Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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For 572 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 7.1 points higher than other critics.
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Joe Williams' Scores
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| Average review score: | 66 |
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100
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25
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 424 out of 572
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Mixed: 103 out of 572
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Negative: 45 out of 572
572
movie reviews
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Joe Williams 50
There are a few beguiling moments in Holy Motors, particularly a martial-arts sequence and an erotic dance while Mr. Oscar is dressed in a motion-capture body suit, but the road between those moments is so strewn with stalled ideas that audiences who care about character and plot are liable to take the exit to a movie that makes sense.- Posted Nov 30, 2012
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Joe Williams 50
Fans of the franchise will greet Les Misérables as a feast for the senses, but the rest of us are left with crumbs.- Posted Dec 25, 2012
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- Posted Jan 31, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
To paraphrase a classic of Reagan-era cinema, A Good Day to Die Hard is a bad day to stop sniffing glue.- Posted Feb 13, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
The derivative script and skimpy effects don’t convey either the power or the problems of being a young witch.- Posted Feb 13, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
Hallstrom (“Chocolat”) makes the mishmash palatable, and romance mainstay Duhamel provides some sweet-and-salty charm, but there’s not much they can do with Sparks’ canned dialogue and Hough’s undercooked acting.- Posted Feb 13, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
The verdict on Snitch is that Johnson has attempted a career detour on a street marked Do Not Enter.- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
The more suitably antic Robert Downey Jr. and Johnny Depp were considered for the part before Franco wandered into the picture with his stoner grin.- Posted Mar 8, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
As long as Hollywood keeps hitting us over the head with empty spectacles like G.I. Joe: Retaliation, regular Joes will be too numb to fight back.- Posted Mar 29, 2013
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- Posted Apr 12, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
The questions raised by Oblivion aren’t especially deep, but the movie does answer a puzzler that has troubled humankind for generations: Can Tom Cruise build a concept so big that he himself can’t lift it?- Posted Apr 18, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
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.- Posted May 2, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
The clichéd script doesn't develop the secondary characters or the critical theme of the mutants' alienation.- Posted May 13, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
In getting so many of the Midwestern details wrong, worldly director Bahrani (“Chop Shop”) teaches an inadvertent lesson to aspiring filmmakers who want to follow his footsteps to the festival circuit: Grow where you’re planted.- Posted May 17, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
How you feel about Fast & Furious 6 is a matter of perspective. While a middle-age egghead might note that a series that started out as a harmless cars-and-girls fantasy has devolved into a full-blown assault on human intelligence.- Posted May 23, 2013
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Joe Williams 50
Congratulations, visitor. You have been randomly selected to beta test an entertainment-software product called “The Internship 2.0.”- Posted Jun 6, 2013
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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
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
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
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
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
Nobody escapes unscathed, except, of course, for Sandler, who co-wrote the infantile screenplay. -
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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
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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