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Critics / Authors Reviews and Articles
ANDREW SARRIS
Andrew Sarris

PUBLICATION(S)
• Atlantic Monthly
• New York Observer
• New Yorker

STATS
Total Reviews: 1036

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• National Society of Film Critics
• New York Film Critics Circle


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FRESH SAMPLE
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Fresh  Waltz with Bashir
Fresh  Last Chance Harvey
Fresh  Adam Resurrected
Fresh  Gran Torino
Fresh  While She Was Out
Fresh  Frost/Nixon
Fresh  Wendy and Lucy
Fresh  Australia
Fresh  The Secrets
Fresh  Stages
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ROTTEN SAMPLE
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Rotten  Doubt
Rotten  Revolutionary Road
Rotten  The Reader
Rotten  Lake City
Rotten  OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Rotten  Changeling
Rotten  Miracle at St. Anna
Rotten  The Women
Rotten  Burn After Reading
Rotten  Savage Grace
 more...
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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" John Patrick Shanley's Doubt left me less moved than querulously dissatisfied despite the impressive performances of Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis in all the key roles." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 31, 2008
 
Doubt (2008)75%
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" Waltz With Bashir plays out as one of the most profoundly explosive animated documentaries I have ever seen, and is clearly one of the best pictures of the year." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 31, 2008
 
Waltz with Bashir (2008)95%
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" Mr. Hoffman, now past 70, and Ms. Thompson, inching toward 50, still retain enough buoyancy to keep the picture afloat. And the rest of the cast kicks in with flawless ensemble support." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 31, 2008
 
Last Chance Harvey (2008)74%
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" It simply doesn’t play as well as it reads." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 17, 2008
 
Revolutionary Road (2008)66%
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" I can tentatively recommend it if only because there has never been anything like it in the history of cinema as far as I can remember." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 10, 2008
 
Adam Resurrected (2008)34%
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" Caps [Eastwood's] career as both a director and an actor with his portrayal of a heroically redeemed bigot of such humanity and luminosity as to exhaust my supply of superlatives." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 10, 2008
 
Gran Torino (2008)73%
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" The spectacular ending will make every harried housewife in the world ecstatic." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 10, 2008
 
While She Was Out (2008)50%
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" With the awards season swirling around us, Mr. Langella and Mr. Sheen will be hard to overlook when all the prizes are dispensed." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 3, 2008
 
Frost/Nixon (2008)91%
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" To her credit, Ms. Reichardt never allows her camera to become a voyeuristic witness to a young woman in distress. Instead, it remains focused on a largely indifferent American landscape of strangers in perpetual motion to nowhere." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 3, 2008
 
Wendy and Lucy (2008)84%
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" Despite the efforts of [all involved], the Holocaust remains the elephant in the room that deadens the elements of surprise and suspense we have been conditioned to expect in screen narratives." -- New York Observer
Posted Dec 3, 2008
 
The Reader (2008)60%
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" I must confess that I might have been harder on Mr. Luhrmann’s film if I had not remained entranced by Ms. Kidman." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 26, 2008
 
Australia (2008)54%
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" There is very little wasted motion, to be sure, but also very little real-life like ambience." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 19, 2008
 
Lake City (2008)8%
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" One of the most remarkable movies of the year." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 19, 2008
 
The Secrets (2008)83%
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" The burden placed on the actors is an immense one, and they respond magnificently to a very loosely controlled form of filmmaking." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Stages (2008)50%
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" Much of the film is so overwhelming as sheer mass spectacle that it serves as a sobering view of an overpopulated part of the world that defies any judgmental analysis." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)94%
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" A Christmas Tale is a film experience to be seen and savored for its exquisite delineation of human feelings and foibles." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 12, 2008
 
A Christmas Tale (2008)90%
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" The acting alone makes this picture well worth seeing." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 5, 2008
 
Eden (2008)68%
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" Even though the film is inescapably fragmented and catch-as-catch-can as cinema, its heart is pure and infinitely compassionate." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 5, 2008
 
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)100%
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" You have to see it for yourself. It is that out-of-the-depths triumphant." -- New York Observer
Posted Nov 5, 2008
 
