Deborah Young

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The Film Verdict, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
For 446 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Deborah Young's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 I'm Going Home
Lowest review score: 30 Broken Sky
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 311 out of 446
  2. Mixed: 129 out of 446
  3. Negative: 6 out of 446
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 50 Deborah Young
    Bus 174
    A tense documentary with multiple layers of meaning.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    Osama
    Apart from its historical interest, this tragic tale of religious extremism and misogyny is a very good film able to catch audiences up emotionally.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    Better Days
    Though not very subtle in presenting its thesis, the story is generally suspenseful and well-told by young HK actor and director Tsang (Soul Mate).
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Deborah Young
    Belle
    Perhaps the most ambitious film to date by Japanese animator Mamoru Hosoda.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    Dear Comrades!
    Although at first sight this dramatization of a 1962 strike at a factory in the U.S.S.R. may seem a long way from the interests of contemporary audiences, it is surprising how much resonance the film has with the political struggles of our own time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    Labyrinth of Cinema
    More uneven but ultimately more effective than filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi’s previous anti-war film.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Deborah Young
    There Is No Evil
    Though the message comes across loud and clear, the four tales suffer from being narratively uneven, making the film’s two-and-a-half-hour running time seem long indeed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Deborah Young
    Grand Tour
    Gomes is a director poised between ironic narrative and experimentalism pure and simple, and his films (often described as strange, lyrical and hypnotizing) divide audiences into the visionaries and the unconvinced.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    Riefenstahl
    Leni Riefenstahl and her controversial legacy are examined in fascinating depth in the new German doc 'Riefenstahl' by Andres Veiel.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    Lost Course
    Three hours long yet anything but leisurely, the doc is charged with energy, anger and disappointment.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Deborah Young
    Blissfully Yours
    A rare example of indie filmmaking produced outside the Thai studio system, Blissfully Yours takes the good-humored nonsense of director Apichatpong Weeasethakul's first feature, "Mysterious Object at Noon," several steps further into the realm of non-communicative minimalism.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    The Return
    Constructed like an eerie, metaphorical thriller, this tense, riveting character study offers viewers nearly two hours of emotions with a stunning pay-off no one will be expecting.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Deborah Young
    The Best Is Yet to Come
    The fast-moving story goes deeper than a pure thriller, as Wang Jing focuses on the faces of his characters in all their anxiety and human dignity.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Deborah Young
    The Assassin
    Its bursts of lightning-fast swordplay interrupt long, still stretches of misty moonlit landscapes and follow a pure literary style more than current genre expectations.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Deborah Young
    Madeline's Madeline
    Madeline’s Madeline is both heady and head-scratching. Anyone who has ever taken an acting class and witnessed the psychodramas brewed there will relate to this bubbling kettle of raw, unleashed emotions stirred up in shifting power grabs.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    A Hero
    The film’s simple, lower-class setting is met with equally direct camerawork, lighting and editing. This feels like the farthest Farhadi has come from his stage work and the sometimes unconvincing dramatic elements that occasionally creep into his films.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    At Berkeley
    At times fascinating, at times not, its in-depth look at the administration, campus, students and faculty offers an insider's view into the way American academia functions.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Deborah Young
    Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures
    Has a terrible fascination that glues viewers to the screen. At the same time, audience patience is tested.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    State Funeral
    This cannily edited selection of rare archive footage reveals the peak of the people’s mind-born terror, and it is the beginning of the end.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    Bamako
    Rather miraculously, picture succeeds in painlessly educating its viewers about global politics and economics while it describes contemporary Africa with freshness and clarity.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Deborah Young
    Tropical Malady
    Takes the viewer on a mysterious and sporadically fascinating trip into the darkness of the human heart and Thai legend.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    Though it abounds in the kind of sardonic humor intrinsic to life’s absurdities, the film is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. In a nutshell, quiet desperation prevails.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    The Devil's Miner
    An unforgettable journey through hell under the earth, where Satan is worshipped as king. Straight-as-an-arrow filmmaking raises this docu above the crowd.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    Closed Curtain
    Closed Curtain is a moody, intellectually complex film that requires good will and brainwork on the part of the viewer to penetrate and enjoy.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    The Wailing
    As dark and pessimistic as the rest of South Korean thrill-master Na Hong Jin’s work, The Wailing (Goksung, a.k.a. The Strangers in France) is long and involving, permeated by a tense, sickening sense of foreboding, yet finally registers on a slightly lower key than the director’s acclaimed genre films The Chaser (2008) and The Yellow Sea (2010).
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    Blood of My Blood
    For audiences willing to embrace ambiguity and let the characters and images weave their spell, this masterfully shot film played by the director’s stock cast is a treasure.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Deborah Young
    Your Name.
    The beauty of the feature lies in its ability to stir the imagination with eerie, resonant hand-drawn animation.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    The Macaluso Sisters
    Both touching and universally understandable, the theme is how an untimely death destroys the fragile fabric that binds a family together.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Deborah Young
    The Secret in Their Eyes
    A riveting Argentine thriller spiked with witty dialogue and poignant love stories.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Deborah Young
    20,000 Species of Bees
    Steering away from exaggerated drama and concentrating most of the scenes on the little girl and her mother Ane (emerging Spanish actress Patricia Lopez Arnalz), 20,000 Species of Bees (20.000 especies de abejas) opens audiences up to a new understanding of trans kids, especially the idea that it is not the child who needs to transition, it’s the family and society who need to change their perceptions.
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