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The Take-Up 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 Wyatt.

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Resurrection (2025) Andrew Wyatt Every auteur must eventually make their Inland Empire, and Bi Gan does not disappoint: His sprawling, mysterious ode to the movies and the deep sense memories they inspire is a treasure worth revisiting and untangling.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Andrew Wyatt It feels like the feature that Mendonça has been building towards for 20 years: His own langorous yet exhilarating take on the le Carré thriller, a work overflowing with fantastic textural detail, unexpected choices, and humanist pathos.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Andrew Wyatt Perhaps there’s just no squaring the circle of an Edgar Wright-helmed The Running Man film. The director is attuned to the grotesque absurdities of the future world that King imagined, but he doesn’t have the acidic instincts of a Carpenter or Verhoeven.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Misericordia (2024) Andrew Wyatt Guiraudie affirms his status as one of France's most compelling working directors with this languid, provincial tale of murder, conscience, and longing.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Andrew Wyatt A darkly comedic captivity/psychological thriller, suffused with a claustrophobic, horror-adjacent atmosphere that emphasizes the goo-thick tension of the characters’ epistemological stalemate.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Andrew Wyatt Propulsive, poignant, incisive, funny, and bracingly political: Paul Thomas Anderson delivers another epochal banger full of instantly indelible performances and sublime movements. A cinematic balm for everything 2025.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Andrew Wyatt Francis Lawrence's smart direction and two standout, heartbreaking lead performances from Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson illustrate that Stephen King's bleak dystopian tale hasn't lost any of its power, almost 60 years later.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Andrew Wyatt Does it make a lick of sense, either narratively or thematically? Not really. Is it weird, unsettling, and nightmarishly gorgeous? Definitely.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Andrew Wyatt Weapons solidifies Cregger’s status as one of the genre’s most exciting American voices – a true carnival-of-the-damned showman telling original stories in a landscape currently stifled by formulaic franchise obligation and ponderous arthouse allegory.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Andrew Wyatt Aster’s obsessively detailed, mutinously unclassifiable, and often exasperating fourth feature feels like the first post-pandemic pandemic film that truly attempts to grapple with the virus’ cultural impact.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Andrew Wyatt The sweet, sincere story of The Phoenician Scheme centers on the thawing relationship between a distant but freshly conciliatory father and his reluctant adult child. The plot, however, is pure globe-trotting zaniness.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Andrew Wyatt One hopes that The Final Reckoning endures as Ethan Hunt’s curtain call, not because the series’ “bigger, faster, louder” ethos has perhaps reached its inevitable ceiling, but because even good things should end, preferably on a high note.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Killer of Sheep (1978) Andrew Wyatt Killer of Sheep vibrates with the uncontainable energy of a sui generis masterpiece, tapping into something timeless and quintessential about the Black American experience – and American life in general.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Drop (2025) Andrew Wyatt A pleasantly preposterous dollop of pulpy thrills, Drop is the sort of artistically trifling but calorically dense two-bite snack that seems designed for a quick, low-effort date night.
Posted Apr 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) Andrew Wyatt Sometimes, as a moviegoer, it’s just fun to watch a bunch of hot, dysfunctional people spar over power, sex, and geopolitics.
Posted Mar 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Andrew Wyatt Eschewing the director's usual penchant for dense, slightly surreal neo-Gothic atmosphere, The Monkey goes all-in on campy performance and cartoonish violence. In some ways, however, it might also be the bleakest film Perkins has ever made.
Posted Feb 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Wolf Man (2025) Andrew Wyatt Whannel's stripped-down yet atmospheric approach to the werewolf myth has its moments, but these aren’t enough to make up for a hamfisted script, limp characterization, and awkward assortment of half-baked themes.
Posted Jan 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Andrew Wyatt The most striking thing about Nosferatu is not that it looks and sounds spectacular – although the pleasures of a gorgeous, R-rated period horror feature should never be discounted – but that it injects new (un)life into one of cinema’s hoariest tales.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Hard Truths (2024) Andrew Wyatt Leigh has an unassailable talent for rendering characters who are a lot, as they say, and Pansy -- an utterly ferocious and enervating Marianne Jean-Baptiste -- might be the most “a lot” person in the entire Leigh-verse.
Posted Dec 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Nocturnes (2024) Andrew Wyatt A rare and exquisite species of documentary about the slow, thankless rhythms of scientific research and the untrammeled awe that drives humankind's search for knowledge.
Posted Dec 10, 2024  Edit critic review
A Real Pain (2024) Andrew Wyatt A Real Pain confirms Eisenberg as one of the few young American writer-directors capable of delivering this kind of keen-eyed, unassuming, psychologically engaging work.
Posted Nov 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Heretic (2024) Andrew Wyatt Beck and Woods could have stood back and let their big-name veteran actor chew the scenery, but the filmmaking duo expertly maintain a taut sensation of mounting dread throughout,
Posted Nov 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) Andrew Wyatt Sean Baker delivers his twisted, funny, and ultimately forlorn version of a Disney-princess story. It's a fairy tale, alright, just not the one that we - or Anora - expected.
Posted Oct 30, 2024  Edit critic review
The Mother of All Lies (2023) Andrew Wyatt A big swing that pays off, Asmae El Moudir's hybrid documentary examines the three-way intersection of creativity, history, and memory in a way that is both artistically invigorating and emotionally thorny.
Posted Oct 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Smile 2 (2024) Andrew Wyatt Finn and his collaborators to achieve the best possible outcome for a second Smile. Namely, the opportunity to run a similar scenario with a fresh cast, bigger budget, and a more focused and coherent handling of its grim themes.
