Joe Williams
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59% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.9 points higher than other critics.
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Joe Williams' Scores
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Average review score: | 67 | |
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Highest review score: | Citizenfour | |
Lowest review score: | The Divergent Series: Insurgent |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 596 out of 819
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Mixed: 156 out of 819
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Negative: 67 out of 819
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- Joe Williams
If what you seek from a samurai film is the friction between communal duty and personal honor, join the orderly queue to see 13 Assassins. But if what you seek is action, spend the talky first hour at a sushi bar before barging into the theater for the bloody good finale.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Aug 16, 2016
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- Joe Williams
Fuqua is a proficient action director, and the boxing scenes deliver plenty of whomp. But the music-saturated scenes involving the media, the law and a turncoat friend played by Curtis (“50 Cent”) Jackson are trying to appeal to fans of “Empire,” not “Raging Bull.”- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jul 23, 2015
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- Joe Williams
Long before you’ve gotten a nickel’s worth of entertainment out of this dumb, unfunny flick, you’ll be wishing for the flashing sign that says “Game over.”- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jul 23, 2015
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- Joe Williams
This debut film is fun, and everyone involved can proudly declare, “Honey, I shrunk the Marvel Cinematic Universe.”- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jul 16, 2015
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- Joe Williams
Amy Schumer is so scary-good in Trainwreck that it almost seems risky to speak her name.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jul 16, 2015
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- Joe Williams
Lovely to look at, and Vikander does nothing to derail her inevitable ascension to the A-list. But as a story, it evokes a word that no battlefield nurse would ever apply to her experiences: sterile.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jul 9, 2015
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- Joe Williams
This meta movie even has fun with faulty translations between French and English. To paraphrase Gemma as she conjugates verbs on the treadmill, “J’ai adorée.”- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jul 9, 2015
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- Joe Williams
Minions is product, pure and simple. Little kids will love it, but grown-ups will feel like they’re being held hostage in a Fisher-Price test laboratory.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jul 9, 2015
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- Joe Williams
With stingy portions and plenty of filler, Magic Mike XXL is the worst sausage party ever.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 30, 2015
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- Joe Williams
This mash-up movie is like a greatest-hits collection for obsessive collectors. On its own terms, Terminator Genisys makes virtually no sense.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 30, 2015
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- Joe Williams
When the movie morphs from a story of mutual healing into a crime-fighting caper, it goes off track.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 25, 2015
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- Joe Williams
One man’s mirth is another man’s poison, this critic can only consult his belly as the barometer. On a gut level, Ted 2 is a funny film.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 25, 2015
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- Joe Williams
The documentary Live from New York is a separate thing. It doesn’t try to be wild and crazy, and it can’t be comprehensive. Like a land shark, it’s an uncomfortable hybrid that bites off more than it can chew.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 11, 2015
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- Joe Williams
But even without world-class smarts or amusing mutations, the next generation of “Jurassic” is an enjoyable ride.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 11, 2015
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 4, 2015
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 4, 2015
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- Joe Williams
On that vicarious-pleasure level, the movie version delivers. Yet for anyone with a sense of irony or social justice, it’s also frustratingly soft around the edges, with no real sense of the drugs-and-violence underside of show business or the spiritual cost of failure.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Jun 3, 2015
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- Joe Williams
The setting and offbeat tone may remind some viewers of another recent comedy, but whereas “The Descendants” was a substantive meal, Aloha is a pu pu platter.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 28, 2015
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- Joe Williams
Be forewarned: The 100-Year-Old Man is edgier than its title would lead you to believe. Bad guys are bludgeoned, blown up and even crushed by an elephant, and the two duffers take a lassez-faire attitude toward disposing of them.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 28, 2015
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- Joe Williams
We need to have a dialogue about the wages of war in the remote-control era. But it’s hard to spark a good dialogue with movies whose dialogue is so bad.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 21, 2015
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- Joe Williams
Disney’s gimmick of naming movies for its theme-park attractions crashes and burns in Tomorrowland, a here-and-now caper that will confuse children, bore adults and offend anyone who’s ever taken a science class.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 21, 2015
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- Joe Williams
In the context of confounded expectations, director Maxime Giroux may have intended the what’s-next ending to be ironic.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 14, 2015
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- Posted May 14, 2015
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 14, 2015
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- Joe Williams
It’s Belgian actor Schoenaerts who will leave the target audience atwitter. Seemingly incapable of cracking a smile, he fits securely in the stoic-farmer tradition that stretches from John Wayne in “The Quiet Man” to Russell Crowe in “The Water Diviner.”- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 7, 2015
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- Joe Williams
While Black is painfully effective as the dork who drops slangy kudos on his new BFF, Marsden is a revelation.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 7, 2015
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- Joe Williams
This showcase for Wiig is sufficiently absurd to make real-world parallels laughable.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted May 7, 2015
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- Joe Williams
Age of Ultron has self-aware laughs, grandiose themes and the best effects that money can buy. But at this point, it will take true vision to plot the umpteen sequels without getting trapped in a time loop.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Apr 30, 2015
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- Joe Williams
With a stellar cast and seductive look, Ex Machina is a sleek contraption for capturing our imagination.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Apr 23, 2015
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- Joe Williams
Crowe is effectively restrained in his acting, but in his debut as a director, he overdoes the manipulative music and the pretty images from cinematographer Andrew Lesnie.- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Posted Apr 23, 2015
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