Stephen Dalton

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For 252 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 36% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Stephen Dalton's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Fatherland
Lowest review score: 20 Unhinged
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 19 out of 252
252 movie reviews
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Dalton
    Loosely inspired by real events, the plot is time-scrambled and non-linear, hinting at Quentin Tarantino levels of post-modern playfulness that sadly never materialize.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Dalton
    The performances here are bloodless, the pacing listless, the dialogue witless almost to the point of deadpan parody.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Dalton
    Any meager pleasures that Lies We Tell offers are purely technical.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Dalton
    A clumsy high-school sex comedy which tries too hard to be both shocking and endearing, falling short on both counts.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Dalton
    Run
    Graham begins Run with a solid premise, but he lacks the dramatic horsepower to move the story out of second gear.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Dalton
    Dolan has labored hard to yoke together these tricksy, time-jumping, intertwined plots, reportedly editing down a mountain of material over two years. In the process, a whole character played by Jessica Chastain was surgically removed. But however long he tinkered, Dolan has not quite salvaged a story whose default setting seems to be mirthless, ponderous navel-gazing.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Stephen Dalton
    This film’s thin charms lie not in its authenticity but in its zippy energy, good-looking cast and mild sprinkling of action.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Dalton
    Behind its superficially avant-garde aesthetic, Baby Invasion is a shallow, conservative, masturbatory piece of work. It leaves behind an uncomfortable choice: either Korine has run out of anything interesting to say, or he has actually been trolling us all along.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Dalton
    Drunk on its own noble aims and rich ingredients, Megalopolis is a muddled misfire of overcooked kitsch and undercooked ideas.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Stephen Dalton
    With an ineptitude so thorough it borders on genius, Cummings achieves the rare feat of making Sheeran appear even more boring in person than he is on record.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Stephen Dalton
    Mortdecai is an anachronistic mess that never succeeds in re-creating the breezy tone or snappy rhythm of the classic caper movies that it aims to pastiche.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Stephen Dalton
    Without Crowe's brooding performance, Unhinged would just be another forgettable, formulaic, functional B-movie. With the burly Kiwi on board, it is transformed into a forgettable, formulaic, functional B-movie starring Russell Crowe.

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