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Andrew Kendall

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Andrew Kendall is a university lecturer in literature and film who writes a weekly film column for leading local newspaper Stabroek News.

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Emilia Pérez (2024) 72% “The peaks and valleys in Jacques Audiard’s latest film, the musical “Emilia Pérez” never come where you might expect them. ” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) 56% ““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.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% “There’s a sense that “Anora” has little beyond ambivalence for the characters within it.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% “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.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% “It’s unlikely to linger as Eggers’ best, but it is thrilling in its own inevitability.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% “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. ” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% “In many ways, “Gladiator II” feels like a palimpsest of its predecessor.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Red One (2024) 30% “If “Red One” is meant to mark the beginning of the filmic Christmas season, the holidays ahead look to be more dismal than anything.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review The Silent Hour (2024) 70% “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. ” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% “ 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.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% ““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.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Transformers One (2024) 89% “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.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% “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.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Rebel Ridge (2024) 95% “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 ” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Sing Sing (2023) 97% “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.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Blink Twice (2024) 75% ““Blink Twice” does not quite get there, but it offers enough thrills to be diverting.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% “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.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Trap (2024) 57% ““Trap” might not make much sense, but it is at its delightful best when it casts off any expectations of morality. Sometimes it’s good to watch a man be bad. ” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Ghostlight (2024) 99% “Much of the magic is situated in the screenplay. It stacks crisis upon crisis, gently nudging the characters and audience to emotional upheavals that begin to unravel in glorious ways by the time it begins to reveal the things it’s withholding from us.” – Stabroek News Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% “This is a film that gleefully announces no moment develops from a natural interest in building its story. Instead, it wallows in its outsize state of infallibility. It does what it wants, merely because it can. These characters deserve better. So do we.” – Stabroek News Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 86% “The more it goes on, the more the austere and rigid shots feel like they’re losing effect - the things within the frame seem to be conveying nothing at all. That is the tale of “Longlegs”. A well framed picture that is completely void of...anything. ” – Stabroek News Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Firebrand (2023) 58% “It’s not Vikander’s fault that the script writes a compelling woman into a story of muted sensibilities. Still it's a shame that this would-be feminist tale is best when the King is its centre. Law’s thrilling performance is the best thing in Firebrand.” – Stabroek News Jul 26, 2024 Full Review A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) 86% “ Lupita Nyong’o’s face is the most effective visual effect in A Quiet Place: Day One. We commit to the story and the world because her eyes tell us so, but beyond her penetrating stare little else in the film feels persuasive enough to commit to.” – Stabroek News Jul 26, 2024 Full Review The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 92% “Frame after frame, even when the laughter reaches a peak, May is always interrogating the complexity beyond the laughs. There are many laughs in The Heartbreak Kid, but very few of them come easy.” – Stabroek News Jul 26, 2024 Full Review The Bikeriders (2023) 80% “The Bikeriders never allows us to sit with the silence, or the weight, or the mutable power of time for its characters. I wish the film trusted itself to move beyond its framing device to really lure us into the way that time upends their lives.” – Stabroek News Jul 26, 2024 Full Review
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