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 15.1 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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    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Andrew Schenker
    A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    The film speeds ahead with almost gleeful disinterest in dealing with the narrative challenges it sets up before resolving them in the most perfunctory ways imaginable.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew Schenker
    My Best Enemy
    This twist-heavy World War II drama would play as an absurdist comedy if the director wasn't so dead set on excluding just about any trace of humor from his self-serious project.
    • 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Andrew Schenker
    Waiting for Lightning
    With Danny Way almost never weighing in directly, the film's attempts to portray his story as an inspirational tale of triumph over adversity scarcely registers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Dragon
    Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Deonnie Yen Chan are too resourceful to let things remain dull for long.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 12 Andrew Schenker
    Hitchcock
    If you've ever seen Psycho, or even if you know anything at all about the film, Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock would like to congratulate you on your savvy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Andrew Schenker
    Barrymore
    Director Erik Canuel fails to deliver us from the inevitable hermeticism of the material.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew Schenker
    A Royal Affair
    The film is too tepid in its treatment of its central character and her situation to generate any real emotive charge.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Andrew Schenker
    Vamps
    A sense of anachronism is what provides the film with its melancholy heart.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Andrew Schenker
    The Details
    The Details is as smug and self-satisfied as its privileged lead character.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Dinotasia
    This decision to avoid treating the dinosaurs as surrogate people for easy identification is both the film's boldest move and the source of much of its problems.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew Schenker
    All Together
    The film is somewhat flimsy, tinged with the impulse to make the elderly characters just the right amount of ridiculous for the benefit of younger viewers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    The Loneliest Planet
    Much of the film's final act is given to alienated walking, which too often plays as an abstract study of triangular arrangements in which non-speaking figures move across a barren terrain.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew Schenker
    Argo
    Undeniably rousing, but deeply irresponsible, Argo fans the flames surrounding historical events likely to still remain raw in the memory of many viewers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    The House I Live In
    The mixture of different techniques and varied views results in a rich, multi-faceted look at one of America's most misguided policy initiatives.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew Schenker
    Pitch Perfect
    Jason Moore's film is more or less successful in inverse proportion to the degree that it plays its material by the book.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew Schenker
    Hellbound?
    Fitfully engaging, but the documentary turns into a touchy-feely isn't-it-wonderful-we're-all-saved love fest as soon as the universalists begin to dominate the interview segments.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Tears of Gaza
    There's no coddling the audience in Vibeke Løkkeberg's verité heave of disgust as the full consequences on the Palestinian people of Operation Cast Lead are made sickeningly clear.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Hello I Must Be Going
    Thanks to Melanie Lynskey's performance, the movie feels like a believably worked-out, sympathetically presented study in thirtysomething uncertainty.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
    Tsui Hark's film is the veteran director's chance to let his imagination run riot in the context of a high-budget, 3D IMAX production.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Andrew Schenker
    For a Good Time, Call...
    While the heart of the movie is the at-times strained relationship between the two leads, it all unfolds rather by the numbers, dictated more by the expected arc of such things than the demands of the characters.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Premium Rush
    Proves how invigorating genre filmmaking can be in the hands of a savvy, perpetually inventive director.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Andrew Schenker
    Why Stop Now
    Shifting between wacky situation comedy and somber familial drama, Why Stop Now? isn't invested enough in either mode to convincingly pull off its genre-hopping ambitions.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 12 Andrew Schenker
    Compliance
    It seems as if Craig Zobel wants to implicate the audience in these proceedings, but he doesn't have a very clear idea how to go about it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Andrew Schenker
    Drought
    Everado González isn't above capturing some striking landscape shots, seemingly for the shear desolate prettiness of it, but they always double as a reminder of the very real plight facing the subjects.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Andrew Schenker
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
    A half-hearted morality tale about taking responsibility for your actions as a sign of impending maturity.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Andrew Schenker
    Dreams of a Life
    Dreams of a Life succeeds in making its point about the unkowability of the people in our lives, but there isn't quite enough substance here to fully sustain the film.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Andrew Schenker
    The Babymakers
    A safe, laugh-free exercise that gets to have its fun, such as it is, because it's all in the service of the most conservative notions of domestic normality.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Andrew Schenker
    The Watch
    What's perhaps most off-putting about the movie isn't its increasingly stale humor, but the way it ultimately validates its characters' worst impulses.
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