Diana Clarke

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For 77 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Diana Clarke's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 10 Jewtopia
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 77
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 77
  3. Negative: 3 out of 77
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    Rabin in His Own Words
    The documentary briefly veers into tired territory when Rabin’s voice disappears and triumphal singers fill the screen, but Rabin’s consistent, thoughtful self-criticism and colorful storytelling animate what might otherwise be a pat, or at least familiar, history of Israel in the 20th century.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Diana Clarke
    What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    Despite a melodramatic title, the film is keen and measured. Drama builds in the small moments.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile
    Deraspe returns specificity, intimacy, and human weirdness to this international scandal.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary
    Though sometimes clumsy or nostalgic, the film is an engaging oral history of Leary and Dass's friendship.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    Do Not Resist
    Do Not Resist is an order to the viewer: watch.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Indian Point
    Even when it's ruining lives, bureaucracy is boring. And Indian Point, Ivy Meeropol's new documentary about a nuclear power plant of that name, is riddled with tiresome bureaucratic wrangling at local and national levels.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Evergreen: The Road to Legalization
    Because the battle for legalization is still being fought in most other states, the lack of an up-to-date perspective is frustrating.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    More Than the Rainbow
    On treks through the city, camera in hand, Weber's expertise, tenderness, and taste for the absurd become clear. Wechsler runs with it, interspersing decades of Weber's often gritty photographs with expert cinematography.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Rabin, the Last Day
    By glamorizing struggle and ideology across the Israeli-Jewish political spectrum, it once more invites identification with only half of those locked in the conflict Rabin was trying to solve.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Diana Clarke
    The Tainted Veil
    The Tainted Veil is a long conversation, wide in scope and geography, but nonetheless intimate.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Diana Clarke
    Ants on a Shrimp
    Like a well-executed fine-dining experience, this sleek documentary entertains, delights, and makes viewers comfortable without evident sweat.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    A World Not Ours
    Fleifel gathers the messy detritus of everyday living, laughs at it, then shows the viewer what it means.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    Speed Sisters
    Although Speed Sisters is not comprehensive, it's vital.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil
    The most fascinating moments in Hieronymous Bosch come from art historians once they’ve turned to the work of history: creating meaning and context, wrestling with these questions. The film renders this conversation beautifully, and in moments begins to feel urgent in spite of itself.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Being Ginger
    Harris is wistful, funny, and articulate about his romantic neuroses and insecurities... Unfortunately, he sometimes fails to go deeper.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    Israel: A Home Movie
    Lilti tells a fine story, but he doesn't always look closely enough at what he's saying.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    Kabbalah Me
    [A] sweetly odd documentary.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Diana Clarke
    Farewell to Hollywood
    [A] bizarre and wonderful doc that's pitched like a home movie but crafted with fine, poignant sensibilities.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    The Yes Men Are Revolting
    The Yes Men visit rural Uganda, Canadian oil fields, Zuccotti Park, and a climate change conference in Copenhagen, but in its best moments this loopy yet informative doc becomes a buddy movie.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Diana Clarke
    Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
    This gripping documentary about unleavened bread and the people who need it asks us to consider what we in the world owe one another — and demands that we do better.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Diana Clarke
    Tap World
    It's rare to find a film that portrays dancers of all shapes, colors, ages, and sizes as beautiful, which they are.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Beyond the Edge
    With the facts so poignant, there's little that needs dramatizing.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Seeds of Time
    Fowler's work is bureaucratic, institutional, Western-focused. Which shouldn't matter, because it's good work, but as a story of salvation it feels too familiar.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Diana Clarke
    The Wanted 18
    This movie about violence and how it comes into intimate spaces refuses to make even animals only animal. It's beautiful and important and very strange.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Diana Clarke
    Breastmilk
    Ben-Ari elegantly conveys the crippling social pressures that arise when a woman suggests that she might be allowed agency over her own body and that of her child, without adding any words of her own.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 90 Diana Clarke
    Monk With a Camera
    Monk With a Camera hints at answers, but imposes nothing. Like a good photograph, or a wise abbot, it only presents the evidence and allows us to arrive at truth.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Diana Clarke
    The Human Surge
    Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams’ globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
    Driving both the filmmaker and her subjects is wonder and wanderlust. Their enthusiasm for the Camino is contagious, and it might make you drop everything and head for Spain.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Diana Clarke
    Felt
    This strange, quiet film takes social narratives about romance and gender and upends them, often seeming like one thing until it's another.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Diana Clarke
    Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
    For a film whose central motif is dance, there's remarkably little dancing done onscreen, and though Rowland and her co-star share moments of tender, revealing conversation, the movie is ultimately underwhelming, its emotional range as limited as that of its characters.
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