Joe Williams

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For 820 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 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joe Williams' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Samsara
Lowest review score: 0 The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 597 out of 820
  2. Mixed: 156 out of 820
  3. Negative: 67 out of 820
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Clash of the Titans
    In the new Clash of the Titans, the effects are computerized, the hero is questionable and, instead of an owl, we get a turkey.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Charlie St. Cloud
    It's more like a shelved episode of "Touched by An Angel." The sappy script is a disservice to the naturally effervescent Efron, whose character is so mopey he makes Robert Pattinson seem like a song-and-dance man.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    Anyone old enough to have read Jules Verne or seen the way his work was successfully adapted in the past will suffer worse than the kids in the audience who just came to laugh.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Prisoners
    It’s preposterous schlock masquerading as art.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Little Fockers
    If instead of story and characters, your movie wish list includes projectile vomiting and erection gags, this lump of coal has your name on it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Kingsman: The Secret Service
    Kingsman is like a high-speed collision between a Jaguar and a jaywalking soccer hooligan. It’s ridiculously out of balance, and when you’re stuck in the middle, it doesn’t seem so funny.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Ice Age: Continental Drift
    With this unfunny fourth installment, the "Ice Age" franchise has skidded so far into kiddie land that adults who tread there risk extinction.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Furry Vengeance
    The message that needs to be posted at the theater door is "No trespassing."
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    I Am Number Four
    The cheap, indifferent, teen-alien thriller I Am Number Four delivers none of the spectacle of a competent sci-fi film, none of the emotion of an effective teen romance and none of the giggles of a kitsch fiasco.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    And So It Goes
    If cranking out this kind of mediocre, head-scratching blarney is the only option available to Hollywood veterans like Reiner, we have some friendly advice: Open a haberdashery.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    Given the creator and the cast, "Morgans" is as drearily predictable as a plague of locusts.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Last Song
    Sadly, The Last Song is badly out of tune with real filmmaking.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Red Riding Hood
    Such a sorrowful attempt to resurrect the marketing magic of "Twilight" that it ought to be titled "Career Eclipse."
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Here Comes the Boom
    Loud, incoherent and unfunny, Here Comes the Boom is the sound of American culture imploding.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Red Dawn
    This world is divided between the makers and the takers, and after just a few minutes of Red Dawn, you'll realize there's not much more you can take.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Last Vegas
    In trying to lift this lame schtick, De Niro, Douglas, Freeman and Kline are stand-up guys, but Last Vegas is a case of erectile dysfunction.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Nut Job
    This dead-on-arrival ’toon is some of the worst p.r. for rodents since bubonic plague hit medieval Europe.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    John Wick
    Sorry, Keanu, but you stole my time and you murdered my brain cells. By the sacred oath of WHOA, there will be blood, and this time it’s personal.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Annabelle
    Annabelle is so lazily coat-tailing on Roman Polanski, they should have called it “Rosemary’s Barbie.”
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    That's My Boy
    In matters of personal taste, there is no right or wrong, so if erasing brain cells is your idea of a good time, That's My Boy could be your cup of turpentine.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Hop
    It's supposed to be sweet, but Hop is a headache waiting to happen.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Hall Pass
    Like the middle-aged dads in this flaccid fiasco, Hall Pass is a decade behind the curve of what's happening.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Ninja Assassin
    This amateurish action flick is so lacking in personality or punch, it ought to be titled "V for Video Store Discount Bin."
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Losers
    Whether you're betting on action or laughs, this is a lose-lose scenario.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Edge of Darkness
    Here most of the punishment is inflicted on the audience, which gets nailed to a cross of boredom.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    Kids are too smart to fall for it, and any grown-up who thinks that The Odd Life of Timothy Green is funny or heartwarming has a head made out of cabbage.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Tammy
    McCarthy and first-time director Falcone must have assumed that tossing a drunk and a dunce into a Cadillac would negate the need for a motive or even a script.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Peeples
    Comedies about privileged princesses and unsuitable suitors come in all colors, but Peeples is only palatable on a double bill with pink antacid.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    An utter shipwreck, a would-be adventure with meager rations of magic and a listless crew.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Happy Feet Two
    The best thing you could say about Happy Feet Two is that it doesn't have any product placements or potty jokes. Other than that, this charmless Antarctic cartoon is what it looks like when hell freezes over.
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