Andy Klein

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Dallas Observer, New Times (L.A.), The A.V. Club, TNT RoughCut
For 255 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Andy Klein's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Bottle Rocket
Lowest review score: 0 8 ½ Women
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 126 out of 255
  2. Mixed: 96 out of 255
  3. Negative: 33 out of 255
255 movie reviews
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    The World Is Not Enough
    Whatever its flaws -- and it has some lulus -- it's a textbook model for how to structure action of this kind.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    Master of the Flying Guillotine (re-release)
    It's refreshing and unusual to see clever strategy trumping ritual honor in a film of this genre, even if one of the tricks seems gratuitously brutal.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    The Red Violin
    It's unlikely that anyone will be bored. But it's just as unlikely that anyone will be swept off his feet either.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Andy Klein
    Extraction 2
    As in Extraction, the action sequences are the whole game here, and they do not disappoint.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Titus
    Taymor moves Titus completely out of time and into all time.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Andy Klein
    Hannibal
    More than just a disappointment. It is also a spoiler, possibly weakening the impact of "Silence" for its fans.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Sasayaki
    Except for a few slow patches, the movie is compulsively watchable: You keep waiting to see just how sick things are going to get.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Andy Klein
    Non-Stop
    It doesn't add up to much more than a trifle that might have been more impressive as a short.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    The Big Kahuna
    It doesn't have enough power in the first place to make a strong claim on our attentions.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    Cruel Intentions
    As the story plows toward its finale, the cultural dislocation problems become worse, until by the end they almost defeat the whole film.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    Bamboozled
    By the end, we simply have no idea what he (Lee) feels or what the film is really about. And we are too worn out to care.
    • TNT RoughCut
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    The Minus Man
    Doesn't show us much of anything we haven't seen better already.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    The Recruit
    But by the end the audience, along with Clayton, has been jerked around so many times that it's almost too exhausting...By then, it's almost impossible to care.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Andy Klein
    The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Middlebrow art has its built-in pitfalls, not the least of them sentimentality and intellectual flabbiness -- both of which are in abundant supply in Bagger Vance.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    Mad Love
    At 75, Aranda can still make his actors sizzle on the screen as well as he did 10 years ago in "Lovers." The explicitly hot bits here may be few and far between, but what there is of them is choice.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    The ludicrous casting of Hoffman is just the fatal bit of kindling on this Joan's fire.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Deep Blue Sea
    Not everything in the film happens according to the traditional, overly familiar blueprint.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    The Château
    An occasionally funny, but overall limp, fish-out-of-water story.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    Music of the Heart
    So uplifting, it's almost...gross.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    The Siege
    A political film in the form of a thriller, rather than a garden-variety potboiler gleefully helping itself to stock political tropes from the genre's grab bag.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Lost Highway
    His most thoroughly surreal work since Eraserhead, this two-hour-plus fever dream is more of one piece than Fire Walk with Me and less desperate and jokey than Wild at Heart.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Wasabi
    This nearly perfect confection never takes its action more seriously than its comedy.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    Tomorrow Never Dies
    Brosnan proved his worth last time around; but, sad to say, the rest of Tomorrow Never Dies lacks the wit and inventiveness of GoldenEye, let alone of Goldfinger.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    The Mothman Prophecies
    Enjoyable, if utterly stupid, upscale entry in the old Amityville Horror genre -- that is, a horror film allegedly based on spooky and inexplicable real-life events.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Andy Klein
    Con Air
    While tyro director Simon West fills Con Air with all the slam-bang action and well-honed wisecracks that were the more positive qualities of its predecessors, the film brims even more with all their worst qualities.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    Possession
    The cold distance that LaBute brings to the material keeps the viewer at arms' length.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    Haiku Tunnel
    After a few very funny early sequences, tricked up with grotesque, surreal editing and camerawork, the movie gets bogged down a bit during the first third.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    Windtalkers
    The over-the-top sincerity that is so rewarding in "Face/Off" (1998), Woo's best American film, feels too clichéd in this more conventional context.
    • New Times (L.A.)
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    The Transporter
    What's most disappointing is the almost utter lack of humor -- In the mindless action sweepstakes, however, there's still enough here to place The Transporter above big-bang gibberish like XXX.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 58 Andy Klein
    Champions
    Harrelson is enjoyable as always, and the rest of the cast delivers, but the film is too warm, fuzzy, predictable, and by the numbers to be anything more than a pleasant diversion that will vanish from your mind by the time you leave the multiplex.
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