For 561 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joe Williams' Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 67
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 25
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 42 out of 561
561 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 55
    • Joe Williams 38
    Here most of the punishment is inflicted on the audience, which gets nailed to a cross of boredom.
    • Metascore: 54
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Joe Williams 38
    An utter shipwreck, a would-be adventure with meager rations of magic and a listless crew.
    • Metascore: 51
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 50
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 49
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Joe Williams 25
    Even by the sloppy, soulless standards of hit man movies, The Mechanic is a mess.
    • Metascore: 48
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 48
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Joe Williams 38
    For anyone expecting the second coming of Clouseau, Johnny English Reborn is a karmic catastrophe.
    • Metascore: 45
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Joe Williams 38
    Like the middle-aged dads in this flaccid fiasco, Hall Pass is a decade behind the curve of what's happening.
    • Metascore: 45
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Joe Williams 38
    Whether you're betting on action or laughs, this is a lose-lose scenario.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Joe Williams 38
    A bland family-feud potboiler with no sign of the cook.
    • Metascore: 41
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 41
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Joe Williams 38
    Hop
    It's supposed to be sweet, but Hop is a headache waiting to happen.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Joe Williams 38
    Loud, incoherent and unfunny, Here Comes the Boom is the sound of American culture imploding.
    • Metascore: 39
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Joe Williams 38
    Offers about as much flava as a Dr. Pepper commercial and about as much drama as a “Sesame Street” rerun.
    • Metascore: 39
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 37
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 36
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Joe Williams 38
    Suffering through this felonious farce could only inspire a prison riot.
    • Metascore: 34
    • Joe Williams 25
    A vigilante/torture-porn potpourri, is particularly toxic because it's scented with phony importance.
    • Metascore: 34
    • 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."
    • Metascore: 33
    • Joe Williams 38
    Sadly, The Last Song is badly out of tune with real filmmaking.
    • Metascore: 31
    • 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.
    • Metascore: 31
    • 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.