Andrew Wyatt is a St. Louis-based writer on film art. He is the film critic for Look/Listen at St. Louis Magazine, and a member of the Online Film Critics Society and St. Louis Film Critics Association. He writes about current, classic, and cult cinema from a Heartland perspective at Gateway Cinephiles. He has served as a juror and presenter for the St. Louis International Film Festival, the Classic French Film Festival, and the CinemaSpoke screenplay competition. He has also worked as a game designer and maintains an alter ego as an environmental scientist.
A malign interloper ferreted out by a pair of canny children, or a mother horribly abused by her own delusional sons?
Bloodsucking Straights: Inherent Vice and the Undeath of Counterculture
Emotional intimacy as the means to authenticity in an era of commodified cool
Jim Jarmusch: Expect the Unexpected
This deflation of expectations is Jarmusch’s stock and trade: for his myopic outsiders and befuddled innocents, simple survival often replaces wish fulfillment as the immediate goal.
Andrew Wyatt on Jonathan Glazer’s mesmerizing new feature Under the Skin
What Is Hope to A Fearful Mind?
“Hannibal” and the Tyranny of Terror
“Inside Llewyn Davis” and the Poisonous Allure of Failure
On Bullying & Female Adolescent Fears in "Carrie"
Rather than presenting Carrie’s transformation from Weird Girl to Prom Queen as a glorious triumph, Peirce’s film exposes a darker and more disturbing truth about the shaming and bullying of adolescent girls: that there is no victory to be had in striving for the perfection demanded by others, as it a hollow (and moving!) target
Review of Mira Nair’s film based on a bestselling novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.
Sneaky Horror and Religious Critique in “Beyond the Hills”
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