Slant Magazine's Scores

Select another publication »
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:
  1. Positive: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
7772 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beautiful Boy
    This complex emotional texture no doubt owes a lot to Bello's stunning performance, which works by screwing with the familiar conventions of reaction shots; she goes cold when we expect her to freak out and explodes when we expect her to be silent.
  2. Rejoice and Shout
    One is left wondering what exactly the now moldy "anything is possible" sentiments of our 44th president have to do with a music whose history and cultural meaning we've just spent the last two hours not learning nearly enough about.
  3. Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)
    The film is less a portrait of one martyred man than a mosaic of a resistant community.
  4. Pillion
    If there’s humor to be found in some of the particulars, it’s never to judge or to poke fun, but to revel in the very real delights of consensual sexual roleplay.
  5. White Building
    The film’s depiction of life impacted by urban transformation conjures a palpable aura of entrapment and helplessness.
  6. The Night of the 12th
    The film wants for deeper characterizations or a closer detailing of criminal procedure.
  7. Matter Out of Place
    Consisting largely of long takes sans music or commentary, the film uncovers the paradox that trash, so apparently devoid of meaning or use-value, needs little commentary.
  8. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
    The film is marked by wild flashes of invention, all born of painstaking craft and devotion.
  9. Wood and Water
    Jonas Bak’s semi-autobiographical film is a gentle depiction of modern alienation.
  10. The Scary of Sixty-First
    In a way, the film feels like a true heir to the petulant, low-budget horror cinema of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Arrebato (1979)
    Arrebato is an arresting feat of self-aware filmmaking, lashing together experimental tendencies with the tropes and trappings of genre cinema.
  12. Azor
    With its elegantly restrained cinematography, exquisitely understated performances, and quietly sumptuous production design, Azor embodies the same well-mannered urbanity as its protagonist.
  13. What We Left Unfinished
    Mariam Ghani’s documentary spurs audiences to consider the politics that underlies any artistic activity.
  14. The Real Thing
    The film reveals Kôji Fukada to be playing a patient, very resonant long game, underscoring the struggle to wrest oneself out of social vices.
  15. Blizzard of Souls
    The filmmakers are unafraid of the picturesque, lighting scenes so they resemble old-master canvases.
  16. Survival Skills
    While mostly pulling off this tricky balancing act of humor and real-life horror, the film doesn’t quite go far enough in its critiques.
  17. Koko-di Koko-da
    Nothing hinders surrealism more than the sense that its creators are actively working for it, though Koko-di Koko-da is nonetheless difficult to dismiss.
  18. Buoyancy
    The film never quite pushes beyond the archetypal nature of its scenario to fully unearth its characters’ psychological turmoil.
  19. Coup 53
    Once Taghi Amirani turns his attention to the coup itself, his film snaps into shape, with Walter Murch skillfully knitting together new and old interviews to lay out the story in highly dramatic form.
  20. Picture of His Life
    Amos Nachoum has a vulnerability that he manages to locate in animals without diminishing their capacity for violence.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Police Story 2 (1988)
    Though ostensibly sub-Hitchcockian wrong-man mysteries, with a liberal serving of cop-drama clichés rounding out the narrative framework, the films are better enjoyed as purely cinematic catalogues of set pieces and sight gags, spectacles of breathless physical excess.
  22. Possum
    In the end, there's little payoff for all the repetitive series of evocative visions and mute stares.
  23. Winter Brothers
    If nothing else, the film is a feat of formal conception and craftsmanship.
  24. Damsel
    It's well established by now that the mythic Old West was always a trope written and controlled by men, and that there's really no bottom to which men won't stoop when women are a scarce quantity. In its mad rush toward performative allyship, the film exhausts every possible means of conveying those bombshells.
  25. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis finds the inexorable beauty (and sadness) in that most corrosive and fugacious of feelings.
  26. The Rider
    It manifests a mounting sense of disillusionment, suggesting that the rodeo lifestyle many characters so unreservedly romanticize often leads to physical and psychological ruin.
  27. Zama
    How strange and apt that the year’s most sensorially and ideologically dense film is also a comedy of microaggressions, built on the minor workplace humiliations of a pencil-pusher in the 1790s.
  28. Ismael's Ghosts
    Arnaud Desplechin’s latest simultaneously collapses and expands his entire body of work, reflexively revealing its many layers, like a pop-up book.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Police Story (1985)
    Like many of the most compelling martial-arts movies, the Police Story films more closely resembles a dance picture than any kind of action blockbuster, with meticulously choreographed fight sequences standing in for fan-baiting musical numbers.
  30. Western
    The absence of anything traditionally "painterly" reflects an ambivalent attitude toward the kind of capitalistic pro-growth machinations on display in the film.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »