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Andrew Wyatt

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Biography:

Andrew Wyatt lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where he has been writing about cinema, television, video art, and culture since 2007. Andrew is the lead film critic for The Lens, the official blog of Cinema St. Louis. He was previously the lead film critic for St. Louis Magazine from 2010 to 2017. He has also been a contributor to Alive Magazine, The Common Reader, The Curator, and Temporary Art Review. For his work at St. Louis Magazine, he was named a finalist in the Blog Writing category of the 2014 Great Plains Journalism Awards. He is a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the St. Louis Film Critics Association, and serves as the webmaster for the latter organization. He has served as a juror and presenter for the St. Louis International Film Festival, the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, the Robert Classic French Film Festival, and the CinemaSpoke screenplay competition.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Resurrection (2025) 89% EDIT “Every auteur must eventually make their Inland Empire, and Bi Gan does not disappoint: His sprawling, mysterious ode to the movies and the deep sense memories they inspire is a treasure worth revisiting and untangling.” – The Take-Up Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “It feels like the feature that Mendonça has been building towards for 20 years: His own langorous yet exhilarating take on the le Carré thriller, a work overflowing with fantastic textural detail, unexpected choices, and humanist pathos.” – The Take-Up Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “Perhaps there’s just no squaring the circle of an Edgar Wright-helmed The Running Man film. The director is attuned to the grotesque absurdities of the future world that King imagined, but he doesn’t have the acidic instincts of a Carpenter or Verhoeven. ” – The Take-Up Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Misericordia (2024) 94% EDIT “Guiraudie affirms his status as one of France's most compelling working directors with this languid, provincial tale of murder, conscience, and longing. ” – The Take-Up Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “A darkly comedic captivity/psychological thriller, suffused with a claustrophobic, horror-adjacent atmosphere that emphasizes the goo-thick tension of the characters’ epistemological stalemate.” – The Take-Up Oct 23, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Propulsive, poignant, incisive, funny, and bracingly political: Paul Thomas Anderson delivers another epochal banger full of instantly indelible performances and sublime movements. A cinematic balm for everything 2025.” – The Take-Up Oct 9, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “Francis Lawrence's smart direction and two standout, heartbreaking lead performances from Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson illustrate that Stephen King's bleak dystopian tale hasn't lost any of its power, almost 60 years later.” – The Take-Up Sep 25, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% EDIT “Does it make a lick of sense, either narratively or thematically? Not really. Is it weird, unsettling, and nightmarishly gorgeous? Definitely.” – The Take-Up Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Weapons solidifies Cregger’s status as one of the genre’s most exciting American voices – a true carnival-of-the-damned showman telling original stories in a landscape currently stifled by formulaic franchise obligation and ponderous arthouse allegory.” – The Take-Up Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “Aster’s obsessively detailed, mutinously unclassifiable, and often exasperating fourth feature feels like the first post-pandemic pandemic film that truly attempts to grapple with the virus’ cultural impact.” – The Take-Up Jul 17, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “The sweet, sincere story of The Phoenician Scheme centers on the thawing relationship between a distant but freshly conciliatory father and his reluctant adult child. The plot, however, is pure globe-trotting zaniness.” – The Take-Up Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “One hopes that The Final Reckoning endures as Ethan Hunt’s curtain call, not because the series’ “bigger, faster, louder” ethos has perhaps reached its inevitable ceiling, but because even good things should end, preferably on a high note.” – The Take-Up May 23, 2025 Full Review Killer of Sheep (1978) 98% EDIT “Killer of Sheep vibrates with the uncontainable energy of a sui generis masterpiece, tapping into something timeless and quintessential about the Black American experience – and American life in general. ” – The Take-Up Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 83% EDIT “A pleasantly preposterous dollop of pulpy thrills, Drop is the sort of artistically trifling but calorically dense two-bite snack that seems designed for a quick, low-effort date night.” – The Take-Up Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% EDIT “Sometimes, as a moviegoer, it’s just fun to watch a bunch of hot, dysfunctional people spar over power, sex, and geopolitics.” – The Take-Up Mar 17, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% EDIT “Eschewing the director's usual penchant for dense, slightly surreal neo-Gothic atmosphere, The Monkey goes all-in on campy performance and cartoonish violence. In some ways, however, it might also be the bleakest film Perkins has ever made.” – The Take-Up Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% EDIT “Whannel's stripped-down yet atmospheric approach to the werewolf myth has its moments, but these aren’t enough to make up for a hamfisted script, limp characterization, and awkward assortment of half-baked themes.” – The Take-Up Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% EDIT “The most striking thing about Nosferatu is not that it looks and sounds spectacular – although the pleasures of a gorgeous, R-rated period horror feature should never be discounted – but that it injects new (un)life into one of cinema’s hoariest tales.” – The Take-Up Dec 23, 2024 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% EDIT “Leigh has an unassailable talent for rendering characters who are a lot, as they say, and Pansy -- an utterly ferocious and enervating Marianne Jean-Baptiste -- might be the most “a lot” person in the entire Leigh-verse.” – The Take-Up Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Nocturnes (2024) 93% EDIT “A rare and exquisite species of documentary about the slow, thankless rhythms of scientific research and the untrammeled awe that drives humankind's search for knowledge.” – The Take-Up Dec 10, 2024 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% EDIT “A Real Pain confirms Eisenberg as one of the few young American writer-directors capable of delivering this kind of keen-eyed, unassuming, psychologically engaging work.” – The Take-Up Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% EDIT “Beck and Woods could have stood back and let their big-name veteran actor chew the scenery, but the filmmaking duo expertly maintain a taut sensation of mounting dread throughout,” – The Take-Up Nov 6, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% EDIT “Sean Baker delivers his twisted, funny, and ultimately forlorn version of a Disney-princess story. It's a fairy tale, alright, just not the one that we - or Anora - expected.” – The Take-Up Oct 30, 2024 Full Review The Mother of All Lies (2023) 100% EDIT “A big swing that pays off, Asmae El Moudir's hybrid documentary examines the three-way intersection of creativity, history, and memory in a way that is both artistically invigorating and emotionally thorny.” – The Take-Up Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Smile 2 (2024) 86% EDIT “Finn and his collaborators to achieve the best possible outcome for a second Smile. Namely, the opportunity to run a similar scenario with a fresh cast, bigger budget, and a more focused and coherent handling of its grim themes.” – The Take-Up Oct 17, 2024 Full Review
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