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Oleg Ivanov

Oleg Ivanov's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Framing John DeLorean (2019) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “John DeLorean has a biography that could have been reverse engineered from a Hollywood epic about the rise and fall of an auto-industry mogul.” – Slant Magazine Jun 1, 2019 Full Review Dreamland (2019) 58% 1.5/4 EDIT “Miles Joris-Peyrafitte's ultimately succumbs to melodramatic clichés and simplistic political demagoguery.” – Slant Magazine May 3, 2019 Full Review Georgetown (2019) 62% 2/4 EDIT “Georgetown adds up to an occasionally amusing and insightful beltway satire that's ultimately undone by its conventional mise-en-scène and predictable plot.” – Slant Magazine May 2, 2019 Full Review 2/4 EDIT “It's an occasionally amusing and insightful beltway satire that's ultimately undone by its conventional mise-en-scène and predictable plot.” – Slant Magazine May 1, 2019 Full Review Mary Magdalene (2018) 44% 1/4 EDIT “As the plot mechanically moves through Jesus's greatest hits, the narrative focuses less and less on Mary Magdalene until her life feels completely beside the point.” – Slant Magazine Apr 9, 2019 Full Review Wall (2017) 67% 1.5/4 EDIT “So much of the film is given over to highlighting David Hare's confusion as a tourist in a conflict he can never fully comprehend.” – Slant Magazine Mar 31, 2019 Full Review The Seagull (2018) 68% 2/4 EDIT “Michael Mayer's film adaptation, while certainly reverential to Chekhov's classic, feels utterly conventional in today's cinematic landscape.” – Slant Magazine May 6, 2018 Full Review Big Fish & Begonia (2016) 94% 3/4 EDIT “In the sly exchanges between the teenage protagonists and their elders, the film reflects a nation's shifting tides.” – Slant Magazine Apr 1, 2018 Full Review Final Portrait (2017) 73% 2/4 EDIT “As seen through Lord's eyes, the dramas and passions on display throughout the film come off as melodramas and grotesqueries.” – Slant Magazine Mar 18, 2018 Full Review The Forgiven (2017) 55% 2.5/4 EDIT “Roland Joff's film is largely successful in its attempt to grapple with the terrible truths of apartheid and its legacy.” – Slant Magazine Mar 5, 2018 Full Review Submission (2017) 51% 2/4 EDIT “This tentative questioning of the sometimes unscrupulous methods and deleterious consequences of political correctness is further undermined by Ted's insipid character and general indifference to his fate.” – Slant Magazine Feb 26, 2018 Full Review The Party (2017) 82% 3/4 EDIT “It captures the qualities of live theater that are rarely transmitted to film, of being immediate, alive, and spontaneous, as if the viewer is just a stone's throw away from the characters.” – Slant Magazine Feb 14, 2018 Full Review West of the Jordan River (2017) 71% 2/4 EDIT “The result is a work that feels like a preamble to a larger statement that the filmmaker can't manage to formulate.” – Slant Magazine Jan 22, 2018 Full Review Beuys (2017) 69% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film's most egregious omission is its failure to seriously address Beuys voluntarily joining the Hitler Youth and serving with the Luftwaffe.” – Slant Magazine Jan 15, 2018 Full Review Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) 55% 1.5/4 EDIT “Throughout the film, a promising character study is smothered beneath lazy genre machinations.” – Slant Magazine Nov 9, 2017 Full Review LBJ (2016) 55% 2/4 EDIT “Rob Reiner's film fails to do justice to both the man and the fraught times he so fundamentally influenced.” – Slant Magazine Nov 2, 2017 Full Review The Giant (2016) 86% 3/4 EDIT “The film is a shrewd political commentary and canny portrait of a society continuing to wrestle with its ineffaceable cruelty.” – Slant Magazine Mar 12, 2017 Full Review I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017) 89% 1.5/4 EDIT “I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore trades in the kind of us-versus-them mentality that characterizes our current political discourse.” – Slant Magazine Mar 5, 2017 Full Review Bitter Harvest (2017) 15% 2/4 EDIT “The film is an awkward mix of swashbuckling love story and polemic, painted in very broad strokes.” – Slant Magazine Feb 21, 2017 Full Review The Daughter (2015) 77% 1.5/4 EDIT “It too often strains for a tragic gravity that its ultimately melodramatic characters never earn.” – Slant Magazine Jan 23, 2017 Full Review A Kind of Murder (2016) 35% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film seems more interested in its art design then in fully developing the story's underlying sexual ethics.” – Slant Magazine Dec 12, 2016 Full Review On the Map (2016) 78% 3/4 EDIT “It capsures how sports can sometimes bring wholly disparate people together to accomplish feats that change the destiny of an entire people.” – Slant Magazine Dec 5, 2016 Full Review Bad Santa 2 (2016) 23% 3/4 EDIT “Both a potent rendering of and cure for the holiday blues, Bad Santa 2 shows that even the most hopeless situations can be remedied and that just about anyone is capable of redemption.” – Slant Magazine Nov 16, 2016 Full Review The Eagle Huntress (2016) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Aisholpan's liberation is a harbinger of the growing pressure that the outside world exerts on a once isolated community.” – Slant Magazine Oct 23, 2016 Full Review Little Sister (2016) 94% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film's attempt at political insight and portrayal of social malaise are meant to give it the illusion of depth.” – Slant Magazine Oct 12, 2016 Full Review
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