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 7.4 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
561 movie reviews
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    • Metascore: 63
    • Joe Williams 75
    Reel Injun
    The documentary ends on a hopeful note, as Indians themselves have taken control of their image.
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    • Metascore: 74
    • Joe Williams 75
    Stonewall Uprising
    The first half of the film dusts off some kitschy picket-fence footage and alarmist news reports to invoke an era when homosexual acts were illegal in 49 states, and gays were subjected to arrest, electroshock and sterilization.
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    • Metascore: 72
    • Joe Williams 75
    Despicable Me
    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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    • Metascore: 74
    • Joe Williams 75
    Farewell
    When the smoke clears, heady Farewell stands tall among the movies that view the Cold War at close range.
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    • Metascore: 57
    • Joe Williams 75
    The Wildest Dream
    The multiple cameras that shadow Anker and his novice partner provide unprecedented images. But they also raise unintended questions about the vanishing frontier.
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    • Metascore: 76
    • Joe Williams 75
    The Army of Crime
    This true story does a great service by honoring the memory of 22 brave men and women and by dramatizing the internal debates within the French population. But in staying true to life, it sacrifices some of the pacing and clarity of a conventional thriller.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Joe Williams 75
    The Town
    Because of some sentimental backspin, Affleck doesn't quite hit it out of the park, but he may provoke the green monster of envy in lesser directors.
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    • Metascore: 79
    • Joe Williams 75
    Let Me In
    With its mix of true-blood romance and full-moon madness, Let Me In should hasten the twilight of the twerpy pretenders.
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    • Metascore: 61
    • Joe Williams 75
    Conviction
    The story is sustained by the stubborn love between the siblings and by the conviction of the two fine actors who portray them.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Joe Williams 75
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is slower and stranger than any of the previous films, simultaneously raising hopes for a haunting finale while dimming hopes for a magical one.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Joe Williams 75
    Ondine
    Ondine is dipped in whimsy and might have drifted out to sea, but it's bounded on four sides by love stories -- between a father and a daughter, a man and a mermaid, an actor and his co-star, and a director and his country.
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    • Metascore: 72
    • Joe Williams 75
    Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
    Post-Dispatch classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller told me that Gould's music is as divisive today as it was 50 years ago, when the pianist publicly clashed with conductor Leonard Bernstein over the tempo of a performance.
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    • Metascore: 64
    • Joe Williams 75
    Tamara Drewe
    It's a tart trifle, but in the madding crowd of year-end movies, Tamara Drewe rocks.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Joe Williams 75
    Morning Glory
    Mainstream moviemaking at its most proficient, with a zippy script, comfort-food casting and a breakout performance by a deserving star.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Joe Williams 75
    Made in Dagenham
    Even with a large cast, groovy clothes and cool pop songs, Hawkins holds our attention with a combination of modesty and moral strength.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Joe Williams 75
    Leaving
    In the infidelity drama Leaving, British reserve gets overtaken by French passion, and the subsequent events have the horrific momentum of a slow-motion car crash.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Joe Williams 75
    Waste Land
    While we await the definitive documentary about the glut of garbage, Waste Land reduces this global catastrophe to touchingly human scale.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Joe Williams 75
    Gnomeo and Juliet
    Stays too low to the ground to become an animated classic, but if there's a fairer midwinter's tale, wherefore art thou?
    • Metascore: 66
    • Joe Williams 75
    Nénette
    Paul Simon and a Parisian orangutan tell us the same thing: It's all happening at the zoo.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Joe Williams 75
    Summer Wars
    Summer Wars has engineered a truce between the familiar and the fantastical.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Joe Williams 75
    The Housemaid
    Im Sang-soo has crafted an erotic thriller whose cool beauty speaks for itself.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Joe Williams 75
    In a Better World
    Although it starts slowly, the accumulated tension and thematic resonance leaves us breathless.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Joe Williams 75
    When We Leave
    This melodrama about spousal abuse and honor killings might be too grim to bear, but Kekilli keeps it centered.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Joe Williams 75
    Paul
    Scabrously funny yet essentially gentle, as the main thing that it's probing is our collective ignorance.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Joe Williams 75
    The Dictator
    Too short and undisciplined to be a world-class comedy, but its chutzpah deserves respect.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Joe Williams 75
    Kung Fu Panda 2
    This well-executed sequel is sneaky. While it distracts us with Chinese backdrops and buffoonish humor, it sucker punches us with a message about belonging.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Joe Williams 75
    I Am
    Although the choice of interviewees skews the movie in a New Age-y direction, there's less pseudoscience and more heart than in the kindred documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know?"
    • Metascore: 72
    • Joe Williams 75
    Super 8
    Such a disarming homage to the cinema of the Reagan era that even grouchy gremlins might feel like it's morning in America. But be forewarned that if this movie is exposed to sunlight, you'll notice the puppet strings.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Joe Williams 75
    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    The world-class mechanic is Brad Bird, who applies the pacing and spatial freedom of a 'toon to a live-action thriller.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Joe Williams 75
    The Muppets
    The troupe's first film in more than a decade, is a more aggressively absurd antidote to what it calls "a hard, cynical world." Happily, it works.
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