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ANDREW SARRIS
Andrew Sarris

PUBLICATION(S)
• Atlantic Monthly
• New York Observer
• New Yorker

STATS
Total Reviews: 1004

CRITICS GROUP(S)
• National Society of Film Critics
• New York Film Critics Circle


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Fresh  Rachel Getting Married
Fresh  Lola Montes
Fresh  Allah Made Me Funny
Fresh  Ashes of Time Redux
Fresh  The Class
Fresh  Moving Midway
Fresh  Hounddog
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Rotten  Miracle at St. Anna
Rotten  The Women
Rotten  Burn After Reading
Rotten  Savage Grace
Rotten  Mister Lonely
Rotten  Sex and Death 101
Rotten  Priceless
Rotten  Ezra
Rotten  Fool's Gold
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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" I hope that Rachel Getting Married is enough of a hit to sustain [Demme's] career of cinematic good works. And I hope also that Ms. Winger gets a long overdue Oscar for best supporting actress, as she is that without a doubt." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Rachel Getting Married (2008)84%
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" I recommend Lola Montès wholeheartedly both for its sensuous delights and its ever exquisite artistry." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
Lola Montes (1955)79%
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" Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert, from comedy material written and performed by Mohammed 'Mo' Amer, Bryant 'Preacher' Moss and Azhar Usman, strives to be both timely and funny as it confronts the problems of American Muslims in America after 9/11." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 1, 2008
 
Allah Made Me Funny (2008)52%
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" One feels the passionate intensity of the filmmaker in every strand of his luminously intricate narrative." -- New York Observer
Posted Oct 1, 2008
 
Ashes of Time Redux (2008)91%
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" Mr. Lee has stretched his material in so many different directions that one is left with unacceptable levels of religiosity and sentimentality in the overall context of the naked brutality we have witnessed." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 24, 2008
 
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)32%
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" Place The Class on your must-see list and keep it there until you do." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 24, 2008
 
The Class (2008)100%
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" Godfrey Cheshire’s Moving Midway, from his own screenplay, provides a profound meditation on the paradoxes of race in America through a discovery of his own Southern family’s hitherto hidden secrets." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Moving Midway (2008)92%
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" Ms. Fanning’s performance alone makes Hounddog worth seeing in this age of child Duses." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Hounddog (2008)16%
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" Mr. LaBute has fashioned a suspenseful film out of the peculiar vagaries of the casting, which makes us fear the worst at every turn of the plot." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Lakeview Terrace (2008)42%
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" As much as I enjoy current actresses like Ms. Bening and Ms. Ryan even in a lost cause, I cannot recommend the latest reenactment of The Women as anything special." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 10, 2008
 
The Women (2008)10%
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" Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading, from their own screenplay, strikes me as one of the most willfully awful movies I’ve ever seen." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 10, 2008
 
Burn After Reading (2008)78%
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" August Evening is infinitely more absorbing and entertaining than we had any right to expect from such simple and undemanding creatures." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 3, 2008
 
August Evening (2008)95%
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" Transcends the perhaps perceived banality of still another film about the Holocaust with a marvelously nuanced narrative floating through time with memorable characters who never beg for our pity." -- New York Observer
Posted Sep 3, 2008
 
Un Secret (2008)76%
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" Alejandro Springall’s My Mexican Shivah is another of the recent examples of the Jewish Diaspora absorbed in the preservation of its identity and its rituals in countries around the world." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
My Mexican Shivah (2008)33%
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" This is one of Mr. Chabrol’s strangest films, but he still makes a ripple in his ocean." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
A Girl Cut in Two (2008)85%
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" I Served the King of England ends up a curious combination of raunchy merriment and malignant undercurrents." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
I Served the King of England (2008)80%
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" Even though I much prefer Mr. Rohmer’s forays in the contemporary world from very oblique vantage points, I find his period spirituality very genuine." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Romance of Astree and Celadon (2008)63%
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" The magnificent acting ensemble alone is worth the price of admission." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)80%
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" If I recommend Elegy to my readers, it is not as a licentiously escapist entertainment, but, rather, as a soberingly eloquent expression of what our lives are all about, whether we want to think about them or not." -- New York Observer
Posted Aug 7, 2008
 
Elegy (2008)74%
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" Should prove thematically and spiritually invigorating for adult audiences with a feeling for the heroism of everyday life." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 30, 2008
 
Frozen River (2008)86%
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" In Search of a Midnight Kiss overcomes patches of overwriting to end up as a film well worth watching, and Mr. Holdridge as a writer-director to be remembered for future reference." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 30, 2008
 
