Slant Magazine's Scores

For 7,776 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
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    The characters' motivations are dictated less by the dynamics of their personalities and more by the needs of the screenplay.
  1. Derek Cianfrance's film is a beautifully sustained study in adult themes of emotional crisis.
  2. It's an entertaining and unapologetic tale of female risk-taking, filled with clever camerawork, but the characters remain shallow.
  3. The film's makers lose trust in the intellectual heft of their material and chose to prioritize empty sensation instead.
  4. The film's bloated action-comedy machinery prevents any real chemistry from forming between Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville.
  5. It relies less on in-camera stunts than editing that renders vague gibberish of the altercations.
  6. Cameraperson is certainly a collection of memorable images, but it's more so Johnson's facility with narrative, on a micro and macro level, that impresses.
  7. The film occasionally and promisingly suggests an obsessive and free-associative paean to regret.
  8. Any of the film's attempts at moralizing are subsumed by Kevin Smith’s obsession with taking aim at his critics.
  9. It's a shame that the José Luis Guerín film's verbal qualities far outpace its formal attributes.
  10. It insists that it's in moments of small talk, between life's larger events, that one finds vitality.
  11. The film's ruefully honest tone is periodically drowned out by the blare of stagey coincidences.
  12. Hamaguchi arranges most sequences around a handful of static, roomy medium shots that subtly suggest emotional dynamics through camera and actor positioning.
  13. The film comes unsettlingly close to being an apologia for the kind of violence that stems from adolescent disaffection.
  14. Clea DuVall crafts an entire film out of aborted attempts at a revelation that feel completely anodyne.
  15. The film appears to have been devised to pander to the presumptions of Western, liberal viewers.
  16. The Panamanian-born Roberto Duran's story has all the makings of a fascinating film, but Hands of Stone isn't it.
  17. The film may not announce itself as hagiography, but it’s hero-worshipful to its core.
  18. Underneath the impersonal formal beauty and good acting is a familiar moral about self-imposed limitations.
  19. The film has been executed with a sense of formally stylish and thematically symmetric panache.
  20. The film's sustainment of its corkscrew tension is so elegant and methodical as to feel dance-like.
  21. The film is, at least, a marvelously enticing advertisement for the upcoming Final Fantasy XV video game.
  22. The film mostly succeeds in capturing the nuances of an event that continues to arouse passionate debate to this day.
  23. Ben-Hur director Timur Bekmambetov offers nothing new to the cinematic lexicon of the chariot race.
  24. The film is unrepentantly cynical when it comes to the global business of warmongering, but proves unsurprisingly earnest when it comes to the lure of the American dream.
  25. Beginning with a series of traps before escalating into sword-to-sword skirmishes, Miike's centerpiece boasts sharp momentum and nasty muscularity.
  26. There's little here to suggest that the film is anything more than a hastily cobbled-together studio star vehicle.
  27. It movingly posits acting as a metaphor for the search for connection, through visceral texture rather than platitude.
  28. Chad Hartigan's film is especially perceptive about the effect of external influence on personal development.
  29. Lars Kraume's tinkering with the historical record would be more welcome were he also shifting away from the standard biopic template.

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