ROTTEN TOMATOES: Andrew L. Urban

ANDREW L. URBAN

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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: 397

Location: Sydney, Australia

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Fresh	Rotten 51%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" Made with all the sinewy economy and storytelling clarity honed by making lots of high end TV commercials, Tony Scott pumps contempo energy and visual style into this classic good story" Posted Aug 20, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 49%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" Much of the credit must go to Lee's cinematic choices; his use of multi-split screens, the montages that create a clear sense of the vibrantly positive mood infecting everyone and a beautiful acid trip visualisation" Posted Aug 20, 2009
Rotten	N/A	The Age of Stupid (2009)	" The Age of Stupid does little more than enumerate the ills and evils of today's world in a cry of panic and accusation, regurgitating those images and messages that serve its cause" Posted Aug 17, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 28%	Trade (2007)	" A brutal, shattering story of child trafficking that is intended to deliver a sobering punch about the global human trafficking trade, Marco Kreutzpaintner's powerful drama is in fact based on investigative reports in the New York Times." Posted Jul 29, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Alps (2007)	" A giant screen to tell an intimate yet soaring story" Posted Jun 1, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Two Lovers (2009)	" I'd call it the emotional thriller. Two Lovers is nuanced, intricate and sophisticated storytelling, as it follows the quite extraordinary emotional journey of Leonard Kraditor, Jewish son of a small business family." Posted May 27, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" Directed by McG (I used to think that was the Melbourne Cricket Ground), T4 is a post apocalyptic epic with a beating heart: indeed, Sam Worthington's beating heart, which plays such a crucial role in the story." Posted May 27, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 40%	Tenderness (2008)	" This is a fascinating study, but the adaptation struggles to get the story across with as much punch as it might. On the other hand, John Polson shows a lucid eye for the genre" Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Tulpan (2008)	" Highly acclaimed at festivals, Tulpan is wondrous and fascinating, with a gritty, true-to-hard-life tone." Posted Apr 18, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Tortured (2008)	" A terrific cast delivering top performances %u2026 but the writing %u2026 ends up tying itself in knots" Posted Mar 21, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Three Days to Vegas (2007)	" This high jinx comedy is like a party balloon" Posted Feb 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)	" Instead of the 1950s mindset %u2013 postwar, cold war, fear of aliens %u2013 it's been resettled into the mindset of today %u2013 man's inhumanity to the planet...It was a great little B movie then, and it's an ugly big B movie now" Posted Dec 21, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 55%	The Tale of Despereaux (2008)	" Laboured and disjointed, the film has none of the charm of a Ratatouille or a Shrek, but seems derivative of them." Posted Dec 19, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 54%	This Christmas (2007)	" A happy Christmas package that more or less ignores the fact that it's a black American family story" Posted Dec 4, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008)	" The film dips into syrup as it draws to a close, but even that we can forgive for its genuine warm hearted mood" Posted Dec 4, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	" This is a deservedly acclaimed film; it's confronting and deeply saddening, but essential" Posted Nov 8, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 61%	Traitor (2008)	" The Koran is part of the battleground for the film's moral compass, and while it may overshoot the average multiplex goer's comfort zone for a spy movie, it engages on a serious level" Posted Oct 31, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 55%	Trailer Park Boys - The Movie (2008)	" The three central characters are an acquired taste, probably by the same fanclub that digs loser/doper comedies like Dumb and Dumber or the terrible Aussie equivalent, You and Your Stupid Mate" Posted Oct 10, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 72%	Transylvania (2006)	" The mood, the music and the melancholy remain true to Gatlif's signature, but there is a sense of incompleteness about the film which detracts from it." Posted Oct 4, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 38%	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	" An exploration of the heightened, extreme emotional sensations of adolescence, The Tracey Fragments is demanding and relentless, an image overload in search of resolution." Posted Oct 4, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 47%	Towelhead (2008)	" As a story, Jasira's deflowering and surrounding socialisation issues perhaps make for top reading, but as the film turns a mental image into concrete visuals, it requires much greater finesse to make it cinema" Posted Oct 4, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Titanic (1997)	" You will walk out of Titanic not talking about budget or running time, but of its enormous emotive power, big as the engines of the ship itself, determined as its giant propellers to gouge into your heart, and as lasting as the love story that propels it." Posted Oct 3, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Taxidermia (2009)	" Contains some of the most viscerally troubling images, it is the bravura leap of imagination and brilliant cinematic techniques that make it special" Posted Aug 23, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 64%	Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)	" The best part of the film is del Toro's performance, a junkie jumble of many layers, glued together with a deep seated humanity that reaches out to us." Posted Aug 14, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 82%	Tropic Thunder (2008)	" On the one hand, Tropic Thunder is a giant enema up Hollywood's butt, and on the other it's a bare bum joke which outlasts its welcome" Posted Aug 14, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 19%	The Clone Wars (2008)	" The animation seems to have been outsourced to two factories: one for the galactic battles, the other for the Jedi .. The latter seem clunky and simplistic, much like the film's screenplay.. Take the kids, buy the popcorn, feed .. er feel the force" Posted Aug 14, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Taken (2009)	" The screenplay has a simple but effective premise; the ex-CIA agent on a mission to save his kidnapped daughter. But the variables give the film a lot to work with, from the Paris setting to the deadly gang who steal and trade women like slaves." Posted Aug 7, 2008

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