Nigel Andrews

Nigel Andrews

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Publications:
Financial Times , Times [UK]
Total Reviews:
1052
Total QuickRatings:
1

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/5 76% Filth () " Drama has been mugged by melodrama. Posturing nihilism powers on, fatuously fantasticated whenever the realist impulse, feeble at best, flickers out altogether." — Financial Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/5 91% The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (2013) " I'm not sure if the Zizek thoughts are an aid to illuminating the Zizek-chosen movies, or vice versa. But it is rich fun and collectably eccentric." — Financial Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/5 96% Sunshine on Leith () " The singalong, turned into a musical for stage and now screen, is better than one feared or hoped." — Financial Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
5/5 100% The Crash Reel () " The film captures the horror and danger and the druggy thrill. We understand why these kids want their "highs" even when the cost of coming low can be fatal." — Financial Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/5 76% How I Live Now (2013) " All England is here: a blend ... of dark with light, of the eternal-pastoral with tense and tactile forebodings of an unwritten future." — Financial Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
2/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " If you don't buy this stuff you don't buy it, though millions do and perhaps millions will." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/5 80% Prisoners (2013) " The cast and creators are released early for good behaviour." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
4/5 69% Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) " This film is an awful warning and awful fun at one and the same time." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/5 88% Hannah Arendt (2013) " Hannah Arendt's problem is the evil of banality: the gnawing away of drama by platitude and pedestrian mise-en-scène." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
1/5 8% Runner Runner (2013) " A crime-and-gambling thriller with Ben Affleck going head to head with Justin Timberlake. Result: they knock each other out like football players rising to head the same ball." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
4/5 60% InRealLife () " Film-maker/documentarist Beeban Kidron explores the IT age in InRealLife, surfing widely and provocatively." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/5 77% Kelly + Victor () " Between bed scenes the film dulls out a little: meandering Liverpool walkabouts scored for dirge-like synthesisers. (The 60s-era Art Movie Handbook.) Whenever we are in the bedroom, though, the story catches fire . . ." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
4/5 90% Hawking (2013) " Si monumentum requiris, see this film." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/5 44% The Call (2013) " It's a neat nerve-frayer with lessons for anyone finding themselves trapped in a confined space and needing to alert the outside world." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/5 100% Metro Manila (2013) " Characterisation basic. But plot well-turned and pace moodily rubato, as in the best kind of B-movie." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/5 3% Diana (2013) " Like Diana herself among the Windsors, Watts seems frighteningly isolated. She is the only performer/character for whom we give a damn ..." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
70% Tom à la ferme (Tom at the Farm) () " For a while, it's like a Pasolini picture gone potty. For a later while, it's like a Hitchcock movie where everything is in place except the point and the destination. You have to love the visuals, though" — Financial Times
Posted Sep 13, 2013
2/5 50% White House Down (2013) " Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) can do these films in his sleep; which may be why they sometimes emerge as nightmares of crazed, florid hokum." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 13, 2013
1/5 79% 42 (2013) " I wanted to kick Ford/Rickey into next Christmas, and you can add the movie. Its corny triumphalism is barely bearable." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 13, 2013
3/5 68% The Artist and the Model (2013) " The film takes time to get going. There is reward eventually, though: in Rochefort's plain but noble-nosed suffering, in some acute dialogue about the pains and paradoxes of art creation." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 13, 2013
4/5 91% In a World... (2013) " In a world where American comedies often die in ditches, pushed in by negative roadblocking (useless scripts, miscast stars), here is an affirmative mirth work, modestly cast, which actually makes you giggle" — Financial Times
Posted Sep 13, 2013
4/5 88% Rush (2013) " The film is outrageously enjoyable." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 13, 2013
81% The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) (2014) " Blends tragedy, comedy, elegy, romance and apocalypse into an elemental lyricism no other director could get near." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 8, 2013
91% Stray Dogs () " This film's poetry goes straight to the heart and solar plexus." — Financial Times
Posted Sep 7, 2013
0/5 49% Pain & Gain (2013) " Forgive me while I weep in despair. Pain and Gain is awful beyond imagining." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
