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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Gimme the Loot
    Filmmaker Leon has deftly structured Gimme the Loot as a picaresque tale, an anecdotal, observational film that introduces us to all manner of eccentric and original characters. Will Malcolm and Sophia get what they want, what they need, or something in between? The only sure thing is that being along for the ride is pleasure of the most unexpected sort.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Kenneth Turan
    Reservoir Dogs
    Tarantino's palpable enthusiasm, his unapologietic passion for what he's created, reinvigorates this venerable plot and, mayhem aside, makes it involving for longer than you might suspect. [27 Oct 1992]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Of Time and the City
    Most of all, Davies proves himself to be a poet of the commonplace whose art is the exalting of the everyday. He may rail against "the British genius for creating the dismal," but his own work is anything but.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    The Scent of Green Papaya
    The Scent of Green Papaya, a film as delicate and evocative as its name, recognizes that out of illusion can come reality.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    Every once in a while, a small, unheralded film comes along, so smart and funny, such a pleasure to experience, you can't believe your luck. Hunt for the Wilderpeople is such a film.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Ballets Russes
    A captivating film that truly elevates the spirit, Ballets Russes is the most emotionally satisfying documentary since "Mad Hot Ballroom."
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    It's not until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that a film has successfully re-created the sense of stirring magical adventure and engaged, edge-of-your-seat excitement that has made the books such an international phenomenon.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Il Postino: The Postman
    Made under unique and wrenching circumstances, it gained poignancy and a kind of purity from its troubles, and an already affecting film ended up suffused with emotion.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    The Hate U Give
    More disturbing than you expect, its story of innocence lost and perspective gained holds us and will not let go.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    That's Entertainment! III
    That’s Entertainment! III is the sunniest of memento mori, a showy tribute to the flabbergasting musicals of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that emphasizes both how delightful the genre was and how inescapably extinct it’s become.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    Daughters of the Dust
    A poetic attempt to re-create a bygone culture as not only a role model for the present but also a positive mythology for the future, the movie's strong visual qualities and epic emotions make it a bracing remedy to swallow.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    Midnight in Paris
    With Midnight in Paris, Allen has lightened up, allowed himself a treat and in the process created a gift for us and him.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    The Guardians
    The Guardians is an intimate French epic, elegantly made and quietly emotional, a family story filled with characters whose lives we sink into, feeling the hope, the sadness, the sorrow and the joy right along with those on the screen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Mirai
    Master Japanese animator Mamoru Hosoda makes family films, but not in the way you think. It’s not that his films are suitable for all ages, though they mostly are. And it’s not even that the family unit is central to his work, though it is. Rather it’s that Hosoda’s films stretch the boundaries of both style and content within the family film rubric.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Love and Death on Long Island
    Love and Death on Long Island is sharp, sophisticated and completely delicious, a purposeful comedy that focuses on the power of screen images to uproot lives and the poignancy of amour fou, totally mad love.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    A War
    A War is a film done exactly right about a situation gone horribly wrong.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    The Story of the Weeping Camel
    "Weeping" is a simple tale of animal estrangement and reconciliation that in its own quiet way manages to be soothing, hypnotic, even magical.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    Menashe
    As a slice of ultra-orthodox life, Menashe offers an unusual — and unusually sympathetic — look inside a world that is often hidden from view.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    The World
    A remarkable film.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Watching Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is like experiencing a thrilling unfinished symphony: The story is enthralling, but it's not over, and there's no telling where it's going. Which makes what we see on screen all the more involving.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Woman at War
    With a masterful melding of the serious, the comic, the ridiculous and the musical, Woman at War is joyful to experience though difficult to sum up.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Ford v Ferrari
    A barnburner of a motion picture that mainlines heart-in-mouth excitement and tug-at-the-heart emotion, Ford v Ferrari is made the way Hollywood used to make them, a glorious throwback that combines a smart modern sensibility with the best of traditional storytelling.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Kenneth Turan
    Flight
    A solid, often engrossing film that doesn't engage us overall the way Denzel Washington's work does.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Kenneth Turan
    Silver Linings Playbook
    Silver Linings Playbook is rich in life's complications. It will make you laugh, but don't expect it to fit in any snug genre pigeonhole. Dramatic, emotional, even heartbreaking, as well as wickedly funny, it has the gift of going its own way, a complete success from a singular talent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    A Self-Made Hero
    Smart and provocative.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kenneth Turan
    Buena Vista Social Club
    Being able to hear this kind of playing is a special moment in time, one we don't want to end and one that we're privileged to experience.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
    Whatever this woman is saying or doing, you want to be there to hear it and see it, and there's no better formula for an entertaining documentary than that.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    Kisses
    Small though it is, Kisses evokes all kinds of feelings, and that is no small thing from a film of any size.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Kenneth Turan
    Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    Dallaire is not only the protagonist of Shake Hands, he is a compelling reason to see it.
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