Joshua Land

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For 46 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 21% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 77% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joshua Land's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score: 90 LOL
Lowest review score: 0 Chaos
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 46
  3. Negative: 4 out of 46
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Joshua Land
    LOL
    The characters are a bit too OCD for LOL to work as the definitive commentary on technology and human relationships that it strives to be...But the movie is unusually attentive to the ironies of communications technology.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    Occupation: Dreamland
    A fair-minded (but hardly apolitical) grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that trusts the audience to draw its own conclusions.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    La sierra
    A stark, relentlessly deglamorized vision of ghetto life, La Sierra is essential viewing for anyone who ponied up for the aestheticized amorality of the Brazilian "City of God."
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Joshua Land
    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Its title an acknowledgment of the reality of evil, Shake Hands With the Devil touches on the unanswerable hows and whys, but its ultimate subject is the terrible burden of command.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    Hair High
    Too glib to qualify as satire, Hair High nails the high school experience.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    Justice
    With its unobtrusive visual style, Justice plays like a near-parody of documentary objectivity, subtly suggesting the malleable nature of "truth," both in the courtroom and the movie theater.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    Up for Grabs
    Wranovics's entertaining documentary feels appropriately detached.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    Double Dare
    Micheli's documentary finds a fresh angle via the intersecting stories of two stuntwomen.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Joshua Land
    The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
    A triumph of documentary activism nine years in the making.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
    Largely content to bask in the great man's glow, Angio provides generous clips and soundbites alongside fond reminiscences, but the celebratory tone leaves room for darker reflections.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    The Animation Show 2005
    Expertly programmed by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt, the second go-round of The Animation Show features 12 films from five countries.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    Home
    Warmhearted but never sentimental or condescending, Home finally proves most affecting as an unsparing glimpse into the psychology of poverty.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Joshua Land
    King Leopold's Ghost
    Sleeker and more ambitious than the 2003 BBC-produced "Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death," which focused more narrowly on long-suppressed Belgian atrocities of that era.

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