David Parkinson

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For 400 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David Parkinson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Sansho the Bailiff
Lowest review score: 40 Tommy's Honour
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 0 out of 400
400 movie reviews
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    A romantic-comedy that isn't funny or romantic.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Ruinously prioritising chic over content, this is intellectually and stylistically shallow when it should have been dynamic and compelling.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Interesting misfires from Wong Kar-wai and Steven Soderbergh barely manage to atone for the seedy muddle concocted by eightysomething Michelangelo Antonioni, who mocks his own reputation for existential ellipsis with his voyeuristic vignette.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Ruinously prioritising chic over content, this is intellectually and stylistically shallow when it should have been dynamic and compelling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Assayas' attempt to present a multi-perspective Polaroid view of Adrien and his circle fall back on the tired technique of abruptly punctuating grainy, handheld sequence with jump cuts. A disappointingly sterotypical French film.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Notwithstanding the efforts of a game cast, this is a grotesque miscalculation that disrespects the memory of those who perished in one of the darkest episodes in recent history by turning it into a piece of white-knuckle entertainment.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Although replete with creepy shocks, this lacks the narrative finesse to match the committed performances and slick visuals.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    A fascinating life is reduced to a series of skittishly edited and visually stylised vignettes that do scant justice to Marie Curie's scientific achievements and Karolina Gruszka's laudably intense performance.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Telling an unfamiliar tale in a highly predictable manner, this is a laudable, but lightweight tribute to golf's founding fathers.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Notwithstanding the efforts of a game cast, this is a grotesque miscalculation that disrespects the memory of those who perished in one of the darkest episodes in recent history by turning it into a piece of white-knuckle entertainment.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    This leaden relocating of an iconic German saga to 16th-century France isn’t helped by the miscast Mads Mikkelsen’s morose display as Michael Kohlhaas.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Despite a wonderfully witty voiceover and the bullish playing of a willing ensemble, this bawdy romp consistently stumbles over its more contrived excesses.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Despite the nobility of its intentions and commitment of its cast, this would-be treatise on gig economical iniquity winds up patronising the very ‘invisible people' it's supposed to be championing.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    If it weren’'t for Lost Horizon, this would have gone down in history as the Worst Musical of 1973.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    A strange story that's no less disturbing for its unbalanced telling.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    Funny in places but not Allen's best writing...and its difficult to get beyond the conceit.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 David Parkinson
    A largely dour romantic drama, hampered by thrusting non-actors into challenging lead roles.

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