Andy Crump
Andy Crump's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Paste Magazine
Little White Lies
The Playlist
Thrillist
Movie Mezzanine
Polygon
The Week
Inverse
Movies reviews only
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Furies (2023) |
Ngô brings savage athleticism to Furies, and beneath that, a sentimentality that recalls 1980s Hong Kong cinema — doomed though the sentiments may be. - Inverse
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| Posted Mar 21, 2023
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Only The Good Survive (2023) |
Southern playfully teases out Only the Good Survive’s reveals with the kind of kinetic snap-bang editing and camera movements typically associated with Edgar Wright movies. - Inverse
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Brooklyn 45 (2023) |
Brooklyn 45 brings the full brunt of its spookiness to bear when it counts; the rest of the time, it leans into unbearable human suspense. - Inverse
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Late Night With the Devil (2023) |
A brilliant take on the mockumentary that meets the style’s brief without skimping on the good stuff. - Inverse
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Mustache (2023) |
Unfailingly funny without losing the specificity needed to ground its cultural mores. - The Playlist
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| Posted Mar 19, 2023
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Boston Strangler (2023) |
Ruskin’s examination of the social and political elements that enabled the Strangler is bold. In his next film, he should apply that same boldness toward an aesthetic purpose, too. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Unwelcome (2022) |
Where Grabbers is a raucous gem, Unwelcome is subdued, more polished but sadder. In Grabbers, the monster is the monster. In Unwelcome, man comes a close second. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Mar 10, 2023
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Unicorn Wars (2022) |
The craftsmanship is as impressive as Vázquez’s talent for Trojan Horsing metaphors about the human condition into a movie about teddy bears knifing unicorns. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) |
Either Ritchie didn’t bring his typical slickness for the ride, or he’s chopped up Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre intentionally to take the piss out of the genre. The effect at least feels more like comfort than boredom. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Bruiser (2022) |
Warren’s craftsmanship keeps the audience from swallowing a breath. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Feb 27, 2023
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Emily (2022) |
O’Connor capitalizes on the wiggle room afforded her by Emily Bronte’s self-isolation from her peers and neighbors to give the great novelist whatever shape she finds pleasing, and a pleasure it is indeed. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Feb 16, 2023
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Kompromat (2022) |
A remarkable real-life, low-artifice spy thriller becomes unremarkable fiction. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (2023) |
This film’s success boils down to the comedy; extending a YouTube routine into a feature is a daunting feat, and ultimately Bowser’s work here grows overlong before the third act. - Inverse
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Talk to Me (2023) |
The Philippous funnel their frenetic energy and fondness for gruesome humor into a riff on the social games that serve as one of the platform’s cornerstones. - Inverse
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Life Upside Down (2023) |
Life Upside Down is a clunky, graceless movie, but it’s utterly engrossing as a stage for letting Odenkirk, Mitchell, Huston and the rest vent their own stir craziness. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Polite Society (2023) |
Polite Society is a lovely, oddball little film, a youth-in-revolt movie obsessed by movies. - Inverse
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| Posted Jan 26, 2023
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Animalia (2023) |
Lands right in that genre-film sweet spot where the visuals thrum with the power of metaphysical free-associative hijinks and grounded human emotion. - Inverse
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| Posted Jan 26, 2023
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In My Mother's Skin (2023) |
Welcome to 1945 Philippines; have yourself a history lesson. - The Playlist
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| Posted Jan 24, 2023
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birth/rebirth (2023) |
Normally, ego married with naivety is a bummer. In “birth/rebirth,” it’s gut-chilling. - The Playlist
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| Posted Jan 20, 2023
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Kids vs. Aliens (2022) |
Kids vs. Aliens is a harmless trifle. A filmmaker with this many years under their belt should have more to show for themselves than that. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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There's Something Wrong with the Children (2023) |
There’s Something Wrong with the Children is right in Benjamin’s horror wheelhouse, and her skill with this familiar set-up is a major boon. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 16, 2023
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Jethica (2022) |
Jethica is impressive as a feat of economy—there’s a lot of movie packed into that 70 minutes—and miraculous as an act of empathy rolled up in a spooky, constitutionally American ghost fable. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Saint Omer (2022) |
Diop peels back layer after layer of humanity in the film, confronting an awful deed head-on and clear-eyed. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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The Old Way (2023) |
When Donowho brings The Old Way back to the well-trod ground of old Westerns, it’s just plain old. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 06, 2023
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Women Talking (2022) |
A movie like this shouldn’t be so ambivalent, much less so harsh on the eye. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) |
The logline’s comic absurdity and the execution of his premise is so straightforward that Christmas Bloody Christmas feels fresh among the season’s horror canon. It’s a Christmas miracle. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Dec 07, 2022
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Hunt (2022) |
