Slant Magazine's Scores

Select another publication »
For 7,779 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:
  1. Positive: 4,353 out of 7779
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7779
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7779
7779 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Obsession
    Bujold’s enthusiasm as a performer redeems the entire picture, especially when she’s asked to perform flashback scenes that shouldn’t work, but, thanks to her, represent another of De Palma’s fearlessly experimental whims.
  2. Italian Studies
    During an amnesiac’s atmospheric nighttime ramble through Manhattan, the seeds of a narrative are sewn but never nurtured.
  3. The Best Man Holiday
    The sexism isn't quite as noxious as one might find in Tyler Perry's films, but that's as far as the compliments go when it comes to this overextended and deeply crude sermon.
  4. Restless City
    The script simply isn't in the same league as the images that Andrew Dosunmu and the gifted cinematographer Bradford Young have fashioned.
  5. Two Plains & a Fancy
    No description can do justice to its best moments, which render the absurd and sublime one and the same.
  6. Outlaw King
    Outlaw King rattles along at a bracing pace, but the assured bloodshed of the final showdown looms large, casting a weary shadow over the film’s middle section.
  7. Biosphere
    Mel Eslyn’s film is a thoughtful drama about life, gender, and male friendship.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shakespeare High
    These SoCal kids are passionate about their craft and it shows in their renditions of the famous bard's work.
  9. Inside Hana's Suitcase
    A film relating a story of the Holocaust is destined to provoke a number of adjectives, but "cloying" shouldn't be one of them.
  10. A Land Imagined
    Writer-director Yeo Siew Hua suggests that becoming another person is as easy as dreaming it.
  11. Advantageous
    The dialogue is so disaffected it's as if humans were replicants even before going through the aforementioned twin-making procedure.
  12. Lemon
    Self-absorption is Janicza Bravo’s focus, though—as in other smug and mock-ironic comedies—it’s a topic that’s less examined than indulged.
  13. Tower Heist
    Defiantly graceless, Brett Ratner deals in loudness, haplessness, obviousness, and, certainly, crudeness, reminding you of his directorial presence with such inclusions as a scolded kid who tells his disciplinarian to "suck it."
  14. Sarah's Key
    Sarah's Key becomes a musing ("meditation" would be too generous) on the importance of uncovering the past that fails to honestly contemplate why such an act is significant.
  15. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    These films, and Tolkien's entire oeuvre, are most affecting in their depictions of friendship, and the performances here represent plutonic male intimacy in convincing, often moving ways.
  16. The Silent Twins
    Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s film is unwilling to really sit with the peculiarity of its protagonists’ unique psyches.
  17. All Is True
    It’s an unfussy, intimate chamber drama that’s fearless in confronting the attitudes of its exalted subject.
  18. My Afternoons with Margueritte
    Germain's bonhomie with the bistro regulars has the feel of a TV comedy pilot, which is more than can be said of the monologues he speaks to his cat, one on the inadequacies of the dictionary.
  19. Champs
    An unfocused mishmash that thrives only when it fixates on footage of actual bouts.
  20. Amnesia
    Amnesia ultimately delivers rich insights about its main characters’ relationship to their backgrounds.
  21. Crooked House
    Gilles Paquet-Brenner's film is ultimately a genre item that operates on alternately prestigious and campy autopilot.
  22. Humane
    Caitlin Cronenberg vests her images with an eerie, confident power, but that’s more evident in her examinations of the frictions between the characters, and not so much in the tapestry of murder and mayhem that ensues.
  23. Marc by Sofia
    It proves entertaining and enlightening when exploring Jacobs’ contributions to the world of fashion. But more often, it’s just like listening in on an engaging chat between two artist friends who share a fan-like admiration of each other’s craft.
  24. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    This sequel strenuously works to form a total inversion of the first movie's relationship with food.
  25. Godzilla vs. Kong
    Godzilla and Kong’s brawls have the ennui-inducing feel of a child arbitrarily smashing action figures together.
  26. Go for Sisters
    LisaGay Hamilton and Yolonda Ross play persuasively embody modern urban feminine strength, but they're eventually stranded in a recycled road movie.
  27. No Hard Feelings
    What ultimately sinks No Hard Feelings is its inability to convincingly meld its excessively bawdy humor and its Hallmark Channel-level drama of two opposites who help one another to embrace life.
  28. Doctor Sleep
    Like a traumatized psyche, it remains uncomfortably stuck in the past, replaying familiar events in an effort to empty them of terror.
  29. The Boy Downstairs
    Endeavoring to give us a post-mumblecore spin on Annie Hall, writer-director Sophie Brooks seemingly fails to understand what made Woody Allen's film so appealing: its rich, multi-faceted characterizations.
  30. Silver Bullets
    Joe Swanberg's idea of making audiences "happy" is by acknowledging what his supporters and detractors have been saying about him for a number of years, but presenting these things within the same game of elliptical story-unraveling and confession that's governed most of his other films.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »