Slant Magazine's Scores

For 7,767 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 6.2 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:
7767 movie reviews
  1. The film’s status as a corporate entertainment product (among the film’s producers is the Winklevoss twins) also presents an internal discord in and of itself, particularly with the script incessantly preaching financial equality for all.
  2. The story is kept at a stress-inducing simmer, with occasional surges of operatic emotion.
  3. The film somehow feels tight, open and leisurely, and cloaked in dread all at once.
  4. The film’s details collectively grow absurd and pompous.
  5. In this rueful film about all things unseen, the importance of time is seemingly felt by everyone.
  6. The film embodies the alienating angst of millennial life in all its nakedly neurotic glory.
  7. Bas Devos’s trademark placidity and restraint constitutes a challenge to narrative convention.
  8. Above all, the film captures how easy it is to deposit too much hope on the few who represent dissent, or freedom, when one is trapped.
  9. The protagonist may feel cut off from the world, but the film is deeply in harmony with it.
  10. For devotees of the franchise, Nia Vardalos's film will be a surprisingly emotional trip home.
  11. At once an excoriating satire of the performativity of homosexuality within a social media-addled community as well as a seemingly earnest lament for the total loss of collectivity, the film minces neither words nor bodily appendages.
  12. The overarching plot of the film is pretty boilerplate, but the fine details count for a lot.
  13. The film never really leans into the farcical possibilities of its premise nor its earnest appraisal of Augusto Pinochet’s legacy.
  14. A unique joie de vivre courses through A Trip to Gibberitia’s every meticulously composed frame.
  15. Perpetrator cycles through characters and settings at a considerable clip, never stopping long enough to flesh them out beyond an outline.
  16. Thomas Salvador frustratingly never offers a concrete sense of what his character feels that he’s lost, and so we’re tasked with loading meaning onto the character’s journey of apparent self-reclamation.
  17. The film’s unique blend of deadpan and absurdist humor, and its tendency to occasionally push the boundaries of good taste, shows that Emma Seligman is comfortable working on both ends of the comic spectrum.
  18. Without a compelling reason for us to care about the people inside the car, a reasonably diverting journey never accelerates into an outright thrill-ride.
  19. What the film lacks in connective tissue, it makes up for in sheer vibes.
  20. Charlotte Regan’s film is a baffling clash of two incompatible visions.
  21. The film has the ethereal feel of a half-remembered, mostly pleasant dream.
  22. The film understands how atrocity is perpetuated, fanning a maddening sense of injustice.
  23. Seemingly channeling the spirit of Claude Chabrol, Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins is a decidedly classy throwback thriller about a seemingly humdrum character committing perverse acts of subterfuge against others.
  24. The film views its main character’s culture, as well as her struggles to suppress her identity in order to fit into her suburban world, with a nonchalance that often scans as negligence.
  25. That Feña suffers so that other trans people won’t have to may be edifying to some, but it also reduces Mutt to an Afterschool Special.
  26. The cinematography looks striking enough throughout the various set pieces, but little happens in them to elevate Heart of Stone past its hackneyed foundation.
  27. The film suggests a gene splice of a slasher flick and supernatural horror. But as enticing as that combination may sound, André Øvredal’s rendering of it is as bland and listless as the blues and grays that dominate the film’s color palette.
  28. Few, if any, single-shot movies ever justify the conceit. In fact, most of them do their material a disservice through the distraction that emerges naturally from the trickery.
  29. Maite Alberdi’s film slowly reveals the personal loss of the ability to remember as inextricably linked to the loss of national memory.
  30. Even when the film becomes something like a spy thriller, it never loses sight of its political themes.

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