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	N/A	Poker House (2009)	" One of those autobiographical films... like Running With Scissors... that shows how children can survive and even prosper emotionally, spiritually (eventually) despite a ghastly childhood" Posted Dec 12, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 25%	Powder Blue (2009)	" Patrick Swayze's final feature film role as Wild Velvet strip club boss Velvet Larry is a flamboyant extravaganza" Posted Nov 28, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 81%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" A couple may be desperate enough to place a camera on a tripod to record what goes bump in the night but the enforced recording of every other moment soon becomes a tiresome construct that turns the whole film into a wobbly home video with terrible sound." Posted Nov 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 60%	Prime Mover (2009)	" Prime Mover deals in the everyday lives of recognisably Australian characters in a way that makes their journey matter to us. And it does it in unique style" Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Prey (2009)	" Supernatural thriller meets splatter movie meets clunky horror (with chainsaw), meets zombie movie ... Prey is a hybrid that doesn't have enough juice in any of the genres in which plays to be effective, despite some promise in its conception." Posted Aug 5, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" At times incoherent, at times self conscious and thanks to Dante Spinotti being allowed to go hand held, almost always irritating to watch." Posted Jul 23, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Pure S (1975)	" It's the anything in denim 70s, and anything goes; preferably into the lungs or veins... The absurdist tone lingers throughout." Posted Jun 18, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 59%	Paris 36 (2008)	" Christophe Barratier is proudly sentimental about it all, the style is old fashioned in the best sense, and he tells stories about pain, love and betrayal with a glass of red wine" Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Phantom Punch (2008)	" Phantom Punch delivers some knock out scenes outside the ring as well as within it." Posted Apr 2, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 13%	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	" Nothing in this sequel of the remake makes us groan with embarrassment, as several scenes in the first one did" Posted Mar 27, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 40%	Patrick (1978)	" One of Australia's commercially successful genre films of the 70s, a supernatural thriller" Posted Mar 14, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Padre Padrone (1977)	" There are some strikingly beautiful images, all in context, as we touch themes of father-son conflict and coming of age drama" Posted Jan 23, 2009
Fresh	N/A	People (2004)	" Full of outrageous but entertaining ideas, the film has irresistible charm, despite its kooky story" Posted Dec 12, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Puppy (2005)	" A strange, brave and black film, Puppy is a refreshing low budget (privately financed) romantic drama with elements of a thriller" Posted Sep 13, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Punishment (2008)	" A dense and tense thriller, Punishment is a well conceived genre film with a gritty and bloody core, with a strong story that reveals new elements as it goes. Danny Matier's debut is likely to be compared to Greg McLean's Wolf Creek." Posted Sep 8, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Persepolis (2007)	" With deceptively simple, mostly black and white animation, the filmmakers take us through a life story that is anything but simple" Posted Aug 14, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)	" It's one of the great tragic true stories of the old wild West, the story of two outlaw friends ending up enemies as one turns over and becomes a lawman - expressly for the purpose of hunting down his friend." Posted Aug 9, 2008

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