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 1.1 points 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
820 movie reviews
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    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Pixels
    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.”
    • 75 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Spy
    With the overlong, limp and lazy Spy, Feig has lost his mojo.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Tomorrowland
    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.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 0 Joe Williams
    The Divergent Series: Insurgent
    There is such a thing as an infinitely bad movie, and this is it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Cinderella
    Cinderella is so scrubbed of personality, it’s not even worth calling a mess.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Joe Williams
    Run All Night
    If you’re a fan of the “Taken” movies and tend to give action-hero Neeson the benefit of the doubt, our advice here is simple: Run away!
    • 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.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Jupiter Ascending
    Channing Tatum is a lot of things, but he’s not a stoic Superman like the role he plays here, which is made more laughable by prosthetic pointy ears.
    • 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.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Joe Williams
    The Best of Me
    Sparks would be delighted if this movie were compared to his other story about reunited lovers, but compared to “The Notebook,” The Best of Me is the coffee-stained outline of a sales pitch for sleeping pills.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Annabelle
    Annabelle is so lazily coat-tailing on Roman Polanski, they should have called it “Rosemary’s Barbie.”
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    A Walk Among the Tombstones
    So stupid and hateful, it needs to have a stake driven through its heart before it can spawn a franchise.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Joe Williams
    Jersey Boys
    The worst thing about this multifaceted failure is the two-time Oscar winner behind the camera. Where there ought to be a director, there’s nothing but an empty chair.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Fault in Our Stars
    This movie is so tone-deaf it would only make sense in Vincent van Gogh’s missing ear.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    In Secret
    In Secret is so stifled, it makes “Les Misérables” look like “Amélie.”
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Joe Williams
    Endless Love
    This stinker is only good for endless laughs.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Joe Williams
    Machete Kills
    When a celebrity chef like Rodriguez is just going through the motions, we can smell that the grindhouse fad is way past its expiration date. It's time to put a fork in it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Prisoners
    It’s preposterous schlock masquerading as art.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Man of Steel
    A soulless, overblown bore.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Joe Williams
    After Earth
    Surprise — this bad dream is for real.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Hangover Part III
    The good news is that Ed Helms doesn’t wake up in a Tijuana brothel with an amputated leg and a donkey in the room. The bad news is that you’ll wish he had.
    • 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.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Big Wedding
    It’s nearly tragic to see America’s Greatest Living Actor on the guest list for The Big Wedding, the latest limp comedy about seniors behaving badly.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Identity Thief
    Suffering through this felonious farce could only inspire a prison riot.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    Stand Up Guys
    Dare we say it? Even the acting is atrocious, with pop-eyed Pacino chewing the scenery like a geezer gumming his oatmeal.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Joe Williams
    The Last Stand
    While the cast includes Luis Guzman (as a buffoonish deputy) and Johnny Knoxville (as a local gun nut), there's no sense that these are real people in a real town, and Schwarzenegger's Sheriff Owens has the weakest backstory of all.
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