For 281 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 28% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Allan Hunter's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Lowest review score: 30 Mothers and Daughters
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 2 out of 281
281 movie reviews
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Allan Hunter
    This is not a venture into wire-work and acrobatics but a contemplative, often ravishing-looking, immersion in the complex politics, power struggles and personalities of the Tang Dynasty as seen through the moral dilemmas facing an enigmatic trained assassin.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Allan Hunter
    Proceeds without flashy tricks or showy technique, offering the pleasures of captivating storytelling with an irresistible human pulse.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Allan Hunter
    Maintaining his fondness for long, contemplative shots, Weerasethakul creates a deceptively serene sense of storytelling, with gentle grace notes of wry humour.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Allan Hunter
    It does cross your mind that this might all be some jolly wheeze of a mockumentary with Ginghină as a David Brent figure but apparently it is all to be taken seriously.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Allan Hunter
    Hostiles demands patience and concentration but rewards that with an assured, thought-provoking window into a past whose legacy is still being felt to this day.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Allan Hunter
    Mug
    As free-wheeling as a Preston Sturges farce, the handsome-looking Mug feels scattershot at times but it does convey the sense of a Poland racing towards hell in a hand cart.

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