Andrew O'Hehir

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For 1,494 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Andrew O'Hehir's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Mother
Lowest review score: 0 The Water Diviner
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,045 out of 1494
  2. Mixed: 346 out of 1494
  3. Negative: 103 out of 1494
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    Visually ravishing, tonally commanding and built around magnetic performances by Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck as Bonnie-and-Clyde doomed lovers, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is a tragic but not despairing tale of fatal romance set in the Texas hill country in the mid-1970s. It marks the arrival of an immense talent who will be new to most moviegoers – although Lowery is a well-known figure in the indie-film world – and it’s surely one of the best American films of the year.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    Cyrus
    An enjoyably off-kilter romantic comedy with a touch of madcap farce and just a hint of darkness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Interstellar
    So this is the greatest Shyamalan movie ever made by someone else, or maybe it’s Christopher Nolan’s best impression of what a Shyamalan movie ought to be like. No doubt that sounds like a backhanded compliment, but I don’t entirely mean it that way.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
    The resulting film is both beautiful and fascinating, and offers a thrilling travelogue through a spectacular landscape few of us will ever see first-hand.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Andrew O'Hehir
    Oswald's Ghost
    Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt or innocence or accomplices are not the point of the film; Stone is more interested in the fact that much about the Kennedy murder is now so shrouded in myth and mystification as to be permanently unknowable, and that that fact alone has gnawed away at the self-confidence of middle-class white America ever since.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Spread
    Mackenzie delivers that story as a blend of sex comedy, dark satire, and morality tale that recalls various aspects of "Shampoo" and "Less Than Zero" and "The Graduate," but has a couple of nifty surprises and a poisonous sting in its tail that's all its own.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    House of Sand and Fog
    Features an astonishing pair of lead performances and one of this year's most impressive directing debuts. If this movie isn't quite the contempo-Greek tragedy it wants to be, it's still a powerful, unforgettable meditation on fate, cultural collision and the morality of renovating a house that isn't really yours.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    How I Ended This Summer
    Combines memorable images of the gorgeous, rugged wilderness, meticulous sound design that emphasizes the characters' isolation, a dash of dark wit and a dose of madness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    In Order of Disappearance
    In Order of Disappearance possesses both a striking soulfulness and a sense of beauty. (Much of the credit goes to cinematographer Philip Øgaard, whose images are memorable but never showy.)
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Sir! No Sir!
    It will change your understanding of the Vietnam era, even if you were alive then.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Italian
    It's a carefully and almost classically balanced combination of ingredients, blending dirty-faced realism (so much more damning because it judges and condemns no one) with mystical fable of quest and homecoming.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Andrew O'Hehir
    Eat Pray Love
    A minor and superficial summer diversion that offers female viewers not much more than a two-hour escape fantasy, but that's not a crime.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    Mommy
    There’s so much that is brilliant and unexpected and often downright thrilling about Mommy, the fifth feature (a fact amazing in itself) from 25-year-old Quebec enfant terrible Xavier Dolan.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    Two Lovers
    Gray's peculiar accomplishment here is to turn this story into an intense emotional drama, beautifully photographed and profoundly ambiguous, suspended somewhere between realism and psychosexual allegory.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Andrew O'Hehir
    Wag the Dog
    Wag the Dog is such a crisply delivered political satire, so packed full of wickedly amusing details and expertly modulated performances and with its heart so obviously in the right place that I really, truly wish I could tell you it was also a good movie.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    My Country, My Country
    A keenly constructed and tragic film, probably the best documentary so far to depict the Iraqi side of the current conflict.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Veers unpredictably between wrenching psychodrama and "Spinal Tap"-style mockumentary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    Source Code
    Everything we learn about Stevens and Christina and Goodwin by the end of the film comes from their actions, not their words. That lends Source Code an elusive, almost arty shimmer beneath its glossy, action-movie surface.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Song of Sparrows
    This latest film from Iranian director Majid Majidi has the same combination of quiet contemplation, whimsy and tragedy that made his "Children of Heaven" an international smash a decade ago.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    State of Fear
    One of the most remarkable explorations of recent history ever conducted.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    La faute à Fidel!
    A wrenching, funny and wise little picture, with a diva-like junior star at its center.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    Lemon Tree
    Something like a cross between a torn-from-the-headlines docudrama, a Middle East conflict rendered in miniature and Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," this latest film from the terrific Israeli director Eran Riklis revolves around the amazing lead performance of Palestinian-French actress Hiam Abbass.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    28 Days Later...
    It's undoubtedly a canny and clever twist on the standard zombie-attack yarn, but anybody who's making grand claims for 28 Days Later simply hasn't seen enough horror movies.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew O'Hehir
    (T)error
    To say that this undercover operation does not go well is an understatement, and the resulting portrait of the domestic anti-terrorism campaign, although it’s admittedly a portrait in miniature, could hardly be more disheartening.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    Red Road
    It's still dynamite, the kind of sexy, paranoid, creepily atmospheric picture that invades all your senses at once.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    A Scanner Darkly
    There's no other filmmaker, living or dead, who could produce a futuristic sci-fi nightmare, a hipster comedy, a haunting film noir and a cartoon, all in the same movie.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    Red Cliff
    It's a movie on the Hollywood scale that has so much of the Asian spirit. It has drawn the Asian audience back to the movie theater.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    Rust and Bone
    One of the year's best films precisely because it can't be boiled down to a message or synopsis. It's an exercise in style that risks trashiness in search of transcendence, and it's a sizzling celebration of the power of music, the power of images, and the electric, destructive power of the human body.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Eye in the Sky
    The conscientious precision and painstaking identification in Eye in the Sky is presented as morally murky; Mirren’s character leans hard on a subordinate to give her an acceptable estimate of collateral damage, so the politicians will say yes. Even so it may be an overly reassuring picture.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    All About Lily Chou-Chou
    A sprawling and adventurous tale of teen alienation, might just be the movie that pushes the Japanese new wave out of the film-geek ghetto.
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