4/5 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " Never mind the text; feel the texture." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
1/5 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " There is a very peculiar exchange of power going on between the fans of One Direction and the band, that makes the movie feel more than anything like a horribly grovelling, Mr Slopeish bow." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
3/5 88% What Maisie Knew (2013) " Whenever Moore is off screen - the only character with size-10 oomph - the film risks evaporating altogether. Moral: it isn't that easy to modernise Henry James." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3/5 54% Lovelace (2013) " Amanda Seyfried and Peter Saarsgard are good as the Beauty and Beast of the 1970s porn industry in Lovelace." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
4/5 76% The Kings of Summer (2013) " The reasons for raves at the Sundance Film Festival? The film's charm, freshness, wit and skewiness of vision." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3/5 68% Elysium (2013) " You don't know where to look next, or to listen, in this movie. Every actor seems to have come from a different rehearsal room." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2/5 50% Looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense) () " At once contrived and jerry-constructed." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
4/5 90% Silence () " Think of Brian De Palma's Blow Out, then imagine it re-filmed by a team of Trappist monks." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
4/5 79% Foxfire () " With the grim, ineluctable logic of resistance movements - the logic of mission creep and self-fulfilling vows of fanaticism - the girls move from non-conformism to violent confrontation, from empowerment to their and others' endangerment." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/5 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " Gallops across our skulls for two and a half hours, pounding them into the same kind of desert as that on screen: a barren flatland with occasional rearing outcries of rock." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/5 84% Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () " It's fun at first. Then the fun is air-pumped up until it isn't fun." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/5 87% The Conjuring (2013) " Here is a humdrum hunk of am-dram Gothic, lent prestige by a few specious avowals of its basis in a true exorcism case." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
4/5 61% My Father and the Man in Black (2013) " Plays like a non-fiction Walk the Line with script input by Eugene O'Neill." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
4/5 83% From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) " The incest-scare subplot never trips up the movie's charm. And there's a haunting reverberance, very Hayao Miyazaki, to the war memories that empower the parental back-stories." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/5 93% Paradies: Hoffnung (Paradise: Hope) () " Seidl likes his tragicomedy black. He likes it malicious and a little miserablist. You do not go to these films hoping to see - well - love, faith or hope. Let alone "paradise"." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
5/5 56% Heaven's Gate (1980) " Cimino endows the visuals with a Zola-esque texture and realism. But the characterisation and dramatic reach go beyond even that." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
4/5 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Refn has at least set the bar high for his aesthetic future. After this, any Refn thriller will be some kind of event." — Financial Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
2/5 69% Days Of Grace (Dias De Gracia) (2011) " Full of colour, carnage and dramatic overkill, the film drills through your brain, destroying neurons as it goes. It's like being your own guest at an aesthetic torture gig." — Financial Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2/5 58% Viramundo () " A sweet-natured but soporific slab of positive musing - and positive music - featuring Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter and Lula-era minister of culture." — Financial Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3/5 98% Blackfish (2013) " An acclaimed and chastening documentary about what happens to human beings - injury, mutilation, death - when they pen orcas in sea parks." — Financial Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
4/5 88% Dial M for Murder (1954) " Grace Kelly reaches out into the audience for murder scissors; foreground tea tables all but clonk your knees; a tell-tale door key - how many Hitchcock revelation moments feature those! - is brandished inches from your nose." — Financial Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
1/5 69% The Wolverine (2013) " A movie that clots the brain and paralyses the soul." — Financial Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
4/5 93% Frances Ha (2013) " I'm not sure what Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha is about, which is one reason I like it so much." — Financial Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2/5 57% The Frozen Ground (2013) " The whole film, really, comes from a freezer. Thaw first; then reheat the bugaboo murders, the twitchy killer, the trail of script clues that would lead a moose to the truth in moments but must take 105 minutes to occupy a movie-picked police force." — Financial Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
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