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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    99 Homes
    Iwish I could say 99 Homes delivers a shockingly good sucker punch to the American electorate and a stand-up-and-cheer piece of socially conscious filmmaking, but it’s not. It lacks the satisfactory denouement of, for instance, Michael Mann’s The Insider (and Garfield is no Russell Crowe), in part because the events it depicts are still happening across the country (albeit to a lesser extent).
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Deathgasm
    Peppered with clever, self-referential one-liners that whip by almost too fast to catch them, Deathgasm is – like most metalheads/punks/Morrissey fans – a helluva lot smarter than one might at first suspect.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Coming Home
    Set against the gray backdrop of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, this is old-school melodrama writ big from a director who’s probably better known to mainstream American audiences as the man behind the spectacular Wushu action epics Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Curse of the Golden Flower.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The New Girlfriend
    Duris and Demoustier are excellent in a pair of exceedingly complex and emotionally fractious roles, and Ozon’s supremely confident directorial hand and clear affection for these characters transforms The New Girlfriend from a could’ve-been psycho-thriller into a smart, humanistic examination of identity reshaped in the shadow of grief.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Marc Savlov
    The Green Inferno
    The Green Inferno feels like a retread of a retread.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Wolf Totem
    Cinematographer Jean-Marie Dreujou has shot the ridiculously photogenic grasslands in truly spectacular IMAX 3-D, and rarely have I seen it done better.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    Cooties
    It’s fun, but it’s no "Class of Nuke ’Em High."
    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Goodnight Mommy
    An unnerving descent into the extreme, anxious corners of a mother’s relationship to and comprehension of her 9-year-old twin sons – and vice versa – gone weirdly haywire, Goodnight Mommy is required viewing for both lovers of neo-gothic paranoia and mommy-haters everywhere.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos
    Viewed entirely on the exceptional virtues of its CGI animation (flashbacks occur via traditional, hand-drawn animation) and its occasionally raunchy humor, Un Gallo con Mucho Huevos is a small gem of a film. But its trivialization of cockfighting will surely be a rightful stumbling block for many potential audience members.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Bloodsucking Bastards
    While this isn’t anywhere near a classic of the comedy-horror genre, it’s still a well-written work of splatstick that’s more downright engaging than 90% of the “serious” (i.e., mediocre) horrors that have flooded theatres of late.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Marc Savlov
    No Escape
    For all its genuine thrill-ride gestalt, No Escape completely short-shrifts its Southeast Asian players. There’s exactly one Asian character of note, a Kenny Rogers-loving tuk-tuk driver (Boonthanakit). Everyone else is a nameless victim of the equally nameless mob.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    Sinister 2
    Not half as terrifying as Norwegian black metal, but still one of the better found footage-gimmicked sequels in recent memory.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Being Evel
    Junge’s ridiculously entertaining documentary includes a wealth of archival clips that still, after all these years, make you wince.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    American Ultra
    By turns sweet, sadistic, and silly, American Ultra will probably make a stronger impression if you watch it while high.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Savlov
    The Look of Silence
    Harrowing and important documentary.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Meet Me in Montenegro
    Director of photography Robert Murphy deserves a Spirit Award of his own for his breathtaking and evocative lensing of ever-cinematic Berlin and Montenegro, and Stephen Coates’ melancholic score is equally suited to the story at hand.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Straight Outta Compton
    Buoyed by a soundtrack that’ll have fortysomethings cracking open 40-ounces and recalling a marginally simpler, if still chaotic, time in their lives, Straight Outta Compton’s bark is just as snarly-cool as its bite. Take that, Tipper Gore.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 11 Marc Savlov
    Fantastic Four
    Steer clear, Friends of Ol’ Marvel!
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Gift
    The Gift, a psychological roller coaster on a doomed track, is one of the best directorial debuts in ages, hands down.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Cop Car
    Director Watts has a background in comedy direction, and a thin, sticky stream of exceptionally dark humor flows through the otherwise gut-churning realism of Cop Car.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Alléluia
    Dueñas and Lucas give knockout performances as two twisted souls seemingly locked in a match to the death to determine who is the madder one. I’ll call it a tie, and I’ll also say Alleluia is a grotesque masterpiece. L’amour fou, indeed.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Amy
    The gut-wrenching Amy is, in the end, as much an indictment of our celebrity-obsessed (global) pop culture as it is of the perils of rampant success arriving unexpectedly fast, tires squealing and driving a hearse.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Marc Savlov
    Terminator Genisys
    Terminator: Genisys is a catastrophic misfire on nearly all counts. It’s only saving grace? 2015 Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) as a Mulder-gone-to-pot-esque cop who believes in these “goddamn time-traveling robots.”
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    Ted 2
    The outcome is no great surprise, and plenty of the gags feel as though they were meant to be throwaways, but Ted 2, exactly like its predecessor, has plenty of heart, which makes all the rest of the black-dick jokes marginally more tolerable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Wolfpack
    By the time this harmless but possibly harmed pack of pups is seen approaching the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island for the very first time – “Look at that, there’s people all over the beach,” one brother nervously mutters – it’s clear that there are second acts, and more, in American lives, even ones so borderline freakish as the ones presented here.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Jurassic World
    It’s all in good fun, and critic-proof to boot, but Jurassic World doesn’t even come close to that most intimate and dearly coveted “Gosh, wow” sense-of-wonder that the original film mustered so easily. Roar more, bite less.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    When Marnie Was There
    This is, disappointingly, a long way from being a Studio Ghibli classic. The essential plot may be archetypal, but it’s no "Kiki’s Delivery Service."
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Spy
    This is a different sort of comedy that more or less succeeds on its own terms, despite that fact that you find yourself rooting for the post-Snowden CIA.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Marc Savlov
    San Andreas
    San Andreas, by its very nature, begs, borrows, and outright steals from other, occasionally better, disaster epics.
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