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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    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    The Female Brain
    The Female Brain never seems quite sure whether it wants to probe the depths of its title subject or just make us laugh. And given the shallowness of its quasi-scientific blather and the tepidness of its comedy, it ultimately does neither.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    Super Troopers 2
    Given the sheer amount of comic material here, some of the jokes are bound to fall flat, but the hit-to-miss ratio is depressingly low.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    Shaft
    Ultimately, the only truly retro thing about this weirdly reactionary potboiler is its politics.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    Smurfs: The Lost Village
    It's content to be the sort of film parents can throw on an iPad to ensure 90 minutes' worth of relative peace and quiet away from their antic children.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    My Little Pony: The Movie
    Visually plain and ploddingly paced, My Little Pony: The Movie suggests four episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic smushed together with a Sia music video tacked on at the end.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    First Kill
    Lacking any vibrancy, wit, or formal rigor, First Kill is not only as bland and leaden as its über-generic title suggests, it's downright sloppy to boot.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    The Intruder
    The film is ostensibly about the war for the soul of a house, but it couldn’t feel less lived in.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    Jack Goes Home
    The film veers almost at random from ghost story to family drama to erotic thriller to black comedy.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    Amateur Night
    The film is peppered with interesting true-life details, but these are overwhelmed by frantic comedic sequences.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur director Timur Bekmambetov offers nothing new to the cinematic lexicon of the chariot race.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Keith Watson
    Baywatch
    In terms of body objectification, Baywatch is an equal-opportunity exploiter, but when it comes to comedy, it's a total boys' club.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    Fist Fight
    Over-stuffed and under-conceived, Fist Fight is a clumsy mélange of clashing comedic perspectives.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    Red Notice
    A constant sense of motion can’t obscure how stale, secondhand, and spiritless this entire endeavor feels.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
    Though it may clear the low bar set by the first film, The Nut Job 2 still suffers from many of the same problems.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 12 Keith Watson
    Ithaca
    The film is confused in conception, dreary in execution, and completely lacking in forward momentum.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a deeply miscalculated mix of incoherent social commentary and over-the-top gore.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    Yakuza Princess
    This grimly self-serious tale of violent destiny is consistently drowned out by Vicente Amorim’s overreaching visual style.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Collide
    It's difficult to begrudge a film that has the good sense to put so much stock in Ben Kingsley's hammy theatrics.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Robin Hood
    Robin Hood’s shameless silliness only takes it so far, as the film is frequently undermined by Otto Bathurst’s wobbly direction.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    The Book of Henry
    Schmaltzy, manipulative, and tonally schizophrenic, The Book of Henry is such a monumentally misguided venture that it ends up being oddly, if unintentionally, compelling.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Keith Watson
    Daddy's Home 2
    The film portrays parenting as the death of manhood, a final surrender to the castrating effects of domesticity.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Keith Watson
    The Crash
    The film may be too preposterous to take seriously, but at least writer-director Aram Rappaport trains his sights on the right enemies.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 12 Keith Watson
    The Unspoken
    It feels like Sheldon Wilson tossed a bunch of third-hand scares in a blender and set it to puree, resulting in a gray, flavorless sludge.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 12 Keith Watson
    The Aspern Papers
    The words of Henry James have never sounded as leaden and preposterous as they do in Julien Landais’s The Aspern Papers.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Keith Watson
    My Dead Boyfriend
    Slacker that it is, the film never seems willing to put in the necessary work to live up to its potential.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    Outlaws
    The grim Australian biker drama Outlaws is little more than an endless stream of brooding, yelling, and “badass” posturing broken up by grisly violence and gratuitous sex scenes.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    Life on the Line
    For a film about such a singular profession, Life on the Line offers surprisingly little insight into linemen's day-to-day labor.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Keith Watson
    The Clapper
    Though it pretends to stick up for all the schmucks in the world, the film is really just laughing along with the assholes.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Keith Watson
    A Beautiful Now
    Writer-director Daniela Amavia fails to link the lives of her characters to any deeper sense of meaning.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    Nana
    The film flattens Maryla's personal story into hazy generalities about tolerance and the value of remembrance.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Keith Watson
    9 Fingers
    Despite all its confoundments, 9 Fingers works as a unified whole thanks to F.J. Ossang's playful sense of humor.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Keith Watson
    Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
    Luke Fowler allows us to access some of the intimate details of Bartlett’s life in intriguingly indirect ways.
    • 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.
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