Matthew Passantino

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For 28 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 71% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matthew Passantino's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 91 Wildlife
Lowest review score: 40 The Happytime Murders
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 28
  2. Negative: 0 out of 28
28 movie reviews
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Matthew Passantino
    Sisto certainly has an eye for the story he’s trying to tell, and there are moments throughout John and the Hole, which show he has what it takes to be an interesting filmmaker. [But his] visual flair would have been better served with a stronger story.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Matthew Passantino
    The movie knows what it is, and undoubtedly offers some tense moments, but once the plot contrivances start to stack up, Unhinged becomes too silly for its own good. It leans heavily into the violence to distract, but the flailing story surrounding it.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Matthew Passantino
    Summer Night has an easy, breezy presence about it, but there’s not much going on beneath the surface.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Matthew Passantino
    Charlie Says ... missed a chance to explore the psychology of a cult and instead feels like a gauzy art installation without much focus.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Matthew Passantino
    It’s easy to disappear into the setting of The Sunlit Night but if only the narrative were as involving.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Matthew Passantino
    Blue Night plods along for 96 Minutes, creating a surface-level exploration of its character’s life.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Matthew Passantino
    Directed by Colin Minihan, What Keeps You Alive is an exercise in extreme style and visual trickery in the hopes of keeping the tension high. He isn’t subtle when dropping clues, cutting to an object more than a couple times as to warn us this will be important at some point. Working from his own script, the movie deserves some credit for not always arriving at the most obvious conclusions, even if it takes a well-trodden path.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Matthew Passantino
    The Happytime Murders eventually ends up spinning its wheels, telling the same joke over-and-over.

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