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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    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    Ida
    What makes Ida remarkable is how much Pawlikowski is able to accomplish in just 80 minutes, with a pair of mismatched female characters, a handful of wintry and desolate locations, the square-format cinematography of Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal, and a soundtrack that combines modernism, Soviet-bloc pop music and a haunting performance of John Coltrane’s “Naima” that seems to capture all the emotional possibilities the characters cannot express.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    Honestly, one can only wish that Hollywood made movies for non-teenagers and non-comics fans with this much care and reverence. Are superhero movies dying? Well sure, but you and I and the planet may die first.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    Blue Ruin
    It’s a brilliant, slow-burning American revenge thriller that hardly puts a foot wrong, a work of startling violence and profound conscience that announces the arrival of an exciting young director.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew O'Hehir
    Heaven Is for Real
    This movie is bizarre, conflicted, unintentionally hilarious and profoundly mediocre – something like one of those based-on-a-true-story demonic possession yarns, with its polarities reversed – but not stupid in the way you’re probably thinking.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Only Lovers Left Alive
    It’s shot through with sadness and beauty, with dry humor, with the certainty that even things meant to last forever actually don’t.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew O'Hehir
    A Fragile Trust
    Mercifully, as seen from 11 years later, Jayson Blair himself seems a lot less important, not to mention a lot less interesting.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    Under the Skin
    This stark and intensely controlled film is the work of a powerful visual stylist and storyteller, one who looks like he belongs on the short list of directors who have carried the narrative methods of the silent era deep into modern cinema.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Unknown Known
    Donald Rumsfeld, then, is almost the perfect foil or adversary to Morris, and part of the absurd magic of Morris’ extended interviews with Rumsfeld is that they almost never feel adversarial.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    It needs to seem cool enough that we want to watch it despite its obvious silliness, and viewed through that prism of canny analysis, the craftsmanship of “Winter Soldier” is first rate.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Noah
    There’s so much delusion and so much delight in Noah that I have trouble distinguishing one from the other, or determining whether its most outlandish flourishes qualify as mistakes or as strokes of genius.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Raid 2
    Much as I enjoyed watching most of it, I was deeply grateful when it was over and feel no strong desire to see the inevitable “Raid 3.”
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    One of the strangest and least summarizable motion pictures ever made: tragic and hilarious, tightly constructed and miscellaneous.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    This is one of Anderson’s funniest and most fanciful movies, but perversely enough it may also be his most serious, most tragic and most shadowed by history, with the frothy Ernst Lubitsch-style comedy shot through with an overwhelming sense of loss.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew O'Hehir
    Stalingrad
    Viewed as cinema, it’s an unstable and almost surrealist combination of Soviet-style war propaganda film, Zack Snyder-style action flick and sentimental fairy tale.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Wind Rises
    A work of immense mystery and strangeness, loaded with unforgettable images, spectacular sweeps of color and nested, hidden meanings. It feels to me like a meditative epic about Japan’s traumatic journey into modernity, and a complicated allegory about the innocence, arrogance and culpability of artists. It’s one of the most beautiful animated films ever made, and something close to a masterpiece.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    Omar
    If Alfred Hitchcock had grown up as a Palestinian, he might have made something like Hany Abu-Assad’s Oscar-nominated Omar, which is a tender love story, a haunting tragedy and an expertly crafted thriller with flawed, damaged and not entirely likable characters.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Andrew O'Hehir
    Child's Pose
    A gripping psychological thriller built around the luminous and terrifying performance of Luminita Gheorghiu, who is something like the Meryl Streep of Romania.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Adult World
    This is a performance of great subtlety, not a caustic caricature: Rat (Cusack) still believes in something, probably still in some Platonic ideal of poetic possibility.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew O'Hehir
    RoboCop
    What we’re left with is a teen-oriented action flick with an A-minus cast, a mixture of “Transformers”-style robot battles and cops-and-robbers showdown that never feels all that exciting or cutting-edge, bracketed by some intriguing and half-successful moments of social commentary.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    The LEGO Movie
    Fast-paced, often hilarious fun and involves an imaginative and deeply weird use of cutting-edge digital animation.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Andrew O'Hehir
    A Field in England
    On a more fundamental level this hilarious, disgusting, brilliant and circular psychotronic odyssey is a blast from the submerged past.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew O'Hehir
    Lone Survivor
    That people want to see a competent action picture in the depths of winter isn’t all that depressing, but the fact that they’re swallowing the disgusting symbolism of this one definitely is.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Truth About Emanuel
    The film has an odd and striking energy, and the chemistry between Scodelario and Biel has an electrical charge to it. There are a couple of genuinely creepy moments, and Gregorini keeps us on an emotional knife edge.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew O'Hehir
    Raze
    There’s enough craft and intelligence at work here that you can’t dismiss Raze as meaningless sadism, but not nearly enough to make it worth the unpleasantness of actually watching it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Wolf of Wall Street
    This telling of the tale possesses enormous cinematic energy and a killer supporting cast full of hilarious delights.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell is two or maybe three dangerous kinds of movies all at the same time, and handled so brilliantly that the result is a transformative, unforgettable work of art.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    American Hustle
    A work of tremendous confidence and dazzling showmanship that may just be a delirious movie-as-drug-high or may, if you choose to read it this way, contain a level of commentary about the nature of America and the illusioneering of Hollywood.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    The Selfish Giant
    It’s so assured and accomplished, so rigorous on both a human and technical level, and so clearly driven by love for this harsh landscape and its hardened people, that I was entirely swept away by its characters and their story.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew O'Hehir
    Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    This is the kind of movie where most people know what they want and are pretty sure what they will get, that being “more of the same, please.”
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew O'Hehir
    Her
    This is a handcrafted, passionate and sometimes impossibly beautiful film that argues for both the past and the future, with a poetic spirit that’s extremely rare in American cinema.
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