Clayton Dillard
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29% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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68% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Clayton Dillard's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 56 | |
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| Highest review score: | The Graduate | |
| Lowest review score: | Nothing Bad Can Happen | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 157 out of 315
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Mixed: 59 out of 315
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Negative: 99 out of 315
315
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- Clayton Dillard
There's a sinister, even insidious quality to a film that insists upon using incessant food montages not as a source of passion, but fodder for class-based self-congratulation.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 13, 2014
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- Clayton Dillard
Paul Gross situates the film's events somewhere between violent, militaristic fantasy and gentler, anti-war lament.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 7, 2016
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- Clayton Dillard
The film is an incoherent and aesthetically barren harangue masquerading as a revisionist history lesson.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 15, 2016
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- Clayton Dillard
A shamelessly derivative and preposterous would-be blockbuster that goofily fashions itself as a sweeping romance, time-travel sci-fi tale, and gallant period piece all at once.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 7, 2015
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- Clayton Dillard
As a space-opera lampoon, it's incoherent primarily because it's never clear what the filmmakers are attempting to spoof.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 14, 2014
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- Clayton Dillard
Almost none of the film's characters or scenarios escape feeling contrived under writer-director-star Clark Gregg's bizarro tonal shifts and plot developments.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 3, 2014
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- Clayton Dillard
A hodgepodge of horny-old-man clichés writ large, staged as a gleeful affirmation of its male lead's ego and entitlement.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 17, 2015
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- Clayton Dillard
The film's troubled aesthetics are exacerbated by a screenplay that contains the trappings of amateur toil, including dialogue that harps on innocuous moments and trifling exposition.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 26, 2015
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- Clayton Dillard
The film is intended to be placed at the altar of Julian Schnabel, an artist so singular that words simply fail.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 29, 2017
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- Clayton Dillard
Director Stephen Daldry, working from an exploitative script by Richard Curtis, opts for a full-on Slumdog Millionaire imitation.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 5, 2015
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- Clayton Dillard
A film so comprehensively miscalculated in its desire to be a batshit think piece that it potentially creates a new category of offense.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 22, 2014
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- Clayton Dillard
Whether because of race, shame, shelter, or fright, 7 Minutes remains white in the face throughout.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 26, 2015
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- Clayton Dillard
The filmmakers play Catherine's disgustingly narcissistic sense of entitlement as endemic to the supposedly girl-next-door charms befitting the film's thoroughly normative gender politics.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 9, 2014
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