Lanre Bakare

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The Guardian
For 23 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lanre Bakare's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Life, Animated
Lowest review score: 20 The Eyes of My Mother
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 23
  3. Negative: 1 out of 23
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Lanre Bakare
    Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
    It’s a brazen celebration of Jackson, which unlike Lee’s other documentary work doesn’t look under the hood to tell the whole story and examine some of the more uncomfortable inner workings.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 60 Lanre Bakare
    The Comedian
    The storyline does get frayed towards the end...but that’s not really the point; as long as you’re here for the dick jokes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Lanre Bakare
    Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    What Dream is Destiny makes clear is that commercial success really isn’t everything, and that being a director who isn’t bothered by it can lead to a singular if perhaps undervalued career.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Lanre Bakare
    Brahman Naman
    Q’s morality tale isn’t without laughs. The quizzers are adept at alluding to and meshing together the greats of English literature with crude dick jokes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Lanre Bakare
    The Lure
    The Lure’s premise alone will turn heads but once the novelty wears off the question will remain: where’s the story?
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Lanre Bakare
    Complete Unknown
    Unfortunately, with the big reveal having arrived in the first act, the film isn’t much more than an elongated debate that leaves you thinking: so what?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Lanre Bakare
    The Birth of a Nation
    Mostly, the film is heavy-handed, with subtlety nowhere to be found.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 60 Lanre Bakare
    Manchester by the Sea
    Manchester-by-the-Sea is a study of family dysfunction and the worse loss imaginable, but one held back by the fact it’s all filtered through Affleck’s withdrawn lead.

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