Andrew Sarris

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Village Voice
For 67 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 69% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Andrew Sarris' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 The Birds
Lowest review score: 10 Murder on the Orient Express
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 67
  3. Negative: 6 out of 67
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 20 Andrew Sarris
    A Clockwork Orange
    Let me report simply that A Clockwork Orange manifests itself on the screen as a painless, bloodless, and ultimately pointless futuristic fantasy...The last third of the movie is such a complete bore that even audiences of confirmed Kubrickians have drowned out smatterings of applause with prolonged hissing.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Sarris
    Cleopatra
    It is not even bad enough to be perversely amusing. Liz's first entrance is grotesque enough to prepare us for that high point of self-parody when she asks Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) if he smells anything burning as the library of Alexandria goes up in smpke, but there are not enough of these pungent moments to relieve the soul-destroying tedium of little people lost on big sets in the most expensive session of hide-and-seek ever to masquerade as a movie. [20 June 1963, p.13]
    • Village Voice
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Sarris
    The Pawnbroker
    A pretentious parable that manages to shrivel into drivel.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Andrew Sarris
    Convoy
    Sam Peckinpah's Convoy is not merely a bad movie, but a terrible movie. Anyone can make a bad movie--only a misguided talent can manage to be terrible. [17 July 1978, p.44]
    • Village Voice
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Andrew Sarris
    The Candidate
    But why would so many critics fall for a piece of cheese like “The Candidate?” Robert Redford cultism? Partly, I suppose.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 10 Andrew Sarris
    Murder on the Orient Express
    Murder on the Orient Express falls down so badly as escapist entertainment that it is as if it were designed to prove the proposition that movies and mysteries don't mix.

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