Keith Watson
Select another critic »For 235 reviews, this critic has graded:
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19% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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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 | |
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| Highest review score: | The Harder They Come | |
| Lowest review score: | Ithaca | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 115 out of 235
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Mixed: 51 out of 235
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Negative: 69 out of 235
235
movie
reviews
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- Keith Watson
In terms of body objectification, Baywatch is an equal-opportunity exploiter, but when it comes to comedy, it's a total boys' club.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 23, 2017
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- Keith Watson
Over-stuffed and under-conceived, Fist Fight is a clumsy mélange of clashing comedic perspectives.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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- Keith Watson
A constant sense of motion can’t obscure how stale, secondhand, and spiritless this entire endeavor feels.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 3, 2021
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- Keith Watson
Though it may clear the low bar set by the first film, The Nut Job 2 still suffers from many of the same problems.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 10, 2017
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- Keith Watson
The film is confused in conception, dreary in execution, and completely lacking in forward momentum.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 6, 2016
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- Keith Watson
The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a deeply miscalculated mix of incoherent social commentary and over-the-top gore.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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- Keith Watson
This grimly self-serious tale of violent destiny is consistently drowned out by Vicente Amorim’s overreaching visual style.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 31, 2021
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- Keith Watson
It's difficult to begrudge a film that has the good sense to put so much stock in Ben Kingsley's hammy theatrics.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 23, 2017
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- Keith Watson
Robin Hood’s shameless silliness only takes it so far, as the film is frequently undermined by Otto Bathurst’s wobbly direction.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 21, 2018
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- Keith Watson
Schmaltzy, manipulative, and tonally schizophrenic, The Book of Henry is such a monumentally misguided venture that it ends up being oddly, if unintentionally, compelling.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 14, 2017
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- Keith Watson
The film portrays parenting as the death of manhood, a final surrender to the castrating effects of domesticity.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 9, 2017
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- Keith Watson
The film may be too preposterous to take seriously, but at least writer-director Aram Rappaport trains his sights on the right enemies.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 9, 2017
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- Keith Watson
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.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 23, 2016
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- Keith Watson
The words of Henry James have never sounded as leaden and preposterous as they do in Julien Landais’s The Aspern Papers.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 7, 2019
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- Keith Watson
Slacker that it is, the film never seems willing to put in the necessary work to live up to its potential.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 1, 2016
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- Keith Watson
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.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 28, 2019
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- Keith Watson
For a film about such a singular profession, Life on the Line offers surprisingly little insight into linemen's day-to-day labor.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 14, 2016
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- Keith Watson
Though it pretends to stick up for all the schmucks in the world, the film is really just laughing along with the assholes.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 21, 2018
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- Keith Watson
Writer-director Daniela Amavia fails to link the lives of her characters to any deeper sense of meaning.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 11, 2016
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- Keith Watson
The film flattens Maryla's personal story into hazy generalities about tolerance and the value of remembrance.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 23, 2018
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- Keith Watson
Despite all its confoundments, 9 Fingers works as a unified whole thanks to F.J. Ossang's playful sense of humor.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 29, 2018
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- Keith Watson
Luke Fowler allows us to access some of the intimate details of Bartlett’s life in intriguingly indirect ways.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 28, 2018
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- Keith Watson
A collage-like tale of vengeance told with an often impressionistic elusiveness, the film can also be bewildering in its juxtapositions.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 25, 2022
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