Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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For 561 reviews, this critic has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.3 points higher than other critics.
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Joe Williams' Scores
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25
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 418 out of 561
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Mixed: 101 out of 561
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Negative: 42 out of 561
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movie reviews
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Joe Williams 38
Here most of the punishment is inflicted on the audience, which gets nailed to a cross of boredom. -
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Joe Williams 38
Given the creator and the cast, "Morgans" is as drearily predictable as a plague of locusts.- Posted Apr 18, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
Old Dogs is so oafish, when it tosses us a biscuit, it feels like we've been smacked with a newspaper. -
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Joe Williams 38
This amateurish action flick is so lacking in personality or punch, it ought to be titled "V for Video Store Discount Bin." -
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Joe Williams 38
Offers about as much flava as a Dr. Pepper commercial and about as much drama as a “Sesame Street” rerun. -
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Joe Williams 38
In the new Clash of the Titans, the effects are computerized, the hero is questionable and, instead of an owl, we get a turkey. -
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Joe Williams 38
Whether you're betting on action or laughs, this is a lose-lose scenario. -
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Joe Williams 38
The message that needs to be posted at the theater door is "No trespassing." -
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Joe Williams 38
A toxic potion that will put children to sleep and kill his (M. Night Shyamalan) career. -
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Joe Williams 38
Nobody escapes unscathed, except, of course, for Sandler, who co-wrote the infantile screenplay. -
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Joe Williams 38
It's more like a shelved episode of "Touched by An Angel." The sappy script is a disservice to the naturally effervescent Efron, whose character is so mopey he makes Robert Pattinson seem like a song-and-dance man. -
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Joe Williams 38
An utter shipwreck, a would-be adventure with meager rations of magic and a listless crew.- Posted Dec 10, 2010
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Joe Williams 38
If instead of story and characters, your movie wish list includes projectile vomiting and erection gags, this lump of coal has your name on it.- Posted Dec 21, 2010
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Joe Williams 38
This world is divided between the makers and the takers, and after just a few minutes of Red Dawn, you'll realize there's not much more you can take.- Posted Nov 20, 2012
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Joe Williams 38
The cheap, indifferent, teen-alien thriller I Am Number Four delivers none of the spectacle of a competent sci-fi film, none of the emotion of an effective teen romance and none of the giggles of a kitsch fiasco.- Posted Feb 18, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
Like the middle-aged dads in this flaccid fiasco, Hall Pass is a decade behind the curve of what's happening.- Posted Feb 25, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
On Stranger Tides has the fishy smell of something washed ashore and sold as new. But this shipwreck isn't worth a wooden doubloon.- Posted May 20, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
The spectacular collapse of Green Lantern is bound to be blamed on Reynolds, but the villainy has its origins in an injustice league of TV-trained screenwriters and tin-hearted studio suits.- Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
As in the first "Sherlock Holmes" movie, there are plenty of pratfalls and bare-knuckle brawls but no sleuthing for us to share.- Posted Dec 15, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
Such a sorrowful attempt to resurrect the marketing magic of "Twilight" that it ought to be titled "Career Eclipse."- Posted Mar 11, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
The best thing you could say about Happy Feet Two is that it doesn't have any product placements or potty jokes. Other than that, this charmless Antarctic cartoon is what it looks like when hell freezes over.- Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
Anyone old enough to have read Jules Verne or seen the way his work was successfully adapted in the past will suffer worse than the kids in the audience who just came to laugh.- Posted Feb 9, 2012
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Joe Williams 38
For anyone expecting the second coming of Clouseau, Johnny English Reborn is a karmic catastrophe.- Posted Oct 21, 2011
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Joe Williams 38
In matters of personal taste, there is no right or wrong, so if erasing brain cells is your idea of a good time, That's My Boy could be your cup of turpentine.- Posted Jun 15, 2012
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Joe Williams 38
With this unfunny fourth installment, the "Ice Age" franchise has skidded so far into kiddie land that adults who tread there risk extinction.- Posted Jul 12, 2012
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Joe Williams 38
Loud, incoherent and unfunny, Here Comes the Boom is the sound of American culture imploding.- Posted Oct 12, 2012
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Joe Williams 38
While the cast includes Luis Guzman (as a buffoonish deputy) and Johnny Knoxville (as a local gun nut), there's no sense that these are real people in a real town, and Schwarzenegger's Sheriff Owens has the weakest backstory of all.- Posted Jan 17, 2013
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Joe Williams 38
It’s nearly tragic to see America’s Greatest Living Actor on the guest list for The Big Wedding, the latest limp comedy about seniors behaving badly.- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Joe Williams 38
Kids are too smart to fall for it, and any grown-up who thinks that The Odd Life of Timothy Green is funny or heartwarming has a head made out of cabbage.- Posted Aug 14, 2012
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Joe Williams 38
Comedies about privileged princesses and unsuitable suitors come in all colors, but Peeples is only palatable on a double bill with pink antacid.- Posted May 9, 2013
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Joe Williams 38
Suffering through this felonious farce could only inspire a prison riot.- Posted Feb 7, 2013
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Joe Williams 38
Where the original play "La Ronde" was a social satire about the transmission of venereal disease, 30 Beats is a sickly stepchild.- Posted Jul 20, 2012
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Joe Williams 38
Dare we say it? Even the acting is atrocious, with pop-eyed Pacino chewing the scenery like a geezer gumming his oatmeal.- Posted Jan 31, 2013
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Joe Williams 25
A vigilante/torture-porn potpourri, is particularly toxic because it's scented with phony importance. -
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Joe Williams 25
"Beverly Hills Chihuahua," we owe you an apology. Among talking-dog movies, Marmaduke is the runt of the litter. -
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Joe Williams 25
Even by the sloppy, soulless standards of hit man movies, The Mechanic is a mess.- Posted Jan 28, 2011
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Joe Williams 25
The sanitized setting and sappy script are so littered with cardboard characters and crass product placements that you'll mourn for the muggers and porno theaters that De Niro cursed in "Taxi Driver."- Posted Dec 8, 2011
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Joe Williams 25
For the rest of his life, Spencer Susser can brag to the other ditch diggers that he persuaded two of the best young actors in Hollywood to star in one of the worst movies ever made.- Posted May 12, 2011
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