Andy Webster

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The New York Times
For 271 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 9% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Andy Webster's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 The Farthest
Lowest review score: 0 A Haunted House 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 118 out of 271
  2. Mixed: 122 out of 271
  3. Negative: 31 out of 271
271 movie reviews
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Webster
    Soufra
    Crisply directed by Thomas Morgan, the film depicts a succession of challenges facing Ms. Shaar, a smart, understated and tenacious entrepreneur.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Andy Webster
    I Remember You
    The Icelandic director Oskar Thor Axelsson is clearly fluent in horror conventions. But he has commendable restraint, and his latest film, I Remember You, transcends genre pyrotechnics even as it incorporates elements of Nordic noir.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Most Beautiful Island
    Dark corners of the immigrant experience in New York City, especially for women, are frighteningly dramatized in Ana Asensio’s suspense film Most Beautiful Island, a modest but effective writing-directing debut.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Only the Brave
    Under its slick, schematic surface, this tale of aspiration and redemption at least offers moments of genuine feeling.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
    The film offers an enlightening glimpse into how the gay experience informed Mr. Maupin’s art.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
    Chris Perkel’s reverent documentary Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives is a valedictory for Mr. Davis.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Woodpeckers
    The lean handsomeness and quiet authority of Mr. Jean is a perfect complement to Ms. Rodríguez’s passionate Yanelly, while the locations — and the presence of actual inmates — underscore the harsh boundaries the lovers struggle against.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    The Queen of Spain
    The Queen of Spain, a light ensemble romp from the veteran director Fernando Trueba, has fun with movie lore even as it pillories Hollywood’s deal-making with the Francisco Franco regime in the 1950s.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Andy Webster
    The Farthest
    For any believer in humankind’s instinct to transcend boundaries, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, and the NASA team that produced them, inspire awe. The Farthest, a dazzling documentary written and directed by Emer Reynolds, illustrates why.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    A Taxi Driver
    The film climaxes with a breathless escape from Gwangju, as Kim and Hinzpeter elude government vehicles with the aid of other cabdrivers. But most impressive is Mr. Song, who persuasively conveys a working stiff’s political awakening.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Webster
    Our Time Will Come
    It’s Fang’s transformation, embodied by Ms. Zhou’s lean, cool authority, that carries the most weight, lending the proceedings an unforced feminist dimension, and reaffirming Ms. Hui’s status as one of China’s cinematic treasures.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Score: A Film Music Documentary
    In 1993, the documentary “Visions of Light” won critical love for its overview of Hollywood’s classic cinematographers. Matt Schrader’s tidy and informative “Score” lavishes similar adoration on moviedom’s great composers.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    The Incomparable Rose Hartman
    Pushy, judgmental, tart-tongued and self-obsessed, the photographer at the heart of Otis Mass’s penetrating documentary, The Incomparable Rose Hartman, is, like her snapshots, a piece of work.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Tatara Samurai
    Yoshinari Nishikori’s period action film Tatara Samurai does not skimp with its swordplay, but its narrative arc takes you to a resolution uncommon for its genre.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Tracktown
    Fact and fiction blend nicely in Tracktown.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia
    The graphic evidence here, in testimony on camera and in period photographs, is absolutely harrowing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
    Throughout, the solitary Mr. Tower maintains an unflappable refinement, dedicated, a college friend says, to “looking for some utopian possibility of living, because that’s what kept the darkness away.”
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    The Transfiguration
    Mr. Ruffin must carry the film, projecting interior activity and suggesting information where the script (by Mr. O’Shea) does not. That he imbues the film with a weight greater than its words is a testament to his skill as an actor.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Truman
    This well-made, low-key drama, written by Mr. Gay and Tomàs Aragay, offers some insights into terminal illness.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    God Knows Where I Am
    This documentary, coupled with Ms. Aviv’s article, addresses unresolved issues of personal autonomy versus a patient’s inability to protect herself. It will haunt you.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Dig Two Graves
    Hunter Adams’s Dig Two Graves is that rare chiller conjuring eeriness and dread without defaulting to abundant gore or flagrant nudity.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Atomica
    While its premise and some of its effects may be B-movie grade, Atomica — like the best B movies — delivers an unexpectedly rewarding kick.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Mean Dreams
    Nathan Morlando’s Mean Dreams may use a time-honored premise — young lovers on the lam (see: “Badlands”) — but it does so with such quiet, gently appealing assurance that it makes the template seem fresh again.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Webster
    Saving Banksy
    [A] fascinating documentary.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Monster Trucks
    It’s an eco-fable devoid of didactic overkill, delivered with energy, winking mischief, unobtrusive effects and a skilled cast.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Andy Webster
    Dear Zindagi
    This is a movie that drops quotations from Faulkner and Einstein, but it rarely feels pedantic or platitudinous, thanks to the breezy, assured delivery of Mr. Khan.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Iron Moon
    Iron Moon has a slowly mounting, but lingering, impact.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Disturbing the Peace
    Their stories are compelling — and persuasive.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Webster
    We Are X
    [A] fascinating and assured documentary.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Mr. Donkey
    Zhou Shen and Liu Lu’s bleak farce Mr. Donkey, adapted from their play, has a sentimental streak, and, as farce can, a tendency to overheat. But beneath its mild staginess and intermittent mania lies a cynical, piercing parable about China’s past and perhaps its present.
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