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. Ultimately, Anders Thomas Jensen cannot reconcile the fact that a mature story of men in crisis doesn’t coherently mesh with suspense scenes in which his protagonist viscerally annihilates a violent gang.
  2. Cacophony eventually takes over Wrath of Man, stranding the actors in the process. Except, that is, for Jason Statham, who’s by now a master of presiding over Guy Ritchie’s gleeful chaos.
  3. The film has the knowing swagger of something on the cutting edge but none of the self-awareness to realize it’s late to the party.
  4. The film’s cramped compositions hauntingly underline the claustrophobic nature of its protagonist’s life.
  5. Throughout, Jane Schoenbrun reveals themself to be adroitly plugged into both the current technological and sociological landscape.
  6. The film, lacking in conflict and danger, is guided by the poignant belief that there’s no end to the world.
  7. At its best, Oxygen successfully approximates the feel of an escape room.
  8. Ultimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night.
  9. Rather than eliciting surprise and wonder, Roy Andersson channels his full stylistic arsenal in search of something far more delicate: a recognition of the sublime in the prosaic.
  10. The film's rendering of the interplay of memory, identity, and grief is disappointingly vague.
  11. The film is a disastrous amalgamation of modern-day tech-savvy thrills and Clancy’s conservative expressions of patriotism.
  12. Amalia Ulman’s film is a bittersweet comedy of human behavior observed with a relaxed yet intently focused eye.
  13. The documentary’s aesthetics strikingly channel the euphoric feelings induced by Ethopia’s top cash crop.
  14. Ed Helms and Patti Harrison’s wonderful rapport helps to keep the film grounded in the recognizably real.
  15. Much of the film’s power comes from a series of deft, often wry juxtapositions between video and audio.
  16. A comedy about the migrant crisis is more daring than a coming-of-age story, and Limbo, wanting it both ways, dilutes its best instincts with sops to formula.
  17. Lois Patiño’s Red Moon Tide is a work of unmistakable horror, one predicated on such ineffable dread that the impact of climate change becomes a sort of Lovecraftian force.
  18. In spite of its occasionally engaging displays of gnarly brutality, the film too often feels like an adaptation of a player select screen.
  19. By paring their story down so much, the filmmakers only end up highlighting just how little it contains.
  20. While Ulrike Ottinger accesses the most consequential of decades through nostalgia, she does so with humility.
  21. While the film certainly lays out the dangers of technology run amok, it also sees its power to connect people.
  22. Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary is a spry and inventive account of extraordinary transcendence.
  23. Christopher Smith’s film applies the haunted house trope in unfamiliar ways.
  24. Travis Stevens’s film is psychologically astute, until it gives itself over to turning subtext into extremely legible text.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Ultimately, the film is unable to overcome the mundanity of its simple, overly familiar scenario.
  25. Maria Sødahl’s considers the extreme emotions provoked by a medical emergency with an impressive force of clarity.
  26. Oliver Hermanus’s film is a rumination on the consequences of apartheid on those who benefit from it most.
  27. The film lacks for the methodically escalating stakes that makes the best examples of the genre so entertaining.
  28. The film doesn’t quite cut to the heart of the socially nurtured fantasies that splinter men from women.
  29. The film’s real subject is a young woman awakening to her oppression, rendered poignant in all its awkwardness by Noée Abita.

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