Lovia Gyarkye

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The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times
For 345 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Lovia Gyarkye's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Seeds
Lowest review score: 10 Madame Web
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 211 out of 345
  2. Mixed: 127 out of 345
  3. Negative: 7 out of 345
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Judy Blume Forever
    There’s a satisfaction to hearing Blume, a sharp woman with a winking sense of humor, talk about her path to writing. Her meandering trajectory toward the medium and her challenging journey to harnessing her craft are a refreshing contrast to the contemporary system of publishing, which rewards the young, gifted and confessional.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Girls Will Be Girls
    Talati’s film offers a sensitive and distinctive take on the fraught dynamics between mothers and daughters.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    The Plague
    Charlie Polinger opens his thrilling and uneasy directorial debut feature The Plague with an arresting sequence that quickly establishes the haunting undertones of this adolescent psychological thriller.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    How to Have Sex
    Manning Walker does a fine job building a sense of dread and shifting tone without losing the story’s momentum.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Lovia Gyarkye
    Daniela Forever
    Vigalondo’s film has a compelling premise, but the story (he also wrote the screenplay) gets away from him, resulting in a film that never quite hits its stride.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Lovia Gyarkye
    Kokomo City
    Punchy delivery styles, shimmering personalities and kaleidoscopic perspectives make up the soul of D. Smith’s gutsy documentary Kokomo City
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Twinless
    What makes Twinless special and surprisingly compassionate is how this director handles grieving characters.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Official Competition
    Despite its commitment to biting humor and acerbic analysis, Competencia Oficial is, at its heart, a celebration of artists and their process.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Bread & Roses
    The clashes between Afghan women and the Taliban forces oppressing them is captured with clear-eyed honesty and a compassionate eye in Bread and Roses
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    All That's Left of You
    It’s a moving and intimate narrative about the toll displacement takes on generations of people.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Lovia Gyarkye
    Il Buco
    One could walk away with deep thoughts about modernity and the relationship between nature and man, but that’s not required. Appreciating the beauty of an intricate process unfolding is more than enough.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Lovia Gyarkye
    Damsel
    Fresnadillo’s film puts on fewer airs of disruption than other versions of this story, so the narrative comes off as less self-satisfied. Still, it struggles to sustain an inspirational tenor.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    The Substance
    The most compelling parts of The Substance deal with how social conventions turn women against themselves. A stronger version of the film might have dug into the complexities of that truth, instead of simply arranging itself around it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Lovia Gyarkye
    Nope
    It won’t be to everyone’s taste, but Nope offers up a glutton’s feast for Peele disciples and fans of brainy sci-fi thrillers, ushering the director into an intriguing new phase of cinema that’s as rhapsodic as it is demanding.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Every Body
    Every Body is primarily an informative documentary, one that takes a cursory glance at many facets of the intersex awareness conversation to give viewers unfamiliar with the material a new perspective.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Lovia Gyarkye
    Disenchanted
    Disenchanted lacks the charisma and curiosity of its predecessor.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Alice, Darling
    One of the most absorbing parts of Alice, Darling is watching Alice, Sophie and Tess interact with each other throughout the weekend — to witness the frustrating moments of misunderstanding and the triumphant ones of clarity. Kendrick, Mosaku and Horn sustain a natural rapport, which makes investing in their friendship easy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Transition
    While filming Transition, Bryon was on assignment, working on a feature film in the final stages of post-production. Even when the documentary doesn’t fulfill its ambitions or potential, it does preview the exciting work coming from its director.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    God's Country
    Although astute viewers may easily predict God’s Country’s final moments, the journey there is still a wild and satisfying one.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Apolonia, Apolonia
    The artist’s charm is never more apparent than in the final section of Apolonia, Apolonia, in which we hear Glob and Apolonia’s phone conversations. Apolonia is no longer just a subject but a confidant. She has pulled not only Glob but us, too, into her orbit.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Lovia Gyarkye
    Ailey
    Wignot handles details of the legend’s tumultuous biography with great care, honoring his talents while acknowledging the toll they took on him. But perhaps the greatest gift of this tightly conceived and beautiful doc lies in its appreciation of the divinity of dance.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)
    Questlove shapes an engaging narrative that charts Stone’s undulating career.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Left-Handed Girl
    The strengths of this slender film, which Tsou co-wrote with Baker, stem from its authentic rendition of daily life in a bustling metropolis.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
    Arnow’s film won’t be for everyone — there’s a specificity and an insider energy to some of the jokes, which don’t always land — but there’s enough to fuel curiosity about what Arnow is trying to do. Even the title, with its sense of drifting and silent ellipses, makes you think.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Leo
    What makes Leo special are the kinds of lessons on offer. Its message is well-timed for a generation who find themselves held hostage by their parents’ anxieties and stand to inherit a world of problems. Leo encourages adults to let go and reminds kids that growing up doesn’t have to be so scary.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Kaepernick & America
    If we take a step back, we can see the faint outlines of another, more urgent, narrative thread in Kaepernick & America — one that encourages an all too rare kind of integrity and commitment to creating a more just world.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    I Am: Celine Dion
    I Am: Celine Dion abandons tricks of the eye for an unflinching look at the subject’s new reality.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Lovia Gyarkye
    Denise Ho: Becoming the Song
    The film does an excellent job of introducing the pop star to unfamiliar audiences, contextualizing her activism and, more broadly, examining the role art can play in shaping our beliefs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    We Grown Now
    The result is a film that takes the idea of beauty seriously and works, with deceptive ease, to show us the tiny pleasures that make up life in Cabrini-Green.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Amrum
    What does it mean to lose faith in one’s role models and form an identity outside their ideological purview? It’s a conventional narrative drama, but Amrum approaches this question with commendable tenderness.
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