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Critics / Andrew O'Hagan
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    ANDREW O'HAGAN

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

    Publications: This is London

    Total Reviews: 28

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    4/5

    Fresh
    73%

    Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

    " It is one of those films that reveals the power of film itself, and you can feel delighted that this beautiful story, with its oddness and its great capacity for wonder, has survived in a perfect way the transition to screen."

    Posted Dec 11, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    24%

    Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

    " With film, the question is not always, “Do I believe it?”; more often, it is “Do they believe it?” And in the case of Law Abiding Citizen they believe it so much that revenge becomes a thing you can taste."

    Posted Nov 27, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    28%

    The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

    " Pseudo-religious nonsense, with fangs."

    Posted Nov 20, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    39%

    2012 (2009)

    " 2012 may be the biggest disaster movie ever made, an awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance."

    Posted Nov 13, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    84%

    Bright Star (2009)

    " Bright Star is that rare and upbraiding thing, a film - perhaps the last one of the year - that seeks not to jam your emotions or scare you silly, but asks you to think about words."

    Posted Nov 6, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    94%

    An Education (2009)

    " The skill of it is in allowing you to see not only how a girl’s sense of herself might be hanging in the balance, but to feel how the values of an era can be drama personified."

    Posted Oct 30, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    92%

    Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

    " A film full of style, where the animated creatures are dealt with in the same oblique, unexpected way that has been Anderson’s trademark."

    Posted Oct 23, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    65%

    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

    " No amount of visual pyrotechnics can cover the fact that The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus never quite knows what it is doing, where it is going and why. The pencil hadn’t done its work before the digital geniuses moved in."

    Posted Oct 16, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    57%

    The Invention of Lying (2009)

    " Despite its flaws, The Invention of Lying is Gervais’s best film outing to date. It draws his talent into alignment with some comedy classics, and shows that he has the intelligence to go for invention and originality."

    Posted Oct 4, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    57%

    Creation (2009)

    " The film is beautifully shot and there are dreamy sequences that convey, better than anything I’ve seen or read, the fantastical, creative quality of Darwin’s mind."

    Posted Sep 25, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    76%

    The Firm (2009)

    " The film is covered in talent, including Love’s, of the sort that makes you look forward to the next thing they do. Here, you feel they have a lot to climb over, but there are scenes where the attempt to get close to something real is powerfully inspired."

    Posted Sep 18, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    84%

    The September Issue (2009)

    " The world isn’t always pretty, and neither is the one depicted here, but it’s nice to think the imagination will always have its place. Strike a pose."

    Posted Sep 11, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    98%

    The Hurt Locker (2009)

    " Bigelow crowns several decades of excellent artistic enquiry with a film that everybody should see."

    Posted Aug 29, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    29%

    The Final Destination (2009)

    " It amounts to a kind of formulaic silliness, where horrific things only really happen to unreal people."

    Posted Aug 29, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    88%

    Sin Nombre (2009)

    " The film will linger in the mind long after its devastating conclusion. You leave the cinema breathless and disquieted but also with a sense of having had something important revealed to you. In a very strong field, this is the year’s best film so far."

    Posted Aug 14, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    65%

    Adam (2009)

    " A film with so many designs on your affections could never be found surprising, but believe me, it won’t stop it from trying and it won’t stop you from feeling guilty the moment you realise it isn’t working."

    Posted Aug 7, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Fresh
    65%

    Coco Before Chanel (2009)

    " The film is sumptuously designed and tailored, with none of life’s real filth ever pictured."

    Posted Jul 31, 2009

    Rotten
    1/5

    Rotten
    50%

    Antichrist (2009)

    " The film can expose you to nothing about life, nothing about film, while telling you more than you ever wanted to know about the director’s malicious vanity."

    Posted Jul 24, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    83%

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

    " The present film is a stepping stone, neither classic Potter nor scintillating adventure, but it proves the depth and wholeness of Rowling’s imagined world."

    Posted Jul 17, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    67%

    Bruno (2009)

    " Brüno is a brave and necessary comedy. The film will appear to be a succès de scandale, and will outrage many people, but it is actually just a success, a film with an instinct for naming and shaming a host of overprotected wrongs. Go and see it."

    Posted Jul 10, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    72%

    Sunshine Cleaning (2009)

    " Sunshine Cleaning will be the sleeper of this year, a movie soon to be talked about in the same breath as Sideways, Juno and Little Miss Sunshine."

    Posted Jul 3, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Fresh
    66%

    Public Enemies (2009)

    " Michael Mann may not succeed with Public Enemies but the attempt is compelling enough."

    Posted Jul 3, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    91%

    Katyn (2007)

    " Wajda has achieved something truly memorable: the film reminds you that cinema can be the preserver of the truth’s smallest details, when a run of excellent pictures can finally tell a story the world was waiting for."

    Posted Jun 19, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Fresh
    88%

    Looking for Eric (2009)

    " There’s no doubting that Looking for Eric is a lively piece of entertainment. It is always satisfying to see an arch-realist testing his certainties, even reaching from time to time, as Loach does here, into the joyfully fantastical."

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Fresh
    3/5

    Rotten
    32%

    Terminator Salvation (2009)

    " The film is emotionally soupy and it insists too much on its own pyrotechnics. Christian Bale hasn’t an ounce of comedy in him, which takes the whole thing some distance away from Arnie’s ridiculousness."

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Fresh
    5/5

    Fresh
    79%

    Sleep Furiously (2008)

    " Sleep Furiously may be the most beautifully elemental documentary film to have emerged in Britain in over a decade and I can’t applaud it loudly enough."

    Posted May 29, 2009

    Fresh
    4/5

    Rotten
    44%

    Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

    " Has the kind of laughs that might convince you that nothing is as bad as it seems: the movie is no masterpiece but if you could plug its good nature into the national grid you could probably keep Birmingham alight for a month."

    Posted May 22, 2009

    Rotten
    2/5

    Rotten
    36%

    Angels & Demons (2009)

    " Angels & Demons, the fantastic ongoing saga of Brownism might make us feel short of breath in the company of something that is beyond belief. That’s Dan Brown I’m talking about."

    Posted May 15, 2009
     
     
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