ROTTEN TOMATOES: Andrew L. Urban

ANDREW L. URBAN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% 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: 389

Location: Sydney, Australia

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Fresh	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" It isn't until the third act that we really get to grips with the whole scenario enough to ride it like a theme park adventure" Posted Nov 28, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 57%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" The premise allows the filmmakers latitude to invent a scenario that works as irony and satire about our modern world. It shows, humorously, how impossibly confronting it would be if we really didn't lie, flatter and smooth over our social interactions" Posted Nov 20, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 38%	Imagine That (2009)	" Ham fisted and formulaic, Imagine That nevertheless has some endearing qualities to save it from the trash can %u2013 notably Yara Shahidi, the cute little bundle whose smartly innocent presence and likeable little face are so loved by the camera that dir" Posted Sep 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" Be prepared for unsettling shifts in pace and tone, be prepared to be shocked and amused, to laugh and guffaw and to be always surprised in this comic fantasy which is cheeky enough to reinvent history and has audiences clapping as it does so" Posted Aug 17, 2009
Rotten	N/A	I Really Hate My Job (2007)	" Unfortunately a lack of genuine observation continues to dog the film throughout and despite excellent performances, it's all 'pretend'." Posted Jun 27, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 66%	Is Anybody There? (2009)	" It wants so badly to be meaningful, relevant and compassionate, but struggles even to keep our attention, never mind our hearts or minds. Not even Michael Caine's slowly sinking geriatric Clarence or affecting young Bill Milner can elevate the material." Posted May 27, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 39%	Inkheart (2009)	" There's nothing terribly wrong with Inkheart but it just doesn't quite engage us,"" Posted Mar 27, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 58%	The International (2009)	" Direction is superb, balancing action, story, character and something valuable to say in a compelling movie that you wish wouldn't end. And when the end does come, we wish all thrillers could be so genuine and real" Posted Feb 12, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 96%	The Innocents (1961)	" This classy English mystery is adorned by a wonderful Deborah Kerr as the governess driven to extremes by a strange, haunted mansion and strange, haunted children," Posted Dec 20, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 90%	I've Loved You So Long (2008)	" Each relationship is deftly, brilliantly sketched and the relationship snapshots are satisfyingly complex" Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Insignificance (1985)	" This audacious hypothetical is at once funny and dramatic, sometimes a little lopsided but always interesting" Posted Oct 25, 2008
Fresh	N/A	The Insatiable (2006)	" a vampire movie that's different, not just by introducing a sly sense of humour, but by devising a premise that's fresh" Posted Sep 18, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 17%	Illegal Tender (2007)	" Clearly aware of the impact of visual style on the narrative, Jonathan Ogilvie uses a stylised 1920 Australian setting for a love triangle that involves all the basic drivers of human frailty" Posted Sep 13, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 80%	In Bruges (2008)	" Funny and thrilling, you'll find redemption In Bruges" Posted Aug 29, 2008

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