Chris Cabin

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Collider, Slant Magazine
For 148 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 29% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 69% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Chris Cabin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 Citizen Kane
Lowest review score: 12 What Maisie Knew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 70 out of 148
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 148
  3. Negative: 56 out of 148
148 movie reviews
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Ender's Game
    Gavin Hood relays a vague sense of what it's like to live in duty, and yet at a distance from one's home, but this vision of the future never rouses, never asks to be remembered.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Enough Said
    Enough can't be said about how the late James Gandolfini comes so close to saving writer-director Nicole Holofcener's latest articulation of white suburban anxieties.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Jupiter Ascending
    The film is ntermittently inventive in its visual and physical effects, but its politics are unthinking and obvious, a cheap anti-authoritarian tantrum imbedded in an intergalactic action-melodrama.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    After Earth
    The art of storytelling is both of distinct narrative interest and personal issue in the latest payload of calcified nonsense from one of modern cinema's oddest would-be auteurs.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    The Double
    Whatever the film's interest may be in the marginalized, writer-director Richard Ayoade never alludes to what would even be worth fighting for in this nightmarish industrial landscape.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Bad Words
    The meager comeuppance and hasty notes of sweetness that end the film feel pre-approved rather than organically realized.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    What We Did on Our Holiday
    The underlying, redundant, and underwhelming theme of the film is the pursuit of family unity at all costs.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    A Walk Among the Tombstones
    All of Scott Frank's thematic concerns are little more than window dressing for a run-of-the-mill detective story in line with '90s thrillers like The Bone Collector.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    The film's half-hearted plea for responsibility and ethics in the news, after joyfully rolling around in its corruption for the majority of its runtime, smacks of plain pandering.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Focus
    The film turns out to instead be a strained trumpeting of the return of the proverbial king of the box office.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    The Interview
    It essentially uses a major global issue to cheaply dress up what is two hours of hit-and-miss erection jokes.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    Whereas a single, stinging one-liner would have sufficed Jacques Tourneur or Fritz Lang, Frank Miller's overcompensating flood of pulpy dialogue only renders his characters flat and sans empathy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Mr. Holmes
    Bill Condon ignores the delights and hardships of becoming an artist in lieu of simply presenting the long-touted liberating effects of art.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Ride Along
    The film refuses to openly engage the isolationism and hardened cynicism that's often part and parcel of being a career police officer.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Despicable Me 2
    The script's jumble of plot asides and family-friendly pandering is enough to make you want to root for a hero.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Man of Steel
    All its faux-patriotism isn't played for satire, but instead utilized to align the film with an idyllic, unquestioned vision of goodness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Haute Cuisine
    Offers all the ingredients for a great feast of enticing visions and thematic concerns, only to have them be prepared, plated, and served with the grace of Elmer Fudd.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
    Arvin Chen's Taiwan is dominated by eccentricity in tone and atmosphere, but in a very careful, pronounced way, as to never really run the danger of being truly strange.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Peeples
    Tina Gordon Chism's film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Sabotage
    There's no sense of visual artifice to match the ludicrous pitch of the script, and subsequently, the film comes off as awkward and uncertain.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    The Company You Keep
    A would-be thriller masquerading a long, dry monument to the reliability and comfort of community, blindly cocooned by its own nostalgic self-regard.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Chef
    Jon Favreau's film comes off as flippant in its view of independent labor as a universally liberating experience for an artist and businessman.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    The Gunman
    The lack of any visual ingenuity, reflexivity, or awareness of genre tropes diminishes the intermittent pleasures of the action's slightly involving kineticism.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Rush
    Ron Howard's by-the-seat-of-your-pants aesthetic makes the slower, darker sequences feel hurried and bland, especially when stacked up next to the racing sequences.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Ted 2
    The film is a redundant showcase for Seth MacFarlane's racy, dick-centric sense of humor.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Les Coquillettes
    It's hard to ignore the fact that a substantial percentage of Letourneur's would-be character study is dedicated to concentrated Schadenfreude that's unbalanced and without any real narrative weight.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    The Way, Way Back
    Praises the electric carelessness of teenage angst while depicting it as if it were ultimately no more exciting, though no less pleasant, than an hour in the wave pool.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Chris Cabin
    Metallica: Through the Never
    The songs still sound great here, but the instruments aren't amplified nearly as much as the nostalgia and vanity of the men who wield them.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Escape Plan
    A dim anti-privatization parable that preaches a familiar strain of cynical, unchallenged self-righteousness in the face of widespread abuse of civil liberties.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    The Expendables 3
    For all the brawn on display, the film never slows down to take in the thrill and talent of hand-to-hand combat.
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