Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
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For 26 reviews, this critic has graded:
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65% higher than the average critic
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35% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.5 points lower than other critics.
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Bill Stamets' Scores
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| Average review score: | 59 |
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90
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20
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 26
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Mixed: 10 out of 26
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Negative: 3 out of 26
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movie reviews
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Bill Stamets 88
The first-rate Italian comedy Reality — which fakes Pope Benedict appearing in St. Peter’s Square — likens consecration to elevating an “everyman” to pop celebrity.- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Bill Stamets 80
Screenwriter Kate Boutilier provides plenty of sharp patter, and Paul Simon contributed the catchy song "Father and Daughter." -
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Bill Stamets 80
Catherine Keener is wonderfully weird as a vicious vice president of human relations, and Nicky Katt is brilliant as an actor playing Hitler in a stage play. -
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Bill Stamets 80
Key action points are edited with finesse, but the denouement, with its dutiful hail of gunfire, is heartless and mechanical. -
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Bill Stamets 75
Morales trafficks in familiar formulas of an everyman in a bind with evil men. What sets Graceland apart are the conflicted values of its characters.- Posted May 2, 2013
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Bill Stamets 75
Panic about pop culture is not new. Yet Antiviral finds a novel angle of attack.- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Bill Stamets 75
Kim deals with an ancient suspicion of money that predates Marx, MasterCard and Madoff.- Posted May 16, 2013
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Bill Stamets 70
Director Tarsem (The Cell) reworks the 1981 Bulgarian film "Yo Ho Ho" for this stylish fantasy. -
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Bill Stamets 70
Greene delivers a wrenching performance, and like "Smoke Signals," the film ends with a cathartic, triumphant flourish. -
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Bill Stamets 70
For the most part this is a scenic and well-scored Holocaust survival tale. -
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Bill Stamets 70
As a director, Singleton shares with Furious a didactic streak. Singleton is no demagogue, but his fast-action style tends to erase the nuances of interracial dynamics. -
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Bill Stamets 70
But Girl 6 isn't what we'd expect from Spike Lee: after exhorting his fans to wake up in his early efforts, he now tempts them to hang up. -
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Bill Stamets 60
The heaving computer-generated sea swells doesn't match the conventionally animated characters. The action scenes are too antic, but directors Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore serve up a sweet romantic subplot. -
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Bill Stamets 60
Unfortunately, Volcano is also faithful to Hollywood's legendary lack of originality. -
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Bill Stamets 50
In 20 Dates Myles Berkowitz strings together one embarrassing moment after another and triumphs in a culture characterized by actorly artifice. -
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Bill Stamets 50
Maxwell continues his textbook emphasis on military maneuvers, but despite literally thousands of Civil War reenactors recruited for the film, the wide-screen canvas fails to map the tactics or evoke the terror of battle. -
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Bill Stamets 50
A sunny, gentle action yarn with numbingly repetitive chase scenes and bouncy interludes of playtime. -
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Bill Stamets 50
Director Kasper Barfoed defaults to intense replays of surveillance audio recordings, frantic strokes on computer keyboards, and standard-issue chases.- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Bill Stamets 50
The film indulges in sentimental and sensational tropes. The manipulative touches do more than distract, they irk. This story could have been retold without resorting to all the unfortunate formulas used in prime-time and cable fare.- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Bill Stamets 40
A fair amount of visual panache, but the fight scenes are routine, the humor juvenile, and the Toronto locales rendered drab through muddy cinematography. -
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Bill Stamets 40
Among the movie's many flaws are lackluster cinematography and leaden sound design. The Lost World also includes irritating little missteps in the plot. -
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Bill Stamets 20
Director Bruce McCulloch, an alumnus of the Canadian TV show "The Kids in the Hall," lacks the sense of scale and timing needed for a feature film, and Lee's voice-over about fate that brackets the narrative only highlights its shapelessness. -
