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Tirdad Derakhshani

Tirdad Derakhshani's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Last Days on Mars (2013) 18% 2/4 EDIT “A sci-fi-horror yarn stocked with a winning cast but hobbled by a lamebrained script and dull set pieces.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 13, 2017 Full Review Sand Castle (2017) 47% EDIT “An engaging, gripping fact-based drama starring Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) as a young machine gunner in the U.S. Marines whose platoon is put in the impossible position of saving an Iraqi village.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 21, 2017 Full Review The Red Turtle (2016) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The Red Turtle is a profoundly simple meditation on the many ways we've become alienated from nature and from the Earth.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 16, 2017 Full Review A United Kingdom (2016) 83% 3.5/4 EDIT “A fact-based political romance about one of the most remarkable love stories you've never heard about.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 15, 2017 Full Review EDIT “Offerings range from... love stories to probing political dialogues about immigration and racial identity.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 9, 2017 Full Review EDIT “Offerings range from the cute to the transcendent.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 9, 2017 Full Review 2017 Oscar Nominated Shorts (2017) 100% EDIT “Offerings range from the cute to the transcendent, from love stories to probing political dialogues about immigration and racial identity.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 9, 2017 Full Review The Salesman (2016) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “An exquisite, closely studied moral fable about our tendency to confuse love with ownership and our willingness in the face of felt humiliation to disavow empathy, understanding, and concern for our neighbor.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 8, 2017 Full Review I Am Not Your Negro (2016) 99% 4/4 EDIT “Offers an accessible but no-less rigorous look at Baldwin's prophetic analysis of racial discord in America.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 31, 2017 Full Review The Comedian (2016) 24% 2/4 EDIT “There's just so much you can get out of this material and the filmmakers beat it to death.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 31, 2017 Full Review Toni Erdmann (2016) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Toni Erdmann is an immensely rich, deeply-felt exploration of human relationships that draws you in and holds you fast for nearly three hours.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 26, 2017 Full Review Things to Come (2016) 99% 3.5/4 EDIT “Visually arresting, but never precious, it's filled with ideas that have relevance to actual life, ideas that are based on a moral conviction that a question well-posed is far more valuable than an easy answer.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 25, 2017 Full Review Gold (2016) 41% 2.5/4 EDIT “A promising, if ultimately disappointing cautionary tale about the power of greed to twist the human soul.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 25, 2017 Full Review xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) 46% 0.5/4 EDIT “Left me deeply traumatized and suffering from injuries to my eardrums, my eyes, my mind, my soul, my aesthetic sensibility, and my sense of decency.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 20, 2017 Full Review Split (2017) 79% 3/4 EDIT “Split is a deeply disturbing film that covers every evil human deed from kidnapping to cannibalism. But it's also wildly funny in parts.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 19, 2017 Full Review The Founder (2016) 80% 3/4 EDIT “Boy, does Keaton's Kroc ever become mean, selfish, small-minded - though he's never less than fascinating.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 18, 2017 Full Review Paterson (2016) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Paterson is easily one of Jarmusch's most accomplished films. He portrays the life of the mind and the workings of the creative soul as a kind of secret love affair, a deep, hidden well inside the most ordinary, mundane existence.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 12, 2017 Full Review Live by Night (2016) 35% 2/4 EDIT “It's intriguing enough to suck you in, but confusing, fragmentary, frustrating.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 11, 2017 Full Review Silence (2016) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Scorsese's adaptation is overlong and at times insufferably self-indulgent but contains sublime moments of transcendent beauty and a wealth of beautiful performances.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 4, 2017 Full Review A Monster Calls (2016) 86% 3/4 EDIT “A Monster Calls is an engrossing tragic fantasy, sustained by genuine sentiment.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 4, 2017 Full Review Hidden Figures (2016) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The miracle lies in how the film gently touches on some of the most intractable social problems addressed by the civil rights movement, while maintaining an infectiously buoyant vibe - not to mention a bouncy soundtrack.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 21, 2016 Full Review Fences (2016) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “Tragic, beautiful, thought-provoking.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 21, 2016 Full Review Why Him? (2016) 40% 2.5/4 EDIT “Like Meet The Parents on LSD, laced with rat poison.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 20, 2016 Full Review Passengers (2016) 30% 2.5/4 EDIT “As serious science fiction, Passengers falls seriously short.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 20, 2016 Full Review Assassin's Creed (2016) 18% 2.5/4 EDIT “It ... has great momentum, good set pieces, and so much frothy nihilism it's just plain fun.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 20, 2016 Full Review
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