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Andy Klein
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Boneyard (2024) |
It's interesting, but you have to know going in that the basic case was never solved, and they stay true to that. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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The Mandela Effect Phenomenon (2024) |
This is what happens when you have a little education -- and it's a bad thing. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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A Man of Reason (2022) |
A very solid action film. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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The Imaginary (2023) |
It's a good film, but not a great film. It's longer than it needs to be. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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June Zero (2022) |
I found this enjoyable but kind of grim. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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Escape (2024) |
A terrific action film. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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Kill (2023) |
This thing never lets up. I thought it totally delivered on what it promised. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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Tiger Stripes (2023) |
Technically a little bit crude, but it delivers. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) |
It's quite enjoyable, witty and low-key. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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The Exorcism (2024) |
A totally unnecessary film that doesn't need to exist in any universe. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
A charming little film. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
Two hours hanging out with a bunch of louts. This film had no pleasure for me. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
Implicitly a film about current American politics. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 13, 2024
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Ezra (2023) |
It's very amusing when it's amusing, but really heart wrenching when it's heart-wrenching. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) |
My favorite film this week. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) |
Viggo Mortenson is a wonderful actor. Unfortunately, I think he is not so wonderful a storyteller here. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) |
It's totally enjoyable and well put together. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Summer Camp (2024) |
I just wish they could come up with a script for these things that wasn't totally by-the-numbers limp comedy. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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What You Wish For (2023) |
It's pretty suspenseful as Stahl is trying to endlessly evade the corporation he is working for. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 08, 2024
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Mother of the Bride (2024) |
The jokes are re-treads of re-treads of re-treads. Preston Sturges probably could have done something wonderful with this, but it just doesn't have any snap at all. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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Lazareth (2024) |
Half baked... It just doesn't deliver. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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The Image of You (2024) |
It's fairly tense, but more or less a by-the-numbers thriller. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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The Roundup: Punishment (2024) |
[Ma Dong-seok] is the main attraction here... It gets a little tedious with the knife fights, but generally it's pretty good. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) |
The plot is worked out very cleverly and moves at a brisk pace. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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Power (2024) |
A concise and informative documentary... It's a complex analysis made very clear. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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Poolman (2023) |
On some level, this is sort of a hot mess, but it's a really enjoyable hot mess. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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Infested (2023) |
Creepy, icky, and pretty effective. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Humane (2024) |
It really does get funny, and manages to work out the plot without ticking us off by the end. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Little Empty Boxes (2024) |
I thought this was quite good... It doesn't feel exploitative, which was my first worry going into it. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Uncropped (2023) |
Absolutely terrific. It's really two film films in one. It's about his photography... At the same time, this film is really about the decline of print media. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Bad Faith (2024) |
Wow, could this not be any timelier than it is... A very insightful look. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Egoist (2022) |
You're watching him becoming an adult after living this frivolous lifestyle. It's really touching in that way. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Boy Kills World (2023) |
The action is incredibly fast and a lot of CGI. Good stunt work, but trick editing that I'm less sympathetic to. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 10, 2024
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Hundreds of Beavers (2022) |
These jokes just fall flat and it keeps going on and on. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Mar 23, 2024
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Exhuma (2024) |
Probably two or three levels too many complications happen that pushes the film over two hours. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Mar 23, 2024
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The Prank (2022) |
I enjoyed it. Very funny, and it's grand seeing Rita Moreno. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Mar 23, 2024
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The Animal Kingdom (2023) |
I liked this a lot. It's not really a horror film... It really is a sort of humanistic film. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Mar 23, 2024
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Irish Wish (2024) |
About as limp as rom-coms come. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Mar 23, 2024
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American Dreamer (2022) |
"Lovely" is the word that comes to mind. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Mar 23, 2024
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Knox Goes Away (2023) |
Keaton is real good in it and, yes, directs it very well. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Mar 23, 2024
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She Is Conann (2023) |
Some of it is visually really interesting, but I have to say that the script is absolutely repulsive. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 13, 2024
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Departing Seniors (2023) |
A perfectly adequate teen slasher film. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 13, 2024
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The Tiger's Apprentice (2024) |
I admit we've seen this story a million times in a million forms, but I thought it was nicely done and funny when it meant to be. - Associated Press
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| Posted Feb 13, 2024
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Dario Argento Panico (2023) |
You get great commentary from his daughter, Asia, and even better from some filmmakers -- particularly Guillermo Del Toro, who is so insightful that he could be one of the best film critics in the world. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 13, 2024
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Perfect Days (2023) |
Basically this is all Kōji Yakusho, one of the best actors from Japan. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 13, 2024
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The Promised Land (2023) |
It is all on Mads Mikkelsen in this film -- not to say the other actors aren't good -- and his transformation. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 13, 2024
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Orion and the Dark (2024) |
It may be totally derivative, but I enjoyed it to no end. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 13, 2024
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Argylle (2024) |
This is entertaining, but... It is one plot convolution after another, and some of them could have been absolutely excised without losing anything. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 13, 2024
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The Painter (2024) |
Stop me if you've heard this one before... - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 01, 2024
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The Bricklayer (2023) |
This is the by-the-numbers so much that this is now a subgenre. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Feb 01, 2024
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