Posted Oct 17, 2024  Edit critic review
A Different Man (2024) Andrew Wyatt A Different Man is a smart, morbid, and unexpectedly funny film, but it plays a bit of a long game, only gradually revealing all the cards up its sleeve.
Posted Oct 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) Andrew Wyatt A creepy, funny, and tender-hearted take on a frequently stale subgenre. One of the better and most original vampire films in a decade.
Posted Oct 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Starve Acre (2023) Andrew Wyatt If you happen to be on the film's slow, moody, cryptic folk-horror vibe, Starve Acre is a delectable, rotting feast.
Posted Oct 01, 2024  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Andrew Wyatt The Substance is not interested in half-measures. Fargeat's overcranked style is as unremitting as a double bump of uncut Bayhem, and her satirical skewering is about as subtle as an axe-crazy Joan Crawford. In other words, this is one for the sickos.
Posted Sep 25, 2024  Edit critic review
Eureka (2023) Andrew Wyatt Like much of Alonso’s defiantly unconventional and languorous work, Eureka is concerned with identity, colonialism, and the Global South, but this poetic, ruminative triptych is more akin to a vision quest than a righteous political tract.
Posted Sep 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) Andrew Wyatt A gross, brutal space thriller that's part fan-servicing greatest-hits album and part cunning meta-movie about the devouring black hole of corporate greed. In other words, it's both the Force Awakens and the Matrix Resurrections of Alien movies.
Posted Aug 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Last Summer (2023) Andrew Wyatt What makes Last Summer Breillat’s most compelling feature in over 20 years – and one of the most thoughtful and focused films in her entire oeuvre – is how the more prurient aspects of its plot are somehow the least relevant.
Posted Jul 29, 2024  Edit critic review
America (2022) Andrew Wyatt A delicate, sensitive, and anguished melodrama where there are no heroes or villains, just flawed people searching for intimacy and fumbling their way through life's tribulations. Director Ofir Raul Graizer is the real deal.
Posted Jul 16, 2024  Edit critic review
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) Andrew Wyatt An intriguing prequel that complicates the series' nuts-and-bolts horror-thriller premise with a disquieting rumination on mortality and meaning. Plus: a very good cat.
Posted Jul 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Longlegs (2024) Andrew Wyatt Perkins has crafted something far more unnerving than a crime thriller about a flesh-and-blood boogeyman, or even a workaday occult chiller. There is something irrevocably, inexplicably *wrong* with the world in Longlegs.
Posted Jul 16, 2024  Edit critic review
MaXXXine (2024) Andrew Wyatt The modestly entertaining MaXXXine is the least focused feature in West's ad hoc trilogy, but Mia Goth, as usual, glides above it all.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Kill Your Lover (2023) Andrew Wyatt Is the metaphor obvious? Yes. Would it have made a better short? Also yes. Is it still an impressively gnarly little Crongenbergian indie two-hander? You bet.
Posted Jul 03, 2024  Edit critic review
The Bikeriders (2023) Andrew Wyatt Nichols' writing deftly conveys both the ecstasy of belonging and the inevitability of dissolution. Nothing lasts forever, same as it ever was.
Posted Jun 17, 2024  Edit critic review
In Our Day (2023) Andrew Wyatt If you're a Hong Sang-soo fan, you know what you're in for: quiet, humane, lightly scripted scenes of people talking earnestly about work, art, life, and food. As always, it's a low-fi pleasure.
Posted Jun 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Andrew Wyatt George Miller's 'The Iliad': a sprawling, jaw-dropping, and truly epic rumination on war, revenge, grief, and hope.
Posted Jun 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Art College 1994 (2023) Andrew Wyatt Writer-director’s Liu Jian’s animated slice-of-student-life charmer absolutely nails the vibe of being a twenty-something wannabe artist with a head full of dreams and an empty bank account.
Posted Jun 05, 2024  Edit critic review
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Andrew Wyatt Invigorating, mesmerizing, and confounding in equal measure. It feels like one of the most essential American films of the year.
Posted May 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (2023) Andrew Wyatt This intimate, soulful concert film is a fitting closing bow from one of the masters.
Posted May 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Hundreds of Beavers (2022) Andrew Wyatt An inspired, manic, goofy, messy, gloriously fun movie.
Posted May 09, 2024  Edit critic review
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023) Andrew Wyatt Arnow’s filmmaking is so distinctive, exacting, and confident that there is masochistic pleasure to be had just in vibing with Ann’s sad little life.
Posted Apr 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Sasquatch Sunset (2024) Andrew Wyatt Stunning makeup, rich atmosphere, and a great score can't overcome the fact that this still feels like an 89-minute SNL sketch.
Posted Apr 24, 2024  Edit critic review
The People's Joker (2022) Andrew Wyatt A charming and infectious work of punk cinema, due in part to the madcap, transgressive energy that Drew brings to every second of her semi-autobiographical DIY feature’s 92 minutes.
Posted Apr 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) Andrew Wyatt A magnificently deadpan blackly comic epic about the enshittification of modern existence. I can't wait to see it again.
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Sting (2024) Andrew Wyatt Sting is a 100% by-the-numbers creature feature, but it's executed with enough gooey aplomb to be worth 90 minutes of a horror fan's time.
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
The First Omen (2024) Andrew Wyatt Astutely discerning that its franchise identity locks her feature into delivering a few gruesome deaths and hitting specific plots beats, Stevenson leans into the theme of predestination to conjure a pall of asphyxiating doom.
Posted Apr 08, 2024  Edit critic review
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