Marc Savlov

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For 2,177 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Marc Savlov's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score: 100 Dunkirk
Lowest review score: 0 Darkness
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,039 out of 2177
  2. Mixed: 612 out of 2177
  3. Negative: 526 out of 2177
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Wojnarowicz
    McKim’s documentary is as jangly and urgent as its subject and his art, and it packs a melancholy wallop, using the artist’s own running commentary via cassette tape (there were two hundred hours of it) and layering it over snatches of Wojnarowicz’s Super 8 films, countless photographs, and recollections from those who were both there at the start of Wojnarowicz’s career and at the end of his life.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Finding Nemo
    Pixar's Finding Nemo may well have the best casting of any animated film of the past 30-odd years.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Topsy-Turvy
    Wildly entertaining, "Shakespeare in Love" minus the Bard and the babe, but with substantive style to burn.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Marc Savlov
    Honey
    Amid the endless stream of catch-a-rising-star movie clichés that Honey screenwriters Alonzo Brown and Kim Watson throw up and out are a few new ones, notably "skinny girls always win out in the end" and "hootchie bad, faux hootchie good."
    • 90 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    The Incredibles
    An order-of-magnitude leap forward in animated storytelling.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    The Age of Innocence
    A bore... The film leaves you with the feeling, once again, of having enjoyed a lovely meal fit for royalty only to discover, too late, that the fruit was made of wax and the roast was little more than a Styrofoam mock-up.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    The River and the Wall
    By the end of this epic and thoughtful expedition, you’re left with the unmistakable feeling that some things – in this case, the natural splendor of the Rio Grande ecosystem – should and indeed must remain unsullied by cheap Washington grandstanding and election year promises.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    The Overnighters
    A third-act revelation will knock viewers silly and cause them to reevaluate everything that’s come before, but even without that jaw-dropping information, Moss’ film is a righteous piece of empathetic, of-the-moment documentary filmmaking.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Man on Wire
    Hauntingly beautiful film.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Waking the Dead
    The film is one of the more adult offerings out there in a spring movie season peppered with martial arts and superheroes. It may be just what you're looking for.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    This feature-length expansion of Cohen's deliciously ridiculous character accomplishes what decades of Soviet propaganda failed to do: It points out and underscores issues of race, religious intolerance, classism, and all manner of very American social ills by giving the culprits just enough rope to hang themselves by their own petards (and then some).
    • 89 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    No End in Sight
    It's enough to make you weep.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Artist
    What's so intensely pleasurable about The Artist, however, is not its predetermined seriocomic trajectory but the endless parade of smartly creative and self-referential gags, which include all manner of sly, silent delights; the inevitable Jack Russell; and even an extended orchestral cue of Bernard Herrmann's, cribbed outright from "Vertigo."
    • 83 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Corpse Bride
    The dead have more fun than the living, again, in Tim Burton’s new stop-motion animated feature, a gift to gothlings everywhere and as exquisitely crafted as one of Federico’s post-mortem still lifes on "Six Feet Under," and just as melodramatically melancholic.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Paddington 2
    As sequels go, Paddington 2 is up to the challenge. It’s neck and neck, or paw and claw as to which is the better, so why not just watch both back to back?
    • 88 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    A Film Unfinished
    Amid the increasingly horrific images of daily ghetto life are moments of utterly unexpected, haunting beauty, including a reel of color film that does more to humanize an inhuman situation than anything I've ever seen.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Citizenfour
    Citizenfour is obviously in Snowden’s corner, but as an example of pure cinema vérité, this is the finest – and most disturbing – political documentary since Alex Gibney’s Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side."
    • 88 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Mafioso [re-release]
    This is the sort of masterpiece that will obliterate memories of lesser, later efforts in the "meeting the parents" comedy lineage. Brilliant.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Chicken Run
    Absolutely delightful filmmaking, chock-full of gorgeously goofy animation and a storyline that cleverly echoes everything from "Stalag 17" to "Cool Hand Luke."
    • 88 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    The King's Speech
    It's a "keep calm, carry on" wartime melodrama of the first order, and stiff though it may be, it is never less than brilliantly done.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Fargo
    An immersion into the characters' world in toto, from the "Oh geezes" and the "Oh, yaahs" to the dark and flinty core beneath.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Marc Savlov
    Friday the 13th
    But bad, this film's so bad! To flub the fans' most beloved butcher boy.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Toy Story 2
    If you (or your kids) loved Toy Story, you'll like Toy Story 2 as well. Just don't expect any big surprises.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Joshua
    It should be mandatory viewing for right-to-lifers and prospective parents as well as fans of creepy, crawly filmmaking.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    God forbid this should ever play on an IMAX screen -- the concussive soundtrack and relentless visuals would likely strike viewers deaf and blind (but what a way to go!). Simply breathtaking.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Marc Savlov
    Captive
    An odd mix, to be sure, but full-tilt performances from Mara, as meth-addicted, widowed mom-cum-kidnappee Ashley Smith, and Oyelowo, playing the stone-cold killer turned cornered kidnapper Brian Nichols, help this spiritual thriller rise (very slightly) above other, more hamfisted, heaven-friendly fare.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Gomorrah
    This isn't some pomo arthouse picture looking to score points by subverting the gangster paradigm; it's a killer film about killers who idolize film but are unable or unwilling to parse the doom that always crops up come Act III.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Mulholland Dr.
    Relax, sit tight, and enjoy the ride.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    It's a ripping good yarn, to boot, breathlessly paced and seamlessly edited, but most important, resoundingly and surpassingly fun.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    The Fugitive
    As far as the chase genre goes, there have been worse films (better ones, too).
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