Lee’s making finely tuned action here; organizing history lessons isn’t his job. But the ferocity of Hunt’s combined action and momentum lets him bristle over past atrocities even if those atrocities aren’t his focal point. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Dec 06, 2022
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Bad Axe (2022) |
It’s a simple film about complicated, often painful confirmations about the country we all call home, and about optimism for what that country can look like when people share it with each other - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 19, 2022
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Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022) |
This is the kind of historical context that film writing, and media education as a whole, often lacks: The knowledge that cinema has transformed over the years because of Black filmmakers, to seismic, form-altering effect. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 11, 2022
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A Couple (2022) |
Wiseman likely would prefer not to go through life known only as “the documentary guy,” and A Couple lets him set aside that label for one blessed hour of immaculate narrative filmmaking. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Next Exit (2022) |
There’s intimacy to Elfman's filmmaking that invites the audience to care for Rose and Teddy even when they’re at their most acerbic, which just makes their sweeter moments all the better. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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Please Baby Please (2022) |
Please Baby Please prizes flash...but there’s endless substance, relevant to both its 1950s satire as well as 2022’s seismic cultural fluctuations, to justify Kramer’s love of pizazz. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 02, 2022
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Matriarch (2022) |
Just like the black ichor seeping into Laura, Matriarch saturates viewers’ senses until it pays off its many adumbrations with unexpected revelations. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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Bitch Ass (2022) |
Posley balances Bitch Ass’ moral dilemma with clever, exuberant filmmaking - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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Kratt (2020) |
Kratt is a mess. But it’s a mess we deserve and one we don’t often see, where the parts don’t fully come together but are so quirky and oddly endearing on their own that they make up for the lack of cohesion. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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The Visitor (2022) |
After storing up goodwill with its construction, melodrama and lead performance, The Visitor pulls back the curtain on its narrative, and its revelation, put vaguely, is a bummer. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Oct 06, 2022
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My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022) |
Somewhere in the transition from page to screen, Hendrix’s work was pressed and blanched, reduced to a flavorless porridge that doesn’t reflect his author’s voice in the slightest. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Sep 30, 2022
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) |
Farrelly’s too busy making a Big Important Movie instead of making a movie that matters. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Sep 29, 2022
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Sick (2022) |
The blunt examination of COVID ideologies is ingenious, though difficult to fully unpack without giving away the third act, but it’s the filmmaking’s ruthlessness that’ll catch in your mind. - The Playlist
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| Posted Sep 28, 2022
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Mister Organ (2022) |
"Mister Organ” deserves attention. - The Playlist
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| Posted Sep 28, 2022
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Nanny (2022) |
As is, Nanny is still a superb first showing from Jusu, a storyteller with much to say and, hopefully, a long career ahead in which to say more. - Inverse
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| Posted Sep 27, 2022
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Viking (2022) |
The film revels in the absurd - The Playlist
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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The African Desperate (2022) |
Syms packs <i>The African Desperate</i> with pleasing ingenuity that facilitates its complex perspective; this is a film that must be sat with to fully appreciate. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Sep 16, 2022
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Pearl (2022) |
"Pearl proves that A24’s first horror franchise is Mia Goth, who pulls double duty once again in a movie that manages to out-perform the original in nearly every way." - Inverse
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| Posted Sep 16, 2022
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The Silent Twins (2022) |
When Smoczyńska gets to make an Agnieszka Smoczyńska film, it’s engrossing. When she only gets as far as making a standard biopic, it’s a letdown, though in letdown mode, it’s still a treat that she got called up at all. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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Butcher's Crossing (2022) |
'Butcher’s Crossing' is a gorgeous travelog and a warning about what happens when people fail to tread lightly in the natural world. - The Playlist
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| Posted Sep 10, 2022
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Burial (2022) |
Parker knows to give people what they crave, and what people crave - what they will always crave - is the chance to watch Nazis get obliterated. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Sep 02, 2022
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Samaritan (2022) |
Even a failed attempt at making a superhero movie out of whole cloth rather than pre-existing IP is welcome, particularly one that challenges the genre’s mores. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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When I Consume You (2021) |
When I Consume You packs an emotional wallop and looks stunning while spending peanuts compared to the average studio horror product. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Summering (2022) |
Ponsoldt’s most puzzling effort so far, a genre jumble roping together a kid-detective novel, a ghost story, a hokey “do you know where your children are” PSA and a coming-of-age dramedy. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Aug 12, 2022
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