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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4% same as the average critic
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36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.5 points higher than other critics.
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Joe Williams' Scores
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| Average review score: | 67 |
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100
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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
561
movie reviews
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Joe Williams 88
Among recent documentaries, First Position soars to the head of the class.- Posted May 18, 2012
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Joe Williams 75
As opposed to the "gentlemen's clubs" in sinful cities like Las Vegas, the Crazy Horse attracts couples.- Posted Mar 16, 2012
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Joe Williams 63
In skewering the neuroses of New York bohemians, Durham has left us too little to care about.- Posted Dec 10, 2010
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Joe Williams 75
It's not exactly aiming for the moon, but in a marketplace where surpassed expectations are as rare as unicorns, Despicable Me is delightful. -
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Joe Williams 75
Unlike the benchmark sports documentary "Hoop Dreams," Undefeated doesn't have a deep penetration of poverty and race in its playbook, but it does have enough heart to make substantial forward progress.- Posted Apr 6, 2012
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Joe Williams 75
There will never be another Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor, but Hollywood may have found a new Lee Remick in Mary Elizabeth Winstead.- Posted Dec 7, 2012
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Joe Williams 75
The most mesmerizing parts of the movie make up a tutorial about how the Muppets are made and moved.- Posted Dec 1, 2011
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Joe Williams 63
Tangled is lovely to look at, but if you're not a pre-teen girl, you may be distracted by the split ends.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Joe Williams 88
Clear-eyed, fearless and ferociously funny, Young Adult is mature filmmaking.- Posted Dec 16, 2011
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Joe Williams 75
Notwithstanding its storytelling stumbles, Sleepwalk With Me points in a positive direction for this likable comedian's career.- Posted Sep 14, 2012
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Joe Williams 63
To their credit, the creative team has retained the handmade look and unruly spirit of Maurice Sendak's bedtime fable; to their discredit, they haven't added enough narrative or emotional dimension to make it an effective movie. -
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Joe Williams 63
There's little that's new in the retelling, except mellowed musings on Environmentalism 2.0. -
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Joe Williams 75
Turturro, who previously directed a musical called "Romance and Cigarettes," lingers on the sensual movements of the performers and the character faces of the onlookers.- Posted Dec 9, 2011
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Joe Williams 75
While Banderas' dark intensity overshadows the potential poignancy of the story, Almodovar is such a skilled surgeon that he extracts a juicy nugget of pleasure from a purely distasteful premise.- Posted Nov 23, 2011
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Joe Williams 88
Although the story is mournful, the movie is buoyed by a heaven-scented surrealism.- Posted Oct 19, 2012
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Joe Williams 88
To ensure customer loyalty, Hollywood should promote more movies about workaday life in the provinces, but until there's a new wave of midcoast comedies, Cedar Rapids is the big kahuna.- Posted Feb 18, 2011
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Joe Williams 88
With its exploded notions of heroism, torture-rack dramatics and kamikaze gusto, it's a fiendishly entertaining flick. -
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Joe Williams 88
May be too sterile and stylized to elicit real tears, but it's got brains and heart to spare. -
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- Posted Jun 22, 2012
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Joe Williams 63
We're left with an impression of a vivacious pioneer; but warm shouldn't have to mean fuzzy. -
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Joe Williams 63
What's most conspicuously missing from this ensemble is some input from the advertisers who subsidize Wintour's tyranny, and the readers who are seduced into buying her beautiful four-pound paperweights. -
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Joe Williams 63
Director Dereck Joubert gleans a valuable thread that connects us to these endangered creatures.- Posted Mar 11, 2011
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Joe Williams 63
There are audiences for movies that amuse us, and arouse us, and scare us, but the career of Todd Solondz ("Storytelling") raises the question: Is there an audience for movies that make us feel icky? -
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Joe Williams 63
The fiery finale is good enough to leave the legions smiling. But when a movie is expected to lift an entire industry, "good enough" shouldn't be good enough.- Posted May 3, 2012
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Joe Williams 75
If you root for documentaries with heart, The Other Dream Team is a slam dunk.- Posted Oct 19, 2012
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Joe Williams 75
Like a Fishbone show or an LA weather forecast, the dark curtain rises, and there's a promise of more sunshine.- Posted Apr 23, 2012
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Joe Williams 75
Europeans have a taste for both the mechanics of trickery and the machinations of power, and the politically astute Spanish film "Even the Rain" belongs in the same conversation with Francois Truffaut's "Day for Night" and Pedro Almodovar's "Bad Education."- Posted Mar 11, 2011
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Joe Williams 75
He's not in Mark Wahlberg's league, and 21 Jump Street isn't quite as funny as "The Other Guys," but by lampooning himself here, Tatum has bought himself a grace period to grow in.- Posted Mar 15, 2012
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Joe Williams 88
For a nation at war with its own values, Fair Game is a compelling, pertinent and scrupulously true political thriller in the honorable tradition of "All the President's Men."- Posted Nov 19, 2010
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