Slate's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 1,374 reviews, this publication has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 676 out of 1374
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Mixed: 518 out of 1374
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Negative: 180 out of 1374
1,374
movie reviews
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Dana Stevens 100
A completely different kind of animated movie that, even more than "Ratatouille," reimagines what the medium can do. -
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Dana Stevens 100
For a story that's all about the harnessing of fateful chthonic forces, Paul Thomas Anderson has dug deeper than ever before, and struck black gold. -
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Dana Stevens 100
Nolan turns the Manichean morality of comic books--pure good vs. pure evil--into a bleak post-9/11 allegory about how terror (and, make no mistake, Heath Ledger's Joker is a terrorist) breaks down those reassuring moral categories. -
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Dana Stevens 100
Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black pull off something very close to magic. They make a film that's both historically precise and as graceful, unpredictable, and moving as a good fiction film--that is to say, a work of art. -
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Dana Stevens 100
Up is Pixar's most ambitious attempt yet to take animation to higher (and deeper) places than it's been before, and Giacchino's sprightly music keeps the whole thing, impossibly, aloft. -
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Dana Stevens 100
A film of great intelligence and quiet assurance, Goodbye Solo exhilarates without ever trafficking in easy uplift. -
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Dana Stevens 100
After The Hurt Locker (which is without question the most exciting and least ideological movie yet made about the war in Iraq), everyone will remember Renner's name. -
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Dana Stevens 100
You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play. -
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Dana Stevens 100
A Serious Man is an exquisitely realized work; the filmmakers' technical mastery of their craft, always impressive, has become absolute. The script reads like a novel, densely allusive, funny, and terse. -
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Dana Stevens 100
The rare film about the life of an artist that is itself a work of art. -
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Dana Stevens 100
It's funny--bleakly, blackly so at times, but also tenderly funny with flashes of genuine compassion. The Maid is among the best films I've seen this year. -
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Dana Stevens 100
On first viewing, Crazy Heart seemed like a pretty good movie with one great performance. After a second time through, it's sneaking up on the title of my favorite film of the year. -
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Dana Stevens 100
Qualifies as one of my favorite movies of all time. This 1932 masterpiece, now digitally restored with retranslated subtitles and a newly recorded score, is a silent film that doesn't feel silent at all. -
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Dana Stevens 100
The movie we've been waiting for all year: a comedy that doesn't take cheap shots, a drama that doesn't manipulate, a movie of ideas that doesn't preach. It's a rich, layered, juicy film, with quiet revelations punctuated by big laughs. -
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Dana Stevens 100
If you're interested in the history of the human race-if you're a member of the human race-you owe it to yourself to see this movie.- Posted Apr 29, 2011
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Dana Stevens 100
Asghar Farhadi's A Separation serves as a quiet reminder of how good it's possible for movies to be.- Posted Jan 4, 2012
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David Edelstein 90
A grave screwball comedy. Its gags aren't just hilarious -- they have a weighty, plaintive soul. -
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David Edelstein 90
A monument to process -- to the minutiae of making art -- Topsy-Turvy leaves you upside down and breathless. -
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David Edelstein 90
Went down like a slice of warm pecan pie topped with two scoops of Ben and Jerry's Bovinity Divinity. -
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David Edelstein 90
A hilarious, poignant, lovingly ironic celebration of (Tammy Faye Bakker's) rise and fall and her refusal to be broken. -
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David Edelstein 90
Beat by beat, scene by scene, gorgeous...at times emotionally devastating. -
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David Edelstein 90
The world didn't need a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. We didn't need it, but we got it anyway -- and it's pretty terrific. -
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David Edelstein 90
The elements in A Walk on the Moon, which is directed by the actor Tony Goldwyn (the bad guy in "Ghost") and written by Pamela Gray, feel miraculously right. -
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David Edelstein 90
Shows the dying tremors of a generation, and you might feel as if you can see every molecule, every atom give up the ghost. -
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David Edelstein 90
One of the most enthralling three hours you'll ever spend at the theater. -
