Jim Slotek

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For 280 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 76% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jim Slotek's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 The Cleaners
Lowest review score: 25 Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 209 out of 280
  2. Mixed: 68 out of 280
  3. Negative: 3 out of 280
280 movie reviews
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    • 26 Metascore
    • 58 Jim Slotek
    Five Nights at Freddy's 2
    I get a sense that Five Nights at Freddy’s and this week’s inevitable salad of a sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, marks a turning point in how Hollywood approaches the visual medium that has been eating its lunch for decades. The lesson: Stop trying to make video game film adaptations that appeal to a general audience. A giant in-joke of a movie can pay off bigtime if the target audience is big enough. Screw the rest.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 42 Jim Slotek
    Blumhouse's Fantasy Island
    Suffice to say, this is all getting explained when scary things could actually be happening. My “FUN-tasy” throughout was that the credits would roll.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Jim Slotek
    James vs. His Future Self
    James vs His Future Self is a less abrasive and transgressive film than LaLonde’s previous The Go-Getters (an anti-romance about two street people conniving their way out of town). Consequently, it’s not as raucously funny. But it’s a decent enough time waster.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 58 Jim Slotek
    Think Like a Dog
    Say what you will about this movie, at some point you will say, “Awww.”
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Jim Slotek
    More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
    Looking past its nostalgia and unhappy ending, More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story is kind of a time capsule of an era of North American showbiz, and the compromises and struggles that faced people because of their faces.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Jim Slotek
    Double Walker
    Double Walker’s story is feverishly imaginative, though its internal logic often doesn’t hold up. But the star and co-writer Sylvie Mix is committed to her story, playing a mostly silent, seductive (often nakedly so) phantom who “can only be seen by believers and sinners.”
    • tbd Metascore
    • 83 Jim Slotek
    Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
    An unusual blend of a travel show and those MTV staple Unplugged specials, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman on Disney+ isn’t exactly a deep dive as far as travelogue goes. But it does offer a glimpse into U2’s soul.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Jim Slotek
    Tough Old Broads
    It would have been a nice touch to have Switzer, Watt-Cloutier, and Farmer meet and interact. If nothing else, it might have given Tough Old Broads a connectivity beyond three fascinating stories, separately told.
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