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
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Homme Less
    Mr. Wirthensohn, who has known Mr. Reay since both were models, sees Mr. Reay’s life as a metaphor for the vanishing middle class. But Mr. Reay merely comes across as an aging casualty of Manhattan fashion, vainly chasing his fortune in a fickle industry that prizes youth.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    The Apostate
    The Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj’s leisurely comedy-drama The Apostate has its charms, though the story (and its hero) could benefit from a tarter approach.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Andy Webster
    2016: Obama's America
    Mr. D'Souza stumbles when interviewing George Obama, the president's half-brother, an activist who voluntarily lives amid squalor in Nairobi, Kenya. "Obama has not done anything to help you," Mr. D'Souza says. "He's taking care of me; I'm part of the world," George Obama replies.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Take Me to the River
    Just keep your eyes on the old folks; they are where the heart — and the sweet soul music — of this movie lies.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
    Effective topical entertainment, we are reminded, rarely comes without creative conflict.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Wedding Doll
    Mr. Gilady, a documentarian making his fiction feature debut as a writer and director, over-stacks the deck with this belabored if artfully shot story.
    • 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.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Dealin' with Idiots
    Mr. Garlin has such a soft touch that at times the film feels feather-light, almost devoid of emotional traction.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Birth of the Living Dead
    Mr. Romero, manifesting a self-effacing demeanor and sensible humanity, is a most agreeable raconteur.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    The Boy and the Beast
    Mr. Hosoda is skilled with fight scenes, and his settings — the pastel-hued Jutengai and the drab Shibuya, evoked at times with surveillance-camera perspectives and crowd-paranoia angles — are impressive. But the characterizations and conflicts here are strictly generic
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Kingdom of Shadows
    The American demand for drugs, which feeds the cartels, is mentioned, though regrettably not expanded upon. But as a rendering of Mexico’s agonized convulsions, Kingdom of Shadows is unforgettable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    The Confirmation
    The pleasures are modest but rewarding in Bob Nelson’s character study The Confirmation.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Andy Webster
    The Fatal Encounter
    For all its spectacle, The Fatal Encounter is wanting for profundity.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Coming Through The Rye
    As Salinger, the formidable Chris Cooper has a brief but masterly turn, sympathetically rendering the writer as a curmudgeon defending his literary offspring.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Tracktown
    Fact and fiction blend nicely in Tracktown.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Webster
    We Are X
    [A] fascinating and assured documentary.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Cupcakes
    This candy-coated confection is so irresistible that you’re captivated by its sentiment even as you acknowledge its manipulations.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    The Suspect
    At 137 minutes, the film overstays its welcome with multiple concluding flourishes (and exceeds the sentiment threshold).
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Flowers
    To its benefit, it has rich roles for, and splendid performances by, its three principal actresses. To its detriment, their characters are each in their own way pining for the same man, whose simple actions in life seem undeserving of their considerable exertions after his demise.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    The Ones Below
    Toward the end, Mr. Farr employs familiar cinematic sleights of hand, but with a finely calibrated touch.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Kabbalah Me
    Kabbalah Me, which distinguishes between “narrow consciousness” and “expanded consciousness,” merely walks the middle ground.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Karski & the Lords of Humanity
    Karski & the Lords of Humanity is fascinating, but Mr. Lanzmann’s efforts tower over it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Set It Off
    The action sequences deliver, as do the performances. You want these characters to make it, and their destinies are compelling to behold.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Andy Webster
    La Última Película
    The movie revels in multiple film stocks (with hairs or threads often on the camera lens) and self-conscious “Last Movie” flourishes (long intervals between credits, “scene missing” title cards, a version of “Me and Bobby McGee”) while maintaining its blithe humor.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Andy Webster
    Roseanne for President!
    Fascinating.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Rise of the Legend
    Mr. Peng has charisma, though his moves are less convincing than those of an earlier Fei.... But “Legend” does offer the hefty authority of Mr. Hung, who at 64 can still — almost — hit, kick and do wire work with the best of them.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Andy Webster
    Bitter Honey
    There is nothing remotely salacious about Bitter Honey, an agonizing documentary examination of polygamy in Bali, Indonesia, from the U.C.L.A. anthropologist Robert Lemelson. There is only vivid evidence of a society that, despite limp efforts at discouraging domestic abuse, remains mired in ancient patriarchy, sanctioning polygamy and, implicitly, often attendant violence.
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