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 10.2 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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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Cabin
    Machete Kills
    The films that Robert Rodriguez emulates here are known for similar unexpected narrative turns, but the crucial value that he misses is their actual cheapness.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Cabin
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    As played by an eloquently beleaguered Oscar Isaac, Llewyn Davis is arguably the most vivid and complex character the Coens have dreamed up since Marge Gunderson.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Chris Cabin
    A Touch of Sin
    As depicted by Jia Zhang-ke, the balance between the spoils and moral rot of murder are far preferable to the debasing rigors of tradition and hollow nationalism.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Chris Cabin
    About Time
    A surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy that shirks a great deal of reason and consequence in the name of love.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Cabin
    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
    Though occasionally aesthetically alluring and evocative, feels like an introductory chapter to a more substantive, sprawling study of the actor.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Cabin
    All Is Bright
    All Is Bright remains engaging, for the most part, but most of the big narrative turns feel both predictable and forced, and at odds with the natural charms of the cast.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Cabin
    A Teacher
    We're only allowed an insufficient glimpse of the anxiousness and curiosity that drive these creatures, a tactic which feels suspiciously like hesitance masquerading as enigma.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Chris Cabin
    Lee Daniels' The Butler
    With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Chris Cabin
    We're the Millers
    Though the cast partially eschews the family-friendly timidity that the film defers to in the end, this would-be wild thing remains little more than a rowdy endorsement of the status quo.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Chris Cabin
    Elysium
    A cheekily gruesome and genuinely urgent entertainment, Blomkamp's latest nevertheless can't help but beg the question: Where's Snake Plissken when you need him?
    • 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Chris Cabin
    RED 2
    An awfully expensive and grossly extended Cialis commercial.
    • 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.
    • 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.
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