Kenneth Turan

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Los Angeles Times
For 2,642 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kenneth Turan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Vertigo
Lowest review score: 0 Stolen Summer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,845 out of 2642
  2. Mixed: 659 out of 2642
  3. Negative: 138 out of 2642
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Wild Reeds
    The film perfectly understands the tentative experimentation and frequent self-loathing of adolescence, the difficulty of knowing whom to trust and how much to trust them, as well as how incendiary an age this can be, with uncertain psyches ready to explode at minimal provocation.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    I Lost My Body
    You might say this magical, intoxicating piece of work does not have an ordinary bone in its body, and what a delight that turns out to be.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Unforgiven
    Simultaneously heroic and nihilistic, reeking of myth but modern as they come, it is a Western for those who know and chrish the form, a film that resonates with the spirit of films past while staking out a territory quite its own. [7 Aug 1992]
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Frances Ha
    Effortless and effervescent, Frances Ha is a small miracle of a movie, honest and funny with an aim that's true.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Science Fair
    This infectious and exuberant film wins you over by focusing on the enthusiasm and enviable good spirits of the smart and engaging young people who compete in “the Olympics of science fairs.”
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    A Hard Day's Night
    It enables us to recapture exactly the delightful sensations felt all those years ago when we and the world were young and exciting together.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    I Am Not Your Negro
    What makes I Am Not Your Negro a mesmerizing cinematic experience, smart, thoughtful and disturbing, goes well beyond words.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    The Five Obstructions
    A complete original. This ingenious, almost indescribable film won't remind you of anything else because there's nothing else like it.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Youth
    Youth is a film that goes its own way. Quixotic, idiosyncratic, effortlessly moving, it's as much a cinematic essay as anything else, a meditation on the wonders and complications of life, an examination of what lasts, of what matters to people no matter their age.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    This is a film with a commitment to reality unlike any we're used to seeing.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Children of Paradise (1945)
    As a piece of romantic/dramatic cinema, its peers are few, its superiors simply nonexistent.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
    Seeing E.T. again reminds us of how much we've remained the same, how gratified we still are by a film that connects so beautifully to our sense of wonder and joy. [2002 re-release]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Starting Out in the Evening
    Intelligent, involving and conspicuously adult, Starting Out in the Evening is almost shocking in its distinctiveness, its ability to create high drama from an unlikely source.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Barbara
    It's one terrific film, as smart, thoughtful and emotionally involving as just about anything that's out there.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Coraline
    A remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Secrets & Lies
    If film means anything to you, if emotional truth is a quality you care about, this is an event that ought not be missed.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Brokeback Mountain
    Confidently directed by Ang Lee and featuring sensitive and powerful performances by Jake Gyllenhaal and a breathtaking Heath Ledger, this film is determined to involve us in the naturalness and even inevitability of its epic, complicated love story.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Vice
    Brainy, audacious, opinionated and fun, Vice is a tonic for troubled times. As smart as it is partisan, and it is plenty partisan, this savage satire is scared of only one thing, and that is being dull.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Head-On
    Impeccably made, uncompromising in its implacable vision of the deranging power of love, sex and controlled substances, this savage and staggering film knows how to take our breath away.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Atonement
    This is one of the few adaptations that gives a splendid novel the film it deserves.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Down from the Mountain
    For fans of this kind of roots music, it was an event you would have given anything to attend. Down From the Mountain lets you do that and gives you terrific seats in the bargain.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Locke
    Locke stands out both for the way filmmaker Knight conceived and executed it and for the kind of hypnotic acting Hardy can be counted on to bring to the table.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    A wonder several times over.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Tarzan
    We may have seen it all before, but when it's done up like this, experiencing it all over again is a pleasure. [16 June 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Pavarotti
    A warm, emotional and completely involving film about the celebrated tenor.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Iris
    Intelligent, poignant film.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    20 Feet from Stardom
    A moving and joyous behind-the-scenes documentary about a world filled with big, bold personalities and the music they make.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Mean Creek
    Mean Creek's greatest asset is its sense of truth. It doesn't pander to or indulge its characters like the teen films we're used to. It looks at them straight ahead and with respect. It's something you wish Hollywood, and even parents, did more often.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Winter's Bone
    Intense, immersive and in control, Winter's Bone has an art house soul inside a B picture body, and that proves to be a potent combination indeed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Last Resort
    This is the best class of poetic realism, the kind you can believe in without a trace of hesitation.
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