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)85%
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" I recommend the brilliant pessimism of this film to all my readers, who I hope will appreciate the exquisitely rendered truthfulness of the narrative." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 23, 2008
 
Brideshead Revisited (2008)63%
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" I previously have had my own auteurist doubts about Mr. Nolan’s work, but after The Dark Knight, I may have to rethink my past reservations about Mr. Nolan’s place in the 21st-century cinema." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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" I haven’t enjoyed so much pleasurably intrigue-laden suspense in ages, and it is charismatically acted, too." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 10, 2008
 
Tell No One (2008)92%
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" Trumbo is well worth seeing for what it tells us about the age in which this irrepressible individualist lived, loved, suffered and finally triumphed." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Trumbo (2008)78%
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" Ms. Breillat has forgone the anarchic force of her earlier forays into the still relatively underdeveloped realm of female sexuality. As a pioneer of sorts in her field, she has earned this temporary respite of classicism represented by The Last Mistress." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
The Last Mistress (2008)76%
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" A remarkable cast supplies subtlety and balance to the mostly downward spiral of the narrative." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
The Wackness (2008)67%
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" Gonzo is a must-see for everyone." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)89%
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" Diminished Capacity is blessed with a blue-ribbon cast." -- New York Observer
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
Diminished Capacity (2008)28%
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" Sarah Gavron’s Brick Lane, from a screenplay by Abi Morgan and Laura Jones, is based on the rapturously received 500-page first novel by Monica Ali." -- New York Observer
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
Brick Lane (2008)65%
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" I didn’t mind the movie, though many of its effects struck me as laboriously overproduced." -- New York Observer
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)52%
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" Quid Pro Quo is a respectable feature-film debut for Mr. Brooks, and it remains reasonably thought-provoking without ever becoming emotionally absorbing." -- New York Observer
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
Quid Pro Quo (2008)66%
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" I have never really seen anything quite like it, and I must therefore wholeheartedly recommend this wondrous work for its magnificently moving father-son performances by Mr. Broadbent and Mr. Firth." -- New York Observer
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)72%
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" At last, we have a completely and profoundly American movie with all the classical skills of timing, editing and character development that we associate nostalgically with some Hollywood golden age." -- New York Observer
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
The Promotion (2008)47%
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" The Edge of Heaven is a film to be seen, savored and thoughtfully appreciated." -- New York Observer
Posted May 28, 2008
 
The Edge of Heaven (2008)90%
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" Savage Grace is a film strictly for avant-garde festivals, at which even minimal exposition is at a premium." -- New York Observer
Posted May 28, 2008
 
Savage Grace (2008)41%
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" Sangre de Mi Sangre stacks up as an original achievement in its own chosen genre, that of the troubled immigrant in a land of advertised promise, who too often is inflicted with pain and exploitation." -- New York Observer
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)83%
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" Ellen Page remains one of the few stellar newcomers who deserves to be seen in anything she chooses to do." -- New York Observer
Posted May 7, 2008
 
The Tracey Fragments (2008)39%
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" A great actress even in a not-so-great comedy is fully worth the price of admission in these far from halcyon days, both movie-wise and world-wise." -- New York Observer
Posted May 7, 2008
 
A Previous Engagement (2008)33%
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" I will end with the faint praise of Mister Lonely as the least offensive of the works in the Korine canon." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)44%
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" See it not only because it works as an exquisitely tendered emotional experience, but also because it is the first cinematic treatment in fictional form of a taboo-breaking ticklish subject." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
XXY (2008)77%
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" Just where is China taking us besides up the Yangtze River? Mr. Yung’s film does not even pretend to know, and that is its great strength as it plunges more deeply into the truly unknown." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Up The Yangtze (2007)95%
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" Despite all my reservations, I think it is worth seeing, though I do not approve of all the trickery involved." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)88%
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Click here to read article -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
The China Syndrome (1979)85%
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" Four Minutes is simply not to be missed." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
Four Minutes (2007)76%
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" 88 Minutes will add a little more luster to a career that has not been adequately appreciated perhaps because of the suspiciously seductive power of a little man with an outsize talent." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)5%
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" For its fusion of social history and sensational athleticism, Bra Boys shapes up as one of the best nonfiction films of the year thus far, and is eminently worth seeing." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
Bra Boys (2008)57%
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" Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor, from his own screenplay, is nothing short of a triumph for 60-year-old character actor Richard Jenkins, in his first leading role in a feature film." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)93%
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" The film has its moments of wit and lucidity, but these are few and far between." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
Sex and Death 101 (2008)27%
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" Fortunately, Mr. Wong has made the perilous journey into a new language without sacrificing his artistic soul and very personal visual style." -- New York Observer
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)47%

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