Matthew Dessem

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For 22 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 13% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matthew Dessem's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 53
Highest review score: 100 The Vast of Night
Lowest review score: 20 Iceman
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 22
  3. Negative: 6 out of 22
22 movie reviews
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Matthew Dessem
    The Little Things
    Maybe the movie would work better if, like Se7en, it were set in an unnamed noir city instead of a real police department with real abuses, or if the script relied on more than genre shorthand to sell its noxious ending. As things stand, however, the only way to enjoy The Little Things is to ignore the big things.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Matthew Dessem
    Comet
    No amount of cosmic fireworks or woozy strings can hide the nice-guy passive-aggressive bullshit squatting at the center of Comet—it’s like a dreamy, swoony De Beers ad that stars Cecil Rhodes.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Matthew Dessem
    Late Phases
    As the onscreen moon goes through its inexorable cycle, Late Phases transforms from laughably non-frightening horror film to self-serious family drama and back again, all the while remaining ferociously, ravenously boring. Silver bullets would be a mercy.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Matthew Dessem
    Phantom Halo
    Phantom Halo is overstuffed even before Bogdanovich starts layering in the soliloquies and comic book metaphors.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Matthew Dessem
    Iceman
    A poorly stitched together Frankenstein’s monster of a film: crass one moment, grandiose the next, and dead from head to toe.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Matthew Dessem
    Field of Lost Shoes
    The film is adequately directed, well-photographed, and competently acted. But it’s rotten at its core.

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