Godfrey Cheshire

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For 169 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Godfrey Cheshire's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Green Border
Lowest review score: 12 Septembers of Shiraz
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 135 out of 169
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 169
  3. Negative: 12 out of 169
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    David Crosby: Remember My Name
    While the documentary does conjure up the whole sex-drugs-rock ’n’ roll ethos of that fabled time with great flair and pungency, it also movingly probes the hazards and costs of the overindulgence and self-deceptions the era’s lures often entailed. In essence, it serves up the myth and a necessary corrective to it simultaneously.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Godfrey Cheshire
    The Pearl Button
    For most of its 80-minute length, The Pearl Button meditates lyrically on water and its effects on humankind. Then it makes a sharp turn into evoking the horrors of the Pinochet regime, a transition that feels awkward and rather forced, diluting the film’s ultimate impact.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
    Though the film is limited by a point of view that’s too polemically reductive, the idealistic, difficult, sometimes lethal struggles it covers are undeniably revelatory and moving.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    Mountains May Depart
    Whatever Jia shows us and wherever he takes us, we’re always aware of being in the hands of one of the contemporary world’s great filmmakers.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    Sami Blood
    The film’s success comes from how Kernell’s skills as a director match the ambitions of her script.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    The Charmer
    A sharply crafted drama that has elements of noirish suspense, the Danish-Swedish coproduction, which is distinguished by exceptionally fine performances by its three leading actors, offers an incisive, penetrating look at the psychological disorientation and dilemmas of people caught between cultures.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Godfrey Cheshire
    The Human Experiment
    Though Sean Penn executive-produced the film and voices its spare narration, the doc has a very generic tone, so much so that it might seem to belong on TV rather than in theaters.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    Tempestad
    The visuals here are interesting because Adela is a circus clown and we get see a lot of the colorful life around her performances.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    Hitler's Hollywood
    One can’t watch this film and not think of events in the world today. How did the German nation get so caught up in the Nazi mythology that it plunged willingly toward its own destruction? Obviously being seduced away from a clear comprehension of reality into self-regarding mass fantasy was a big part of it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    A Man of Integrity
    Rasoulof’s story proceeds with the deliberate pace and simmering tension of a ‘70s political thriller.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Godfrey Cheshire
    Zero Days
    Easily the most important film anyone has released this year, it is a documentary that deserves to be seen by every sentient citizen of this country – and indeed the world.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Godfrey Cheshire
    Wild Tales
    Deserves to become a serious art-house hit in the U.S. thanks to its skill in deftly overcoming the form’s usual deficits, for a result that feels as amazingly cohesive as it is relentlessly clever and entertaining.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    Best of Enemies
    Provides a rich, extraordinarily fascinating account that’s sure to have many viewers’ minds constantly shuttling between then and now, noting how different certain things about politics and media were in that distant era, yet marveling at how directly those archaic realities led to many of our own.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Godfrey Cheshire
    24 Frames
    As delightful as it is surprising. The surprises begin with the fact that the Iranian master’s last work is, of all things, essentially an animated film.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    Mediterranea
    Where “Black Lives Matter” has become a rallying cry in the U.S., Jonas Carpignano’s sharply crafted Mediterranea voices a counterpart for African immigrants in southern Italy: “Stop shooting blacks!”
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    Don't Call Me Son
    The director has said that the “classical” (her word) style of the earlier film, with its elegant, distanced compositions and paucity of camera movement, is typical of her work; the ragged, edgy, mostly handheld approach of Don’t Call Me Son (flawlessly executed by cinematographer Barbara Alvarez) is a departure.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
    The whole thing is handled with sly wit as well as unfailing stylistic smarts, which makes for a very satisfying package.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    Searching for Mr. Rugoff
    Filmmaker Ira Deutchman offers a compelling biographical portrait of a highly influential New York movie theater owner and independent film distributor that is, by extension, a study of the importance and complexities of creative film marketing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Godfrey Cheshire
    Keep Quiet
    This expertly made, highly dramatic film achieves must-see status for the inevitable light it sheds on the persistence of toxic racial hatreds not just in Hungary but worldwide.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    Testament of Youth
    An intimate epic, Testament of Youth has great historical sweep yet remains focused on the human vicissitudes experienced by Vera and her circle.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Godfrey Cheshire
    Machines
    A film so obedient to current academic fashions in both politics and cinema aesthetics that it ends up feeling both contrived and a bit dishonest.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    Cartel Land
    It must be noted that Cartel Land weaves together two stories, and the Mexican one is far more compelling and revealing than the American.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    An Honest Liar
    If its account of Randi’s work as an exceptional entertainer and a zealous debunker were all that An Honest Liar gave us, it would be a tremendously fascinating film. But the movie also contains a third-act surprise – which won’t be revealed here – that makes it both unexpectedly revelatory and deeply moving.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    The Student
    One of the strongest aspects of The Student is that, while its view of Venya’s beliefs is decidedly skeptical, it doesn’t ridicule him or suggest that others are immune to his Biblical zealotry.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    Cold Case Hammarskjöld
    A tremendously absorbing film, a documentary that plays like a first-rate thriller hinging on key issues of the Cold War and African decolonization.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Godfrey Cheshire
    The Bad Kids
    The Bad Kids is interesting enough in what it shows us to spark interest in what it leaves un-shown. In its case, the information supplied by a few well-chosen talking heads could have given it additional clarity and appeal.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    José
    The satisfactions of José as a whole offers are considerable, and they begin with the human element. Like the Italian neorealist classics from which it descends, the film has a keen appreciation for the lives of people who maintain a stubborn dignity and resolve under the challenges of poverty and other hardships.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    The Settlers
    Whatever its limitations, though, The Settlers provides a vivid primer on a situation that looks inherently tragic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Godfrey Cheshire
    Lambert & Stamp
    A sharply crafted, highly entertaining portrait of two young Londoners who made their names and fortunes by managing a fledgling band called the High Numbers, who became The Who.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Godfrey Cheshire
    Get Me Roger Stone
    In some ways, Stone’s soul seems part carnival huckster, part 19th century anarchist. A petri dish of toxic pathologies, he has come so far from his Goldwaterite beginnings he could now write his own book: A Conservative Without a Conscience.
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