Steve Pond

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For 325 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Steve Pond's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Asako I & II
Lowest review score: 30 The Tax Collector
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 274 out of 325
  2. Mixed: 47 out of 325
  3. Negative: 4 out of 325
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Steve Pond
    The Edge of Democracy
    In laying out the facts, Costa is, for the most part, posing a series of sad questions rather than supplying the answers; in truth, she may not know whether she’s documenting a stormy political era or chronicling the end of something.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Pond
    Lux Æterna
    Is it enjoyable to watch? Hell no – there’s a reason why everybody on the screen is either screaming or crying for it to stop. But you have to hand it to Noe, because it is kind of mesmerizing in its perverse single-mindedness, and the fact that “Lux Aeterna” is only 50 minutes long makes it more endurable.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Pond
    Matthias & Maxime
    Sharp and warm ... It reaffirms a distinctive cinematic voice who might be going back to his greatest hits, but has brought something new to them.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Steve Pond
    Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
    As befits its subjects, Marianne & Leonard is as much poetry as documentary — it’s a gentle, rhapsodic film, an emotional change of pace for its director and a moving portrait of a love that still resonates.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 92 Steve Pond
    Pain and Glory
    The film is one of the most meditative of Almodóvar’s career. ... It makes for less energetic and, yes, less exciting filmmaking. But “Pain and Glory” is a beautiful meditation on past and present, a memory piece that will nourish rather than provoke.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Pond
    Family Romance, LLC
    A curious little meditation on the extent to which humans will go to make connections, and on the commodification of everything up to and including love, it is a fascinating film that will never be confused with one of Herzog’s major works. But it nonetheless has moments of subtle and quintessentially Herzogian rhapsody.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Steve Pond
    A Hidden Life
    A Hidden Life is certainly the director’s best movie since his 2011 Palme d’Or winner “The Tree of Life” — it’s his most monumental film since then, and perhaps his most sentimental film ever. And it is also slow and meditative, requiring viewers to sink into and surrender to that particular Malick style that some find maddening.
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