The Guitar (2008)33%
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" Mr. Hoffman is emerging as one of our greatest actors, and he alone makes this film worth seeing." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Synecdoche, New York (2008)63%
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" The casting of 80-year-old Jeanne Moreau provides much of the raison d’être for the project. It is only the latest manifestation of the deep respect the French cinema has always shown for its aging actresses and actors." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
One Day You'll Understand (2008)65%
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" Having escaped the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust in Poland by the skin of his teeth, Mr. Polanski was well equipped psychologically to re-imagine what was, before Rosemary’s Baby, a B-picture genre into an A-picture genre." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Rosemary's Baby (1968)98%
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" Mr. Leigh has executed a richly exuberant entertainment for our troubled times, and deserves still another of my honorary Oscars for his astoundingly skillful effort." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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" However bleak, Day of Wrath is a masterpiece. See it." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Day of Wrath (1943)100%
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" Since Mr. Weiland himself had grown up in a Jewish section of North London, he was able to include many details of his own childhood." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Sixty Six (2008)66%
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" I have never been a particular admirer of either James Bond or Austin Powers, and could hardly be expected to be overjoyed by a 'cross between them.' Hence, I was hardly surprised when I didn’t crack a smile over the antics of Mr. Jean Dujardin." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008)75%
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Click here to read article -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 23, 2008
 
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)94%
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" Mr. Eastwood, particularly, with his finely honed noirish instincts, should have sprinted more and cantered less." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 22, 2008
 
Changeling (2008)59%
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" Mr. Claudel has made a grown-up film for our troubled time, and created a beautiful rapport between two gifted actresses." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 22, 2008
 
I've Loved You So Long (2008)90%
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Click here to read article -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 18, 2008
 
Constantine (2005)45%
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Click here to read article -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 18, 2008
 
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)96%
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" I recommend it to everyone, but I am afraid it will end up as a seedless sermon for the already converted to Bushophobia.f" -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
W. (2008)58%
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" I hope that Rachel Getting Married is enough of a hit to sustain [Demme's] career of cinematic good works. And I hope also that Ms. Winger gets a long overdue Oscar for best supporting actress, as she is that without a doubt." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Rachel Getting Married (2008)87%
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" I recommend Lola Montès wholeheartedly both for its sensuous delights and its ever exquisite artistry." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Lola Montes (1955)87%
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" Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert, from comedy material written and performed by Mohammed 'Mo' Amer, Bryant 'Preacher' Moss and Azhar Usman, strives to be both timely and funny as it confronts the problems of American Muslims in America after 9/11." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 1, 2008
 
Allah Made Me Funny (2008)52%
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" One feels the passionate intensity of the filmmaker in every strand of his luminously intricate narrative." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 1, 2008
 
Ashes of Time Redux (2008)80%
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" Mr. Lee has stretched his material in so many different directions that one is left with unacceptable levels of religiosity and sentimentality in the overall context of the naked brutality we have witnessed." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 24, 2008
 
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)33%
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" Place The Class on your must-see list and keep it there until you do." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 24, 2008
 
The Class (2008)97%
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" Godfrey Cheshire’s Moving Midway, from his own screenplay, provides a profound meditation on the paradoxes of race in America through a discovery of his own Southern family’s hitherto hidden secrets." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Moving Midway (2008)95%
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" Ms. Fanning’s performance alone makes Hounddog worth seeing in this age of child Duses." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Hounddog (2008)17%
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" Mr. LaBute has fashioned a suspenseful film out of the peculiar vagaries of the casting, which makes us fear the worst at every turn of the plot." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Lakeview Terrace (2008)49%
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" As much as I enjoy current actresses like Ms. Bening and Ms. Ryan even in a lost cause, I cannot recommend the latest reenactment of The Women as anything special." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 10, 2008
 
The Women (2008)13%
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" Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, from their own screenplay, strikes me as one of the most willfully awful movies I’ve ever seen." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 10, 2008
 
Burn After Reading (2008)79%
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" August Evening is infinitely more absorbing and entertaining than we had any right to expect from such simple and undemanding creatures." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 3, 2008
 
August Evening (2007)91%
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" Transcends the perhaps perceived banality of still another film about the Holocaust with a marvelously nuanced narrative floating through time with memorable characters who never beg for our pity." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 3, 2008
 
Un Secret (2008)70%
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" Alejandro Springall’s My Mexican Shivah is another of the recent examples of the Jewish Diaspora absorbed in the preservation of its identity and its rituals in countries around the world." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
My Mexican Shivah (2008)43%
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" This is one of Mr. Chabrol’s strangest films, but he still makes a ripple in his ocean." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
A Girl Cut in Two (2008)79%
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" I Served the King of England ends up a curious combination of raunchy merriment and malignant undercurrents." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
I Served the King of England (2008)79%

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