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Geoff Andrew

Geoff Andrew's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Time Out film critic.

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The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% EDIT “A corny cornucopia of cop-saga clichés, Zucker's film is a sublimely free-wheeling parody of every ridiculous matter-of-life-and-death scene ever to appear in a crime thriller. A minor masterpiece of infantile idiocy.” – Time Out Jul 22, 2025 Full Review The Piano Teacher (2001) 75% 5/5 EDIT “Ambitious, profoundly articulate, and despite its avoidance of sentimentality and sermonising, very compassionate.” – Time Out Jun 3, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) 93% EDIT “It's wonderful to see this hallucinatory folly-cum-near masterpiece again on the big screen.” – Time Out Sep 22, 2024 Full Review Target (1985) 62% EDIT “An uneven film, to be sure, but far more ambitious and intelligent than most spy thrillers.” – Time Out May 26, 2021 Full Review The Hole (1998) 84% EDIT “Idiosyncratic, of course, but immensely impressive.” – Time Out Sep 22, 2020 Full Review Salón Mexico (1949) EDIT “Despite the hackneyed plotting, however, Gabriel Figueroa's noir photography and the splendidly glamorous seediness of the nightclub scenes make for passable entertainment.” – Time Out Aug 25, 2020 Full Review The Trouble With Harry (1955) 88% EDIT “Hitchcock is reluctant to follow the subversive premises of the story through to their outrageous logical conclusion.” – Time Out May 5, 2020 Full Review Lady on a Train (1945) 71% EDIT “Light, cheery and shading into darker areas for the climax, it's fun.” – Time Out Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Matador (1986) 93% EDIT “Not so much a maelstrom as a mess of contrived eroticism, pretentious dialogue, and voyeuristic sensationalism, Almodóvar's silly, cod-philosophical whodunit impresses only for its bravado.” – Time Out Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Women in Love (1969) 83% EDIT “Despite a growing portentousness towards the end, and moments of silliness scattered throughout, a surprisingly restrained, even respectful adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel.” – Time Out Jun 11, 2019 Full Review Ghost Town Anthology (2019) 96% EDIT “A genuinely intriguing and for the most part rewarding study of the effects of an unexpected death on a small, remote, inward-looking rural community.” – Sight & Sound Feb 13, 2019 Full Review Hot Blood (1989) EDIT “An oddity, then, but one distinguished by Ray's characteristic refusal to patronise or glamorise his characters.” – Time Out Jan 28, 2019 Full Review Images (1972) 71% EDIT “[Altman] controls things beautifully, proffering credible biographical reasons for her inner disturbances, and borrowing shock effects from the thriller genre to underline the terrifying nature of her predicament.” – Time Out Jan 14, 2019 Full Review At War (2018) 69% 6 EDIT “In the end more concerned with the workings of abstract forces than with the experiences of human individuals.” – Sight & Sound Nov 10, 2018 Full Review The Wild Pear Tree (2018) 94% EDIT “The performances are superb throughout, none more so than Demirkol as the far from entirely sympathetic Sinan.” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2018 Full Review The Portrait of a Lady (1996) 48% EDIT “Jane Campion and screenwriter Laura Jones have... produced an adaptation as cinematically intelligent as it is faithful to the original.” – Time Out Oct 27, 2018 Full Review Shoplifters (2018) 99% 4/5 EDIT “Another charming, funny and very affecting example of Kore-eda's special brand of tough-but-tender humanism.” – Time Out May 25, 2018 Full Review Happy as Lazzaro (2018) 91% EDIT “Steering clear of sentimentality, gently reminding us that the tobacco workers have simply been despatched to a different form of slavery, leavening the brew with welcome dashes of humour, Rohrwacher also creates many moments of pure cinematic magic.” – Sight & Sound May 15, 2018 Full Review You Were Never Really Here (2017) 89% 4/5 EDIT “If you're left a little in the fog as to what's happened and why, it's not a drawback: The execution is so assured, you simply go with the flow of striking, suggestive images.” – Time Out Apr 9, 2018 Full Review My Brother's Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot (2018) 50% EDIT “Notwithstanding the echoes of Cocteau and Malick, there is undoubtedly something different, fresh, even devil-may-care audacious about the first two thirds of the movie.” – Sight & Sound Feb 24, 2018 Full Review Le Roman de Renard (1930) 100% EDIT “This vintage animated film impresses, first of all, by the sheer virtuosity of its stop-motion puppet work.” – Time Out Feb 23, 2018 Full Review The Green Fog (2017) 96% EDIT “The film is a brilliant exercise in meta-narrative, which raises questions galore about reality and representation, time and space, genre and gender, individual and urban identity, cinematic suture and casting. Mainly, though, it's just very, very funny.” – Sight & Sound Feb 21, 2018 Full Review The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) 100% EDIT “With Cooper as the crusading officer, one is never in any doubt as to the correctness and sincerity of his views (Mitchell was posthumously rehabilitated in 1947), while Steiger puts in one of his inimitably flashy performances as the prosecuting attorney” – Time Out Feb 5, 2018 Full Review El Dorado (1966) 96% EDIT “A witty, exciting and deeply moving masterpiece.” – Time Out Nov 20, 2017 Full Review The Square (2017) 85% 4/5 EDIT “If the film has any flaw, it could be that it juggles too many good ideas. But why complain about that?” – Time Out Oct 24, 2017 Full Review
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