Andrew Chan

Andrew Chan
Andrew Chan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): Film Comment Magazine 4Columns
Publications: Film Comment Magazine, Film Written Magazine, Reverse Shot, 4Columns

Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter Title | Year
100% The Clock (1945) Like all the best melodramas, it shows us how society is set up to keep our hopelessly ambiguous interior worlds in check. But all you have to do is look at Garland to feel that racing pulse beneath the skin...she knew that love is anxiety. - 4Columns EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 10, 2020
98% Vitalina Varela (2020) Vitalina Varela, for all the psychic and economic devastation it depicts, is beautiful to the point of being ravishing. - 4Columns EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2020
99% Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019) At the core of this film is an us-vs-them solidarity that makes even its most contrived narrative payoffs reverberate with emotional authenticity. - 4Columns EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 4, 2019
95% Hotel by the River (2019) For all its solemn beauty, Hotel by the River is lax and under-imagined compared to Hong's masterpieces. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 21, 2019
99% Ash Is Purest White (2019) Ash becomes Jia's most resonant work in at least a decade, a film in which the warring impulses within a single character cut through the noise of big themes and national metaphors. - 4Columns EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 15, 2019
95% If Beale Street Could Talk (2019) We're constantly reminded of what so many movies revolving around themes of oppression fail to acknowledge: that even under threat, love can still feel like love-which is to say, like a state of rapture. - 4Columns EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 30, 2018
100% Daughter of the Nile (Ni luo he nu er) (1987) Daughter of the Nile represents something special: the kind of modestly crafted masterpiece a director makes just before he comes into recognition of his own stature. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 3, 2017
87% The Ornithologist (O ornitólogo) (2017) The Ornithologist, is no less attuned to the shock and awe of corporeal experience, but here the fixation is couched in an almost overpowering serenity. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted May 5, 2017
97% Kaili Blues (Lu Bian Ye Can) (2016) Yet the voice resonating behind these familiar motifs is one of such dazzling originality, it's hard to emerge from this waking dream of a film without feeling the shock of the new. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted May 3, 2016
74% Miles Ahead (2016) Don Cheadle's flimsily conceived Miles Davis passion project...never lingers in the mind long enough to do the music much damage...The film is undone not by its interpretation of Davis's legacy but by its caper plot. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 17, 2016
48% Freeheld (2015) Only a country where marriage equality is a foregone conclusion could produce a film about gay politics bled of all rage and resentment. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 14, 2015
89% What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) It's disappointing to watch the film fall into Behind the Music conventionality, employing a perfunctory alternation of talking heads and archival material despite the fact that so much once-rare footage can now be seen on YouTube. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 1, 2015
81% Broken Embraces (2009) Though the film offers nothing new for the eyes, its wordiness ultimately acts as a complement rather than a drawback to Almodóvar's masterful storytelling. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 24, 2014
88% The Wind Rises (2014) Apart from its handcrafted visuals, which are as lovely and painstakingly precise as anything in the Ghibli canon, the film feels sapped of conflict and energy - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 25, 2014
67% August: Osage County (2013) Designed as one big, sloppy thesp-a-thon, the film adaptation of August: Osage County interprets one of the past decade's most overly hyped dramas with the conviction usually lavished on top-drawer Eugene O'Neill. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 14, 2014
68% Ondine (2010) Things start to go awry when we realize that the film's emotional sensitivity doesn't go much deeper than its moody surfaces. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 13, 2013
No Score Yet Spring Fever (1927) In his determination to position the film as a universal love story, Lou sacrifices the political engagement and specificity that makes the work of queer auteurs ( ... ) so valuable - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 13, 2013
100% Last Train Home (2010) Rivaling China's finest documentarians, first-time director Lixin Fan begins his Last Train Home with a handful of unshakable images. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 12, 2013
No Score Yet Duo sang (A Borrowed Life) (2013) Few films have so vividly re-created the sensation of having known another human being for one's entire life, while simultaneously evoking the suspicion that all along one has loved a stranger. - Film Comment Magazine EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 5, 2013