Chris Barsanti
Select another critic »For 133 reviews, this critic has graded:
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41% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.6 points higher than other critics.
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Chris Barsanti's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 67 | |
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Highest review score: | Wojnarowicz | |
Lowest review score: | Silencio |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 92 out of 133
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Mixed: 31 out of 133
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Negative: 10 out of 133
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- Chris Barsanti
The film’s aesthetic approach is purposeful, echoing the us-or-them sentiment held by both groups aiming guns at the other.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 16, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
While Donbass is far from perfect, hiding too much of its story and message in at-times dull and layered absurdity, it nevertheless presents a harrowing picture of how war and nationalism corrupt and degrade places nowhere near the battlefield.- The Playlist
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
Windfall has a difficult time landing on the right tone or getting a bead on its characters.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
The Outfit is a dapper, twist-filled crime story that relies more on dialogue than gunplay to move the action.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 14, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
Sharp Stick shows that Lena Dunham’s preference for solipsistic protagonists with boundary issues has its limitations.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 26, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
The film consistently fails to underline the risks and pressures faced by the women in an underground abortionist network in Chicago in the late ‘60s.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 25, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
Jesse Eisenberg’s satire hits its targets dead on, but he flattens his mother-and-son narcissists to the point of caricature.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 23, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
Abi Damaris Corbin’s quiet and unobtrusive style helps 892 build tension primarily from character instead of incident.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 23, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
During an amnesiac’s atmospheric nighttime ramble through Manhattan, the seeds of a narrative are sewn but never nurtured.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 10, 2022
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- Chris Barsanti
Matthew Heineman’s documentary successfully emphasizes how people’s emotions were whipsawed by an unprecedented crisis.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 16, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
The film pulls back the veil on Kurt Vonnegut to show how a gloomy dissatisfaction brooded underneath his quippy surface personality.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 16, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
The end of the world may never have had less impact than it does in Miguel Sapochnik’s Finch.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 3, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
Ridley Scott’s medieval saga insightfully revels in the complexities of its competing storylines.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 10, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
The film looks at times like a stiff-jawed period piece, but it ripples underneath with a prickly modern sensibility.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 21, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
In spite of the film’s troublingly naïve take on mental trauma, Riz Ahmed vividly and empathetically captures a man’s wounded soul.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 20, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
Where “Becoming Cousteau” frustrates at times is its thin treatment of Cousteau’s work. The films and shows are represented with plentiful footage but not truly discussed or differentiated. It’s an odd choice, given Cousteau’s cinematic obsession.- The Playlist
- Posted Sep 17, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
The film misses an opportunity to delve particularly deeply into the keenly relevant issues of inequality and social disconnection that so animate its protagonist.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 9, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
The film’s concession to the fungible nature of presented reality comes across not as indecisive but courageous.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 26, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
John Maggio’s documentary is workmanlike in presentation but scintillating in its content.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 2, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
False Positive threads classic horror-film tropes with a woozy, partially comic sensibility but doesn’t fully commit to this approach.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 20, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
Disappointingly, despite the rich subject matter, Le Guillou lets “An Unknown Compelling Force” become more his story than that of the dead.- The Playlist
- Posted Jun 16, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
The Lost Leonardo deals less with absolutes than fungible notions of perception and power.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 14, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
Luke Holland’s stark and revealing documentary is a gift of memory to future generations, though it’s one that some will likely view as an unwelcome reminder of how everyday people can become complicit in incomprehensible evil.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 18, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
The particulars of the central mystery are mundane, to the point where the film itself doesn’t spend too much time digging into them.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 18, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
Ultimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 29, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
By paring their story down so much, the filmmakers only end up highlighting just how little it contains.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 22, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
Tim Sutton is a deft cartographer of how environments can shape its inhabitants.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 30, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
Chris Kim’s skittering collage of a documentary Wojnarowicz doesn’t explore his career from the outside but rather works ground up through his art to present an experiential plunge into the raw tumult of the New York art scene just before and following the onset of AIDS.- The Playlist
- Posted Mar 18, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
The true drama in the admissions scandal is not the ringleader or the celebrities and hedge-fund magnates who hired him but what this Hunger Games scenario means for all the children whose parents cannot afford his services.- The Playlist
- Posted Mar 16, 2021
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- Chris Barsanti
Though the film touches on numerous hot-button topics and is packed with incident and humor, its self-aware style—from straight-to-camera narration to slow motion to visual tricks like the washing out of an entire background so a character will pop out in bright color—and simplistic characterizations deprive it of the chance to say much of anything.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 25, 2021
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