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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    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Andy Klein
    8 ½ Women
    Inert, unfunny, and not even interesting as a dirty movie, 8 1/2 Women could well rank as one of the worst films of the year.
    • TNT RoughCut
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    The Cup
    This sweet little movie is a mild comedy, a much calmer cousin to "Sister Act," with men in robes rather than women in habits.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Croupier
    Takes roughly a third of its length to really get going, but, once it does, it's a devilishly clever, engaging piece of work that milks every cent of value from its tiny budget.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    Spy Kids
    It's funny and exciting on enough levels that adults are likely to enjoy it just as much as the rug rats.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    Festival in Cannes
    Festival in Cannes is an amused indictment of Jaglom's own profession; he doesn't seem to be making excuses for anybody's compromised (or even downright immoral) behavior here.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Flirting with Disaster
    Hilarious--a terrific updating of ancient farce conventions for the '90s.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Klein
    Chunhyangdyun
    Unless you're deeply familiar with Korean culture, you've truly never seen anything like it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Tully
    Hilary Birmingham -- makes an impressive feature directorial debut with this rural drama. She gets first-rate performances.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    The Lady and the Duke
    Surprisingly manages never to grow boring -- which proves that Rohmer still has a sense of his audience.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Andy Klein
    American History X
    Fails dramatically as well as ideologically.
    • 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Andy Klein
    Dead or Alive
    While the whole is diverting, the ending's utter repudiation of reality seems like pissing on the audience; -- we feel like we've been suckers for bothering to care about the characters at all.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    My Voyage to Italy
    For most people, four hours pushes the outer comfort limits for theatrical viewing. My Voyage to Italy is well worth the time, but bringing along a thermos of espresso isn't a bad idea either.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    Chopper
    Dominik's stylistic choices are savvy, but what really makes the movie work is Bana's extraordinary performance as Chopper.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    Kikujirô no natsu
    In short, the film is emotional, perhaps even sentimental, but it strenuously avoids the sort of blatant manipulation that marks cheap sentimentality.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Andy Klein
    The Forsaken
    Reasonably well-made and all, but it's simply too familiar, too derivative and too inferior to its predecessors to have any reason to exist.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    Mission: Impossible II
    Abandon all hopes of common sense, and enter the theater with high expectations for visceral entertainment. You won't be disappointed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Dark Days
    Compellingly watchable.
    • TNT RoughCut
    • 34 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    Town & Country
    Nowhere near as bad as distributor New Line seems to think.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Klein
    Thirteen Days
    The efficiency of his (Donaldson) direction renders the movie somewhat characterless, like a top-rank made-for-TV production.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Klein
    Werckmeister Harmonies
    The pacing is slow, but the film is entrancing and earns a permanent place in the viewer's mind.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    Cookie's Fortune
    It's a strange, entertaining little film that derives its weird tension from a blend of comic and serious tones.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Klein
    Almost Famous
    Casting is perfect all down the line.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Andy Klein
    Speed 2: Cruise Control
    First, the good news: Unlike most action film sequels, Speed 2: Cruise Control is not a mere retread of the original. Now the bad news: Better it had been.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Klein
    Cube
    Cube is essentially a glossy, beautifully designed 90-minute Twilight Zone episode.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Klein
    Guinevere
    Rea hits just the right balance of sympathy and self-interest.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Klein
    Together
    On one level, Together is a countercultural soap opera, though played more as bittersweet comedy than as drama.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Andy Klein
    Next Friday
    All the new plot stuff is way old hat, as though straight from a textbook chapter called "Conflict Drives Your Narrative!" And at times the motivations are either unclear or senseless.
    • 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.)
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