Steve Macfarlane

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For 113 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 63% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Steve Macfarlane's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Level Five
Lowest review score: 0 Third Person
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 113
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 113
  3. Negative: 29 out of 113
113 movie reviews
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Steve Macfarlane
    Hector and the Search for Happiness
    It culminates in a weepy climax that verifies its status as a proud hunk of propaganda from America's massive self-help industry.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Steve Macfarlane
    300: Rise of an Empire
    Noam Murro gives the film nothing so much as a hit-refresh on the same glistening, impossibly golden and gray flecks of pixel-barf that have invaded the frames of every tent-pole studio release since the Bush administration.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Steve Macfarlane
    Lay the Favorite
    Hollywood celebrities romping around in a candy-colored Alexa-shot criminal underworld, pretty much as a means of passing time.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Steve Macfarlane
    Playing It Cool
    As characters endlessly digress on the differences between rom-coms and real life, the film evinces a schizophrenic relationship with its own inside-baseball cynicism.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Steve Macfarlane
    Would You Rather
    A shrill Indiewood torture porn that, despite promised shocks and revulsions, doesn't even have the conviction to hold its camera on the story's most appalling twists.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Steve Macfarlane
    Before I Go to Sleep
    It's hard to tell if the film is hampered or helped by the performances of its three stars, because it's so amateurishly written and directed that their participation beggars belief.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 12 Steve Macfarlane
    Café de Flore
    It's a pretty tired proposition to complain about movies being manipulative, but Café de Flore sets the bar especially low.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 12 Steve Macfarlane
    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here
    The research that went into the film seems a largesse, but it's compromised at every turn by filmmaker Amei Wallach's sloppy, pedantic delivery.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 12 Steve Macfarlane
    Les Cowboys
    Never content to suffice as a mediocre thriller, Les Cowboys is a wellspring of embarrassment for all parties involved.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 12 Steve Macfarlane
    Jamesy Boy
    The movie adds up to little more than an interminable bildungsroman, sunk early and often by the desperately miscast Spencer Lofranco.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 12 Steve Macfarlane
    Left Behind
    Left Behind is one of those films so deeply, fundamentally terrible that it feels unwittingly high-concept.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 12 Steve Macfarlane
    Survivor
    This is the kind of filmmaking that gets touted as "workmanlike" when it's really straight-laced to the point of tepidness.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Steve Macfarlane
    Third Person
    If the glue holding Crash's arcs together was Paul Haggis's belief in the power of racism, this time it's love.
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