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Nigel Andrews

Nigel Andrews's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “This movie make-over of a Stephen King chiller is adroit, stylish and empty-headed.” – Financial Times Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “The film is photographed in such grained and murky colour that it is like visiting Wonderland in the off-season.” – Financial Times Nov 18, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “The film is eye-bogglingly visceral one moment, tongue-in-cheek hilarious the next.” – Financial Times Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “The story is crisp, exciting and only occasionally far-fetched.” – Financial Times Sep 27, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “A sophisticated and sweetly shivery ghost story.” – Financial Times Sep 25, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “At once free-fall in its zaniness and piercingly accurate in its parody.” – The Times (UK) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “Neither the script, by five writers, nor the acting, by everyone, persuades.” – Financial Times Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “The film has a fierce, funny and wholly delightful energy of its own.” – Financial Times Aug 15, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “The joy of The Naked Gun is its lunatic sobriety.” – Financial Times Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Defending Your Life (1991) 92% EDIT “Defending Your Life might be defensible if it were more caustic and less cloying. But Brooks's wit is apparently on retirement pay while a newborn inspirationalism bounces forth, caterwauling, in its place.” – Financial Times Jul 23, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% EDIT “Absurdity is best delivered with a straight face, and no face is straighter than Leslie Nielsen's.” – Financial Times Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “What a pleasure to see a kiss-bang thriller in which both forms of consummation are dealt out slowly, teasingly, appetisingly, rather than force-fed to us from frame one.” – Financial Times Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% EDIT “It proves not so much a simple failure, more two different but intriguing movies painfully yoked together.” – Financial Times Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “The normally dazzling photographer David Watkin shoots the film in pasty, overcast colours, as if this return to Oz was strictly off-season like a visit to Brighton in November.” – Financial Times Jun 20, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% EDIT “Writer-director Ang Lee scarcely sounds a false note.” – Financial Times Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% EDIT “Neither the script nor the direction succeeds in lending much sense of the proceedings.” – Financial Times Apr 12, 2025 Full Review Supervixens (1975) 49% EDIT “The result is very funny, exuberantly vulgar, and highly recommended.” – Financial Times Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 59% EDIT “The landscapes make up for much. All those cataracts and sunsets: all those forests painted like living, breathing Japanese water colors; all those river-viewing crags that characters go to stand on whenever the screenplay runs out of dialogue.” – Financial Times Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Jaws 2 (1978) 56% EDIT “In Jaws 2 the shark sits up and begs to have its unreality noticed. With its lifeless eyes and autopilot movements, it looks as if it would be more at home patrolling your bath-tub. ” – Financial Times Aug 14, 2024 Full Review Rosa Luxemburg (1986) 80% EDIT “Von Trotta's drearily respectful bio-pic gives us Rosa the lover, Rosa the revolutionary, Rosa the mother, but above all Rosa the bore.” – Financial Times Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Highlander (1986) 69% EDIT “Close your brain to the illogicalities of the time-chopping structure and there is much to marvel at. ” – Financial Times Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% EDIT “Cameron's pasty visuals do not match those of Ridley Scott's original Alien for lovingly textured High Gothic. But in the flood of action you hardly notice, and in Sigourney Weaver Hollywood has found an action-woman as tough as S. Stallone.” – Financial Times Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Rainbow (1996) 13% EDIT “Archly scripted, lumpily directed whimsy.” – Financial Times Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Denise Calls Up (1995) 71% EDIT “[A] funny, low-key character octet.” – Financial Times Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 68% EDIT “Director Jan "Speed" De Bont made his debut with a film in which a bus had more character than the humans. But at least the humans were not vapid enough to be distracting. Here the characterisation is worse than perfunctory, it is patronising.” – Financial Times Jul 16, 2024 Full Review
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