Doris Toumarkine

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Film Journal International
For 11 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 9% same as the average critic
  • 19% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Doris Toumarkine's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 95 Custody
Lowest review score: 45 Memoir of War
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 85 Doris Toumarkine
    Never Look Away
    Never Look Away, a cohesively integrated collage of many genres (history, war, crime, medical drama with romance and spectacle), is also a feast of fine acting and magnificent visuals. But with so much going on, viewers, as if confronting impressionistic paintings or pixel-based photorealistic portraitures, need to step away to get a better picture.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Doris Toumarkine
    Viper Club
    Above all, this is Sarandon’s picture and maybe her best film work in many years.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Doris Toumarkine
    Wildlife
    Wildlife offers a fresh glimpse of lower-class anomie and the rhythms of life in a simpler time and place.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Doris Toumarkine
    Nigerian Prince
    Character development and backstory needed more work and would have added to better, more engaged storytelling.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 65 Doris Toumarkine
    Night School
    Night School pushes no buttons nor breaks new boundaries, but it pleases and entertains enough to get a diploma for good effort.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Doris Toumarkine
    Pick of the Litter
    Devoid of any corniness, sentimentality or condescension, Pick of the Litter is a must for dog lovers, but it will also serve all those needing reminders of how kind, decent and giving humans can be and the role dogs play in our lives.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Doris Toumarkine
    Papillon
    Charlie Hunnam as Parisian safecracker Henri “Papillon” Charrière and Rami Malek as his pal-in-hell, counterfeiter Louis Dega, were sorely in need of richer characters written (or directed?) with more complexity, coloring, backstory, tics, or whatever might humanize them more.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 45 Doris Toumarkine
    Memoir of War
    There are few elements of suspense or intrigue in this drama, as it’s largely an inward journey into Duras’ agonized, shaky state of mind over the unknown whereabouts of her Resistance-member husband, Robert Anselme.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 65 Doris Toumarkine
    Dog Days
    No spoiler here that all unfolds with twists and complications but lands in a colorful kibble bowl of happy endings. Surprise does lie in the fact that such familiar material can deliver some unexpected pleasures.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 55 Doris Toumarkine
    Constructing Albert
    While this culinary-themed doc offers a little kitchen sizzle and artistically plated tastings (a delicious shrimp dish sautéed, a daring soy sorbet, etc.), the film has more of a scattershot, look-at-me Facebook feel.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 95 Doris Toumarkine
    Custody
    Custody embodies Legrand’s attention to detail, reverence for gripping storytelling, command of tension and, above all, direction of finely etched performances for characters major and minor. It is simmering entertainment that amounts to required viewing.

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