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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    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Nerve
    Nerve gives moviegoers everything they'd want from a teen romance. It's a little less successful as a critique of life in the age of Instagram.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Creative Control
    While it hits some of the usual sci-fi tropes, Creative Control's center of gravity isn't tech itself, but the relationships of those who use it.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Lights Out
    A well-shot, gore-free psychological thriller about our elemental fear of darkness, Lights Out has a good deal in common with "The Babadook." While it can't touch Jennifer Kent's masterpiece, it does mark the arrival of a major new talent.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Snowden
    Chilling - and very chatty. Snowden is a seriously talky film. Yet it never feels tedious, thanks to Stone's tremendous sense of story construction, the film's razor-sharp editing - and Gordon-Levitt's masterful performance.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Ip Man 3
    For all its grand promises, Ip Man 3 teeters uneasily among B-movie clichés.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Notebook
    A bleak, despairing testament to the cruelty of war, and how it mangles and defaces everyone it touches.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Our Kind of Traitor
    Our Kind of Traitor strains credulity: The world it attempts to depict - international organized crime - is too large, too unmanageable and too easily caricatured.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Tries - far too hard - to replicate the Alice effect and falls short.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Evil Dead
    Alvarez triumphs because he made one crucial decision: Avoid digital animation and use only practical in-camera special effects. He uses every trick from classic Hollywood and invents a few of his own.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Tirdad Derakhshani
    In the Name of My Daughter
    A fascinating, suspenseful story about obsessive love, money, the Mafia, and murder.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Altered Minds
    A small, intimate micro-budget effort, Altered Minds boasts terrific production values, pitch-perfect performances, and an eerie soundscape of found noises that evoke the feel of a surreal nightmare.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    That Sugar Film
    The intention is clear: Garneau wants to make his points as persuasive and accessible as possible. Yet, the truths That Sugar Film contains were already obvious decades ago. It's sad that we need reminding.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Genius
    Well-written, gorgeously shot, and expertly edited, the film is also an exasperating exercise in good intentions gone wrong. For all its strengths, Genius often trades in tiresome clichés.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Race
    The film delivers what it promises - an education and a thrill.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Little Accidents
    Eloquent, moving, and deeply troubling, Little Accidents is a true contemporary tragedy.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The DUFF
    It falls short of the mark, even as it hits every one of the genre's conventions.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Man Who Knew Infinity
    It touches on serious - and ridiculously complex - ideas but always cuts them down to manageable, middle-brow morsels.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Purge: Election Year
    The Purge: Election Year tries to show that what counts isn't firepower but compassion, not egoism but community. But frankly, it can't help but shoot itself in the foot: The violence is too tantalizing, too stylized, too fetishistic - the film features killers dressed in fanciful Halloween costumes who dance and sing as they dismember people.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Gambler
    If Mark Wahlberg's new pic, The Gambler, feels like a stale rehash of existential tropes, that's because it is.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Croods
    The movie is well-edited and lean, a fast-paced, action-filled bit of froth that manages to be diverting and surprisingly fun.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Trolls
    Despite the competent animation, the great tunes, and funny voice work by costars Russell Brand and John Cleese, Trolls is a lackluster entry. The story is clichéd and predictable. Overall, the film has no real magic.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Duelist
    The film is too formulaic and far too prone to melodrama, with outsize emotions as ridiculous as its comic-book villains.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    V/H/S
    No one should be expected to endure 115 minutes of this nonsense.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Hands of Stone
    This should have been an easy knockout. Yet the pieces just don't fit together. Hands of Stone lurches back and forth between well-crafted dramatic scenes and shabby, cliché-ridden sequences that sap the viewer's energy.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Cymbeline
    One of the most uncinematic pieces crafted by an otherwise fine stylist, Cymbeline befuddles with its ineffective blocking and lack of art direction.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Magnificent Seven
    Despite a great cast and several terrific action sequences, Fuqua's film is largely forgettable.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Tirdad Derakhshani
    A Girl Like Her
    You'll need a strong stomach for some of the scenes in A Girl Like Her, one of the most moving and intelligent of the recent glut of films and TV specials about teenage bullying.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Art of the Steal
    An uneven, mildly amusing, and highly derivative flick featuring a wonderful, quirky cast as a crew of art thieves who run a complex scam on the art world, and on each other.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Free State of Jones
    Mixing elements from documentaries, biopics, war flicks, and Hallmark romances, Ross' film is a living history tour, but with gory special effects and a smoldering smattering of sex appeal.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    Like Clint Eastwood’s masterful 2006 WWII drama "Flags of Our Fathers," Lee’s film is as much about how we spin war stories as it is about war itself. Both involve a group of heroic soldiers sent home by the Pentagon to help drum up popular support. Both are made by filmmakers keenly aware that stories have the power to justify a war or turn the public against it.
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