Derek Elley, Variety
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For 370 reviews, this critic has graded:
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45% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Derek Elley's Scores
- Movies
| Average review score: | 61 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 182 out of 370
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Mixed: 164 out of 370
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Negative: 24 out of 370
370
movie reviews
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Derek Elley 100
An out-and-out charmer. It's almost impossible to do justice in words either to the visual richness of the movie, which melanges traditional Japanese clothes and architecture with both Victorian and modern-day artifacts, or to the character-filled storyline, with human figures, harpies and grotesque creatures. -
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Derek Elley 100
Rarely has a book sprung so vividly to life, but also worked so enthrallingly in pure movie terms, as with Atonement, Brit helmer Joe Wright’s smart, dazzlingly upholstered adaptation of Ian McEwan’s celebrated 2001 novel. -
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Derek Elley 90
A stunning feature -- another hypnotic meditation on popular demagogy and mental manipulation. -
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Derek Elley 90
A warm, often invigorating and ultimately moving ode to community values. -
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Derek Elley 90
A treat, a delicious blend of perversity, playfulness and deadly passion concealed beneath the tranquil, moneyed surface of the Swiss bougeoisie. -
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Derek Elley 90
Scabrous, brutal and hip, Trainspotting is a "Clockwork Orange" for the '90s. -
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Derek Elley 90
Not so much a Hitler movie as a portrait of a totalitarian machine's spiritual and emotional collapse, Downfall is a cumulatively powerful Goetterdammerung centered on the last 10 days of the bunkered Fuehrer and those around him. -
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Derek Elley 90
Direction, performances and lensing blend into an immensely satisfying, if almost uncategorizable, whole in Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love. -
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Derek Elley 90
Tradition and informality collide -- and mutually benefit -- in the deliciously written and expertly played The Queen. -
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Derek Elley 90
Maverick director Wong Kar-wai manages to pour old wine into new jars with Happy Together, a fizzy chamber yarn about two gay Hong Kongers in Argentina that's as slim as a bamboo flute but is his most linear and mature work for some time. -
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Derek Elley 90
From its opening shots, Butterfly Kiss exudes a confidence and distinctive feel that promises something rather special. Unlike its characters, the pic knows where it's going. -
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Derek Elley 90
Shallow Grave, a tar-black comedy that zings along on a wave of visual and scripting inventiveness. -
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Derek Elley 90
A superbly written loony-tunes satire, played by a tony cast at the top of its game. -
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Derek Elley 80
Highly enjoyable when all its gears are clicking, but rarely as good as it should be. -
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Derek Elley 80
Engaging, highly accessible movie that marks a slick feature debut by helmer Jeong Jae-eun. -
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Derek Elley 80
Has buckets to spare of that rarest screen commodity — genuine, engaging charm. -
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Derek Elley 80
A crackerjack serial-killer chiller in "Seven" mold, Tell Me Something cleverly disguises its thoroughly generic content and leaps of logic with highly honed technique and an involving approach to narrative. -
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Derek Elley 80
Surprisingly conventional Olde London Towne gaslight mystery, gussied up with some doctored visuals, and an eccentric performance by Johnny Depp. -
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Derek Elley 80
There's no shortage of disaster stories in the history of film production, but none have been recorded with such frankness, immediacy and aching sense of disappointment. -
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Derek Elley 80
A funny, touching, off-the-wall relationer that's one of the freshest helming debuts in world cinema this year. -
