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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    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Your Place or Mine
    It’s a breezy charmer — the kind of movie these obits have been mourning over the years. The film returns to the genre’s blueprint and sticks with it. There are a couple of instances of subversion, moments when Your Place or Mine winks and pokes fun at itself. But for the most part it doesn’t want to surprise or be more clever than the viewer; it aims to please, and in doing so helps re-energize the romantic comedy.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Cocaine Bear
    It aims for maximum entertainment, reveling in farce and gnarly killings to create an experience that keeps you on your toes even if the details get murky upon further reflection.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    No Hard Feelings
    This airy and refreshingly low-stakes comedy will have you steadily chuckling, if not necessarily rolling on the floor laughing. But it also has a surprising amount of heart.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    The Queen of My Dreams
    Mirza has created a film bursting with creative energy and distinctive aesthetic sensibilities. Even when the narrative slackens, you’ll want to keep watching.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    The Marvels
    DaCosta’s kinetic direction and intimate storytelling style lets audiences see this trio — whose lives collide in unexpected ways — from new and entertaining vantage points.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Omen
    Baloji has constructed four fascinating characters, played persuasively by these performers, but trying to figure out where their arcs overlap, even faintly, too often distracts from the beauty before us.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Heretic
    The relationship between Paxton, Barnes and Mr. Reed remains the most absorbing thread throughout Heretic. Even when the screenplay heads into deflating territory — trading potential acerbity for more neutral conclusions — their cat-and-mouse game keeps us curious and faithful.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Fear Street Part One: 1994
    While it probably won’t have you triple checking the locks on your door, it’s likely to keep you entertained enough to come back for more.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    The Legend of the Underground
    Perhaps the most powerful aspect of The Legend of the Underground is that it doesn’t mistake hope for over-sentimentalizing.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Ponyboi
    Ponyboi seamlessly integrates its character’s challenges with identity into a propulsive story about a sex worker on the run. It also introduces Gallo, whose strong performance offers audiences a new hero worth rooting for. The result is a sleek film, only occasionally hampered by predictability and contrivance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Babes
    Although Babes nails its comedic swings, the film strains to build the narrative tension and stakes needed to land its more serious moments.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Evil Dead Rise
    The film flaunts the talents of its promising director, while playing plenty of homage to the predecessors. Gore, blood, jittery perspectives and strong performances from Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan make this film a worthy franchise entry.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    My Sunshine
    Guided by the beauty of the landscape and the nostalgia of childhood, Okuyama constructs a quiet narrative buoyed by an understated charm.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Barbie
    Barbie is driven by jokes — sometimes laugh-out-loud, always chuckle-worthy — that poke light fun at Mattel, prod the ridiculousness of the doll’s lore and gesture at the contradictions of our sexist society.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Monkey Man
    With Monkey Man, Patel offers an allegorical story that combines the technical and heroic sensibilities of his favorite action figures (Bruce Lee, John Wick) with the mythologies rooted in his ethnic identity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Everybody Loves Touda
    The most powerful thread in Everybody Loves Touda is how the singer’s attempts to become a sheikha, a traditional performer whose songs are lamentations for the soul, are thwarted by the people around her.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Halftime
    Halftime includes moments of disarming sincerity, when it seems like the doc and its subject, despite their cautiousness, are genuinely reaching for the truth.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Fear Street Part Two: 1978
    Despite the sometimes tedious pacing and repetitive script, it’s a classic-feeling slasher that delights in gore — think Friday the 13th — and an affirming example of Janiak’s confidence behind the camera.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Sidney
    Reginald Hudlin’s documentary about Sidney Poitier should be considered the beginning, not the end, of appraising the prolific actor’s career.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Bring Her Back
    Performances are also key to reinforcing Bring Her Back’s creepy tenor, from Hawkins’ increasingly distressed portrait of a woman undone by loss to Wren Phillips’ engrossing portrayal as Oliver. Barratt and Wong have a tender, natural chemistry that makes their sibling bond easy to invest in.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Enola Holmes
    The film is successful in balancing these broad themes with our heroine’s adventures, and that is due in large part to the work of Brown, whose energetic performance breathes new life into the Holmes creative world.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    The Gutter
    The Gutter’s humor rarely misses. The Lester brothers deploy jokes with precision, taking aim at everything and everyone.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    More Than Ever
    Silence is Atef’s strength. The director impressively uses quiet moments to great effect.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Us Kids
    Us Kids skillfully handles a sensitive subject and prudently connects the Parkland students’ stories to those of Black students whose experiences with gun violence rarely garner similar national attention.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Les Indésirables
    Ly and Gederlini weave in keen analysis about political manipulation, structural violence and community organizing — a perceptiveness that makes Les Indésirables resonate despite its flaws.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
    Unlike other music documentaries (a popular format, as of late, for recalibrating celebrity images), Gomez’s project operates at a rawer, grittier register. It’s textured by the 30-year-old star’s relative youth and her attempts to communicate honestly, instead of perfectly.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Lovia Gyarkye
    Love and Monsters
    Love and Monsters lacks the self-seriousness of typical dystopian flicks but, despite its surprisingly perfunctory title and relatively thin plot, it doesn’t completely lack depth.
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