Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times
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For 385 reviews, this critic has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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31% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.8 points higher than other critics.
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Steve Persall's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 257 out of 385
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Mixed: 82 out of 385
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Negative: 46 out of 385
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Steve Persall 42
Despite its haunted house setting, the movie's most visible cobwebs are found in Jane Goldman's screenplay, adapted from Susan Hill's novel.- Posted Feb 2, 2012
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Steve Persall 42
If not for a few choice performance moments and a couple of peppy montages, Wanderlust would be cinematic compost, recycled and thoroughly smelly.- Posted Feb 24, 2012
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Steve Persall 42
Step Up Revolution is a bad movie with a few good moments, usually when the cast sets aside delusions of acting prowess and does what comes naturally to them.- Posted Jul 25, 2012
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Steve Persall 42
If you prefer hipster romantic comedies that are unromantic and not too funny, Lee Toland Krieger's movie may be your grande half-caf caramel mocha frappe.- Posted Aug 28, 2012
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Steve Persall 42
Sinister is basically a collection of bogus snuff films linked by standard haunted house tricks - everything creaking and slamming, with the power conveniently shut off.- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Steve Persall 42
The fifth edition of the franchise, A Good Day to Die Hard, is the brawniest and most brainless of the bunch.- Posted Feb 13, 2013
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Steve Persall 42
The Host doesn't strive for social allegory, as previous body snatcher flicks have done with the Red Scare, civil rights and Watergate. If anything it's merely a teenage girl's fantasy checklist for prom.- Posted Mar 28, 2013
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Steve Persall 42
The movie's best performance — and worst defamation — belongs to Tony Shalhoub, playing the first victim as a conniving, egotistical jerk who deserves to be kidnapped, maimed and ruined financially.- Posted Apr 24, 2013
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Steve Persall 25
None of these complaints would matter if The Bounty Hunter possessed even a smidgen of inspired comedy. It doesn't. -
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Steve Persall 25
The only memorable aspect of She's Out of My League is Eve's performance. Not that it's good, but it does possess the hypnotic quality of a flicker ring. -
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Steve Persall 25
Our Family Wedding should embarrass Whitaker and each of his co-stars, perhaps except Carlos Mencia, whose chief attribute as an actor is that he's a so-so standup comedian. -
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Steve Persall 25
If only one character in Stone reacted as someone in his position would to the preposterous situation at hand, the movie would be 15 minutes long.- Posted Oct 27, 2010
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Steve Persall 25
A smarter-than-average bear becomes a dumber-than-usual kiddie flick with Yogi Bear, the lone Christmas release specifically aimed at children, so it automatically qualifies as their lump of coal.- Posted Dec 15, 2010
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Steve Persall 25
Country Strong is a country music melodrama, but I'm not sure which country.- Posted Jan 10, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Billed as an action comedy, The Green Hornet isn't funny, and the action is often too frenetic to make any impression.- Posted Jan 12, 2011
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- Posted Jan 27, 2011
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- Posted Mar 9, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Hop is harmless, which is the worst best thing to be said for any movie. It never decides whether to be a kiddie flick or a grownup lark and winds up as neither. As Roger might say: "Puh-puh-puh-puhleeze, don't waste your time."- Posted Mar 31, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Your Highness is drive-by directing at its laziest, linking late-night sketch ideas in a quest for comedy as difficult to locate as the Holy Grail.- Posted Apr 10, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Something Borrowed is a romantic comedy in which absolutely no one deserves to end up happy.- Posted May 4, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
The Art of Getting By is enough to drive a movie critic to drink. The next round's on the kid in the overcoat.- Posted Jun 15, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Can we please get over the notion that every superhero in a skintight suit deserves a movie? Green Lantern is the latest wallet drainer emptying the comic book bench, more thudding than "Thor" and sorely incoherent.- Posted Jun 16, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
30 Minutes or Less merely puts together actors with only one funny talent each, making them do it over and over again.- Posted Aug 13, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
I wouldn't even DVR What's Your Number? if under house arrest and starved for entertainment. I've got this movie's number, and it's zero.- Posted Sep 29, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
Machine Gun Preacher comes alive only when Sam is pulling a trigger, which is most of the second hour. You can find the same thrill from watching a grindhouse descendant like "The Expendables" on cable TV.- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Steve Persall 25
This Thing is purely for the gorehounds, and they aren't likely to leave impressed.- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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