Carson Lund

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For 140 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Carson Lund's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 The Forbidden Room
Lowest review score: 12 Old Fashioned
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 97 out of 140
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 140
  3. Negative: 19 out of 140
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Where'd You Go, Bernadette
    The film is a curiously anodyne affair that proposes the distinctly unenlightening idea that the medicine against despair is just a little R&R.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Rebel in the Rye
    The whole affair suggests dramatic Tetris, and it leeches the artist and his process of any mystery.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Carson Lund
    Brimstone
    Its bid for social correctness does nothing to make the juvenile and numbing fixation on brutality any more palatable.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Carson Lund
    The Human Surge
    The film’s default state is an ambient inertia that gestures vaguely in multiple directions without concerning itself with the hard work of constructing an argument, a convincing milieu, or even a compelling mood.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Autumn Lights
    The film is like a landlocked Bergman chamber drama divested of any ambivalence regarding human relationships.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Carson Lund
    For the Plasma
    The film, whose disparate narrative threads unsurprisingly never connect, drowns in weirdness for its own sake.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    I Saw the Light
    A flaccidly directed film that basks for two hours in a carefully art-designed simulation of the past.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Forsaken
    The film adheres to the dictionary definition of a classical genre without ever attempting to subvert it.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Sleeping with Other People
    This is exactly the kind of movie at which David Wain took aim with his sublime rom-com parody They Came Together.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Big Significant Things
    Its anodyne tastefulness effectively lumps it into a big vat of likeminded Sundance-or-SXSW-endorsed offerings.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Ardor
    It broods along as if it's expressing something monumentally important with each slow-as-molasses camera move.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Carson Lund
    The Dead Lands
    A phony collection of storytelling clichés held under the banner of archetype and lent a modicum of weight by the splendor of the landscape.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    For all the thematic emphasis the script ultimately places on the allegedly thick bonds among these men, it's surprising how often they communicate solely through exposition.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 12 Carson Lund
    Old Fashioned
    Any masochistic joy that can be derived from watching the film owes to seeing it take its bullheaded conceit to its logical, artless extreme.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    It's All So Quiet
    There's literally no way to miss the memo that It's All So Quiet is about dealing with the encroachment of death, as it's there in every scene.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    21 Years: Richard Linklater
    Of greatest damage to the doc's coherence is its wholehearted belief that its subjects are offering firsthand reports worth hearing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Carson Lund
    Fort Bliss
    The complicated psychological realities of army personnel require a tougher directorial treatment than the maudlin melodrama presented here.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Carson Lund
    The Damned
    From its first draw of blood onward, it bolts down a foreseeable slasher-movie trajectory, laying on thick the dramatic irony while constantly inventing new reasons to punish its characters for old iniquities.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Carson Lund
    Louder Than Words
    Never once does it project an intuitive understanding of how humans would behave or react in the midst of such a shattering misfortune.

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