Tomris Laffly

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For 434 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Tomris Laffly's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 The Rescue
Lowest review score: 0 The Great War
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 284 out of 434
  2. Mixed: 106 out of 434
  3. Negative: 44 out of 434
434 movie reviews
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Tomris Laffly
    Origin
    Origin is so rich, expansive and wildly varied that one could easily see how DuVernay could have turned it into a mini-series. How great that she instead chose a compact and coherent feature, with articulate editing, buttery cinematography (by Matthew J. Lloyd) across various visual palettes of different time periods, and opulent costume and production design.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 62 Tomris Laffly
    Rustin
    Sadly, Wolfe’s direction and the film’s overall visual palette fall flat when compared to Domingo’s mesmerizing performance as a tireless leader.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Tomris Laffly
    The Holdovers
    Although it might promptly be added to your holiday movie rotation as a new staple, The Holdovers doesn’t exactly feel like a new classic—it feels too familiar for that. Still, it does something tried-and-true so well and affectionally.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Tomris Laffly
    Saltburn
    In the end, Saltburn works as a distinct and wildly entertaining probe into familiar waters of privilege, rather than the definite word on it, one that reinforces Fennell as a distinguished auteur of the big and the bold even on shaky grounds.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Tomris Laffly
    El Conde
    Narrated in crispy voiceover like a Grimm tale, the result is something unexpected: fun, bloody and ambitiously centuries-spanning, the film demonstrates with sting over one-too-many freshly-blended heart cocktails that malevolence has always been an everlasting presence amongst us.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Tomris Laffly
    Bottoms
    Perhaps it’s not quite the teen movie to define a new generation, but it’s one that gets at something unique about female rage and drive, gifting its young viewers a reset button and a release outlet, however imperfect.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 48 Tomris Laffly
    Red White & Royal Blue
    Unfortunately, López can’t sustain the momentum. Every time a new turn emerges within Red, White & Royal Blue it feels like a new film has sprouted out of the story with embellishments that land as superfluous scenes begging to be deleted, instead of grace notes that elevate the movie.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Tomris Laffly
    Meg 2: The Trench
    There is a big difference between a campy film that doesn’t take itself too seriously and one that is just wall-to-wall miscalculated execution. For clarity, “The Trench” is firmly in the second camp.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Tomris Laffly
    Dreamin' Wild
    That miscalculated manner that often transposes Dreamin’ Wild into an overtly psychological zone works against the rest of the film’s gentle demeanor.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 65 Tomris Laffly
    Talk to Me
    This uneven film is more a showcase of all the craftsmanship and horror knowhow the Philippous are capable of bringing to the genre table than a movie that fully works. For now, it’s not a bad reason to shake hands with this gifted duo.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Tomris Laffly
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Who knows if the creative team behind this sufficiently unique “TMNT” will be able to preserve this lean and sweet demeanor through the already announced sequel. But for now, “Mutant Mayhem” is a small win in the tiresome world of IP, one that doesn’t need to mutate into anything further in order to be accepted.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 92 Tomris Laffly
    Barbie
    Thanks to Gerwig’s imagination, this Barbie is far from plastic. It’s fantastic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Tomris Laffly
    Fremont
    In its final moments, the potency of Fremont sneaks up on you. You go in reluctant and even skeptical, and come out wondering how and why you’re moved to tears.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 89 Tomris Laffly
    Afire
    Few movies this year will be as quietly sizzling as German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s “Afire,” a novelistic and sophisticated character study that kindles inside a chamber piece, as languid as a relaxed summer day and as heartbreaking as the end of a short-lived summer love.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Tomris Laffly
    Insidious: The Red Door
    Despite a worthy message about the importance of embracing one’s past—blocking your trauma is no fruitful way to deal with it—“Insidious: The Red Door” still fizzles in its final stretch, becoming an over-plotted labyrinth of loose ends that drags more than it entertains.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 92 Tomris Laffly
    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
    The team behind this new “Mission: Impossible”—like the makers of all the installments that came before it—seem to know on a deep level why viewers flock to this group of action movies: the indispensable big-screen proficiency and collective soul of the series first and the plot of individual chapters, second.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Tomris Laffly
    No Hard Feelings
    This light pick-me-up of a flick is as eager to please as Lawrence is to show off her luminous physical comedy skills, elevated by the star’s fiery comic timing and effortless drollness.
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    • 58 Tomris Laffly
    Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
    Happy Clothes gives us an intriguing snapshot of a creative force who can mix patterns and colors more fearlessly than anyone in the business. But it ultimately leaves us craving move.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Tomris Laffly
    Extraction 2
    The filmmakers know that one drops into fare like Extraction 2 not for feelings and tears but for the fast-on-its-feet action, one they deliver in heaps.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 34 Tomris Laffly
    Downtown Owl
    This is a movie that neither works as a quirky dark comedy about the hapless people of a small town (on that note, the film is painfully unfunny), nor as a period piece on the anxieties of the Reagan era, no matter how many “1984” references the characters throw at you.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 73 Tomris Laffly
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    Where Bay’s movies where incoherent messes that necessitated heaps of migraine meds, Caple Jr. actually manages to pull off something articulate and rousing with “Rise of the Beasts,” thanks in large part to the ever-relatable presences of Fishback and Ramos, and a parting note that’s just witty enough in its suggestion of a bigger universe.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Tomris Laffly
    About Dry Grasses
    It’s a searing, mesmerizing and unforgettably wintry mood piece and character study.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Tomris Laffly
    Monster
    Monster manages to sink its claws into one’s conscience, thanks in large part to the movie’s young leads—like Farhadi, Kore-eda is an astute director of children, able to shepherd their performances in ways both precocious and disarmingly innocent.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Tomris Laffly
    Hypnotic
    Sadly, the film is a tedious and erratically cut caper, whose shape-shifting story feels like an uneven and over-plotted rehash of various recognizable films that we’ve seen before.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Tomris Laffly
    Book Club: The Next Chapter
    Perhaps it was enough for “Book Club” to merely exist as an act of rebellion against the stubbornly young-skewing studio fare. But this follow-up needed to give us more, something along the lines of a sharper film deserving of the earned legacies of Fonda, Keaton, Bergen and Steenburgen.
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