Bill Stamets

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Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times
For 108 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bill Stamets' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Ida
Lowest review score: 12 The Room
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 83 out of 108
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 108
  3. Negative: 5 out of 108
108 movie reviews
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Cheatin'
    The film is extremely rich in visual inventiveness and depth of feeling — with numerous sequences that could almost pass muster as individual shorts.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    After Tiller
    The ethical considerations of these physicians and their patients is the focus, not the pro-lifers and their death threats.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    The Attack
    The Attack is not just about an incident targeting Israelis. This is also the story of not knowing Palestinians.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 40 Bill Stamets
    Kangaroo Jack
    Likable but negligible.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Joe
    Gripping and at times agonizing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Bill Stamets
    Like Father, Like Son
    Like Father, Like Son is always wise about the quandary faced by the two fathers and the two mothers.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Le Week-End
    This late adulthood lark is a treat.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Bill Stamets
    The Best Offer
    Tornatore’s ideas about art, trust and intimacy are curious, even if they do not quite click.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony
    Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony is one more bravo for the iconic masterpiece.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    The Grandmaster
    The elegant style of the fighting sequences does more than display camera and kung fu technique — this style also shows fighters living with honor.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Bill Stamets
    Volcano
    Unfortunately, Volcano is also faithful to Hollywood's legendary lack of originality.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    Diplomacy
    Volker Schlondorff’s talky drama...is less than persuasive.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Pieta
    Kim deals with an ancient suspicion of money that predates Marx, MasterCard and Madoff.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Bill Stamets
    Nowhere in Africa
    For the most part this is a scenic and well-scored Holocaust survival tale.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Fed Up
    Snappy graphics channel the info flow like a sugar rush. Scary music cues are overused. Narrator Katie Couric wisely stays offscreen. That keeps Fed Up from feeling like an Oprah special.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    We Are What We Are
    A family implodes with a biting commentary on patriarchy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    As It Is in Heaven
    A disquieting film about testing faith.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Bill Stamets
    Rosewood
    As a director, Singleton shares with Furious a didactic streak. Singleton is no demagogue, but his fast-action style tends to erase the nuances of interracial dynamics.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Post Tenebras Lux
    Spectacle matters more than story for Reygadas, who wants to create a world onscreen instead of developing characters or critiquing society.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    About Baghdad
    Antoon injects an occasional note of rancor, but the more radical point here is showing how freely Baghdad residents now speak in public on politics and how widely their views range. [12 Nov 2005, p.35]
    • Chicago Sun-Times
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Hannah Arendt
    Hannah Arendt takes seriously the life of the mind.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    The Unknown Known
    Focusing on Rumsfeld’s 2001-06 stint at the Pentagon, Morris scrutinizes his rhetoric and rationale for attacking Iraq and Afghanistan. Tactics and costs take a back seat to semantics.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Bastards
    Bastards is both visceral and visual.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Bill Stamets
    The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Screenwriter Kate Boutilier provides plenty of sharp patter, and Paul Simon contributed the catchy song "Father and Daughter."
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    You're Next
    You’re Next benefits from skilled script-keepers.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    The New Rijksmuseum
    Hoogendijk is a guest with more tact than curiosity about why a three-year plan went so over schedule.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Bill Stamets
    The Wall
    A sublime meditation on solitude.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    Korengal
    Instead of venturing outside Outpost Restrepo, we hear what the soldiers feel about their 15-month deployment.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Bill Stamets
    The Homestretch
    This understated documentary, though, has no agenda to shame any one family or agency.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Bill Stamets
    Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
    Chilean writer-director Sebastian Silva re-creates a youthful road trip with a head trip at the end in Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, more character sketch than psychedelic sojourn.
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