ROTTEN TOMATOES: Andrew Collins

ANDREW COLLINS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications: Empire Magazine, Radio Times

Total Reviews: 25

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh 3/5	Rotten 49%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" Their roles are played largely for easy laughs in James Schamus's script, which meanders in an echo of the freewheeling vibe of peace and love." — Radio Times Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 54%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" It lacks the control of the Coen brothers, in whose image the movie has been only serviceably created by first-time director Grant Heslov, and merely encourages the audience to stare at an all-star cast for 90 minutes or so." — Radio Times Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 21%	Wild Wild West (1999)	" A film where the concept came first and the script -- and everything else -- seems to have finished a poor second." — Empire Magazine Posted May 18, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 89%	Planet of the Apes (1968)	" A film rich with unforgettable imagery, killer lines and physical thrills." — Empire Magazine Posted Apr 7, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 90%	Carrie (1976)	" *The reason Carrie* is still held in such high regard as a horror classic is very simple: it's all in the sheer directorial bravado. De Palma at the top of his game.*" — Empire Magazine* Posted Sep 25, 2007
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	The Exorcist (1973)	" It stimulates and rewards, time and time again." — Empire Magazine Posted Sep 21, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 94%	Star Wars (1977)	" *A product of its time, certainly, but like the myths that informed it, Star Wars* will outlive the lot of us.*" — Empire Magazine* Posted Sep 23, 2006
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 70%	Batman (1989)	" The movie that gave birth to the summer blockbuster remains impressive." — Empire Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2005
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 93%	The Producers (1968)	" It's the ultimate punchline, the killer gag, that a proto-novel that turned into a proto-play that ended up as a movie about the worst musical in history, is now the most popular musical in town." — Empire Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2004
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Sexy Beast (2001)	" Snaps the restraints of a knackered sub-genre and emerges from the heat haze of negative preconception like a prize fighter." — Empire Magazine Posted Feb 28, 2001
Fresh	Fresh 83%	A Few Good Men (1992)	" Jack Nicholson comes in at the beginning and end and punches a hole in the screen both times." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 73%	A Room for Romeo Brass (2000)	" Add a breezy indie soundtrack, an offputting bewigged cameo by Meadows in the chippy, and a sense of time and place to rival Gregory's Girl (1980), and you've got a proper treat for lovers of real life." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten	Fresh 83%	American History X (1998)	" The film's most incongruous and embarrassing scene is a black-on-white basketball game: shot like a Nike ad, it trivialises the subject." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten 4/5	Fresh 70%	Enemy of the State (1998)	" A truly substantial looker for the holidays, it's that rare Bruckheimer project in which style is matched by content." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Get Shorty (1995)	" By turns satirically glamorous and seedily dark." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 3/5	Rotten 54%	Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)	" While the action interludes are impressively staged and edited, they strain for originality..." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 78%	Life Is Beautiful (1998)	" The Holocaust requires no dramatisation to shock us. But this irritating little Euro-Chaplin has found a new way to present something we'd all rather look away from." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten 4/5	Fresh 91%	Men In Black (1997)	" The guns and gadgets threaten but never succeed in eclipsing the human talent, and for that, we must praise director Sonnenfeld." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	" Ford, in a career-minting performance, plays what would've been a cardboard cut-out in the 1930s as grubby, coy, impertinent, imperfect, phobic of snakes and agnostic (describing the Ark's magic as "the power of God or something")." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 72%	Snatch (2001)	" *If you liked Lock, Stock, you'll like this." — Empire Magazine* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 2%	Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)	" A pedestrian thriller that never captures the thrill of the first, and even more criminally sidelines Bullock." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 75%	The Eel (1997)	" What starts out as intriguing turns into simply baffling." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 81%	The Ice Storm (1997)	" *Spot-on performances, some icicles that are pure visual poetry, and enough symbolism to fuel a thesis, make The Ice Storm* anything but a gloomy ride.*" — Empire Magazine* Posted Jan 1, 2000
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 56%	Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)	" After a ropey patch, Bond is categorically back." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 64%	Wild Things (1998)	" ...Bacon's pork sword alone is not worth the price of admission." — Empire Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2000

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