Keith Watson

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Slant Magazine, The Playlist
For 235 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 19% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 77% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Keith Watson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score: 100 The Harder They Come
Lowest review score: 12 Ithaca
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 115 out of 235
  2. Mixed: 51 out of 235
  3. Negative: 69 out of 235
235 movie reviews
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
    Given that big-studio children’s animation so often feels like it was created by algorithm, it’s refreshing to see a kid’s cartoon like <em>The Last Wish</em> that’s filled with too many ideas rather than too few.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Argentina, 1985
    For a film about the crimes of a fascist military dictatorship that employed mass torture, rape, kidnapping, and murder as weapons of social control, Argentina, 1985 sure goes down smooth.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Scarlet
    The film drifts so far into weightless fantasy that it practically dissipates before one’s eyes.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    A Couple
    A Couple ultimately constitutes not so much a footnote to Frederick Wiseman’s storied career as a beguiling little doodle in its margins.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Corsage
    Writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s boldly restive biopic imagines Empress Elisabeth of Austria as a deeply restless soul chafing against the social limitations of her day.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Keith Watson
    De Humani Corporis Fabrica
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s film is one of the supreme cinematic examinations of the body’s magnificent malleability.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    The Bob's Burgers Movie
    Throughout the film, the quick-hit jokes from the show’s rich cast of oddballs serves to suggest a vibrant world outside of the Belchers.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Los Conductos
    A collage-like tale of vengeance told with an often impressionistic elusiveness, the film can also be bewildering in its juxtapositions.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
    Apollo 10½ ultimately suggests that memory distorts and amplifies just as much as it preserves.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Nanny
    Writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s film ultimately proposes that survival is the greatest form of resistance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    The Humans
    Throughout The Humans, Stephen Karam orchestrates the highs and lows of a family reunion with Chekhovian subtlety.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    C'mon C'mon
    C’mon C’mon admirably doesn’t indulge in heartstring-tugging pathos, but the film suffers from a certain shapelessness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Prayers for the Stolen
    There’s a haunting beauty to Tatiana Huezo’s depiction of the gradual cross-contamination of childhood innocence and criminal aggression.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Flee
    The film effectively immerses us in the wrenching details of Amin’s story, but it keeps us just a bit too far removed from the man himself.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Il Buco
    The film meticulously evokes a 1961 speleological expedition, but its search for thematic resonance is frustratingly general.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Candyman
    Candyman doesn’t merely note the connection between fear and remembrance, it also interrogates it from every possible angle.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Respect
    When Jennifer Hudson is singing her heart out, not so much approximating Aretha’s voice as channeling her soul, the effect is transportive.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    The Green Knight
    A methodical, if largely allegorical, exploration of its main character’s psyche, the film smooths out the enduring mysteries, opaque psychology, and narrative idiosyncrasies of its source material.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Old
    In the moments when Old works, it’s because M. Night Shyamalan embraces the inherent weirdness of his material.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Luca
    Pixar’s most intimate and laidback effort since Ratatouille feels like a throwback to one of Mark Twain’s rollicking picaresque sagas.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Keith Watson
    El Planeta
    Amalia Ulman’s film is a bittersweet comedy of human behavior observed with a relaxed yet intently focused eye.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
    After a while, it’s hard not to feel like Radu Jude is simply shooting fish in a barrel.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    The Vigil
    Keith Thomas’s film hums with uncanny dread, milking the close juxtaposition of living and dead for all its worth.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Little Fish
    The film gets at the profound truth that our relationship with another person is, at its core, a collection of shared memories.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    The Croods: A New Age
    The film is brightly colored, inventively designed, and constantly flirting with the outright psychedelic, but it's so packed full of incident that it rarely gives its jokes the space to land.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Too often, the film teases big, wild comedic set pieces that end up deflating almost instantly.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Dick Johnson Is Dead is very much a film about its own making, one which repeatedly exposes its artifice.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Gunda
    By the time the credits roll on the film, we realize we’ve been watching not so much a sketch of the lives of farm animals as a threnody for their deaths.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Ghost Tropic
    Bas Devos’s film is a street-lit trek through the eerily empty avenues and byways of a city at sleep.
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