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Andrew Kendall

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Andrew Kendall is a university lecturer in literature and film who writes a weekly film column for leading local newspaper Stabroek News.

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Forastera (2025) 94% EDIT “Stein, an intuitive performer, manages to play both Cata’s inscrutability and her instinctiveness through her expressive face. The camera will linger on her face in a fraught conversation, and we might drown in the deep wells of thought in her eyes.” – Stabroek News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Ky Nam Inn (2025) EDIT ““Ky Nam Inn” is a romantic drama predicated on the longing of the pair of lovers at its centre. But it is also a complex and poetic ode to art and culture, weaving a perspicacious consideration of literature and music and history into its romance. ” – Stabroek News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% EDIT “There’s a mean streak thrumming through “Bring Her Back”, a malevolence that directors Danny and Michael Philippou harness to often distressing ways. This is a world teeming with nastiness, and mostly devoid of catharsis.” – Stabroek News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “Perhaps. “The Naked Gun” is not wholly successful, but neither is it a mar on the current cinematic landscape. There’s no great sense of reflectiveness in what its comedic instincts opt to consider. But its pleasantness is its own boon. ” – Stabroek News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “When the actual use of the missing children as part of the villain’s plan reveals itself, there’s a lingering way that “Weapons” kind of deflates in its import. Even its name begins to feel like a misnomer.” – Stabroek News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “Its march to finding love should feel enthusiastic, but “Materialists” feels listless.” – Stabroek News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “Shenkman makes this world feel grounded in a way that, even when it threatened to careen off course, I rarely found myself doubting the earnestness of what appears on screen.” – Stabroek News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% EDIT “What becomes thrilling about how Nyoni weaves the story in “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is how it slowly pulls back the curtain to both affirm and problematise our assumptions of where we assume it might lead.” – Stabroek News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “There’s a self-conscious awareness in its intentional goofiness, an over-preciousness in the way it seems committed to presenting itself as something fun and spry but often feels overplotted and obvious. ” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “Things grow absurd, but Anderson harnesses all with an emotional clarity that is astoundingly moving.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% EDIT ““Thunderbolts*” reroutes itself as another cog in the wheel of the machine rather than allowing the compelling flaws of this antihero group to really linger.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “This is no restrained and thoughtful engagement with the philosophy of the sport. This is a high-speed and fantastical exploration of the thrills of the competition. And, at this, “F1” succeeds.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon (2025) 77% EDIT “This new “How to Train Your Dragon” feels muted and half-hearted. ” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% EDIT “Perhaps the most die-hard of “John Wick” fans might delight in the visual thrills of the action in “Ballerina” but it’s ultimately a case of diminishing returns with a story that feels stitched-together with its own ambivalence.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review The Encampments (2025) 94% EDIT “The hyper-focus on student activism as a window into what's happening in Gaza serves as an important thread to remind audiences that everyone is involved in these global crises. ” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “The two (good) stunt-work set pieces feel like a drop in the ocean of a film that sprawls with a sense of uncontained dishevelment.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review A Nice Indian Boy (2024) 95% EDIT “Even when “A Nice Indian Boy” ventures into the too treacly in its execution, it provides a welcome and warm disruption of traditional romantic comedies in English.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Billy Elliot (2000) 85% EDIT ““Billy Elliot” seems to be sustained by the boy’s own agitated sense of growing up. “Billy Elliot” is warm, but never precious. Instead, it develops with a sharp sense of tenacity that mirrors Billy’s own dogged pursuit of his dreams.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review The Convert (2023) 81% EDIT “As it moves towards the end, and towards a closing sequence that has its mind firmly rooted in the present dynamics of colonialism it feels much too satisfied with its shoddy storytelling for the inertness of the drama that has come before.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 83% EDIT ““Drop” keeps trying to co-opt serious societal issues for its revelations – political corruption, femicide, abuse and mental health issues. But it has no true grasp on any of these issues or on the dynamics of building a sharp thriller. ” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% EDIT “Like many of the things invoked in “Sinners”, the ideas are more portentous than their follow-throughs.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 80% EDIT ““The Room Next Door” is dressed to the hilt in funeral garb, and yet it is bursting with life as much as any of Almodóvar’s work. ” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Dog Man (2025) 82% EDIT ““Dog Man” might not be the apex of DreamWorks animation, but its ultimate commitment to chaos makes it a winning hand for a specific kind of charged children’s entertainment.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% EDIT “It's hard to believe or even care about any of the dynamics at play here when this all feels so artificial, airless, and pointless. There is no friction here, no tension. Just a fashion advert for nice clothes and sleek nothingness feigning weight.” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Paddington in Peru (2024) 93% EDIT “For a series previously defined by its lightness of touch and its capacity for whimsy, “Paddington in Peru” immediately seems dependent on too many machinations in its build-up. It feels overstuffed with dynamics but low on charm and cleverness. ” – Stabroek News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review
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