Marshall Shaffer

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For 189 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Marshall Shaffer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Marty Supreme
Lowest review score: 16 Anaconda
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 126 out of 189
  2. Mixed: 55 out of 189
  3. Negative: 8 out of 189
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 16 Marshall Shaffer
    Anaconda
    Let this film with no bite serve as rock bottom for the IP era.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Marshall Shaffer
    Ella McCay
    Call it “naïve-core,” perhaps, as the film so thoroughly loses touch with reality by avoiding conflict of any kind. His empty platitudes like “humans help humans” are rendered useless and risible inside a work that seems to lack even a basic understanding of humanity in 2008, 2025, or any time at all.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 25 Marshall Shaffer
    The Ice Tower
    With nothing but artful austerity to offer as a tether back to reality, The Ice Tower shatters.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Marshall Shaffer
    The Life of Chuck
    Mike Flanagan’s film doesn’t escape the mires of unpersuasive pop psychology.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 38 Marshall Shaffer
    Ghost Trail
    Jonathan Millet’s film is unconvincing and unnaturally contorted into its shape.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Marshall Shaffer
    Krazy House
    It’s unclear if Steffen & Flip believe in a hell for their characters. But their 85-minute torture device disguised as a movie proves they believe in one for their viewers. Not even cheese ‘n’ rice can save this dismal enterprise from doom.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Marshall Shaffer
    Maggie Moore(s)
    Hamm can be a stealth comedic force in any project, adding a slight escalation or modulation of the energy level to alter the stakes. He has a unique talent for somehow fusing the comic man and straight man personas into one. Yet Maggie Moore(s) gives him no chance to play either because Slattery cannot decide if his “Mad Men” co-star is the lead of a romantic drama or a heist flick.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Marshall Shaffer
    Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
    Whether talking to himself or talking at his audience as if delivering wisdom deserving of an inscription on stone tablets, Iñárritu has nothing new or interesting to say. He's established he can move a camera with astonishing fluidity as well as blur fantasy and reality seamlessly. Now what? "Bardo" is a film high on its own supply yet low on any sense of actual intrigue or intuition.

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