A.A. Dowd

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For 3 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

A.A. Dowd 's Scores

Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 91 Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Lowest review score: 50 Fahrenheit 451
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 A.A. Dowd
    The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
    Like a lot of Gibney’s work, The Inventor functions most reliably as a fast-paced, involving summary, one occasionally enlivened by the little, revealing bursts of personality he captures from his various talking heads. But as in his Assange doc, We Steal Secrets, Gibney can’t entirely compensate for the (admittedly understandable) void at the center of his portrait—which is to say, for the fact that he couldn’t land an interview with his main subject.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 A.A. Dowd
    Fahrenheit 451
    Fahrenheit 451 connects those dots in clumsy, obvious ways, augmenting its chintzy, budget world-of-tomorrow with emoji and livestreams and Alexa anxiety. What the film fails to do, most critically, is dramatize the intellectual awakening of true believer Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan), whose growing, secret love affair with the written word remains completely abstract.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 A.A. Dowd
    Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
    Montage understands Cobain as an icon, but also as the mixed-up kid who got too famous too fast, and it seems content revealing, rather than reconciling, his contradictions.

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