For 53 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Oleg Ivanov's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 88 Only Yesterday (1991)
Lowest review score: 12 Phantom Halo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 53
  2. Negative: 13 out of 53
53 movie reviews
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    It’s an occasionally amusing and insightful beltway satire that’s ultimately undone by its conventional mise-en-scène and predictable plot.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    The film is content to present Anton Chekhov's ideas rather than grapple with their provocative and complex subtexts.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    As seen through James Lord’s eyes, the dramas and passions on display throughout the film come off as melodramas and grotesqueries.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    This tentative questioning of the sometimes unscrupulous methods and deleterious consequences of political correctness is further undermined by Ted's insipid character and general indifference to his fate.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    Amos Gitai regularly takes incidents and anecdotes out of context, making it difficult for viewers who lack intimate knowledge of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to follow the proceedings.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    LBJ
    By pairing down Lyndon Baines Johnson’s multifarious life and career to this one piece of legislation, the film fails to do justice to both the man and the fraught times he so fundamentally influenced.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    The film is an awkward mix of swashbuckling love story and polemic, painted in very broad strokes.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    Throughout his nearly six-hour documentary, Abbas Fahdel is content with showing only the outer surface of people's lives.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    The film depicts Edward Snowden's ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America's increasingly complex security threats.

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