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Screen Daily, The Hollywood Reporter
For 140 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Neil Young's Scores

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  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Araby
Lowest review score: 20 Bridgend
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 92 out of 140
  2. Mixed: 44 out of 140
  3. Negative: 4 out of 140
140 movie reviews
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Sweet Dreams
    The sour taste of colonialism is pungently evoked in Sweet Dreams, a largely accomplished second feature by Bosnian-Dutch writer-director Ena Sendijarevic.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Neil Young
    Terrestrial Verses
    While there is no doubting the filmmakers’ admirably humanistic and progressive intentions, however, the picture itself somehow ends up less than the sum of its often-impressive parts.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    The Arc of Oblivion
    A likeably offbeat and disarmingly self-aware documentary essay on how humans deal with the immutable transience of the universe, Ian Cheney’s globetrotting Arc Of Oblivion should leave a trace in the minds of receptive viewers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Apolonia, Apolonia
    Very much a collaborative affair between subject Apolonia Sokol and Danish filmmaker Lea Glob, it also functions as a snapshot of millennial creatives and their struggles to balance public and private lives amid external financial and psychological pressures.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Neil Young
    The Human Surge 3
    It is a film in which, over two hours, the maverick Argentinian virtuoso quietly blows up and rebuilds the established language of cinema in challenging but ultimately exhilarating ways.
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    • 90 Neil Young
    Astrakan
    The result is an engrossing exercise in empathetic humanism, unhurried and uninflected; the various sections of the film are divided by ruminative fades to black.
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    • 50 Neil Young
    Critical Zone
    An episodic string of very uneven vignettes, the film benefits hugely from the unifying presence of artist Pousti — a non-pro, like the rest of the uneven cast — who dominates nearly every scene with a genial, subdued intensity as the thirtysomething, bear-like Mr Amir.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Topology of Sirens
    It’s an offbeat combination of erudite esoterica and sensory pleasures (many of them music-related) that patient viewers may find beguiling.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Neil Young
    Seire
    Using simple means, Kang and his team take banal situations and settings — much of the action unfolds in a city-centre apartment building — and render them just eerie enough to be unsettling.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Matter Out of Place
    Matter Out Of Place is a typically sober, observational and engrossing work of ecological-anthropological documentary from Austrian maestro Nikolaus Geyrhalter.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    The Plains
    The structure of The Plains is playful and idiosyncratic, rather than formalist or rigid.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Neil Young
    Human Flowers of Flesh
    This a film which has all the superficial contours of a profound and intelligent enterprise, but little of the actual content.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Neil Young
    Hinterland
    It takes a little while to adjust to the film’s strong and deliberately oppressive stylistic approach, but Hinterland successfully avoids being swallowed up by its own aesthetic via the narrative’s propulsive momentum and the magnetic central performance by Muslu.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Neil Young
    El Tiempo Perdido
    A pleasant and sometimes stimulating viewing experience.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Africa
    Rising like Olympus above the general run of low-budget debut features, Israeli writer-director Oren Gerner’s Africa is a touchingly well-observed study of long-time marrieds starring the filmmaker’s own parents as lightly fictionalized versions of themselves.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    La Mami
    Herrero Garvin and company have evidently earned the trust of Dona Olga and her customers, their film winningly emerging as warm, humanistic evocation of sisterhood against a fascinating demi-monde backdrop.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Neil Young
    Servants
    If nothing else, the period picture represents an impressive change of pace from Ostrochovsky’s hard-knock feature directorial debut.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Neil Young
    Taste
    The enigmatic proceedings soon find an oneiric, hypnotic rhythm that some viewers may indeed find entrancing.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Neil Young
    Children of the Enemy
    The film is most effective in simply conveying the agonising practical realities of Galvez’s quest, an operation involving endless telephone calls and long down-time periods of waiting punctuated by brief flurries of frenzied activity.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Neil Young
    Ida Red
    Swab’s strong suit, conversely, lies in the selection and handling of his performers.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Who You Think I Am
    It’s a deliciously rug-pulling affair which, like the “catfishing” protagonist — i.e. a person hiding behind a fake online persona for deceitful purposes — comes across as one thing and gradually reveals itself to be quite another.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Red Moon Tide
    A challenging work which punctuates taxing stretches of austere stasis with interludes of sublime beauty — including a ravishingly spectacular underwater finale — it uses a slight fable of a story as framework for some extravagant sensory stimulations.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Overseas
    The most sympathetic, illuminating study of domestic labor since Roma.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Neil Young
    Acute Misfortune
    Of obvious interest to arthouse audiences in Cullen, Wright and Jensen's native Australia, this ambitious and stimulating glimpse into the dark abyss of creativity deserves widespread international exposure at festivals and via receptive theatrical settings.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    Isadora's Children
    It's an unassuming and delicate work which demands but ultimately repays close attention.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Neil Young
    Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
    Properly analyzing what made "Boro" tick, and explaining how one of most acclaimed directors of his generation ended up fizzling out so messily in the 1980s, ultimately proves beyond Mikurda and collaborators.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Neil Young
    Days of the Bagnold Summer
    The sour-tinged comedy of excruciatingly English embarrassment deploys some talented performers on both sides of the camera but its promising parts never quite cohere into a properly satisfying whole.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Neil Young
    Take Me Somewhere Nice
    Rocky roads to romance, self-realization and adulthood are quirkily mapped in Take Me Somewhere Nice, a distinctive and ultimately quite promising debut by Bosnian-born Dutch writer-director Ena Sendijarevic.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Neil Young
    To the Ends of the Earth
    A shaggy-seeming but carefully modulated affair, To the Ends of the Earth gradually emerges as an offbeat but persuasive investigation of culture-clashes and the potential for trans-global bridge-building.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Neil Young
    Present.Perfect.
    Punctuated with moments of illumination, humor and even occasional visual flair —the opening shot executes a stately 360-degree cityscape pan from a high crane — Present. Perfect manages to retain interest despite a certain repetitiveness and some patience-taxing longueurs.
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