Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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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:
Up in the Air
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Alex Cross
Critic Score 25
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 418 out of 561
  2. Mixed: 101 out of 561
  3. Negative: 42 out of 561
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    • Metascore: 39
    • Joe Williams 50
    Legendary
    It's almost offensive that Danny Glover is relegated to playing the mysterious old confidante who haunts the same fishing hole as Cal. By the time Glover's character delivers the homily, Legendary is pinned to the mat.
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    • Metascore: 63
    • Joe Williams 50
    Megamind
    Megamind falls flat.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Joe Williams 50
    Burlesque
    It's a worn-out show-business fairy tale piggybacking on a nonexistent trend.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Joe Williams 50
    Yogi Bear
    Here, Dan Aykroyd mimics the original voice, but the three-dimensional CGI isn't loose and lively enough to compensate for the unimaginative story.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Joe Williams 50
    White Wedding
    A road-trip comedy that somehow renders both promiscuity and racism harmless. While we're soaking up the sunny surroundings, we're getting nowhere.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Joe Williams 50
    Hereafter
    His (Eastwood) first boring film.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Joe Williams 50
    Miral
    The few Jewish characters are cartoonishly evil, but even the Palestinians are sketchily dramatized or, in the case of a terrorist, clumsily legitimized.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Joe Williams 50
    All Good Things
    There's a fascinating story here for a bolder filmmaker, but after so much meandering it's a relief that "All Good Things" must come to an end.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Joe Williams 50
    The Dilemma
    It's classic sitcom shtick, and The Dilemma is a painful reminder that director Ron Howard was trained in television.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Joe Williams 50
    Fast Five
    Fast Five represents Yankee ingenuity of the brutally stupid kind.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Joe Williams 50
    Water for Elephants
    The most rewarding way to watch Water for Elephants is to focus on the sideshow of costumes and craftsmanship, because the romance in the center ring smells like trained animals going through the motions.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Joe Williams 50
    Arthur
    With such a thin excuse for a leading man, Arthur is a dud.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Joe Williams 50
    The Hangover Part II
    It's clear that Phillips is betting heavily on funnymen Jeong and Galifianakis to hide his creative bankruptcy.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Joe Williams 50
    Limitless
    Rooted in empty materialism, but it never evokes the heady rush of a guilty pleasure or the precipitous payback of a thriller.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Joe Williams 50
    The Conspirator
    Instead of entertaining us, director Robert Redford offers us a handsome history lesson that's as dry as a hardtack biscuit.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Joe Williams 50
    Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    One small step for action movies, one giant leap into the abyss of mindlessness.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Joe Williams 50
    30 Minutes or Less
    30 Minutes or Less could have been a guilty pleasure, but the crusty caper is half baked.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Joe Williams 50
    The Grace Card
    Has a welcome message of personal growth and racial tolerance. And it's ably made, with evocative Memphis locations. But in the final sermon, it proffers some plot twists that are supposed to be miraculous but may strike a doubting Thomas as lame.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Joe Williams 50
    Footloose
    Footloose poses as a bold update, but it's shockingly out of step with the times.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Joe Williams 50
    Damsels in Distress
    Damsels in Distress is shockingly tone-deaf. Stillman is still capable of a few amusing quips, but his storytelling is sophomoric.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Joe Williams 50
    Real Steel
    What it lacks is the human element. Charlie is more of a rat than a rascal, and instead of working hard to build and operate his robots, he's literally going through the motions.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Joe Williams 50
    The Big Year
    The Big Year puts the focus on people who aren't inherently interesting - or funny.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Joe Williams 50
    Horrible Bosses
    Spacey evokes memories of other movies in which he's played a shark, and it's inherently fascinating to hear Aniston talking dirty and to see Farrell with a combover, but nothing in the film is genuinely provocative.
    • Metascore: 31
    • Joe Williams 50
    This Means War
    Even by the standards of light entertainment, This Means War is meaningless.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Joe Williams 50
    Tower Heist
    Back when it was planned as an African-American "Ocean's Eleven," this project might have been edgy, but the script has been whitewashed into a generic caper comedy with pretensions of timeliness.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Joe Williams 50
    The Music Never Stopped
    A medical drama that pays lip service to the healing power of music but never finds the rhythm.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Joe Williams 50
    Iron Man 3
    Judged solely in comparison to its corporate cousins, Iron Man 3 is a defective model. It’s lightweight but slow, padded with cheap jokes to disguise how hollow it is.
    • Metascore: 20
    • Joe Williams 50
    Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    Mostly "Hoodwinked Too" is playing to young video gamers, with overblown action sequences and slangy 'tude.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Joe Williams 50
    There Be Dragons
    There Be Dragons is tethered to the earth by a tangled plot, wooden acting and the heavy burden of healing old wounds.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Joe Williams 50
    Premium Rush
    The delivery pouch for Premium Rush promises a white-hot thriller from the bike-messenger subculture. But what's inside the package seems like a lukewarm action-comedy from the pile of scripts that Matthew Broderick rejected after "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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