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New York Magazine (Vulture), Newark Star-Ledger, RogerEbert.com, Salon
For 732 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Zoller Seitz's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Shoah: Four Sisters
Lowest review score: 0 Alice Through the Looking Glass
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 593 out of 732
  2. Mixed: 86 out of 732
  3. Negative: 53 out of 732
732 movie reviews
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Matt Zoller Seitz
    Jockey
    This is a drama that prizes journalistic or documentary values, as well as the "epic naturalism" of films by directors like Terrence Malick and Chloe Zhao in which the camera might be as interested in flowing water, a sunset, a flock of birds, or a line of silhouetted horses as in whatever the characters are doing or saying.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Matt Zoller Seitz
    Red Rocket
    Despite its missteps, this is Baker's best-directed film, judged purely in terms of how economically he sets up and pays off each mile marker in the story, often getting in and out of a scene with two or three elegantly choreographed but unpretentious shots.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Matt Zoller Seitz
    Listening to Kenny G
    There are points early in this documentary where you might wonder if it really needed to be a feature (one can imagine a cut-down "60 Minutes" piece doing the job just as effectively) but when Lane gets away from the man himself and focuses on the details of the business of music, a new frontier of understanding opens up.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Matt Zoller Seitz
    The Humans
    At times the movie feels like Hereditary without the supernatural elements and gore. It's a psychological horror movie about the ordinary miseries and compromises of family.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Matt Zoller Seitz
    Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
    There is, nevertheless, something to be said for a documentary that tries to do something different and perhaps impossible, even if it doesn't quite get there. And in the end, any flaws or missed opportunities are subsumed by the movie's sincerity and wealth of insight.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Matt Zoller Seitz
    Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
    It seems more likely that this is a film about discoveries rather than statements, with the camera following people and then abandoning them to seek insight elsewhere, by looking into things rather than merely looking at them.
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    • 50 Matt Zoller Seitz
    Love Is Love Is Love
    It draws together a first-rank cast of character actresses and actors, most of them over 50, then mostly fails to invest the material with the invention and snappiness needed to invigorate it and make it memorable, as opposed to merely agreeable.
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