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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    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Ted
    So what's not to love? For starters, there's the inescapable fact that Ted is, no matter how you stuff it, yet another man-child buddy movie – and all that that implies.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    People Like Us
    For all its emotional and familial kerfuffles, People Like Us is an honorable misfire – good intentions and all.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Brave
    The core family relationships ring pleasingly true, and the rebellious Merida is, alongside Katniss Everdeen, an intelligent, capable, and empathetic proto-riot grrrl with stupifyingly kickass hair and even better aim.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    Benjamin Walker, as Lincoln, may not have the gangly gravitas of Raymond Massey's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" – he looks like a young Liam Neeson doing a younger Bruce Campbell, frankly – but he does have a sly, self-effacing sense of humor that feels ever so Lincoln-esque
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Safety Not Guaranteed
    I found myself falling for it, hard. It's Trevorrow's feature debut and we'd like to see more, please.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    Prometheus
    It's a promising epic that ends with what feels like a lie. In short, it's a glorious mess well worth seeing, but light-years away from what fans were expecting.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    The Intouchables
    Take from the film's racial commingling what you want. Much of this may be old hat, even corny, and potentially offensive, but I haven't laughed out loud this often at a movie in ages.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 0 Marc Savlov
    Battlefield America
    The set-up, and indeed the entire film, reeks of yawn-inducing boilerplate plotting.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 11 Marc Savlov
    Piranha 3DD
    Disappointingly, Piranha 3DD, the inevitable sequel to the remake, has none of Dante's wit, Aja's directorial skills, or Greg Nicotero's grotesqueries.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Marc Savlov
    Men in Black III
    Less extraordinary and considerably more banal, given the sci-fi/comedy subject matter, is Men in Black 3's story, which jumps the ectomorphic shark in high style but with a deficit of actual belly laughs.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    Mansome
    Mansome is mostly miss, and pretty thin as well.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Marc Savlov
    Battleship
    This crass and hugely dumb aliens vs. multiple earthling navies should thrill the hyperactive 10-year-old inside you. Adults, on the other hand – and especially genre-fan adults – will be bored to tears and wishing Bay (or at least Jerry Bruckheimer) had something of their own on the marquee out front.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Girl in Progress
    Girl in Progress is an old story about a young girl told in a smart way, and that's something you don't see every day, no matter how many times you think you've seen it before.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Marc Savlov
    My Way
    The most expensive South Korean film ever made is also one of the most realistic (read: gory) depictions of the horrors of war, specifically World War II, global cinema has ever produced.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Avengers
    Fans of all that has come before (excluding Roger Corman's premature-ejaculation version of "The Fantastic Four," natch) will weep tears of giddy joy at how crowd-pleasingly cohesive – and ridiculously fun – this film is.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Marc Savlov
    The Raven
    It is, in a word or two, everything that Poe's tales and poems were not: interminable and picayune.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
    What Warriors of the Rainbow may have going for it most of all is Chin Ting-Chang's dreamy cinematography, which presents the native Seediq amid the sultry jungle greenery that brings to mind the absurdly lovely flora of James Cameron's Pandora.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    Safe
    Enough already with the pointless gun battles that litter Safe like spent syringes in a shooting gallery. No matter how spastically you edit them, you'll never top John Woo's early work, or, for that matter, Sam Peckinpah's. Aim higher, even if it means fewer hits.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Goon
    Put on your best Southie accent and say it with me: This film is wicked fahwkin' retahded and I loved it.
    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Last Days Here
    As depressing as it may sound on paper, directors Argott and Fenton have crafted a deeply disturbing but equally moving documentary.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Marc Savlov
    The Lucky One
    The chickiest flick you're likely to see this season. Depending on your taste in romantic fare, you'll either find it toe-curlingly dreamy or ploddingly predictable.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 11 Marc Savlov
    The Three Stooges
    A work of near-existential pointlessness. It's true to the anarchic, silly spirit of the original clowning, but there's very little else to it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    Touchback
    Touchback may accurately be called cornball hokum by some, but it's nevertheless a well-made film filled with heart and soul (and Snake Plissken).
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Marc Savlov
    The Hunter
    Dafoe, as expected, is magnificent in the taciturn role, but the film tends to falter when he's not out stalking, combining as it does elements of family drama, environmental outrage, and outright suspense.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
    True love is never having to say goodbye … because when you look in the mirror, there s/he is.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    American Reunion
    Of course, if you loathed the first film, this one probably won't do much to change your mind. But fans, and I count myself among them, of the Weitz brothers' unexpectedly enjoyable original will find themselves in a familiar and perhaps comforting place … filthy language, risqué situations, die-hard friendships, and all.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Marc Savlov
    Wrath of the Titans
    I've always said, "If you've seen one god, you've seen them all," and Wrath of the Titans only serves to underscore my point.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    This artful documentary about renowned Tokyo sushi master Jiro Ono is not going to help save Charlie the Tuna one iota.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 78 Marc Savlov
    The Hunger Games
    The Hunger Games is first and foremost an adventure/survival story, and director Ross keeps things moving with nary a moment of downtime. There's precious little fat on the script; it's a lean, mean antifascist machine, and Lawrence is at once winsome and spectacularly engaging as Katniss (so much so that all her male costars pale into near-blandness in comparison).
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