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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    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    The Confessions
    An investigation among the attendees grants Mr. Andò the opportunity to pursue pithy, discursive exchanges about power, austerity and capitalism amid high-end accommodations and a tasteful classical soundtrack.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Pom Poko
    Its ecological concerns, nuance and occasional lyricism place it squarely within the Ghibli oeuvre but not among its masterpieces.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    The Stranger
    The movie benefits greatly from Mr. Amoedo’s largely steady direction and the uniform acting skills of its Chilean cast (performing in English).
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Drone
    [A] modest, proficient thriller.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    WA-SHOKU ~Beyond Sushi~
    The film may leave you hungry for deeper insight into some its most renowned purveyors.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Tentacle 8
    Mr. Chi, making his feature debut with Tentacle 8, lavishes attention on his characters at the expense of the through line binding them.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    A Field in England
    The actors are uniformly impressive, and Mr. Wheatley’s longtime cinematographer, Laurie Rose, shooting in black and white, combines stunning pastoral compositions with bursts of graphic violence punctuated by blazing flintlocks.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    A Street Cat Named Bob
    A savvy exercise in inspirational feel-good cinema lightly seasoned with grit.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Those People
    The director, Joey Kuhn, making his feature debut from his own script, has created fairly credible and sympathetic characters, despite the 1-percenter milieu.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    The Journey
    Though the script tilts to the didactic, the performances are absolutely delicious, with Mr. Meaney droll and understated and Mr. Spall fiery and derisive, yet not above a joke.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Relationship Status: It's Complicated
    Mr. Payet, who is one of the film’s directors and screenwriters, is a comedy star in France, and this movie is facile with its comic rhythms and dramatic flow.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Before You Know It
    There’s much sympathy but little tension in P J Raval’s new documentary.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Andy Webster
    Sacred
    A kaleidoscopic travelogue depicting demonstrations of faith worldwide.
    • 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    The Boy
    The Boy, despite remarkable performances and gorgeous imagery, does not sufficiently flesh out its subject.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Reclaim
    This isn’t activism; it’s by-the-numbers suspense.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Only You
    Only You is served very well by Ms. Tang (a star of Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution”). Whether playing elated, sorrowful, coy or petulant, she consistently provides the spark the movie could use more of.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Edge of Winter
    [A] competent but slight thriller.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Memories of the Sword
    Though rich in period detail, the movie grows tiresome with solemn, protracted soap-operatic encounters laden with glowering stares and tearful outbursts.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    He's Way More Famous Than You
    This frenetic movie has moments of wit, and Ms. Feiffer, a seasoned screen and Broadway performer, has range, stamina and charisma.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Hamari Adhuri Kahaani
    The movie may suffer from a surfeit of excesses, but it does have arresting, if overwrought, things to say about domestic abuse in India.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Closer to God
    Having painted Victor as a transgressive offender, Mr. Senese backpedals furiously with a coda asserting the potential rewards of genetic manipulation. It isn’t convincing.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Make Your Move
    Mr. Hough, a “Dancing With the Stars” champion, impresses with his footwork and sufficiently fulfills his romantic-lead duties. BoA is cute and appealingly impudent, but a bit more remote. On the floor, however, their chemistry ignites.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Zombeavers
    An intermittently diverting stew of low-budget effects and potty-mouth humor.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Kabbalah Me
    Kabbalah Me, which distinguishes between “narrow consciousness” and “expanded consciousness,” merely walks the middle ground.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
    The find here is Alexa Nisenson as Georgia, Rafe’s know-it-all little sister, who takes cars out for a spin. She is blessed with the best lines, comic and dramatic, and appears delightfully cognizant of the fact. If only the movie had more of her.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Contracted: Phase II
    Mr. Mercer’s character doesn’t attract sympathy comparable to that for Ms. Townsend’s (Ms. Lore’s Harper fares better), but there is no holding back on the worms, dermatologic nightmares, venereal-disease metaphors and hints of future sequels. Start stocking up now on the Pepto-Bismol.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Big Time
    Clearly, the architect and the filmmaker are tight, which does not entirely benefit Big Time.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    The Pact 2
    The directors, Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath, are fluent in the genre’s staples (creaky interiors, slamming doors, yada yada yada), lighting schemes and startling edits. And they draw decent work from their actors, who commit to the wispy, subtext-free material.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Andy Webster
    Take Care
    The film’s director, Liz Tuccillo — a former writer for “Sex and the City,” an author of “He’s Just Not That Into You” and now developing a sitcom for Lauren Graham — is predictably facile with comic rhythms, though her dialogue tilts toward the glib, and her characterizations toward the familiar.
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