Deborah Young

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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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Deborah Young
    The Sea
    Despite its careful control of tone and a raging central performance by Ciaran Hinds, which is actually sufficient reason to see the film, this story of a man who plunges into childhood memories in the aftermath of his wife’s death remains admirable but wingless.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    Himizu
    Young leads Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaidou – both experienced film actors – grow in stature as the film progresses to the achingly real final scene, where they are extraordinarily intense and effective.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    Honey
    An impressively mature directing debut from Italian actress Valeria Golino, who crafts an often engrossing character study around an assisted suicide activist.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Deborah Young
    Fatal Assistance
    Fatal Assistance is a chilling indictment of how billions of dollars in aid were squandered or lost, and how aid and politics are inextricably linked.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    Stalingrad
    It is a strange cross-breed between an old-fashioned WWII epic full of genre cliches and a modern update whose meticulous historical recreation is frighteningly real.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Deborah Young
    Highway
    Ali has a deft hand in creating a fantasy world based on the classical Sita-Ravana model, and gives Bhatt free rein to project herself with unabashed teenage appeal.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    Black Coal, Thin Ice
    If the plotting was only more coherent and audience-friendly and the story-telling more disciplined, the film's extraordinarily complex atmosphere would be irresistible.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    The Two Faces of January
    On his first trip behind the camera, the British-Iranian Amini shows his skill at working with actors and sensing the way they can fill out literary characters. His screenplay generally feels more naturalistic than Highsmith, the dialogue less spare.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Deborah Young
    The Lunchbox
    What is most endearing is the delicacy with which writer-director Ritesh Batra reveals the hopes, sorrows, regrets and fears of everyday people without any sign of condescension or narrative trickery.
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