Gary Goldstein

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Los Angeles Times
For 1,126 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 12% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Gary Goldstein's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Other People
Lowest review score: 0 The Remake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 555 out of 1126
  2. Mixed: 408 out of 1126
  3. Negative: 163 out of 1126
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Gary Goldstein
    Dovlatov
    A dreamy, compelling, often wry look at a writer.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Gary Goldstein
    1985
    Chiklis is first-rate as Adrian’s tough, deceptively aware Vietnam-vet father, while Madsen’s gentle, luminous portrayal of a deeply adoring mother is heartbreakingly authentic — and utterly award-worthy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Gary Goldstein
    Life and Nothing More
    It’s a vital, singularly crafted film that simply tells it — or more specifically shows it — like it is through the eyes of a struggling African American single mother and the adolescent son she desperately wants to keep out of trouble against the mounting odds.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Gary Goldstein
    Fail State
    It’s an appalling, infuriating story.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Gary Goldstein
    Travel Ban
    The film covers a great deal of honest, funny and timely ground, though be prepared to revisit some of Bush and Trump’s “greatest hits” via a rehashing of archival news clips.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Gary Goldstein
    What They Had
    The radiant Danner, one of the greats, is perfection here, while Forster gives a stunning, Oscar-worthy turn as a man struggling to hold onto a blissful past to ward off a frightening future.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Gary Goldstein
    London Fields
    The aggressively awful London Fields is, once again, proof that not every successful novel should become a movie.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Gary Goldstein
    Studio 54
    Ultimately, Studio 54 proves a nostalgic, sometimes wistful, other times unsettling look back at a singular period of time.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Gary Goldstein
    The Happy Prince
    It’s a film of decided care and forethought.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Gary Goldstein
    Trouble
    It’s a film that begins as a raucous rural comedy and deftly evolves into a poignant and reflective, yet still wryly amusing, story of what becomes of a family.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Gary Goldstein
    Loving Pablo
    Tolerating Pablo might have better suited this unremarkable picture in which the wealthiest criminal of all time’s reported charisma takes a back seat to his badness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Gary Goldstein
    A Crooked Somebody
    Sommer, who did fine supporting work on TV’s “Mad Men,” doesn’t prove a distinctive or charismatic enough presence to carry an entire film, especially one as uneven as this.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Gary Goldstein
    Museo
    Museo is a fun, stylish, singular heist flick that’s about so much more than the theft itself.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Gary Goldstein
    Jane Fonda in Five Acts
    All in all, Jane Fonda in Five Acts proves a captivating, extremely well-told and crafted, decidedly fitting tribute to a Hollywood legend, fighter and survivor who just might surprise us one day with a “sixth act.”
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Gary Goldstein
    A Happening of Monumental Proportions
    Judy Greer, the wonderful film and TV actress, makes an inauspicious directing debut with this unevenly paced, tonally awkward comedy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Gary Goldstein
    Hot to Trot
    Ultimately, it’s the social, sexual, political and artistic power of the same-sex dance phenomenon that gives the topic its unique heft and vitality.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Gary Goldstein
    Blaze
    That Hawke so closely aligns his cinematic style, inventive as it is, with the story’s disorderly, scruffily offbeat characters and settings is both a strength and a liability. His kaleidoscopic, at times ghostly, approach proves a valiant if studied effort.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Gary Goldstein
    The Bookshop
    Although it’s anchored by a deeply felt performance by the wonderful Emily Mortimer, with a marvelous supporting turn by the always-welcome Bill Nighy, the film, scripted and directed by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet (“Elegy,” “Learning to Drive”), is at times a bit too mustily mounted and told to keep us as fully immersed as we might like.
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