ROTTEN TOMATOES: Andrew L. Urban

ANDREW L. URBAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Biography: Andrew L. Urban is Publisher & Editor of Urban Cinefile, Australia’s award winning online weekly movie magazine (est. 1997). Specialising in film journalism, Andrew was Australian bureau chief for London based film trade publications from 1985 to 1994. He was Channel Host for the World Movies subscription movie channel (2002-6), and with his publishing partner and wife Louise Keller, he co-produced and hosted Movies This Week, a short movie review program, broadcast on World Movies and the Ovation arts & entertainment channel (2004-5). Since July 2005, Andrew has presented Movies Now, a contemporary movie appreciation course at Sydney University’s Centre for Continuing Education. In January 2007, Andrew was commissioned by the Australian Film Television and Radio School’s Centre for Screen Business to produce an extensive series of in depth on camera interviews with film and TV industry practitioners, for the CSB website; the series continues into 2008. Andrew is a regular guest on ABC Radio 702 Drive’s Critics Forum with Richard Glover.

Publications: Urban Cinefile

Total Reviews: 398

Location: Sydney, Australia

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Fresh	Fresh 69%	Coffin Rock (2009)	" Hold us on the edge of our seats in a tightly made genre film that boasts outstanding performances and dynamic direction" Posted Oct 17, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Call + Response (2008)	" Laced with the potent music of a dozen bands and solo artists, Call Response is an urgent call to arms in the war against modern slavery." Posted Oct 17, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 62%	Che (2008)	" Great showcase for Benicio del Toro, of course, a wonderful actor who gives it his all. But Che, the T shirt hero of three generations, is a myth that so many today THINK Che stood for." Posted Sep 26, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 64%	Charlie & Boots (2009)	" It's inoffensive and even sweet at times, rather like a friendly puppy. It's a bit scant for a movie, though, and the underlying tension between the men that is supposed to provide the grist is never properly realised. This omission leaves the film with v" Posted Aug 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 95%	The Cove (2009)	" Horror film, spy thriller, disaster movie, corruption expose and more, The Cove is a gripping and devastating indictment of Japan's barbaric and secretive dolphin harvesting program" Posted Aug 8, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Choir (2007)	" With astonishing levels of access and filmed over four years, Michael Davie documents prison life through the eyes of teenage robber, Jabulani, who shows us his many scars, tells us his savage life story and gradually reinvents himself" Posted Aug 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Columbus Day (2008)	" Strange but compelling, with Val Kilmer in top form, this oblique and slightly garbled story holds our interest with a combination of its elements." Posted Aug 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Coraline (2009)	" The visual invention is staggering, ranging from fabulous fantasy to eerie scary" Posted Jul 29, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Crush ()	" This occasionally erotic supernatural thriller has one big thing going for it: it knows its audience, the young male market, and goes after it." Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Chifleys of Busby Street (2009)	" It's a terrific story but it's also an important insight into the Australian psyche of a past generation -- the generation that gave way to modern Australia after the war." Posted Jul 22, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Closed for Winter (2009)	" Imbruglia seems quite capable of creating a credible and interesting screen character, but she's defeated by the material and the direction." Posted May 1, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 43%	Camino (2009)	" Don't mind me, I'm a fallen angel. But I can now understand why it was the SPANISH inquisition." Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Casino Royale (2006)	" A strong, well defined story, some unexpected betrayals and hidden corners, sensational locations and an absence of gadgets make Casino Royale a right royal Bond movie." Posted Apr 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 61%	Changeling (2008)	" Stranger than fiction %u2026. and more powerful for it" Posted Jan 29, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Class (2008)	" A hybrid that is so naturalistic as to be uber-documentary in its reflection of the observations within." Posted Jan 16, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Chattahoochee (1990)	" This fact based story from the mid 50s American penal system is a sobering and dramatic reminder of how many states treated mentally ill patients, criminal or otherwise" Posted Jan 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 71%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" This is a beautifully made film ... but ... it is also a piece of cinematic artifice, in which the manufacture of it stands between it and us -- big on novelty and sentimentality but short on tension and interest for the audience" Posted Dec 19, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Le Corniaud (1965)	" It may seem a tad dated now, but there's still plenty of innocent, old fashioned fun in this escapist chase movie / caper gone wrong comedy from two of France's most popular stars" Posted Nov 8, 2008
Fresh	N/A	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)	" A powerful and confronting story: one of the most significant films of the 1970s film renaissance in Australia" Posted Oct 31, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 54%	Choke (2008)	" Sam Rockwell throws himself into this thornbush of a role with a veracity that is curiously intensified by the (real life) damaged finger in his left hand." Posted Oct 25, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (2008)	" This is a knockout story, superbly told." Posted Oct 20, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Crooked Business (2008)	" It's a wicked pleasure of a movie, full of fun, totally engaging and the touches of black just add texture to a focused screenplay and sharply tuned direction from Chris Nyst." Posted Oct 13, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 75%	City of Men (2008)	" Where City of God provided a heartbreaking insight into Rio's flavelas and gang warfare . . . this film ends up more like a standard buddy movie set against a gangland battle scene" Posted Sep 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Chalk (2007)	" Chalk rides on some well observed lessons in pain by a small group of teachers at Harrison High" Posted Sep 13, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Caramel (2008)	" The result is a sweet, but certainly not cloying, film about relationships in modern Beirut %u2013 the city to which Labaki dedicates her film." Posted Sep 13, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 78%	Caravaggio (1986)	" Famed for its fabulously evocative recreation of the light/shade luminosity of Caravaggio's oil paintings, Caravaggio is nevertheless something of a victim of its times....But despite that, it is a wonderfully bold work, simply irresistible to look at" Posted Aug 9, 2008

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