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
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    • 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.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    The Smurfs 2
    Raja Gosnell's particular zeal to modernize the Smurfs only develops this would-be family comedy into a shamelessly manipulative smurftastrophe.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    Josh Heald's script takes the easy way out, ending the film with a torrent of slapdash sentimentality.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Chappie
    The film's exasperating atonality washes out any legitimate idea about identity, education, nature versus nurture, or artificial intelligence that Neill Blomkamp hoped to evince.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    The Nut Job
    There's no personality in the design or the script, which only renders the cynical aftertaste of this convoluted one-squirrel-against the-world story all the more potent.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Kick-Ass 2
    The film doubles down on the love-hate relationship with ultra-violence that typified its predecessor, but A History of Violence this is not.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Delivery Man
    The breadth of Vince Vaughn's gregarious persona has never been given free reign by any director and this certainly isn't the game-changer.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Insidious: Chapter 2
    A full realization of the very worst fears one could imagine when its director, James Wan, unexpectedly emerged from the torture-porn murk with its original, spiritedly directed predecessor.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    RED 2
    An awfully expensive and grossly extended Cialis commercial.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Need For Speed
    Even when compared to other films posing as Ford Mustang commercials, Need for Speed isn't particularly memorable for anything other than the startling incompetence and dull sheen of the end result.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    A film so overworked to ensure mass-market appeal that it loses the charming oddness and loose goofiness that has allowed these characters to endure.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Walking with Dinosaurs
    The strain to make the film both an educational tool and a child-minded entertainment is noticeable throughout.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Dom Hemingway
    That Dom is so clearly an up-to-11 caricature, embodied with reliable pizzazz by Jude Law, makes the sentimental moments feel especially false.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Fast & Furious 6
    Justin Lin strives to approximate something like Ocean's Eleven for petrosexuals, but testosterone outweighs wit and cleverness at every turn in Chris Morgan's starched script.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    World War Z
    The zombies twitch, leap, gnash, and destroy, but the film has all the thrill and surprise of a model U.N. summit.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Kingsman: The Secret Service
    It's tructured in familiar, safe terms, plays for very low stakes, and appeals to no one so much as white, male teenagers with chips on their shoulders.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Wish I Was Here
    It's hard to see the fiscal woes at the center of Zach Braff's second feature as anything more than a fashionable depiction of first-world problems.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Project Almanac
    The film delivers the same misogynistic, faux-modernistic jolts of trashy humor and labored plotting that typify the work of co-producer Michael Bay.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    Free Birds
    The film is absent of humor and thrills, and accented with designs and color schemes that are equally notable for their lack of risk.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 12 Chris Cabin
    Men, Women & Children
    Jason Reitman fails to take into account any of the positive endeavors enabled by social media, which will no doubt be used to promote and market his film.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Chris Cabin
    Winter's Tale
    Fantasy is heavily dependent on vision, which Mark Helprin had in spades, but the look of Akiva Goldsman's fantasy is limp, timid, and occasionally outright awkward.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 12 Chris Cabin
    The Best Man Holiday
    The sexism isn't quite as noxious as one might find in Tyler Perry's films, but that's as far as the compliments go when it comes to this overextended and deeply crude sermon.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 12 Chris Cabin
    What Maisie Knew
    David Siegel and Scott McGehee's film renders the rhapsodic Henry James novel of the same name into an abhorrent slice of tasteless familial drama.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 12 Chris Cabin
    Grown Ups 2
    The obvious amount of hard work that went into this out-of-touch sequel is partly what makes it so irritating.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 12 Chris Cabin
    Some Girl(s)
    Like most of Neil LaBute's work in the field of "emotional terrorism," the film protests that bad behavior isn't only good, but also essential to art.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 12 Chris Cabin
    Sex Tape
    By the time a blackmailing plot is introduced, the film seems to be surviving solely on the fumes of curse words and frequent shots of Jason Segal and Cameron Diaz's backsides.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 12 Chris Cabin
    The Judge
    One long trial of moral duty, and one that excuses repugnant behavior and psychological warfare in lieu of a repetitive, condescending sermon on honoring thy father.
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