A troubled, young history professor tries to escape his past by taking a job at a new university, where he struggles with an entrenched and equally-troubled department chair, rampant student apathy, and new relationships that complicate and challenge his world-view.
The Historian has generally received mixed reviews.
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Review of The Historian (2014)
By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Jan 2015
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By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Nov 2014
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The Historian was released in 2014 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 6 reviews, giving The Historian (2014) an average rating of 56%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 93%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 50%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Historian a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 56%, The Historian is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2014, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2014 with similar scores include films like RoboCop, Cake and The Best of Me.
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