tannen's Magic Camp, an annual weeklong July assembly of aspiring illusionists at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania." — New York Times
Posted Jun 28, 2013
3.5/5 67% Downloaded (2013) " An independent Napster may be gone, but its impact reverberates, not least in the continuing threat to intellectual property." — New York Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
3/5 91% Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2013) " Charming animated sequences offer a tantalizing taste of this creator's singular talents, underscoring the grievous wrongs dealt him." — New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
4/5 65% Hey Bartender (2013) " The drinks and their consumption look mighty glamorous in "Hey Bartender," Douglas Tirola's tidy and ingratiating documentary ode to high-end mixologists." — New York Times
Posted Jun 7, 2013
2.5/5 40% The Rambler (2013) " Foreboding images abound - crawling lizards, mysterious lights in the sky, a funereal assembly populated by grotesques - along with occasional ambient droning on the soundtrack and moments of mild humor and raw gore. Do the tableaus add up? Not really." — New York Times
Posted Jun 7, 2013
2.5/5 —— Run It (2013) " An entwined triptych of sorts unified by invective, slurs and characters demanding that others shut up, "Run It" is a very patchy affair." — New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
5/5 57% American Mary (2013) " Combines gore, quiet dread, feminist conviction and a visual classicism, often using a red palette, with impressive, unbelabored dexterity." — New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
5/5 95% Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself (2013) " It is Plimpton's humility that is most endearing. His willingness to fail, and to give readers a taste of exotic occupations, merits memorializing." — New York Times
Posted May 22, 2013
5/5 —— Valentino's Ghost (2013) " You may not agree with every observation in Michael Singh's documentary "Valentino's Ghost." But this engrossing examination of American perceptions of Arabs and the Arab world gets you thinking." — New York Times
Posted May 16, 2013
3/5 44% He's Way More Famous Than You (2013) " This frenetic movie has moments of wit, and Ms. Feiffer, a seasoned screen and Broadway performer, has range, stamina and charisma." — New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
3/5 35% Peeples (2013) " This pleasing ensemble comedy, while manifesting Perry trademarks, is very much Ms. Chism's own. And that is to its benefit." — New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
2/5 51% Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013) " [A] glossy, fawning valentine to conspicuous consumption ..." — New York Times
Posted May 3, 2013
3/5 —— Wuss (2013) " "Wuss" may be slight, but Mr. Liford's sense of pitch is spot on." — New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
2/5 40% Tai Chi Hero (2013) " "Tai Chi Hero" merely fills the eye, offering little that stays with you." — New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
2/5 4% Scary Movie 5 (2013) " The latest installment of the slick, highly profitable parody franchise." — New York Times
Posted Apr 14, 2013
2.5/5 0% Lotus Eaters (2013) " Overflows with underdeveloped characters and plotlines." — New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
2/5 16% Temptation (2013) " Limp pacing and countless shots of Washington's skyline plague the narrative." — New York Times
Posted Mar 29, 2013
2/5 36% Family Weekend (2013) " The script, by Matt K. Turner, is loaded with contradictions, its hollow flirtation with subversion amount to airplane pablum." — New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
2.5/5 14% Dorfman in Love (2013) " The sentiments are heartfelt, but the execution is common." — New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
1/5 0% Silver Circle (2013) " Ron Paul acolytes, help yourself. Everyone else, stay away." — New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
3/5 —— Mindless Behavior Lose Your Mind (2013) " May Mindless Behavior's future lessons in youthful stardom not be too cruel." — New York Times
Posted Mar 17, 2013
2.5/5 30% Reincarnated (2013) " Snoop has certainly tempered his worldview, but enlightenment isn't as evident here as much as a woozy weariness, perhaps a long-term byproduct of being very, very stoned." — New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
3/5 13% Day of the Falcon (2013) " A far, far cry from "Lawrence of Arabia," but it has its diversions." — New York Times
Posted Mar 4, 2013
3/5 16% The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) " An actress who suggests religious piety, carnal fire and satanic aggression with equal dexterity, Ms. Bell provides a pulse an audience can connect with amid the standard-issue atmospheric accouterments. " — New York Times
Posted Mar 1, 2013
3.5/5 50% The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek (2013) " There are so many ideas and so much imaginative play here that the movie can barely contain them." — New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
2.5/5 56% The End of Love (2013) " Mr. Webber, a skilled actor, has not devised a narrative with sufficient momentum or tension to sustain much interest." — New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
3/5 37% Dark Skies (2013) " Those elements are employed with consummate dexterity." — New York Times
Posted Feb 22, 2013
3.5/5 60% Almost In Love (2013) " Mostly the film is two unbroken takes and a bravura display of hand-held camerawork, sound design and improvisational performance." — New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
3/5 57% Shanghai Calling (2013) " Though Mr. Hsia, a television alumnus who also wrote the script, has created a somewhat predictable story infused with stereotypes old and new, he gains mileage from light humor, buoyant energy and some appealing performers." — New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
88% Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006) New York Times
Posted Jan 22, 2013
3.5/5 80% Wagner & Me (2012) " The director, Patrick McGrady, gracefully alternates interviews and biographical passages with stirring lyrical musical sequences." — New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
2/5 —— Shady Lady (2012) " It comes as no surprise that the director, Tristan Loraine, comes from a background as an airline captain and a documentarian. Perhaps those jobs make best use of his skills." — New York Times
Posted Nov 29, 2012
3/5 50% What A Man (2012) " It may hit all-too-familiar notes, but its sureness of tone makes Mr. Schweighöfer a talent to watch." — New York Times
Posted Nov 29, 2012
3/5 50% Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) " This bloody wallow in sweat, guns and fisticuffs - for those who swing that way - delivers." — New York Times
Posted Nov 29, 2012
1/5 20% The Mystical Laws (Shinpi no hô) (2012) " Who conceived this ponderous, quasi-evangelical hokum, anyway?" — New York Times
Posted Nov 22, 2012
3/5 —— Turning (2012) " Onstage the Johnsons perform Mr. Hegarty's agreeably lush, intimate and often melancholy piano-based songs, accompanied by a string section." — New York Times
Posted Nov 16, 2012
3.5/5 —— Girl Walk: All Day (2012) " Exhausting but undeniably exhilarating." — New York Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
1.5/5 6% Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) " The distinction between actors and special effects shrinks ever further in the video game-turned-horror film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which reduces its human players to plastic action figures in tired genre settings. " — New York Times
Posted Oct 26, 2012
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