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
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    Augustine
    An obliquely clinical love story.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    Lost for Words
    Lost for Words is directed with little originality by Stanley J. Orzel.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    The Muslims Are Coming!
    Muslim comics are correct about not needing to defend their faith in post-9/11 America. Their patriotism is not the point. I just wish they told better jokes.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    20 Dates
    In 20 Dates Myles Berkowitz strings together one embarrassing moment after another and triumphs in a culture characterized by actorly artifice.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    Pokémon Heroes
    A sunny, gentle action yarn with numbingly repetitive chase scenes and bouncy interludes of playtime.
    • 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.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    The Identical
    The Identical evangelizes and entertains with sincere mediocrity. If the style is unremarkably mainstream, the message is theologically murky.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    Advanced Style
    [A] slightly diverting documentary.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    Keep On Keepin' On
    Hicks may devote too much time on hospital errands and bedside moments as Terry’s health declines. But he succeeds at honoring the career of one man who is helping another’s.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Bill Stamets
    Gods and Generals
    Maxwell continues his textbook emphasis on military maneuvers, but despite literally thousands of Civil War reenactors recruited for the film, the wide-screen canvas fails to map the tactics or evoke the terror of battle.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Bill Stamets
    The Lost World: Jurassic Park
    Among the movie's many flaws are lackluster cinematography and leaden sound design. The Lost World also includes irritating little missteps in the plot.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Bill Stamets
    Bulletproof Monk
    A fair amount of visual panache, but the fight scenes are routine, the humor juvenile, and the Toronto locales rendered drab through muddy cinematography.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 40 Bill Stamets
    Kangaroo Jack
    Likable but negligible.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Bill Stamets
    Grudge Match
    Grudge Match does not work on any level. The story is unconvincing. The comedy elements are weak... And, worst of all, the acting in most scenes — particularly those involving Sylvester Stallone and Kim Basinger — is atrocious.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Bill Stamets
    The Tuxedo
    Inept script delivers a series of juvenile gags.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Bill Stamets
    Stealing Harvard
    Director Bruce McCulloch, an alumnus of the Canadian TV show "The Kids in the Hall," lacks the sense of scale and timing needed for a feature film, and Lee's voice-over about fate that brackets the narrative only highlights its shapelessness.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Bill Stamets
    National Security
    The plot is astoundingly senseless.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 12 Bill Stamets
    The Room
    You can laugh at lines like: "Hey, everybody, let's go inside and eat some cake"; "Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!"; "Man, I just can't figure women out. Sometimes they're just too smart. Sometimes they're flat out stupid. Other times they're just evil." In Wiseau's worldview, if "The Room" were a woman, she wouldn't be "evil" or "too smart." That leaves "flat-out stupid." [12 Feb 2012, p.B2]
    • Chicago Sun-Times
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