Andrew Schenker

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Slant Magazine, Village Voice
For 198 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 21% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 75% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 15.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Andrew Schenker's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 50
Highest review score: 100 Stray Dogs
Lowest review score: 0 Act of Valor
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 73 out of 198
  2. Mixed: 62 out of 198
  3. Negative: 63 out of 198
198 movie reviews
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
    As Ridgen and Rossier take pains to point out, a man so rigorously committed to putting an end to oppression ought not be so easily dismissed, even if coming to grips with such a challenging figure may be finally as difficult as getting to the bottom of the Arab-Israeli conflict itself.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Incendies
    An enormously effective piece of filmmaking, Incdendies unfolds as a series of eye-opening disclosures which Villeneuve plays as much for (admittedly enthralling) sensation as for any kind of wider-ranging inquiry, a questionable approach given the thorny nature of the material.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Revenge of the Mekons
    What emerges is a portrait of a fully committed band that could never quite make it and of the rock n' roll project as something between a (very serious) hobby and a full-time career.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Andrew Schenker
    Stray Dogs
    Tsai isn't making a social-problem film here, and his critique of patriarchal control is secondary to his portrait of unbearable psychic conditions.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    G.B.F.
    The film, lensed in appealing candy-striped colors, has so much fun exploding stereotypes and radiates with such infectious comic gusto and genuine good nature, that it would be almost churlish to resist its charms.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    S#x Acts
    In its refusal to bring an easy understanding to its main character's behavior, it comes dangerously close to presenting her as a willing perpetrator in her own victimhood.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Andrew Schenker
    At Berkeley
    Frederick Wiseman's At Berkeley isn't only a study of the contemporary American university, but, like all of the filmmaker's best documentaries, a wide-ranging inquiry into the larger institutions and contradictions that define life in the United States.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Andrew Schenker
    The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    The film never lingers too long on any one thing, instead functioning as a survey in which several fascinating cultural moments are vividly evoked, but then left insufficiently probed.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    On the Job
    A nose-to-the-ground crime thriller that also doubles as a wide-ranging portrait of official corruption in the Philippines, On the Job has little trouble delivering the genre goods.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    After Tiller
    It gives a true sense of how the forces of a hypocritically religious country has burdened countless young women with a lifetime of misplaced guilt.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Touchy Feely
    Lynn Shelton crafts a film of astonishingly sustained mood, tying its beguiling atmosphere to the mental states of her characters.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Our Children
    It's occasionally too icily removed, but it compensates through its perpetual concern with understanding its characters and their untenable situations.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    The Spectacular Now
    Given the film's early promise, it's unfortunate how it turns into a largely reductive Freudian character piece in which the main character has to come to terms with his old man.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Still Mine
    As far as films about couples dealing with the female partner losing her mind go, Still Mine is pretty pedestrian.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    The Shine of Day
    As in Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's 2009 film, La Pivellina, modesty is the key to The Shine of Day, and sometimes to the detriment of audience involvement and focus.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    The Heat
    With the film, Melissa McCarthy definitively cements her status as a legitimate comic talent, leaving her co-star stumbling behind in her wake.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Three Worlds
    A little too deliberately balanced in its depiction of its three leads, but it largely makes up the difference with its informed grounding in the economic and social terrain of contemporary France.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    The Internship
    Shawn Levy's occasionally uproarious, warm-hearted comedy is about different generations educating each other, but it never seems rote.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
    The film works best when it focuses viewer attention most acutely on the story, deflecting it away from the director's manipulations.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Shadow Dancer
    James Marsh carries forward the mood and menace of the opening into the balance of the work, perfectly matching his aesthetic strategies to the story's shifting moral terrain.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Fill the Void
    The film unfolds in unhurried dramatic terms that come to take on an almost fatalistic force.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    State 194
    It too often feels like just one more aesthetically uninspired documentary that gives way in the end to a special round of pleading for its specific cause.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Andrew Schenker
    Turtle Hill, Brooklyn
    Nothing is forced in Ryan Gielen's deceptively simple story, with the pressures bubbling forth as naturally as the good cheer that defines so much of the film.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Andrew Schenker
    The Act of Killing
    In Joshua Oppenheimer's extraordinary The Act of Killing, film becomes the medium for a bold historical reckoning--and in more ways than one.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    The Silence
    The slightly dour tone is the perfect backdrop for the director to skillfully weave together his varied narrative strands in a surprisingly entertaining medley.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Porfirio
    Alejandro Landes's Porfirio is an ugly movie to watch, but it's not without purpose.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Only the Young
    Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims refuse to use their subjects as test cases for any sort of larger thesis.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Dragon
    Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Deonnie Yen Chan are too resourceful to let things remain dull for long.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Anna Karenina
    The film contains far more passion and a tad more complexity than the dominant and typically more staid model of middlebrow costume drama.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Andrew Schenker
    Vamps
    A sense of anachronism is what provides the film with its melancholy heart.
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