S. James Snyder

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For 37 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 14.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

S. James Snyder's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 51
Highest review score: 80 Little Girl (La Pivellina)
Lowest review score: 20 If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 37
  3. Negative: 8 out of 37
37 movie reviews
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 S. James Snyder
    Neshoba
    Interviewing residents from across the spectrum, Neshoba reopens the debate: How was this allowed to happen? How do we move forward? Some questions, this compelling movie reminds us, still require answers.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 S. James Snyder
    Phyllis and Harold
    Kleine forgoes good-old-days nostalgia in an effort to examine a generation that braved the new America sans a rule book. But it’s the central mystery of Cindy’s own life--did Phyllis ever love Harold?--that turns this sociological examination into something profoundly personal.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 S. James Snyder
    In My Sleep
    That we never actually meet his Mr. Hyde is an inventive twist, but all the labored explanations (and tedious psychology) that follow the bad behavior and bloodshed make for a serious buzzkill.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 S. James Snyder
    Rashevski's Tango
    Director Sam Garbarski’s focus occasionally skews narrow, but he does evoke the anxiety of reconciling a strict faith with secular times.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 S. James Snyder
    Tickling Leo
    Flimsy dialogue and fickle characters undercut the weighty historical demons in this fractured family portrait of three generations of men dealing with their emotional scars.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 60 S. James Snyder
    Falling Awake
    Playing smarter and smoother than the plot, Cisneros uncorks an antimacho performance that deviates from type. His unconventional hero is worthy of a more original treatment.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 S. James Snyder
    The Way We Get By
    Though Aron Gaudet’s documentary never quite captures the relieved atmosphere of these homecomings, it does acknowledge the dark side of a cheery platitude: those on both sides of the divide are in need of healing.
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