Josh Slater-Williams

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IndieWire, Little White Lies
For 38 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Josh Slater-Williams' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Resurrection
Lowest review score: 40 Eiffel
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
38 movie reviews
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Josh Slater-Williams
    Godland
    If that first hour or so is where the film resembles debilitating wilderness trek tales such as Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff or Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (in both content and quality), the claustrophobic second half is where valid comparisons to something like Shūsaku Endō’s Silence – though especially Martin Scorsese’s 2016 screen adaptation – come to the fore; where colonial arrogance and perceived enlightenment make for combustible mix ready to blow at the slightest provocation.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Josh Slater-Williams
    Hunt
    A kinetic, truly thrilling and delightfully operatic espionage tale.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Josh Slater-Williams
    Eiffel
    This is French-British rising star Mackey’s first screen role in French, and she’s charismatic enough to make future French-language features centred on her seem enticing. That said, as engaging as she is, her casting simultaneously embodies the sloppiness of the film as a whole.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Josh Slater-Williams
    The Forgiven
    Considering McDonagh’s previous writing form, you’re left expecting some subversion or commentary on this overused device – but it never comes.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Josh Slater-Williams
    a-ha: the Movie
    The most compelling throughline of a-ha: The Movie is its level of detail and frankness. While the group’s stayed together for 40 years, through hiatuses and solo ventures, there’s an impression they’re not especially close.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Josh Slater-Williams
    The Outfit
    A chamber piece with a small, charismatic cast, in a location made vivid thanks to strong production design, would seem an ideal model for lower-budget counter-programming efforts, should audiences show up. And with Dick Pope on cinematography duty, the visual realisation tends to avoid staginess.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Josh Slater-Williams
    Munich: The Edge of War
    Director Christian Schwochow’s staging is unostentatious to the point of coming across as pedestrian, but the film is ultimately engaging thanks to the dilemmas wrestled with by the script.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Josh Slater-Williams
    Klokkenluider
    Tense, funny and genuinely chilling in places. A strong tonal balancing act.
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