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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    The Raid 2
    The plot is murky, the acting is melodramatic and the movie is way too long, but the target audience will salivate over the inventively choreographed set-pieces.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Pink Ribbons, Inc.
    A colorful indictment of corporate infestation, but it's missing a prescription.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Machine Gun Preacher
    If you'd pay to see a film called "Hotel Rwanda: Maniac Manager," you might be receptive to this mixed-message movie, but skeptics should keep one eye on the exit.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    The City of Your Final Destination
    With its seductive images and smart dialogue, The City of Your Final Destination has the setting and circumstances for a ripe family drama or a literary love story, yet it never awakens from its siesta.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Friends with Kids
    Like an acquaintance couple's baby pictures, Friends With Kids induces coos but isn't as cute as they think.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    The Mighty Macs
    This true story fills a needed niche, spotlighting women's basketball in the era before Title IX promoted equal treatment.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    This Must Be the Place
    Penn has created a colorful tour guide, but in This Must Be the Place, there's no there there.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Happy, Happy
    Happy, Happy has the makings of a Norwegian "Ice Storm," but it goes out with a whimper.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    The Woman in Black
    There's little that's new, revealing or stylish about this basic-black horror story, but if you've got a Goth sensibility, it might suit you.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Restless
    If you haven't seen a wasting disease in real life, you might think Restless is romantic. If you have, you might diagnose it as terminally cute.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Toast
    Toast is lovely to look at, evoking both the gray-green milieu of Midlands life and the sensuality of good food, but it's like a whipped topping with no base.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Incendies
    Canadian director Denis Villaneuve knows how to stoke a hot debate about the legacy of violence. But in this case, where there's smoke, there's not enough air.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Thor: The Dark World
    Compared to other Marvel characters, Thor is a difficult sell.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Soul Surfer
    It's a compelling tale of surf and survival.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    Easy to watch but hard to pin down, like a creature with eight legs going in different directions.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    About Time
    There’s a lot of comic and fantasy potential here, but much of it gets squandered.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    The Bay
    The Bay is better than a shallow exercise, but crabby horror fans may have preferred that Levinson took a real plunge.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Emperor
    This true-ish story adds a romantic subplot to the prosecution of Japanese war criminals by American general Douglas MacArthur, but neither the love nor the war are completely baked.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Inception
    Christopher Nolan's "Memento" was a movie-lover's dream come true, a puzzle that was engaging both intellectually and emotionally. But his Inception is a wake-up call, a blaring reminder that cheap tricks can't compensate for personal investment.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Home
    Home delivers like a mailman on Valentine’s Day. But when we scratch beneath the sugary surface, there’s something tart inside that’s difficult to digest.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Melancholia
    Like a newborn planet, Melancholia is magnetically beautiful, but it's also an unformed mass of hot air.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Mr. Popper's Penguins
    The moral lesson that this movie feeds us smells fishy - because it's not in the book. But the backbone story about a guy who inherits some penguins is enough to tickle the kids.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Non-Stop
    Non-Stop: It is what it is.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Entourage
    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.
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