Andrea Gronvall

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For 376 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Andrea Gronvall's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Paprika
Lowest review score: 0 Old Dogs
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 169 out of 376
  2. Mixed: 147 out of 376
  3. Negative: 60 out of 376
376 movie reviews
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    The Secret in Their Eyes
    Director Juan José Campanella weaves together two love stories--between the victim and her husband, and the investigator and his former boss (Soledad Villamil)--and creates some masterful set pieces; his breathless chase through a packed soccer stadium is a marvel of choreography and top-notch CGI.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    Lebanon
    Samuel Maoz drew from his own war experiences to write and direct this searing drama, which ranks alongside "Platoon" and "No Man's Land" as an antiwar statement and recalls the claustrophobic despair of "Das Boot."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    A Scanner Darkly
    The casting of Reeves in the lead role is inspired: who better than the star of "The Matrix" and its sequels, a trilogy that borrows heavily from Dick's sensibility and obsessions, to play a personality split through overindulgence in drugs and manipulation by outside forces he barely recognizes?
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    The Interrupters
    When the interrupters do succeed, the results can be riveting.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    45365
    Directors Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV, brothers and native sons of Sidney, find poetry in images of the mundane.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    he Diving Bell and the Butterfly fuses experimental techniques with a highly accessible and sometimes humorous narrative; it’s deeply personal yet universal in its humanism.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    Paprika
    The intersections between sleep and waking, memory, cinema, and the Internet lead to a spectacular battle of titans who spring from the mind's darkest recesses.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    Pina
    The movie he (Wenders) went on to make with her Tanztheater Wuppertal is more than an elegy; his meticulous use of 3D endows the performances with a corporeality and intimacy hitherto unseen in a dance film.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Andrea Gronvall
    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Michael Cera elevates deadpan to an art, starring as a slacker turned action hero in this wildly inventive comedy that's one of the most vivid and spirited adaptations of a comic book since Spider-Man--and one of the hippest since Ghost World.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    Still Walking
    Koreeda was inspired by his guilt over having neglected his own parents, and the story is remarkable for the quiet, seemingly casual way he depicts the fallout of bitterness and grief.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    That rare sequel that surpasses the original.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    Séraphine
    Provost and cowriter Marc Abdelnour explore the mutable boundaries between spirituality, naivete, genius, and madness, showing how the two outsiders and polar opposites cultivated a mutual understanding.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    The Taste of Tea
    "Weird but cool," as one character says -- yet the movie is also remarkably touching.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    Up
    Writer-directors Pete Docter and Bob Peterson present hilarious insights into bird brains and canine psychology and treat thornier human emotions deftly.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    Sin Nombre
    Writer-director Cary Fukunaga keeps the story lean while peppering it with realistic details.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    Cinematographer Eduardo Serra underscores the sense of dread with a rich charcoal palette, and the outstanding CGI and 3D effects make the otherworldly threats more corporeal.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Andrea Gronvall
    Unknown White Male
    The extraordinary subject and the filmmaker's near total access make for a singular documentary.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    The Providence Effect
    This uplifting documentary breaks no new ground stylistically, but the story it tells is urgent and compelling.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Casanova
    Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat) directs a sparking screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher (Stage Beauty) and Kimberly Simi; it starts as a frothy boudoir comedy but evolves into a masquerade by turns sweetly meditative and sharply satirical.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Unmistaken Child
    Films that address faith and love as eloquently as this moving 2008 documentary are rare.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Downfall
    Under the harsh lights of the meticulously re-created, claustrophobic bunker, that scrutiny is relentless.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Last Train Home
    Disappointment, inhuman work schedules, sluggish exports, and the crush of a two-day rail journey ratchet up the familial tensions, which finally explode over a holiday dinner.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Up the Yangtze
    Trained in Sanford Meisner's acting techniques, the director wrests surprisingly emotional disclosures from his subjects.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Notorious
    Engrossing biopic, throbbing with style and attitude.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Valentino: The Last Emperor
    Part celebrity dish, part business journalism, this illuminating 2008 documentary about the legendary Italian designer Valentino Garavani spans the tumultuous final two years of his decades-long reign as one of the most successful innovators in the fashion industry.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Unleashed
    Pierre Morel's diving, spiraling camera keeps pace with Yuen Wo-ping's rapid-fire fight choreography, all smartly directed by Louis Leterrier.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Tangled
    The tale of Rapunzel gets a cheeky make-over in this gorgeous Disney animation, which combines the studio's traditional hand-drawn look with the sculptural qualities of digital 3D.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    The Mill and the Cross
    It's an edifying art history lesson, but it lacks the showmanship of, for example, Peter Greenaway's "Nightwatching."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Ten Canoes
    Inspired by anthropologist Donald Thomson's early-20th-century photographs, this collaboration between a Western filmmaker and the native people of Ramingining is an impressive achievement of ethnographic cinema.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Andrea Gronvall
    Waltz with Bashir
    Animation may be the ideal medium for replicating dreams, and in this unsettling feature by Ari Folman it also proves well suited to autobiography.
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