Tirdad Derakhshani

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Philadelphia Inquirer
For 257 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tirdad Derakhshani's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 I Am Not Your Negro
Lowest review score: 12 xXx: Return of Xander Cage
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 191 out of 257
  2. Mixed: 41 out of 257
  3. Negative: 25 out of 257
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 12 Tirdad Derakhshani
    xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    I should put in for worker’s comp for the extensive injuries I sustained watching the insulting, abysmal 3-D action thriller xXx: Return of Xander Cage, which left me deeply traumatized and suffering from injuries to my eardrums, my eyes, my mind, my soul, my aesthetic sensibility, and my sense of decency.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Inferno
    The more movie magic Howard piles on, the less we care. And, boy, does he pull out all the stops, stocking the pic with a tub of red herrings, half a dozen plot twists, and more complex set pieces than a comic-book flick. I felt relieved when it was finally over.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Ice Age: Collision Course
    Four film sequels and 14 years later, the best I can say of Ice Age: Collision Course is that it has nice coloring and good picture contrast.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Warcraft
    Just because you can come up with names such as Azeroth, Durotan, Orgrim, and Grommash Hellscream doesn't mean you're J.R.R. Tolkien, people.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    A subpar 3D action comedy featuring four giant motion-capture animated turtles and a raft of human costars, including the dreamy-eyed Fox, wide-shouldered Perry, a remarkably slender Will Arnett, and Laura Linney, who looks tired and uncomfortable throughout the proceedings.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Alice Through the Looking Glass
    A dull, formulaic theme-park ride whose only purpose is to make more pots of money.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Hardcore Henry
    Never again let it be said that an action movie is just like a video game. Hardcore Henry, a frenetic, dizzying, and ultraviolent actioner from Russian rocker-turned-director Ilya Naishuller is one - a first-person shooter writ large for the big screen.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    Predictable, tired, formulaic, it makes up for its lack of originality with a bigger budget, louder jokes, louder costumes, and louder music.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Mojave
    It would better to call it Two Actors in Search of a Story.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Stonewall
    Overall, the effect is closer to a Monty Python skit or a Village People music vid than a serious film about civil rights.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Unsullied
    Unsullied was made by a director with real promise. It's a shame Rice picked this turkey to shoot as his first
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Safelight
    Aloupis is not untalented as writer or helmer. But his first outing is an unsurprising, paint-by-the-numbers picture.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Phantom Halo
    Messy and confused, the film is a mishmash of tropes from Shakespeare, heist movies, family melodrama, and romance novels hastily thrown together.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Freedom
    A schmaltzy, deeply sentimentalized drama about American slavery and the rise of the Underground Railroad.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Jessabelle
    An ineffective, derivative, and awkwardly executed mash-up of ghost flicks and voodoo movies.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Best of Me
    The Best of Me is neither worse than his other films nor particularly better. At 118 minutes, it is, however, one of the longest. Interminably long, dragging out its molasses heart through what seem like three different endings.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Annabelle
    Sadly, Annabelle, a cheap, sleazy, low-budget prequel meant to explain the origins of that particular doll, is as undistinguished, uninteresting, and unscary as the worst of the Chucky films.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Plastic
    Identity theft and credit-card fraud never looked as exciting or sexy as in Plastic, a frothy little heist movie from Britain that starts off with great promise, only to devolve midway into an empty derivative shell of a film.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Filled with embarrassing gosh-golly moments about non-Western cultures, it's a staggering, and insulting, example of cultural myopia.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Man on Her Mind
    The Man on Her Mind, a mirthless, stagy romantic comedy about a pair of New York loners, isn't so much a story as a threadbare concept - a one-liner, really. An old, used-up one at that.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Into the Storm
    Hollywood's latest entry in that tried-and-true genre, the disaster movie, is . . . well, it's like . . . a totally gnarly roller-coaster ride!
    • 37 Metascore
    • 12 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Gimme Shelter
    A happy-smiley Christian fairy tale disguised as a hard-hitting shard of social realism.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    Slapdash, with dialogue and plot points that were cliches in Dickens' era, the pic sends up, then reaffirms, all the values the media sell us each holiday: compassion, forgiveness, tolerance.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Last Vegas
    Just call this movie "The Hangover: AARP Strikes Back."
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Colony
    There are a few nice scares in The Colony, and the female lead, Rookie Blue's Charlotte Sullivan, looks really, really cute in blond dreadlocks. But she can't save the movie, nor can her impressive costars, Bill Paxton, Kevin Zegers, and Laurence Fishburne.

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