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
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Sophie Scholl plods along inexorably, one step after another, to its grim, sad end. It's almost unbearable.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Lovers
    Winger is as good here as she’s ever been, and Letts, an actor whose face you know but whose name you can never quite remember, is terrific, communicating his lust for Lucy with dry aplomb.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    This is not your mother's murder mystery, unless your mother's maiden name is de Sade and she has an appallingly bleak vision of modern society that occasionally fixates on the historical misdeeds of the corporate/industrial world and the correction thereof.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Narnia is nearly saved by those immensely likable and altogether stiff-upper-lippy Pevensie kids.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    Man on a Ledge
    In the end it's all much ado about not so much, a semifunctional thriller that tingles but never terrifies. Ledge schmedge.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    Kempner's documentary is a streamlined, gorgeous piece of work, full of revelations of time, place, and person.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    OT: Our Town
    Backed by a soundtrack of hip-hop and edited to within an inch of its life, Kennedy’s film has sleek gutter charm to spare.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Bodied
    So yes, Bodied is a comedy of ill manners, fraught as it is with a veritable encyclopedia of contemporaneous qualms confronted and contested with some seriously dope hustle and flow. Tag this one #badassseriousfun.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Ruben Brandt, Collector
    This astonishing animated feature from first-time Slovenian director Krstić is required viewing for art history majors and anyone else with even a glancing interest in the works of everyone from Warhol to Gauguin, Diego Velázquez to Joan Miró.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Punk Singer
    The Punk Singer (and the formation of the Julie Ruin) offers a welcome return to, if not the fray, then certainly the front – where, as every rebel girl worth her combat boots knows, girls belong.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Martha Marcy May Marlene
    Durkin's film seems to exist in its own fractured dream state. It's hypnotic, narcotic, and trembling on the verge of either dread or redemption or some hazy state of nothingness in between.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Funny Games (2008)
    You can take a page from Wes Craven before he went flat and keep repeating, "It's only a movie; it's only a movie; it's only a movie." But is it?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Joy Ride
    Dahl, who really does know what he's doing when it comes to investing a scene with both heebies and jeebies, is a notch or two above most.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Lambert & Stamp
    At times, it’s a bit like being cornered and regaled by actor Bill Nighy’s aging rocker Billy Mack from "Love Actually," but certainly more interesting, and a rewarding and informative document of some unlikely visionaries of maximum rock & roll.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    It's more fun than a poke in the heart with a sharp stick.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Savlov
    House of Usher
    Corman's legendary parsimony has rarely been so inobvious; House of Usher has the look and feel of a film made for far more than its tiny $200K budget (and on a tight, 15-day shooting schedule). Its authentically creepy dream-sequence – all grasping hands and hazy blue-gelled fog swirls –­ is a minor surrealist masterpiece by its own right.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
    Alternating between color footage and the genius interplay of startlingly lovely sequences of Stanton singing and playing harmonica in granular black-and-white, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction perfectly captures the essence of the man.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Girl on the Bridge
    New and amazing -- it takes you back to the days when French filmmaking and French filmmakers were the darlings and saviors of the cinematic cutting edge. It's a great film, simply told, and a pleasure to watch.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Bernie
    Jack Black redeems himself (for Gulliver's Travels, among other things) with a subtly quirky performance that's one of his personal best.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    The Muppets
    It is with immense pleasure that I can report that Disney's Muppet reboot movie is an absolute delight.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Savlov
    Twelve Monkeys
    Gilliam keeps the audience guessing, and in doing so creates a startlingly effective rumination on the nature of sanity and madness cloaked in the shroud of a sci-fi thriller.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Lady Vengeance
    Park is one sick puppy, and I mean that in the very best sense of the phrase.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Shrek 2
    Unsurprisingly, your enjoyment of Shrek 2 will likely be predicated on your enjoyment of Shrek 1.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    An Unreasonable Man
    Irony and unwavering idealism are bound up in this lengthy but instantly engaging and informative documentary.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Titanic
    Like the doomed vessel from which it takes its tale, Cameron's film is a behemoth, svelte, streamlined, and not the least bit ponderous.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Metropolis
    By the time the explosive finale arrives (with a wistful Ray Charles crooning over shots of cataclysmic destruction, no less), you'll be hard pressed to name a recent film with this much action, pathos, and smarts.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 89 Marc Savlov
    Ju-on: The Grudge
    Shimuzu sees darkened staircases and hears the rustle of dead autumn leaves and reacts as if from the devil’s own haiku. And his dread is catching.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    "Dr. Goodlove," or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Proletariat" might have been a better title for this ingratiatingly loopy origin story about prerevolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
    • 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.
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