Neil Young
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35% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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62% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.7 points higher than other critics.
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Neil Young's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 82 out of 128
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Mixed: 42 out of 128
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Negative: 4 out of 128
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- Neil Young
It takes a little while to adjust to the film’s strong and deliberately oppressive stylistic approach, but Hinterland successfully avoids being swallowed up by its own aesthetic via the narrative’s propulsive momentum and the magnetic central performance by Muslu.- Screen Daily
- Posted Oct 7, 2022
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- Screen Daily
- Posted Aug 23, 2022
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- Neil Young
Rising like Olympus above the general run of low-budget debut features, Israeli writer-director Oren Gerner’s Africa is a touchingly well-observed study of long-time marrieds starring the filmmaker’s own parents as lightly fictionalized versions of themselves.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Apr 28, 2022
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- Neil Young
Herrero Garvin and company have evidently earned the trust of Dona Olga and her customers, their film winningly emerging as warm, humanistic evocation of sisterhood against a fascinating demi-monde backdrop.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Apr 8, 2022
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- Neil Young
If nothing else, the period picture represents an impressive change of pace from Ostrochovsky’s hard-knock feature directorial debut.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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- Neil Young
The enigmatic proceedings soon find an oneiric, hypnotic rhythm that some viewers may indeed find entrancing.- Screen Daily
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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- Neil Young
The film is most effective in simply conveying the agonising practical realities of Galvez’s quest, an operation involving endless telephone calls and long down-time periods of waiting punctuated by brief flurries of frenzied activity.- Screen Daily
- Posted Nov 16, 2021
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- Neil Young
Swab’s strong suit, conversely, lies in the selection and handling of his performers.- Screen Daily
- Posted Nov 11, 2021
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- Neil Young
It’s a deliciously rug-pulling affair which, like the “catfishing” protagonist — i.e. a person hiding behind a fake online persona for deceitful purposes — comes across as one thing and gradually reveals itself to be quite another.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Aug 25, 2021
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- Neil Young
A challenging work which punctuates taxing stretches of austere stasis with interludes of sublime beauty — including a ravishingly spectacular underwater finale — it uses a slight fable of a story as framework for some extravagant sensory stimulations.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Apr 23, 2021
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- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Nov 25, 2020
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- Neil Young
Of obvious interest to arthouse audiences in Cullen, Wright and Jensen's native Australia, this ambitious and stimulating glimpse into the dark abyss of creativity deserves widespread international exposure at festivals and via receptive theatrical settings.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Nov 5, 2020
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- Neil Young
It's an unassuming and delicate work which demands but ultimately repays close attention.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Sep 2, 2020
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- Neil Young
Properly analyzing what made "Boro" tick, and explaining how one of most acclaimed directors of his generation ended up fizzling out so messily in the 1980s, ultimately proves beyond Mikurda and collaborators.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Aug 19, 2020
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- Neil Young
The sour-tinged comedy of excruciatingly English embarrassment deploys some talented performers on both sides of the camera but its promising parts never quite cohere into a properly satisfying whole.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Jun 4, 2020
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- Neil Young
Rocky roads to romance, self-realization and adulthood are quirkily mapped in Take Me Somewhere Nice, a distinctive and ultimately quite promising debut by Bosnian-born Dutch writer-director Ena Sendijarevic.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted May 21, 2020
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- Neil Young
A shaggy-seeming but carefully modulated affair, To the Ends of the Earth gradually emerges as an offbeat but persuasive investigation of culture-clashes and the potential for trans-global bridge-building.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Jan 24, 2020
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- Neil Young
Punctuated with moments of illumination, humor and even occasional visual flair —the opening shot executes a stately 360-degree cityscape pan from a high crane — Present. Perfect manages to retain interest despite a certain repetitiveness and some patience-taxing longueurs.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Jan 23, 2020
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- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Jan 9, 2020
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- Neil Young
A pleasant, if in the end slightly inconsequential picture, perhaps primarily of interest to those currently experiencing Mullins-style sibling frictions and joys, those who have fresh memories of the same and ethnographers/anthropologists keen to see how some of the world's most economically fortunate minors currently make the ever-rocky transition from youth to adulthood.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Jan 2, 2020
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- Neil Young
A range of camera positions, from wide landscape shots to ultra-intimate close-ups, instead allows us to appreciate the two hounds in their adopted setting of the Parque de los Reyes.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Aug 12, 2019
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- Neil Young
An easygoing, unashamedly old-fashioned picture executed with a light touch that conceals a serious and sharply topical subtext.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Jun 20, 2019
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- Neil Young
This is a demanding and fitfully rewarding film which focuses minutely on the shifting relationships between its three protagonists.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Jun 3, 2019
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- Neil Young
An infectiously enjoyable slice of knockabout nostalgia that wears its Trainspotting heritage proudly on its rough-edged tartan sleeve.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted May 17, 2019
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- Neil Young
Mayfair's picture feels like the work of a seasoned veteran rather than a newcomer, but this isn't necessarily a compliment. It's sensitively poetic and tremulously delicate to a fault, with every beat seemingly accompanied and underlined by an intrusive score from Ton That An which is heavily freighted with plangent strings and mournful piano notes.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted May 13, 2019
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- Neil Young
Observing how six service dogs provide crucial daily help and companionship for their grateful owners, the ruminative, accessible affair proves as soothing to the viewer as the faithful pets are to their humans.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Mar 20, 2019
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- Neil Young
A fundamentally serious film leavened by a streak of deadpan, droll humor, its quality will ensure even greater interest in Ailhaud's memoir in the run-up to its impending centenary.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Feb 28, 2019
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- Neil Young
Bustamante's screenplay is a philosophically and theologically nuanced affair, intermittently elliptical, concentrating on the bigger picture without bothering to sketch in the smaller details. This becomes something of an issue, given that these are often the pivots upon which the somewhat telenovela-like plot hinges.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Feb 15, 2019
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- Neil Young
It's an uncompromising, sophisticated, multi-layered work of art which demands to be met at least halfway.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Feb 14, 2019
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- Neil Young
There's no mistaking the earnest anger which motivates her assault on the sexist "dark ages" values still to be found in many Macedonian provincial areas, but expressing it in such clunky terms does no service to the cause.- The Hollywood Reporter
- Posted Feb 14, 2019
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