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Stabroek News is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Andrew Kendall.

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Forastera (2025) Andrew Kendall Stein, an intuitive performer, manages to play both Cata’s inscrutability and her instinctiveness through her expressive face. The camera will linger on her face in a fraught conversation, and we might drown in the deep wells of thought in her eyes.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Ky Nam Inn (2025) Andrew Kendall “Ky Nam Inn” is a romantic drama predicated on the longing of the pair of lovers at its centre. But it is also a complex and poetic ode to art and culture, weaving a perspicacious consideration of literature and music and history into its romance.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Bring Her Back (2025) Andrew Kendall There’s a mean streak thrumming through “Bring Her Back”, a malevolence that directors Danny and Michael Philippou harness to often distressing ways. This is a world teeming with nastiness, and mostly devoid of catharsis.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) Andrew Kendall Perhaps. “The Naked Gun” is not wholly successful, but neither is it a mar on the current cinematic landscape. There’s no great sense of reflectiveness in what its comedic instincts opt to consider. But its pleasantness is its own boon.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Andrew Kendall When the actual use of the missing children as part of the villain’s plan reveals itself, there’s a lingering way that “Weapons” kind of deflates in its import. Even its name begins to feel like a misnomer.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Andrew Kendall Its march to finding love should feel enthusiastic, but “Materialists” feels listless.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Andrew Kendall Shenkman makes this world feel grounded in a way that, even when it threatened to careen off course, I rarely found myself doubting the earnestness of what appears on screen.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) Andrew Kendall What becomes thrilling about how Nyoni weaves the story in “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is how it slowly pulls back the curtain to both affirm and problematise our assumptions of where we assume it might lead.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Andrew Kendall There’s a self-conscious awareness in its intentional goofiness, an over-preciousness in the way it seems committed to presenting itself as something fun and spry but often feels overplotted and obvious.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Andrew Kendall Things grow absurd, but Anderson harnesses all with an emotional clarity that is astoundingly moving.
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Thunderbolts* (2025) Andrew Kendall “Thunderbolts*” reroutes itself as another cog in the wheel of the machine rather than allowing the compelling flaws of this antihero group to really linger.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Andrew Kendall This is no restrained and thoughtful engagement with the philosophy of the sport. This is a high-speed and fantastical exploration of the thrills of the competition. And, at this, “F1” succeeds.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Andrew Kendall This new “How to Train Your Dragon” feels muted and half-hearted.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballerina (2025) Andrew Kendall Perhaps the most die-hard of “John Wick” fans might delight in the visual thrills of the action in “Ballerina” but it’s ultimately a case of diminishing returns with a story that feels stitched-together with its own ambivalence.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Encampments (2025) Andrew Kendall The hyper-focus on student activism as a window into what's happening in Gaza serves as an important thread to remind audiences that everyone is involved in these global crises.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Andrew Kendall The two (good) stunt-work set pieces feel like a drop in the ocean of a film that sprawls with a sense of uncontained dishevelment.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
A Nice Indian Boy (2024) Andrew Kendall Even when “A Nice Indian Boy” ventures into the too treacly in its execution, it provides a welcome and warm disruption of traditional romantic comedies in English.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Billy Elliot (2000) Andrew Kendall “Billy Elliot” seems to be sustained by the boy’s own agitated sense of growing up. “Billy Elliot” is warm, but never precious. Instead, it develops with a sharp sense of tenacity that mirrors Billy’s own dogged pursuit of his dreams.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Convert (2023) Andrew Kendall As it moves towards the end, and towards a closing sequence that has its mind firmly rooted in the present dynamics of colonialism it feels much too satisfied with its shoddy storytelling for the inertness of the drama that has come before.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Drop (2025) Andrew Kendall “Drop” keeps trying to co-opt serious societal issues for its revelations – political corruption, femicide, abuse and mental health issues. But it has no true grasp on any of these issues or on the dynamics of building a sharp thriller.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Andrew Kendall Like many of the things invoked in “Sinners”, the ideas are more portentous than their follow-throughs.
