Slant Magazine's Scores

For 7,769 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 6.5 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:
7769 movie reviews
  1. The film plods from one gruesome moment to the next, as if its mere aversion to optimism constitutes a philosophy.
  2. Both Lola Dueñas and Laurent Lucas are impressively committed to their roles, but the film's script is elusive to a fault.
  3. If The Look of Silence still remains a gripping, vital, consequential documentary, it's in spite of its approach rather than because of it.
  4. Not merely rote, Boulevard is contemptible for a belief in its own stature as a daring attempt to parse through the minutia of its core relationship, where Nolan's uncertain sexuality would be terms enough to laud the film's provocative insights.
  5. It's a buzzkill to enter the world of Minions primed for a tidal wave of gibberish-talking lemmings to tear the roof off, only to see them once again led astray by the ordinariness of human affairs.
  6. The film is sstrictly a high-tech spin on one of those Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
  7. Stations of the Cross acknowledges that putting theoretical behaviors and mindsets into practice can have unwieldy consequences if context and intent are wholly ignored.
  8. The film's corporate blandness is almost as dispiriting as its disinterest in exploiting the inherent saliency of the material.
  9. Magic Mike XXL isn't so much a lesser movie than Magic Mike as it is a looser one.
  10. Terminator Genisys feels like being trapped in a conversation with a child breathlessly recounting the highlights of the preceding movies.
  11. Even Les Blank's most conventional work remains an elusive vision, punctuated by cultural insights that elude many filmmakers for their entire careers.
  12. The filmmakers aren't really interested in the space between what these women say and what they mean.
  13. Ron "Stray Dog" Hall proves to be a welcome antidote to stereotypes about burly, bearded red-state RV dwellers.
  14. The end result suggests Re-Animator as told through an airless CNN report.
  15. The film is just another fantasy of living only the good portions of the life of an artist.
  16. The film comes undone in its clumsy attempts to transform its story into a parable of economic distress.
  17. The filmmakers maintain a tone that's mostly ideal for the contemporary equivalent of a drive-in movie: of reverent, parodic irreverence.
  18. The underlying, redundant, and underwhelming theme of the film is the pursuit of family unity at all costs.
  19. Its triumph is primarily a matter of style, a visionary revelation every bit as expressionistic as its main character's electric sense of shade.
  20. Another link in an increasingly tiresome chain of naval-gazing think pieces posing as personal documentary.
  21. It ends up feeling like an unsatisfying cautionary tale on how much detachment is too much detachment.
  22. A stunning work of war reportage nestled within a creaky study of ideological purity.
  23. Amy
    For the most part, the documentary succeeds in conveying a galvanizing sense of what made Winehouse so immediately engaging.
  24. Ken Loach's staging is so calm and sober that it turns his story into an expertly photographed yet weirdly remote rebellion tale.
  25. Whether because of race, shame, shelter, or fright, 7 Minutes remains white in the face throughout.
  26. Alan Rickman's film is consistently, and often dispiritingly, mired in the quaint tradition of the classy costume drama.
  27. Max
    It hits its Red State beats so hard that its target audience likely won't notice they're being not only condescended to, but insulted outright.
  28. The dialogue is so disaffected it's as if humans were replicants even before going through the aforementioned twin-making procedure.
  29. The film is a redundant showcase for Seth MacFarlane's racy, dick-centric sense of humor.
  30. A hollow bit of violence exposes the film's sense of empowerment as nothing more than a harmless sheep masquerading in wolf's clothing.

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