Slant Magazine's Scores

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:
7772 movie reviews
  1. The film is empathetic toward and clear-eyed about its young characters, even if the drama it constructs around them tends toward the superficial.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unlike the red balloon that Winnie the Pooh follows through much of the running time, Marc Forster's film lacks lightness.
  2. The Darkest Minds never communicates the overwhelming horror of a society whose children are either dead or in the process of being exterminated, or the hopelessness of kids discovering that every potential benefactor may have ulterior motives.
  3. The film's refusal to produce a campy critique feels more like the product of lack of imagination than a purposeful repudiation.
  4. There's an appealingly shaggy buddy comedy hidden somewhere inside of The Spy Who Dumped Me, but good luck finding it amid all the desperate poop jokes, lifeless action sequences, and lazy plot mechanics.
  5. Rob Tregenza's film is rooted in the communion as well as the sensorial challenges of savoring art.
  6. As nimble as Aneesh Chaganty is in presenting his main character's multi-faceted interaction with technology in the first hour, the film suddenly morphs into a generic and manipulative missing-person thriller.
  7. Vahid Jalilvand's film is so worked out that you know that every nuance is pointed and intentional.
  8. Writer-director Augustine Frizzell's film is funny and surprisingly tender, if at times frustratingly uneven.
  9. The unflashy, austere visual style of the film is but a veneer over writer-director Susanna Nicchiarelli's deceptively radical treatment of the musical biopic.
  10. The film is a rebellion of surfaces that never quite reaches, or emanates from, the underpinning roots of its fable.
  11. The film poignantly reveals that the secret history of Hollywood is really an alternate history of America.
  12. In one fashion, Robert Schwentke proves to be too complicit with his protagonist, regarding evil and human banality as stimulation.
  13. Peter Rida Michail and Aaron Horvath's Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is a spastic, Mad magazine-style parody of comic-book movies for the age of superhero overload.
  14. Like the teenagers at its center, Hot Summer Nights tries too hard to look cooler than it ever could be.
  15. The very act of having kids and demanding perfect conformity from them is never questioned by the film.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Order and righteousness being the product of one great man, The Equalizer 2 is symptomatic of a confused time when people are collectively looking for invulnerable superheroes who don't so much as speak truth to injustice as beat the hell out of it, and its cathartic pleasures leave a bad taste.
  16. Despite the film's bleak premise, writer-director Radu Jude finds dark humor within the certainty of death.
  17. Into a broad-strokes picture of a culture in crisis, Lauren Greenfield attempts to incorporate autobiographical elements, which results in some awkward narrative pivots and jarringly clunky voiceover.
  18. It boasts such confident performances and choreography that it feels as much like a final draft of the 2008 film as a continuation of it.
  19. In The Third Murder, as in his other films, Hirokazu Kore-eda informs tragedy with a distinctive kind of qualified humor that's realistic of how people process atrocity.
  20. The film takes aim at myriad targets and bluntly satirizing them in disparate styles that never mesh into a cohesive whole.
  21. The film trots out thinly conceived villains and a murky plot twists that leave crucial details needlessly shrouded in mystery.
  22. The film is preposterously conceived, but writer-director Stephen Susco so tightly, excitingly executes it that you hardly notice.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Throughout, we're invited to chuckle at the ironies of Kayla's hobbies and activities, but underlying such scenes is a strain of eeriness, as if the film were offering up a post-human spin on Pretty in Pink.
  23. As in Rogue Nation, Fallout‘s action scenes are cleanly composed and easy to follow, and so abundant as to become monotonous.
  24. Jake Meginsky's documentary is insular, precious, and too pleased with its unwillingness to reach out to the unconverted.
  25. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is the true Tower of Babel, the movie star who with each film gets closer to God and whose films always come tumbling down around him.
  26. The film buoyed by Kelly Macdonald, who's a master of understated vulnerability, but she can't steer it out of the doldrums.
  27. As Ian Bonhôte's documentary reveals, Alexander McQueen's suicide was perhaps the all-too-predictable ending to a history of violence.

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