Oleg Ivanov

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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. Mixed: 9 out of 53
  3. Negative: 13 out of 53
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Oleg Ivanov
    Only Yesterday (1991)
    It uses the trappings of the family melodrama to reveal the subtle social constraints that inhibit people, particularly women, from attaining full self-realization.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    April and the Extraordinary World
    The film provocatively has audiences see the world's current ecological concerns in a different and unexpected light.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Kubo and the Two Strings
    It offers a powerful metaphor for the manner in which we carry the memories of our departed inside ourselves.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Oleg Ivanov
    Neruda
    Pablo Larraín has captured Pablo Neruda in all of his pomposity, pretense, courage, and undeniable genius.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Theeb
    Theeb insists on the importance of preserving cultural difference against the totalizing vision of racial and religious hegemony.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
    This is activist filmmaking that manages to be both angry and elegiac in its recounting of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Oleg Ivanov
    The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    It both feeds off of and perpetuates nostalgia for a time when the nation seemed more politically conscious and therefore more capable of creating lasting social change.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Oleg Ivanov
    Colliding Dreams
    The filmmakers' perspective is firmly aligned with the views of liberal Zionism, as the leftist peace activists are given the most screen time.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    West of the Jordan River
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 38 Oleg Ivanov
    Little Sister
    The film's attempt at political insight and portrayal of social malaise are meant to give it the illusion of depth.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
    It presents a captivating portrait of one of the era's greatest defenders of artistic freedom and a true American original.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    The Party
    It captures the qualities of live theater that are rarely transmitted to film, of being immediate, alive, and spontaneous, as if the viewer is just a stone's throw away from the characters.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Transpecos
    Violence in Transpecos is sparse, but the filmmakers use it with a narrative precision that highlights the unforgiving consequences that accompanies every choice in this desolate borderland.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    Submission
    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.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 38 Oleg Ivanov
    Brand: A Second Coming
    Ondi Timoner's documentary about Russell Brand basically gives the English comedian turned "activist" a free pass.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Oleg Ivanov
    City of Gold
    The film affectively defends food critic Jonathan Gold's assertion that it's ultimately cooking that makes us human.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Big Fish & Begonia
    In the sly exchanges between the teenage protagonists and their elders, the film reflects a nation's shifting tides.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    The Eagle Huntress
    Aisholpan’s liberation is a harbinger of the growing pressure that the outside world exerts on a once isolated community.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 38 Oleg Ivanov
    The Final Master
    The film is a seemingly endless series of convoluted double-dealing, backstabbing, and factional realignment.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Oleg Ivanov
    Final Portrait
    As seen through James Lord’s eyes, the dramas and passions on display throughout the film come off as melodramas and grotesqueries.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Oleg Ivanov
    Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
    Eiichi Yamamoto's cult anime strikes a perfect balance between midnight-movie enchantment and arthouse sophistication.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Oleg Ivanov
    A Sinner in Mecca
    What the film lacks in narrative unity and aesthetic splendor it makes up in moral grandeur and ethical purpose.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Imperium
    It demonstrates both the fatal proximity and deceptive distance that can exist between the words and deeds of extremists.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Oleg Ivanov
    Framing John DeLorean
    John DeLorean has a biography that could have been reverse engineered from a Hollywood epic about the rise and fall of an auto-industry mogul.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Pawn Sacrifice
    It's best appreciated as a tragicomic profile of a man whose extraordinary talent was undermined by the farcical political reality in which he was enmeshed.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Dancer
    It refuses to pass judgment on whether or not Sergei Polunin's success was worth so much sacrifice and heartache.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    Denial
    Denial shows that people’s misfortunes need not preclude them from living virtuous lives founded on basic human decency.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Oleg Ivanov
    The Daughter
    It too often strains for a tragic gravity that its ultimately melodramatic characters never earn.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Oleg Ivanov
    Labyrinth of Lies
    It only scratches the surface of the mass psychological wounds and trauma that the trials unleashed on the Germany psyche.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Oleg Ivanov
    On the Map
    It captures how sports can bring wholly disparate people together to accomplish feats that change the destiny of nations.
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