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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    • 87 Metascore
    • 63 Carson Lund
    Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971)
    Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Carson Lund
    Extraordinary Tales
    It offers a CliffsNotes encapsulation of Edgar Allen Poe's most enduring works for viewers unacquainted with them.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Carson Lund
    The Forbidden Room
    Its utter indulgence in esoterica paradoxically leaves it most vulnerable to the beating heart of this great artist of self-therapy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Carson Lund
    99 Homes
    Ramin Bahrani's talent for orchestrating sequences of tightly wound tension is in full bloom here, as is his complementary knack for quieter grace notes.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Carson Lund
    The Cut
    Fatih Akin falls back on convenience and contrivance to streamline the thornier specificities of his grand-scale narrative.
    • 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Carson Lund
    She's Funny That Way
    Familiar as its art/life paralleling may be, it's all fueled by a filmmaker with an intimate relationship to his subject matter.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Carson Lund
    Meru
    Its expositional crutch proves most inadequate when the team ascends the final pitch to the top after years of preparation in no more than a minute of screen time.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Carson Lund
    Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
    A consummate sampler platter of the bounty of state-of-the-art animation currently available as alternatives established major-studio house styles.
    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Carson Lund
    Chagall-Malevich
    When the appeal of the film's whimsy wears off, the fogginess of its historical perspectives comes to the fore.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Carson Lund
    Animals
    It sticks firmly to a Kerouac-lite immersion into young love rather than a more provocative portrait of the hazards inherent to modern urban life.
    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Carson Lund
    Cut Bank
    If the film is meant only as a pulpy genre exercise, Matt Shakman's competence in various modes actually works to strip it of any sense of coherent vision.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Carson Lund
    Marfa Girl
    The film finds the actors' performance deficiencies functioning less as signs of authentic teenage behavior than as an incompetent carrier of plot.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Carson Lund
    La Sapienza
    The mannered direction is at its most effective when it inspires an enhanced sensitivity to the import of every gesture, visual or verbal.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Carson Lund
    Run All Night
    This time around, in spotlighting Liam Neeson's fatigued charisma, Jaume Collet-Serra's formidable filmmaking chops have plateaued.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Carson Lund
    Seymour: An Introduction
    Ethan Hawke's concentration on Seymour Bernstein isn't a betrayal of his own ego massaging, but rather an attempt to have a genuine soul-bearing conversation.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Carson Lund
    Young Bodies Heal Quickly
    Its lack of dramatic specificity places it in a precarious middle ground between exacting character study and ethereal parable.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Carson Lund
    Giuseppe Makes a Movie
    Adam Rifkin's documentary convincingly portrays the sense of community fostered by Giuseppe Andrews's crazed passion.
    • 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Carson Lund
    Song of the Sea
    Even as it entertains increasingly far-fetched detours, the film's folkloric narrative offers an ideal vehicle for this pictorial play.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Carson Lund
    Pioneer
    Its greatest asset, and another trait it shares with Mann and Fincher's work, is a careful attention toward the particulars of its milieu in a way that doesn't call attention to those period touches.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Carson Lund
    Bad Hair
    The narrative works through the many contradictions brewing inside its main character in the wake of his personal actualization without ever feeling like a dramatic checklist.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Carson Lund
    Wolves
    The cinematographic approach of the film suggests some unholy hybrid of the aesthetic and genre indulgences of Michael Bay and the hyper-literalist plot construction of Christopher Nolan.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Carson Lund
    The Heart Machine
    It showcases a genuine fascination with the mind/body split engendered by Skyping, online dating, and constant app usage through a plot that doesn't fuel itself on received wisdom.
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