Eric Kohn, indieWIRE
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For 434 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 78% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 17.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Eric Kohn's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 77
Highest review score:
Ornette: Made in America (1985)
100
Lowest review score:
The Devil's Double
25
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 372 out of 434
  2. Mixed: 53 out of 434
  3. Negative: 9 out of 434
434 movie reviews
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Melancholia
    Melancholia hovers in ambiguity with riveting aesthetic prowess.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Meek's Cutoff
    Reichardt crafts a highly textured narrative that both invokes the mythology of the American frontier and cleverly transcends it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    The magic of Uncle Boonmee is that it makes all viewers feel like the strange ones.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    The Soft Skin (1969)
    The excitement in The Soft Skin, however, gives way to an intense tragedy that's INFORMED by the thrills.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    The Arbor
    The cumulative impact of The Arbor is one of claustrophobia; at times, the endlessly downbeat adventures of Dunbar and her offspring grow almost unbearably morose.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Trollhunter
    The Troll Hunter offers high-caliber entertainment despite a low-budget production.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Take Shelter
    As with "Shotgun Stories," Nichols assembles a tense portrait of blue-collar life, while deepening his thematic interests and working on a bigger scale. Burrowing into the subconscious of a damaged man, he delivers a modern American epic with extraordinary restraint.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    A Separation
    It's a frantic microcosm of life itself.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    12 Years a Slave
    More than a powerful elegy, 12 Years a Slave is a mesmerizing triumph of art and polemics: McQueen turns a topic rendered distant by history into an experience that, short of living through the terrible era it depicts, makes you feel as if you've been there.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Zero Dark Thirty
    Bigelow delivers an acute realization of the mission's execution that's eerily in sync with the way it played in the popular imagination. Visually, the events unfold as a mashup of shadowy movements with flashes of green night vision. It's simultaneously predictable and tense.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Bombay Beach
    The beautiful desolation of Bombay Beach makes it difficult to describe as a documentary. Alma Har'el's directorial debut takes a nonfiction setting and displays its haunting qualities in poetic terms.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Sleepless Night
    Despite the ongoing momentum, Sleepless Night never loses touch with its story.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    V/H/S
    Most segments have a fair share of cheap scares, but they also delve into the art of the build-up, as if delivering a series of grim jokes with bloody punchlines. Consider it a 21st-century take on "Tales from the Crypt."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Ornette: Made in America (1985)
    Ornette isn't just a love letter to the liberty of jazz rhythms; it excels at expressing them.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Barbara
    The movie's stakes are alternately personal and political, but Petzold's skill truly comes into focus in the tense climax, when those two aims come together with a powerful act of defiance.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Before Midnight
    Before Midnight is the rare cinematic achievement that implicates alert viewers in its mission to understand the mysteries of intimate connections.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Somebody Up There Likes Me
    Byington excels at turning the edict that time waits for no one into a sensory experience. No matter how sly it gets, Somebody Up There Likes Me still retains that fundamental truth.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Stories We Tell
    Stories We Tell marks the finest of Polley's filmmaking skills by blending intimacy and intrigue to remarkable effect.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Short Term 12
    Taking its time to let the world take shape, Short Term 12 builds to an involving series of mini-climaxes without tidying up every loose end.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    Cutie and the Boxer
    Heinzerling's beautifully shot, painfully intimate look at the aging couple's struggle to survive amid personal and financial strain is both heartbreaking and intricately profound. This is a story about creative desire so strong it hurts.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    The Congress
    A wholly original and thoroughly surprising fusion of sensory overload and liberal philosophy bound to confuse and provoke in equal measures.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Eric Kohn
    First Cousin Once Removed
    First Cousin Once Removed benefits from the clarity provided by Honig's published poetry, which surfaces in voiceover narration and words on the screen, rendering the undulations of his life in sweeping abstractions.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Eric Kohn
    The Time That Remains
    Suleiman's most poignant moments are largely wordless. Nothing feels more affecting than Suleiman's ubiquitous frozen stare. Although he never utters a sound, his silence speaks volumes about the inability to resolve the social ramifications of Middle Eastern strife.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Eric Kohn
    Source Code
    Showcases Jones' ability to provide ample entertainment value with sharply drawn characters in a minimalist setting.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Eric Kohn
    The Tree of Life
    More meditation than movie, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is bound to mystify, awe and exasperate in equal measures.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Eric Kohn
    Poetry
    It may go without saying that Poetry adopts a lyrical tone, but this forms the crux of its appeal. In this case, the title says it all.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Eric Kohn
    Putty Hill
    Unable to express the sorrow of Cory's passing or the larger sense of detachment from the world it represents, most of the people in Putty Hill try to remain disaffected. By pestering them with questions, Porterfield gets under their skin - and, in the process, ours as well.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Eric Kohn
    Beginners
    Mills fashions the set-up for an overwrought, thoroughly depressing character study into an oddly charming comedy. It's a midlife crisis gently portrayed with sympathy rather than grief.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Eric Kohn
    Of Gods and Men
    Ignore the precise religious context and it stands perfectly well as a restrained look at personal convictions in the face of certain death.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Eric Kohn
    A Dangerous Method
    In the movie's final shot, Jung's confidence crumbles and he looks supremely troubled, still uncertain of a world he once believed could be explained with textual prowess. Better than any analysis, his expression sums up the dangerous method at the heart of every Cronenberg movie.
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