Slant Magazine's Scores

For 7,775 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:
7775 movie reviews
  1. Whether because of race, shame, shelter, or fright, 7 Minutes remains white in the face throughout.
  2. It's a bizarre and retrograde spectacle, as clueless and incurious about friendship as it is about the rudiments of composition and screenwriting
  3. It’s difficult to find a reason for the film's existence beyond a spoiled platform for James Franco's ersatz boldness.
  4. The Last Face's shameful exploitation of Africans doesn’t stop with the mere privileging of its two wealthy white doctors and their trivial personal struggles within the narrative.
  5. The film is essentially an exercise in forcing a female genius back into her proper place of dependence on both the father figure and the Prince Charming.
  6. Though the film strives to be audacious and galvanizing, it's easily shaken off as an exercise in stunted necrophilia erotica.
  7. Writer-director Tim Kirkman tries to peg depth of character on the character of Dean instead of having him earn it.
  8. At a time when Americans are constantly bombarded with reports of unpunished police brutality, the film suggests that the true problem with justice in our country is that law enforcement isn't violent enough.
  9. There’s a lot of sexual violence in the film, but it scans as unimaginatively repulsive, as well as blatantly misogynistic.
  10. Despite its title, Life Itself doesn’t revel so much in the joys and travails of life as it does in the shameless emotional manipulation stemming from the ham-fisted tendencies of its own maker.
  11. Even the most desensitized, ghoulishly amoral gleaners of deviant cinema can’t just stare down the nastiness on display in Cannibal Holocaust and just shrug it off.
  12. Waititi is incapable of dealing with the twin horrors of oppression and indoctrination beyond cheap-seats sentimentality and joke-making.
  13. Patrick Lussier’s film is an incompetent, nihilistic exercise in gore and pseudophilosophy.
  14. The film is an unending source for the worst possible clichés and most overdone series of graphic matches in the history of film editing.
  15. Marry Me plays out as the logical culmination of a multi-hyphenate icon’s indiscriminate commercial voracity.
  16. Randall Emmett’s directorial debut is virtually indistinguishable from the scores of cheap VOD action thrillers that he’s produced to date.

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