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Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Time Out
Sight & Sound
Time Out film critic.
Movies reviews only
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Target (1985) |
An uneven film, to be sure, but far more ambitious and intelligent than most spy thrillers. - Time Out
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| Posted May 26, 2021
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The Hole (1998) |
Idiosyncratic, of course, but immensely impressive. - Time Out
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| Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Salón Mexico (1949) |
Despite the hackneyed plotting, however, Gabriel Figueroa's noir photography and the splendidly glamorous seediness of the nightclub scenes make for passable entertainment. - Time Out
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| Posted Aug 25, 2020
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The Trouble With Harry (1955) |
Hitchcock is reluctant to follow the subversive premises of the story through to their outrageous logical conclusion. - Time Out
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| Posted May 05, 2020
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Lady on a Train (1945) |
Light, cheery and shading into darker areas for the climax, it's fun. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 21, 2020
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Matador (1986) |
Not so much a maelstrom as a mess of contrived eroticism, pretentious dialogue, and voyeuristic sensationalism, Almodóvar's silly, cod-philosophical whodunit impresses only for its bravado. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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Women in Love (1969) |
Despite a growing portentousness towards the end, and moments of silliness scattered throughout, a surprisingly restrained, even respectful adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 11, 2019
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Ghost Town Anthology (2019) |
A genuinely intriguing and for the most part rewarding study of the effects of an unexpected death on a small, remote, inward-looking rural community. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Feb 13, 2019
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Hot Blood (1989) |
An oddity, then, but one distinguished by Ray's characteristic refusal to patronise or glamorise his characters. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 28, 2019
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Images (1972) |
[Altman] controls things beautifully, proffering credible biographical reasons for her inner disturbances, and borrowing shock effects from the thriller genre to underline the terrifying nature of her predicament. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 14, 2019
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At War (2018) |
In the end more concerned with the workings of abstract forces than with the experiences of human individuals. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Nov 10, 2018
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The Wild Pear Tree (2018) |
The performances are superb throughout, none more so than Demirkol as the far from entirely sympathetic Sinan. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Nov 05, 2018
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The Portrait of a Lady (1996) |
Jane Campion and screenwriter Laura Jones have... produced an adaptation as cinematically intelligent as it is faithful to the original. - Time Out
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| Posted Oct 27, 2018
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Shoplifters (2018) |
Another charming, funny and very affecting example of Kore-eda's special brand of tough-but-tender humanism. - Time Out
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| Posted May 25, 2018
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Happy as Lazzaro (2018) |
Steering clear of sentimentality, gently reminding us that the tobacco workers have simply been despatched to a different form of slavery, leavening the brew with welcome dashes of humour, Rohrwacher also creates many moments of pure cinematic magic. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted May 15, 2018
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You Were Never Really Here (2017) |
If you're left a little in the fog as to what's happened and why, it's not a drawback: The execution is so assured, you simply go with the flow of striking, suggestive images. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 09, 2018
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My Brother's Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot (Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot) (2018) |
Notwithstanding the echoes of Cocteau and Malick, there is undoubtedly something different, fresh, even devil-may-care audacious about the first two thirds of the movie. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Feb 24, 2018
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Le Roman de Renard (1930) |
This vintage animated film impresses, first of all, by the sheer virtuosity of its stop-motion puppet work. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 23, 2018
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The Green Fog (2017) |
The film is a brilliant exercise in meta-narrative, which raises questions galore about reality and representation, time and space, genre and gender, individual and urban identity, cinematic suture and casting. Mainly, though, it's just very, very funny. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Feb 21, 2018
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) |
With Cooper as the crusading officer, one is never in any doubt as to the correctness and sincerity of his views (Mitchell was posthumously rehabilitated in 1947), while Steiger puts in one of his inimitably flashy performances as the prosecuting attorney - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 05, 2018
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El Dorado (1967) |
A witty, exciting and deeply moving masterpiece. - Time Out
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| Posted Nov 20, 2017
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The Square (2017) |
If the film has any flaw, it could be that it juggles too many good ideas. But why complain about that? - Time Out
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| Posted Oct 24, 2017
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Me and You (2012) |
[Me and You] is a modest film, then, but enjoyably so. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Aug 29, 2017
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Take Shelter (2011) |
What makes Nichols' film so satisfying, at least until the melodrama of the final act, is the deftness of the characterisations and the constant sense that things are probably considerably more complex than they're perceived. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Aug 29, 2017
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24 Frames (2017) |
Packed with small mysteries and strange ambiguities, these minimalist miniatures bear a closer relationship to Kiarostami's photos and haiku-like poems than to most of his features. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Jun 07, 2017
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12 Days (2017) |
As Depardon's proudly humane film makes all too clear, there, but for the grace of God, go we all. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Jun 05, 2017
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From the Land of the Moon (2016) |
A surprisingly intriguing and affecting movie. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 05, 2017
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Rodin (2017) |
A pedestrian and pedantic trawl through Rodin's middle period. - Time Out
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| Posted May 24, 2017
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Loveless (2017) |
Zvagyintsev's bold confidence in the articulacy of a striking image and subtly suggestive sound is evident from the very opening moments. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted May 22, 2017
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Lola (1961) |
Very beautifully shot, in widescreen and luminous black-and-white, it is also formally astonishing, with all the minor characters serving as variations on the central couple. - Time Out
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| Posted Mar 01, 2017
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Ana, mon amour (2017) |
Though Netzer's compassion for both Ana and Toma is never in doubt, the fragmentation of the narrative ensures a measure of detachment which makes for balance, ambivalence and clarity. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Feb 24, 2017
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The Party (2017) |
Potter is making her first brave and for the most part very successful foray into a kind of dark satirical farce. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Feb 14, 2017
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The Measure of a Man (2015) |
Compassionate, engrossing and utterly relevant. - Time Out
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| Posted May 31, 2016
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Elle (2016) |
With such a poised and meticulously detailed lead performance at its heart, rich in ambiguities and resonant overtones, the film is not only consistently compelling but pleasingly thought-provoking. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted May 23, 2016
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Hissein Habre, a Chadian Tragedy (2016) |
A very fine piece of work. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted May 23, 2016
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I, Daniel Blake (2016) |
I, Daniel Blake is as timely today as was Kes in the late 60s or Raining Stones in the 90s. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted May 20, 2016
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Paterson (2016) |
A lovely fable about the fragile, fruitful and occasionally fraught relationship between creativity and everyday life. - Time Out
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| Posted May 20, 2016
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Aquarius (2016) |
A drama that's credible, complex and very satisfying. - Time Out
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| Posted May 20, 2016
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Ma' Rosa (2016) |
There's nothing profoundly original here, but there's no denying the atmosphere of squalid authenticity. - Time Out
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| Posted May 20, 2016
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Sieranevada (2016) |
It's a highly persuasive portrait of family life, replete with intimacies, special alliances, tensions, resentments and reconciliations, but also a revealing study of how that may reflect developments in the wider world. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted May 12, 2016
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Privilege (1967) |
There's no denying Watkins' ambition and intelligence in this satire of the rock world being used by the Establishment... but much of the acting is poor, while the tone is frequently far too hysterical for its own good. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 12, 2016
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Applause (1929) |
This deeply affecting tale of Stella Dallas-style maternal self-sacrifice transcends its sentimental shortcomings through the fluency of direction that was to become Mamoulian's trademark. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 07, 2016
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The Commune (2016) |
Much of the credit here must go to the performances; even though we learn little about most members of the commune, their characters are deftly drawn. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Feb 23, 2016
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A Quiet Passion (2016) |
Arguably Terence Davies' most profoundly personal film since Of Time and the City. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Feb 18, 2016
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Mountains May Depart (2015) |
It's an intelligent and intriguing meditation on issues concerning what it means to be Chinese in today's and tomorrow's world. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 09, 2016
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My Mother (2015) |
To say that the drama is understated is not, however, to say that the film is not dramatically satisfying. On the contrary, Moretti keeps things moving along nicely. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Sep 11, 2015
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In the Name of My Daughter (2014) |
Tchin displays a cool, clear-eyed intelligence, though not the wit of the late Claude Chabrol. - Time Out
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| Posted May 12, 2015
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Wild Tales (2014) |
The funniest of the six stories is a brilliantly extended riot of absurdly brutal road rage. - Time Out
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| Posted Mar 24, 2015
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Poor Cow (1967) |
Not a patch upon Loach's best work, largely because he falls into all the usual traps of kitchen sink realism. - Time Out
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013) |
Juliette Binoche gives a wonderful performance as Camille, conveying the intelligence, anxiety, anger and isolation of an artist abandoned by her family. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 17, 2014
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