Slant Magazine's Scores

For 7,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
7772 movie reviews
  1. Over-stuffed and under-conceived, Fist Fight is a clumsy mélange of clashing comedic perspectives.
  2. XX
    These shorts follow female protagonists as they wrestle with exclusion and implicit social standards that may or may not extend to their male counterparts.
  3. Land of Mine's fitful jolts of suspense can't compensate for the story's wholly familiar trajectory.
  4. Bits of editorializing dialogue throughout James Franco's In Dubious Battle suggest the resonant film that might’ve been.
  5. So Yong Kim's film ultimately manages a convincing articulation of friendship between women.
  6. Fifty Shades Darker takes the Dark Knight approach to franchise maintenance, taking pains to assure you that its protagonists are serious about their passions.
  7. John Wick: Chapter 2 remarkably balances its predecessor’s spartan characterizations and plotting with a significant expansion of scale.
  8. Most gratifying throughout A Cure for Wellness is the moment-to-moment anticipation of where Gore Verbinski will put his camera next.
  9. What distinguishes Stray Bullets from so many other low-budget crime films is Jack Fessenden's sense of quietness.
  10. The film is an unbroken chain of one-liners, sight gags, and pop-culture references, and the hit-to-miss ratio is high.
  11. The film rolls political commentary into the template of a “lost highway” horror film by forgoing ironic distancing.
  12. The Amma Asante film's broade sociopolitical overview is balanced by the intimate attention paid to the leads.
  13. The filmmakers astutely reveal how a culture can eat another alive and somehow live with itself.
  14. Ceyda Torun’s Kedi is an open, tender-hearted meditation on the relationship between felines and humans.
  15. Rings is unsure as to whether it’s a sequel to the other entries in the series or a contemporary reboot.
  16. The Space Between Us is simply disappointing when it isn’t trying to browbeat its audience into emotional submission.
  17. Robert Legato's film is lifelessly composed of the usual tropes of horror films set in mental asylums.
  18. The film is in love with the tropes it ridicules, and it doesn't take long for that love to dwarf any possibility of critique.
  19. Agnieszka Smoczynska's film is most poignant when it simply stares at its own strangeness.
  20. Joel David Moore's film is too often distracted by irrelevant emotional grandstanding.
  21. Ryan Ross's Wheeler is at its strongest as a showcase for Stephen Dorff’s husky, lived-in performance.
  22. The film's storylines fail to inform or intensify each other in any theme-deepening or character-developing ways.
  23. Nearly everything in Taylor Hackford's tin-eared comedy is as ersatz as the Robert De Diro character's rage is real.
  24. The film makes no concessions about its dissatisfaction with the whole rotten lot of so-called western democracy.
  25. Tim Sutton's film often surprises on the micro level, but its broader execution gives reason for pause.
  26. The Resident Evil films are so unconcerned with traditional character and narrative that they suggest either abstract art or the fevered brainstorming of a child at play.
  27. Lasse Hallström's gooey film exists only to offer comforting reassurances about dogs' natural servility.
  28. Justin Kelly's film is more interested in rushing through the narrative's events than contemplating their environment.
  29. It too often strains for a tragic gravity that its ultimately melodramatic characters never earn.
  30. The film finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its energetically told but crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.

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