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The Room Next Door (2024) Andrew Kendall “The Room Next Door” is dressed to the hilt in funeral garb, and yet it is bursting with life as much as any of Almodóvar’s work.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Dog Man (2025) Andrew Kendall “Dog Man” might not be the apex of DreamWorks animation, but its ultimate commitment to chaos makes it a winning hand for a specific kind of charged children’s entertainment.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) Andrew Kendall It's hard to believe or even care about any of the dynamics at play here when this all feels so artificial, airless, and pointless. There is no friction here, no tension. Just a fashion advert for nice clothes and sleek nothingness feigning weight.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Paddington in Peru (2024) Andrew Kendall For a series previously defined by its lightness of touch and its capacity for whimsy, “Paddington in Peru” immediately seems dependent on too many machinations in its build-up. It feels overstuffed with dynamics but low on charm and cleverness.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) Andrew Kendall “Grand Theft Hamlet” stirs real and sincere emotions in considering how Shakespeare’s poetry and emotional candour can turn even the world of a video game into a stage fit for artistic expression.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Andrew Kendall “Mickey 17” becomes a movie about its energy and its vibes. Are you willing to partake in its disarming silliness and acquiesce to its zany candour? When Pattinson is on screen, I cannot imagine being able to resist any of the film's warm absurdities.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Andrew Kendall If Perkins is hoping to draw a parallel between fatherless Hal and his new role as an unwilling father, “The Monkey” offers nothing in the way of motifs or thematic depth for the parallelisms to work.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Andrew Kendall “Brave New World” is inoffensive and muted in drama, and similarly harmless in its stakes and excitement. Little here feels new or brave. And it’s a shame because Anthony Mackie's natural charisma and charm is wasted.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Andrew Kendall This is a carefully modulated piece of contemporary cinema that asks us what we would be willing to do to see a change in a world. Its message could not be timelier.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Companion (2025) Andrew Kendall As “Companion” moves into its second half, it reveals itself as part of a string of contemporary films that are insistent on commodifying feminist language to make dull films seem more meaningful than they are.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
One of Them Days (2025) Andrew Kendall The film itself offers little that’s new or innovative, but even in its occasional lassitude, it’s hard to keep a smile off your face just luxuriating in the comedic excellence of Keke Palmer. For that, “One of Them Days” is worth it.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Kneecap (2024) Andrew Kendall [There is] something thoughtful and moving within the comedy. Even when it is at its most rowdy, there’s a tenderness in “Kneecap” that charms and entertains.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Emilia Pérez (2024) Andrew Kendall The peaks and valleys in Jacques Audiard’s latest film, the musical “Emilia Pérez” never come where you might expect them.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) Andrew Kendall “Mufasa” is marginally better than the 2019 film because it moves with the energy of something that is its own rather than an imitation of an earlier film, but it still feels like a whimper more than a roar.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) Andrew Kendall There’s a sense that “Anora” has little beyond ambivalence for the characters within it.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Andrew Kendall Even when it avoids some complications with its sexual daringness, I’m grateful for the richness of this as an adult drama directed with a technical efficiency that complicates and reconfigures some of its simpler ideas through formal elements.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Andrew Kendall It’s unlikely to linger as Eggers’ best, but it is thrilling in its own inevitability.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Andrew Kendall A sharper team would have realised that more thought was needed in re-jigging this into two parts, some element of daring to deconstruct the story to work in this new form that did not leave this feeling like a shrug when it should feel like a tornado.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Gladiator II (2024) Andrew Kendall In many ways, “Gladiator II” feels like a palimpsest of its predecessor.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Red One (2024) Andrew Kendall If “Red One” is meant to mark the beginning of the filmic Christmas season, the holidays ahead look to be more dismal than anything.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Silent Hour (2024) Andrew Kendall More than anything, “The Silent Hour” is an urgent reminder that Joel Kinnaman remains a reliable genre actor who continues to be undervalued as a leading man.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Andrew Kendall By the time its body-horror finale comes, it’s hard not to feel dejected by squandered potential. It’s impossible to care about the characters when even the filmmaker seems trapped between a malevolent and ambivalent gaze.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Andrew Kendall “Folie à Deux” doesn’t go far enough. Give us the pomp, give us the spectacle. Then pull the rug out. But Phillips refuses to commit to the grandiosity, so the harshness of the reality doesn’t feel cinematic in its revelation. It feels too subdued.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Transformers One (2024) Andrew Kendall This clear-eyed assessment of the dynamics of fighting for good against evil is sharper than it might appear. “Transformers One” has much to offer for adults, too.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Andrew Kendall It’s strange how a film that’s only 104 minutes feels both overstuffed and intermittently undercooked. There’s a lot at work here, multiple plots jockeying for supremacy and swirling together into something cacophonous and at times exhausting.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Rebel Ridge (2024) Andrew Kendall As a cathartic high-octane revenge thriller, it is limp. As a character study, it is too tetchily schematic to offer more than ambling pleasures and as a cog in the wheel of law enforcement on screen it sounds a desultory conforming cry
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Sing Sing (2023) Andrew Kendall The film is one that is concerned with these imprisoned men as human figures striving to find corporeality in a harsh world. Within its gentle hopefulness, it feels quietly revolutionary too.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Blink Twice (2024) Andrew Kendall “Blink Twice” does not quite get there, but it offers enough thrills to be diverting.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Andrew Kendall It might be easy to mistake the bleakness as signs of a filmmaker who looks at his characters with ambivalent contempt but even when the world is cruel, the sharpest thing about “Kinds of Kindness” is how Lanthimos finds dignity in each action.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
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