Tomris Laffly

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For 428 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tomris Laffly's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Little Women
Lowest review score: 0 The Great War
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 279 out of 428
  2. Mixed: 106 out of 428
  3. Negative: 43 out of 428
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    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Roma
    A richly textured masterpiece, Roma is cinema at its purest and most human.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    It’s a delicate drama that flourishes through the liberating power of art, where a hopeful yet consuming love affair sparks between two young women amid patriarchal customs, and stays concealed in their hearts both because of and in spite of it.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Lady Bird
    A sweet, deeply personal portrayal of female adolescence that's more attuned to the bonds between best girlfriends than casual flings with boys, writer-director Greta Gerwig’s beautiful Lady Bird flutters with the attractively loose rhythms of youth.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Little Women
    Little Women solidifies Gerwig’s one-of-a-kind voice on the page and behind the camera, opening up the classic in a blissful and innovative screen adaptation that feels ageless and vastly of today.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 83 Tomris Laffly
    Nickel Boys
    Ross’ formal dedication sometimes stands in the way of story and emotion, prioritizing visuals over earned moments of expressive, swelling feelings. And so this critic did wonder if Nickel Boys should have dialed up its narrative ambitions from time to time, stepping just a bit away from its creative non-fiction temperaments.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Hit the Road
    For every laugh the family lets out, for each merry chance encounter they experience—like an oddly hysterical one with a Lance Armstrong-loving cyclist—there are tears shed in secret, cagey deals made in the shadows and the impending separation they inch closer to with every passing moment.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Anora
    On the whole, what Baker has created here is nothing short of pure movie magic— his smartly interwoven urban machinations make you giggle and inexplicably tear up on repeat (sometimes within the same sequence), while somehow keeping you acutely aware of the sorrow that is bound to rise to the surface.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Tomris Laffly
    The Favourite
    Even if this unique absurdist has not exactly been your cup of tea previously, he might finally win you over with this deliciously “Dangerous Liaisons”-esque and thoroughly female-driven period film, co-written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 95 Tomris Laffly
    La Chimera
    La Chimera is a pictorial delight to luxuriate in, as it is a philosophical wonder on the unknowability of time. The earth belongs to the past and the future, this miracle of a film quietly suggests. We just live in it.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    All of Us Strangers
    In a lot of ways, All Of Us Strangers is a poignant, deeply melancholic exercise on the attempt to bridge the past with the present, a cosmic inquiry into resolving all that was unsaid through second chances that never were.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Cold War
    An aching film on such exquisite pains of impossible love, Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War concurrently swells your heart and breaks it, just like the sore memory of a lover that drifted away from your life, or an intensely craved kiss that never was.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    The Tale
    It's a bold, significant piece of work: an investigative thriller with a grave finale that stuns you into silence, then, hopefully, something more.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 92 Tomris Laffly
    Killers of the Flower Moon
    Killers of the Flower Moon is vast and vital in its scale, purpose and emotional scope, a Western-thriller and ensemble piece that is every bit a Scorsese crime picture as one can dare to imagine.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    For Sama
    A devastating scrapbook and a confessional journal of sorts. It’s also a personal cinematic endeavor as opposed to a historical crash course in the vein of “Cries From Syria,” another superb documentary on the subject, but one with different ambitions.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Tomris Laffly
    The Farewell
    Delightfully embracing the specificity of Eastern culture, The Farewell reflects on collective considerations versus individualism, not unlike Crazy Rich Asians. It unearths the universality of complex familial love that defies borders and language barriers.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Tomris Laffly
    The Power of the Dog
    It’s cinematic poetry, if there ever was one, bourgeoning in meaning the more you linger in its shadow.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Tomris Laffly
    About Dry Grasses
    It’s a searing, mesmerizing and unforgettably wintry mood piece and character study.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Tomris Laffly
    Shirkers
    Shirkers is at its most gripping when it doesn’t overestimate Cardona’s narrative worth—the multifaceted women at the documentary’s heart are far more appealing.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Tomris Laffly
    Robot Dreams
    Robot Dreams—as much a movie about coupledom as it is about friendship—sneaks up on you with an ending that both eulogizes the ones that got away and celebrates the memories that they had left behind.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Tomris Laffly
    Alone with You
    It would have been one thing if Alone with You at least worked as a genre outing on some level. It doesn’t—the film’s chills and scares are nearly non-existent; plot, stretched to the seams, unable to sustain a feature's length; and camera work, amateurish.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    The Banshees of Inisherin
    Writer-director Martin McDonagh’s soulful masterpiece offers a a windswept elegy on a camaraderie that has reached its inexplicable expiration, as well as melancholic rumination on mortality.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Happy as Lazzaro
    Easily among this year’s finest films and laced with an unapologetic social message, Happy As Lazzaro dares one to imagine a reality where each individual would task themselves to be as selfless and morally whole as its main protagonist. If only.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Tomris Laffly
    The Wolf House
    It’s an endless metamorphosis that unfolds like some kind of real-time art installation, and in all honesty, it can be a touch overwhelming to take in at times — which is why the digital release of The Wolf House is a blessing in disguise, as audiences can rewind to fully appreciate this awe-inspiring film’s layers of details.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Tomris Laffly
    May December
    Despite a heavy-handed cocoon motif that sometimes spells out the story’s themes to a fault, Haynes has done something spellbinding here: heady, grown-up and committed to a refreshing dose of moral ambiguity at a time in cinema where moral pandering sadly seems to be the default.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Happening
    Among Diwan’s greatest feats with Happening is making a case not only for safe access to legal abortions, but also for true sexual freedom that dares to yearn for a world where slut-shaming is a thing of the past.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    The Lost Daughter
    The Lost Daughter leaves you haunted, shaken, and crushingly scarred like only the best of films are capable of doing.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Tomris Laffly
    Black Mother
    In part shocking and gentle while trekking between chaotic and serene extremes, Black Mother is a fresh piece of work in both how it progresses and how it's assembled like a scrapbook of remembrances.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Tomris Laffly
    The Wild Pear Tree
    Throughout its majestic 188-minute running time, there is a profound sum of self-negotiation in Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree; a slow-burning and unexpectedly humorous character study as reflective and impenetrable as anything in Ceylan’s filmography.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Tomris Laffly
    Sabaya
    There is so much earth-shattering bravery on display in the miraculous Sabaya that you wonder how the Swedish-Kurdish director Hogir Hirori managed to pull off a documentary that avoids showy, predictable notes of brouhaha throughout.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Tomris Laffly
    Eighth Grade
    This is an astonishing filmmaking debut from Burnham, a renowned comedian as well as a musician—you might secretly wonder how a young male not only captured the point of view of an eighth-grade girl so exactly, but also expressed it with such emotional precision. Whatever the secret formula to his experiential accuracy and unexpectedly inventive directorial eye is, the outcome is a deeply serious coming-of-age film that is only light and charming on the surface.
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