Chris Barsanti

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For 194 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Chris Barsanti's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Wojnarowicz
Lowest review score: 20 Silencio
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 137 out of 194
  2. Mixed: 39 out of 194
  3. Negative: 18 out of 194
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Two Pianos
    Arnaud Desplechin’s film only flirts with questions about the sacrifices made for art.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Play Dirty
    Shane Black’s film plays like a misguided action extravaganza from the 1980s.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    My Mother's Wedding
    Where Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married completely immersed viewers in the sometimes messy intimacies of family, My Mother’s Wedding feels more like a stage production that forgot to include its first act.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Echo Valley
    A story that might have been benefited by being allowed to breathe over a six-episode arc instead feels rushed and schematic rather than lived-in.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Last Days
    Instead of delving into what lay behind John Allen Chau’s recklessness, the film scatters itself across multiple plot angles that confuse more than clarify.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Love Me
    The further Love Me develops its scenario, the less plausible it becomes, even by lovelorn sci-fi standards.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Pain Hustlers
    The excitement that the film tries to generate for its main characters is disturbingly glib.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    The Gray Man
    The Gray Man is a noisy, flashy spectacle that piles clichés atop ludicrous plotting and sprinkles it all with half-funny quips, all in the hope of bulldozing the audience into submission.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Sharp Stick
    Sharp Stick shows that Lena Dunham’s preference for solipsistic protagonists with boundary issues has its limitations.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Finch
    The end of the world may never have had less impact than it does in Miguel Sapochnik’s Finch.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    Stowaway
    By paring their story down so much, the filmmakers only end up highlighting just how little it contains.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Barsanti
    Hillbilly Elegy
    Hillbilly Elegy feels like a bland feel-good story rather than one part of a longer tragedy with no clear end.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    The Witches
    This is a sleek-looking vehicle that’s eager to be scary but not comfortable being ugly.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    The Way I See It
    The final product feels like it would have been most appropriate as a video presentation for the Democratic National Convention.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Barsanti
    The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
    The deconstruction of corporatized play culture gets run through the sequelizer machine, with predictably acrid results.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 35 Chris Barsanti
    River Runs Red
    It’s only when River Runs Red gets to about the hour mark that a story begins to cohere. Up until that point, it had taken the most perfunctory of stabs at being a ripped-from-the-headlines drama about police shootings.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Chris Barsanti
    Silencio
    Anyone happening to come across Silencio should just as well move on: There’s nothing to see here.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Chris Barsanti
    Venom
    The direction by Ruben Fleischer (Zomebieland, Gangster Squad) is oddly slapdash, and hardly does justice to the skills of his cast or his own chops as a comedic filmmaker. Hardy squeezes some baffled comedy out of his schizoid shtick, but there just isn’t much here for him to work with.

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