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Andrew Whalen
Andrew Whalen's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Newsweek
Movies reviews only
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The Invisible Man (2020) |
Whannell uses stillness and empty spaces against the audience expertly. But it's Moss who most sells this new, self-consciously serious take on a hammy monster movie premise. - Newsweek
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| Posted Mar 02, 2020
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Come to Daddy (2019) |
For anyone who can suppress the urge to gag, Come To Daddy's enthusiasm can be catching. - Newsweek
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| Posted Feb 07, 2020
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The Lodge (2019) |
The causes of the strange happenings in The Lodge, when revealed, are deflating. - Newsweek
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| Posted Feb 07, 2020
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Combat Obscura (2018) |
Depicts the war beneath the narratives, capturing the soldier's experience with an immediacy that explodes political abstraction, placing it in a more humanist context. - Newsweek
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| Posted Mar 21, 2019
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Silencio (2018) |
With the stone, the zone and its powers kicked into the background, Silencio becomes a muddle of melodrama and thriller pretensions. - Newsweek
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| Posted Oct 26, 2018
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Suspiria (2018) |
Not just an arthouse exploration of a horror aesthetic, but a down-and-dirty body horror as visceral as anything in Cronenberg's output. - Newsweek
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| Posted Oct 26, 2018
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Halloween (2018) |
2018's Halloween isn't a deconstruction, but a slasher movie down to its knife-scraped bones. - Newsweek
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| Posted Oct 18, 2018
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An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018) |
We are all more like characters in An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn than anyone is likely to admit. - Newsweek
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| Posted Oct 18, 2018
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Apostle (2018) |
Apostle gets too bound up in the island cult it's meant to be escaping. - Newsweek
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| Posted Oct 12, 2018
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The Predator (2018) |
Whatever its weaknesses, The Predator gets its titular aliens right, offering a sampler of violent, extraterrestrial skirmishing that works more often than it doesn't. - Newsweek
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| Posted Sep 14, 2018
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Mandy (2018) |
Every shot is composed with a directorial conviction heavy with hermetic knowledge and occult power. - Newsweek
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| Posted Sep 14, 2018
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Let the Corpses Tan (2017) |
A deluge of technique ... which washes over the viewer in successive waves, alternately breathtaking, tiresome, breathtaking, repetitive. - Newsweek
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| Posted Sep 06, 2018
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The Nun (2018) |
Rather than grandiose and ponderous, The Nun is workaday, lunch pail gothic, getting the job done with the energy of a factory floor. - Newsweek
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| Posted Sep 05, 2018
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Calling All Earthlings (2018) |
It's all faintly ridiculous, but charming, like people talking about the afterlife right before last call. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 29, 2018
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Support the Girls (2018) |
Regina Hall so fully inhabits Lisa's life we hardly feel apart from her, tugged by the same frustrations, goodwill, minor satisfactions and disappointments. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 24, 2018
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What Keeps You Alive (2018) |
The dead center of the movie is a protracted rowboat chase no amount of thumping music can rescue. What Keeps You Alive barely picks up from there. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 24, 2018
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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018) |
The Littlest Reich is not just a clockwork puppet slasher, but a gleeful gore movie situated somewhere between Peter Jackson's Dead Alive and Troma. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 20, 2018
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The Meg (2018) |
The Meg is oddly charming, more pulp than cheese, like the sci-fi pumped out in the 1950s. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 10, 2018
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Slender Man (2018) |
Slender Man feels as used up as any years-old meme, like trying to explain what's funny about dat boi a decade late. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 09, 2018
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Hereditary (2018) |
Hereditary feels like an endless drawing out of that queasy, shocking, falling dream sensation, as the ground beneath the Graham family, and the viewer, crumbles. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 07, 2018
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Damsel (2018) |
Damsel spends its second half literally wandering in the woods, with no clear destination or objective in mind. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 07, 2018
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Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) |
Despite characters whose individual plights would be just as boring to describe as they are to watch, Dark Web is just weird and ingenious enough to recommend. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 07, 2018
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) |
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is an unrelentingly consistent action movie, with not a single sequence wasted before the next big stunt. - Newsweek
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| Posted Aug 07, 2018
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Veronica (2017) |
There's nothing in it that will surprise horror movie aficionados. - Newsweek
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| Posted Jun 11, 2018
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The Ravenous (2017) |
An interesting take on the zombie genre, but its laid-back indie narrative, which never really bothers with a plot, can make enjoying its occasional splatters of blood a bit of a slog. - Newsweek
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| Posted May 23, 2018
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The Titan (2017) |
The body horror genre thrives on disgust, shame and goo, all qualities lacking in The Titan. - Newsweek
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| Posted May 23, 2018
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Ghost Stories (2017) |
Ghost Stories has more genuine scares than most horror movies, so it almost seems a bit unfair when it's funny too. - Newsweek
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| Posted May 23, 2018
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The Devil and Father Amorth (2017) |
The Devil and Father Amorth starts to feel slippery, as Friedkin uses the sliver offered by psychologists and neurologists as a pry bar to crack open space for the supernatural. - Newsweek
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| Posted May 23, 2018
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Revenge (2017) |
What happens next is expected-a roaring rampage of revenge, with each of the three hunters confronted like a video game boss-but Fargeat has some fun tricks to deploy. - Newsweek
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| Posted May 23, 2018
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Cargo (2017) |
Cargo doesn't often satisfy on the genre's more sensational vectors. There are no hordes, few gouts of creative gore and a limited sense of danger. - Newsweek
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| Posted May 23, 2018
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Upgrade (2018) |
By merging Deus Ex cyberpunk, third-person action games and the dirty old bones of 70s exploitation, Upgrade earns installation in your memory core. - Newsweek
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| Posted May 23, 2018
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Outside In (2017) |
Director Lynn Shelton brings a high empathic bar to Outside In, then dares the audience to clear it. - Newsweek
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| Posted Apr 05, 2018
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