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 3 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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Upstream Color
    Dense, richly textured, and emotionally fraught - uplifting and devastating in equal parts - Shane Carruth's masterful sophomore effort is an abstract, elusive, but emotionally engaging love story that's more tone poem than drama.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Kiss of the Damned
    The characters' high-minded, if unsophisticated, patter clashes with the film's ironic-chic style, and it never manages to move beyond the late-night palaver of earnest, if naive, college freshmen.
    • 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.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Host
    A silly, if fun, futuristic sci-fi romance.
    • 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.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Safe Haven
    Not one of Sparks' best flicks (The Notebook is quite good) Safe Haven is marred by film cliches. It has an alarming number of throwaway montage sequences.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Wake in Fright (1971)
    Wake in Fright is essential viewing for anyone interested in the roots of male violence.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Tai Chi Zero
    Tai Chi Zero, the first film in a planned trilogy, will leave hard-core fight enthusiasts wanting. But it's a droll, pleasant diversion all the same.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Tirdad Derakhshani
    How to Survive a Plague
    It can feel inchoate, dropping the viewer in the middle of events without much context, and it exacts an emotional toll. But its raw quality also makes it compelling viewing.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    V/H/S
    No one should be expected to endure 115 minutes of this nonsense.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Possession
    The Possession has none of the suspense that made Bornedal's morgue thriller "Deathwatch" such shuddering good fun. And despite the absurdly overwrought Bernard Herrmann-esque score, it has very few genuine shocks.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Compliance
    A taut, understated minimalist masterwork.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Tirdad Derakhshani
    The Imposter
    Gripping, hair-raising documentary.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Ai Weiwei comes off as a man on a singular mission: to record the life around him before it is erased or distorted by a repressive government terrified by the smallest sign of nonconformity. His primary weapons: video cameras and Twitter.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
    It's as exhilarating and moving a film opening as you're likely to experience. Sadly, the rest of Follow Me doesn't live up to this overture.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Foreign Correspondent
    Less famous perhaps than some of Alfred Hitchcock's other wartime thrillers, this 1940 spy yarn is possibly one of his best. [07 Mar 2014, p.W15]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Tirdad Derakhshani
    Air Doll (2009)
    Air Doll covers some of the same ground as that other postmodern Pinocchio story, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, while avoiding its facile sentimentality.
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