Andrew Lapin

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The Dissolve
For 69 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 68% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 14.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Andrew Lapin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 51
Highest review score: 90 Wadjda
Lowest review score: 10 The Pyramid
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 69
  2. Mixed: 40 out of 69
  3. Negative: 12 out of 69
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Lapin
    The Human Experiment
    The movie’s style consists of tossing up a lot of heartbreaking medical stories next to a characterization of the industry as a mysterious monolith, and letting viewers finish the correlation in their heads. When it’s possible to use the same line of reasoning to push both truth and lies, different tactics are in order.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Andrew Lapin
    Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    Even for the third entry in a family franchise, the construction is lazy to the point of indifference.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Andrew Lapin
    The Pyramid
    By the end of The Pyramid, found footage becomes just another possession to be buried alongside long-dead Pharaohs for use in the next life. Here’s hoping the next life has no return policy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 10 Andrew Lapin
    Take Care
    The movie is dreadful, filled with painfully broad humor, grating performances, and acidly rendered characters.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Andrew Lapin
    Always Woodstock
    The film uses its setting as lazy shorthand: for the nostalgia of lost childhood, the virtues of independence, and the spiritual purity of acoustic rock. And the hero unearths all this meaning while only having to interact with one person older than 30.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Lapin
    No Good Deed
    To the film’s mild credit, it’s the rare woman-in-peril thriller where the woman takes intelligent steps to defend herself.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Lapin
    Boys of Abu Ghraib
    Writer-director-star Luke Moran has his heart in the right place, and a clear compassion for soldiers thrust into impossible situations with no training, but he lacks the desire to steer his film in the honest direction this topic requires.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Lapin
    Kids for Cash
    A heavy-breathing, narrowly focused outrage-generator about a corruption case that both the court of public opinion and the actual court system have already agreed was outrageous.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Lapin
    Art Machine
    There’s something deeply depressing about a debut film centered on fading talent, but even more depressing are the downright amateurish insights it musters about youth, the art world, and the burdens of growing up gifted.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Lapin
    Zaytoun
    Though Dorff isn’t the only thing wrong with Zaytoun, he is still its biggest liability, and the rare case where one miscast role ruins a film’s essential premise.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Andrew Lapin
    Savannah
    A dull vanity project for the Southern highborn.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Andrew Lapin
    Rising from Ashes
    A film’s quality should be measured not by its agenda’s transparency, but by its narrative heft. And the narrative is the problem with Rising From Ashes.

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