Dave Calhoun

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Screen Daily, Time Out, Time Out London
For 304 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Dave Calhoun's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Die My Love
Lowest review score: 20 Only God Forgives
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 185 out of 304
  2. Mixed: 116 out of 304
  3. Negative: 3 out of 304
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Dave Calhoun
    The Great Gatsby
    What Luhrmann makes intoxicating is a sense of place – the houses, the rooms, the city, the roads – and the sense that all this is unfolding in a bubble like some mad fable. Where he falters is in persuading us that these are real, breathing folk whose experiences and destinies can move us.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Dave Calhoun
    Blue Is the Warmest Color
    From this simple, not especially unique love story, Kechiche has fashioned an intimate epic.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Dave Calhoun
    Young & Beautiful
    It's to Ozon's credit that he never serves up easy answers.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 40 Dave Calhoun
    The Past
    It’s intricate and often mature as drama, but it’s also meandering and at times heavy-handed, even melodramatic, and the tight control of time, place and action which made ‘A Separation’ so gripping is just not there.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Dave Calhoun
    The Immigrant
    The Immigrant promises rich territory to explore, but in the execution it’s overly stately, dreary and unconvincing.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Dave Calhoun
    The Great Beauty
    It’s an exploration of all things surface, yes, but it has soul too.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Dave Calhoun
    Borgman
    Beyond the shocks and games, there's not a great deal to take away in the form of meaty ideas or lingering themes, and its catchy premise doesn't really deliver in the end.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Dave Calhoun
    Nebraska
    More than ever Payne allows the humour to rise up gently from his story rather than burst through it.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Dave Calhoun
    Shield of Straw
    [A] baggy revenge thriller consisting of short violent set pieces interspersed with far too many talky debates about the morality of protecting a killer.
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