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
Score distribution:
7776 movie reviews
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    At heart a heist movie, snappy and dry in its humor, clever in its elaborate robbery scheme, and somewhat bloated and unspooled in its storytelling.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    It may suggest an Alien incarnate, but once you get past its exterior, it's as empty as outer space.
  1. Its self-seriousness never allows it to become the realist counterpoint to Aki Kaurismäki's tragicomic approach in Le Havre that one initially hopes it will be.
  2. Essentially the film aims to trade in the awkwardness of teen sexuality, but too often settles for the gross-out gag instead.
  3. The found-footage gimmick mostly comes off as window dressing for what turns out to be yet another mad-scientist-run-amok romp.
  4. Nina Davenport doesn't seem interested in taming her unwieldy vanity, and thus her documentary reads as a Match.com profile recontextualized as cinema narcissismo.
  5. One of Woody Allen's strongest and most pointed films in over a decade despite mildly falling victim to his recent propensity for clunky narrative development, cynicism, and stereotypical characterizations.
  6. R.I.P.D. devotes far more energy to concept than execution, leaving most of the promising aspects high and dry.
  7. Our Nixon never completely overcomes the disappointment of its recovered video, but it nevertheless offers a compelling portrait of Nixon and those close to him, one that captures how willfully blind they often were to their excesses, and how paranoid they were about apparent threats to them and America as a whole.
  8. This is a powerful chapter in our human history, but it's made melodramatic and dull through Matej Minac's indulgence of hokey reenactments and sound-augmented archival footage.
  9. The film is a singularly huge, relentless, all-encompassing set piece that mutates and spasms with terrifying lack of foresight. It's all business, business, business.
  10. At the center of the film, festering like an open sore, is the stereotype of the psycho lesbian bitch.
  11. An awfully expensive and grossly extended Cialis commercial.
  12. The film is reduced to a series of unfunny mockery laid out so Garlin can display his trademark deadpan reaction.
  13. The film only feels interesting when it focuses on looking at what the characters aren't doing and listening to what they aren't saying.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    It threatens to succumb to hero worship, but Jorge Hinojosa wisely subverts Slim's mythos by pulling the curtain back on it in the doc's second half by revealing the man beneath.
  14. Good, clean genre entertainment, the sort of harmless yet endearing brand of moviemaking seemingly unattainable in today's Hollywood system.
  15. As a film about social issues, and simply being yourself, it's commendably progressive, going so far as serving as a kind of coming-out story.
  16. It takes the basic form of the revenge flick and dips it in tar, making for a movie that comes out sticky, nasty, and black.
  17. The film's sense of conviction and psychological nuance never rises above that of the "I Learned It from Watching You" anti-drug PSA.
  18. It's the rare coming-of-age narrative that manages to respect the tricky ambiguities of shifting perceptions.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's dismal, D-grade sitcom isn't fit to lick the boots of Whit Stillman's four films.
  19. The Frankensteinian rebellion of orcas against their corporate captors turns this doc into a sort of showbiz horror film.
  20. One wishes it had spared us the remedial theorizing on media culture and artistic representation and license and less apologetically acted the part of a straight-up horror film.
  21. Though The Conjuring claims to be based on a true story, in truth it's based on every horror film that's come before it.
  22. Mark Steven Johnson's Killing Season is a hard movie to take seriously, which is particularly unfortunate since it deals with such weighty issues as genocide, the ethical compromises that everyone makes in combat, and the lingering effects of wartime decisions on participants years down the line.
  23. The obvious amount of hard work that went into this out-of-touch sequel is partly what makes it so irritating.
  24. A movie which sits at the nexus between spoken and written language, the latter mostly of the programming variety.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Seidelman's attempts to provide positive, alternative representations of marginalized people and problems is overly ambitious.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    If The Social Network didn't make you want to quit Facebook in 2010, the brave new world outlined here should, despite the fact that your data won't actually be erased.

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