Stephen Dalton

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Film Journal International, The Film Verdict, The Hollywood Reporter
For 251 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 3.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Stephen Dalton's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 90 A Hard Day
Lowest review score: 20 Unhinged
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 131 out of 251
  2. Mixed: 101 out of 251
  3. Negative: 19 out of 251
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Stephen Dalton
    Diana
    Halfway between a guilty pleasure and a missed opportunity, it makes the crucial mistake of treating curious viewers like deferential subjects, demanding far more sympathy than it deserves.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Stephen Dalton
    About Time
    There are just enough laugh-out-loud moments here to excuse the lurches into shameless, tear-jerking sentimentality.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Stephen Dalton
    Student
    Omirbaev fails to invest either the murder plot or its political subtext with much suspense or conviction.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Stephen Dalton
    Grigris
    The sleepy-paced, elementally simple plot initially requires a degree of patience, but the story ends up gently absorbing.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Stephen Dalton
    Heli
    Heli is undoubtedly made with serious intent, but it is also relentlessly depressing and curiously uninvolving.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Stephen Dalton
    In the Fog
    The film repays patient viewing as it evolves into an engrossing, nuanced, philosophical drama.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Dalton
    Memories Look at Me
    The pace is gently hypnotic and the topic fitfully interesting, but the format will test the patience of all but serious art-cinema fans with its narrow focus and chilly film-school minimalism.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Dalton
    Mary Magdalene
    Mary Magdalene is an uneasy viewing experience, ponderous and disjointed in places, but also crafted with conviction and a strong aesthetic vision.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Dalton
    The Mercy
    This unresolved maritime mystery feels oddly flat and functional, diluting a tragic tale full of unanswered questions into an anodyne middlebrow weepie.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Stephen Dalton
    Cult of Chucky
    A lean 91 minutes long, Cult of Chucky is part self-spoofing slasher, part lowbrow bloodbath and all guilty pleasure. There are plot holes here bigger than Trump Tower, and almost as ridiculous, but only the most joylessly wrong-headed film critic would waste mental energy unpicking them.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Stephen Dalton
    Stratton
    Director Simon West aims for a kind of Jason Bourne or Mission: Impossible feel, but he falls short in budget, star power and explosive spectacle.
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