Chris Cabin
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29% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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69% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.8 points lower than other critics.
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Chris Cabin's Scores
- Movies
- TV
Average review score: | 55 | |
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Highest review score: | Timbuktu | |
Lowest review score: | What Maisie Knew |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 67 out of 145
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Mixed: 22 out of 145
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Negative: 56 out of 145
145
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- Chris Cabin
The film refrains from any dubious moral calculations by giving King’s personal deceptions the same weight as his public morality.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 15, 2020
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- Chris Cabin
Neither sentimentality nor nostalgia for reckless years gone by can be found in Rebecca Zlotowski's Belle Epine, which makes its tale of teenage rebellion in the face of overwhelming grief fall closer to a sobering character study than a classical youth film.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 18, 2016
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- Chris Cabin
Bill Condon ignores the delights and hardships of becoming an artist in lieu of simply presenting the long-touted liberating effects of art.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 13, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The underlying, redundant, and underwhelming theme of the film is the pursuit of family unity at all costs.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
For the most part, the documentary succeeds in conveying a galvanizing sense of what made Winehouse so immediately engaging.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The film is a redundant showcase for Seth MacFarlane's racy, dick-centric sense of humor.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 24, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The story wisely focuses on the cast's worn-in and jazzy repartee and expresses a perfectly modulated sense of self-awareness.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 21, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
After a while, the film's sing-a-song-for-the-world vibe, so buoyantly optimistic at first, becomes grating and smug.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 28, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
If the film's copycat visual artistry illuminates nothing, at least its script is sincerely devoted to probing Finkel and Longo's odd partnership.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 14, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
In the third act, the film devolves into an extremely unsettling series of sadistic tortures, the kind of stuff that would appeal largely to fans of Funny Games.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 18, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
It conjures a menacing perspective on how the titular occupation hulls out empathy and cultivates a particularly unsettling strain of cynicism.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 15, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The lack of any visual ingenuity, reflexivity, or awareness of genre tropes diminishes the intermittent pleasures of the action's slightly involving kineticism.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 15, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
Throughout, Benoît Jacquot never loses sight of the primordial compulsions that drive feelings and expressions of great love and beauty.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 12, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The filmmakers cut the film to emphasize the story's familiar plot points, rather than highlight any instances of personal visual artistry.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 11, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The film's exasperating atonality washes out any legitimate idea about identity, education, nature versus nurture, or artificial intelligence that Neill Blomkamp hoped to evince.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 5, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The film turns out to instead be a strained trumpeting of the return of the proverbial king of the box office.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 26, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
Josh Heald's script takes the easy way out, ending the film with a torrent of slapdash sentimentality.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 19, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
If there's a general air of emotional authenticity woven throughout all this garden-variety, faith-in-family hokum, it's in the racing scenes.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 18, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
It's tructured in familiar, safe terms, plays for very low stakes, and appeals to no one so much as white, male teenagers with chips on their shoulders.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 9, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The film is ntermittently inventive in its visual and physical effects, but its politics are unthinking and obvious, a cheap anti-authoritarian tantrum imbedded in an intergalactic action-melodrama.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 5, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
The film delivers the same misogynistic, faux-modernistic jolts of trashy humor and labored plotting that typify the work of co-producer Michael Bay.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 29, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
When Xavier Dolan's tremendous empathy for the abandoned, medicated, and economically stressed is given full visual flight, it's easy to get lost in the rush.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 21, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
As much as the film is primarily a genre workout for director Kevin McDonald, the script makes room for a tough-minded, psychologically corrosive depiction of vengeance.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 12, 2015
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- Chris Cabin
It essentially uses a major global issue to cheaply dress up what is two hours of hit-and-miss erection jokes.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 15, 2014
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- Chris Cabin
Director Jean-Marc Vallée has created a film out of Cheryl Strayed's beloved 2012 memoir that never quite matches the blunt audacity of its simple title.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 2, 2014
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- Chris Cabin
It does well to put more focus on delivering a plethora of jokes, imitations, zippy repartee, and sight gags than its plot's familiar machinations.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 24, 2014
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- Chris Cabin
Adrián García Bogliano ends up merely toying with the death-steeped concerns of his characters, and taking the furious and bitter perspective that powers the narrative's ponderous dramatic core for granted.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 18, 2014
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- Chris Cabin
By rooting Noni's self-image issues in a controlling mother, the script provides the film with a tame, melodramatic structure that dulls the thorny matters of identity and expression at its center.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 10, 2014
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- Chris Cabin
Much like his hero, Christopher Nolan's goal seems to be to take the humor and wildness out of imagination, to see invention in rigidly practical and scientific terms.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 3, 2014
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- Chris Cabin
Dan Gilroy's directorial debut only offers a familiar vision of today's newsman and producers as misery peddlers, and callow ratings slaves bordering on the monstrous.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 28, 2014
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