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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    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Biutiful
    The saving grace of Biutiful is Bardem.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Joe Williams
    The Dictator
    Too short and undisciplined to be a world-class comedy, but its chutzpah deserves respect.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Joe Williams
    Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
    It's a comedic dramatization with a looming shadow of the surreal.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Danny Collins
    The lesson of this likable little movie is that it’s never too late to reclaim your integrity.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Men in Black III
    It still has cool creatures and 1960s set design, and the 3-D is the best of the season, but if you try to remember the story or jokes, you'll find that you've been hit by a neuralyzer beam.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Lawless
    Despite some gruesome images and the psychotic fervor of Rakes, it's a frustratingly slow boil.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Joe Williams
    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    At nearly three hours long, "An Unexpected Journey" has moments when the caravan seems both overstuffed and out of balance, but it's such a scenic trip that only a stubborn homebody could complain.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Fading Gigolo
    Fading Gigolo is like two different movies on an awkward blind date at a jazz club. While Allen charms us with a parody of “Broadway Danny Rose,” Turturro is off-key in his lounge-lizard riff on “The Piano.”
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Joe Williams
    Gemma Bovery
    This meta movie even has fun with faulty translations between French and English. To paraphrase Gemma as she conjugates verbs on the treadmill, “J’ai adorée.”
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    The Invention of Lying
    This topsy-turvy flick is fitfully funny, but more often it's just odd, like the first draft of a "Twilight Zone" episode that's missing its moral.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Joe Williams
    All Good Things
    There's a fascinating story here for a bolder filmmaker, but after so much meandering it's a relief that "All Good Things" must come to an end.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Chelsea on the Rocks
    Even as Bard, filmmaker Milos Forman and Ferrara himself bemoan the changes, the lobby is filled with fine art -- and guests who aren't likely to harm you.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Joe Williams
    Paul
    Scabrously funny yet essentially gentle, as the main thing that it's probing is our collective ignorance.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    A bizarre buffet of buffoonery, brutality and beautiful landscapes.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Joe Williams
    The Intouchables
    It's the kind of movie that inspires word-of-mouth recommendations by speaking the international language of culture clash.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Thor
    With its references to other properties in the Marvel universe and to classic tales of redemption, this no-surprises summer movie might appeal to those who've been bitten by radioactive spiders or the Shakespeare bug.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    The Boys Are Back
    Weaving between freshness and formula, The Boys Are Back earns a gentle pat on the head.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Joe Williams
    Bad Words
    Bad Words is often very funny, thanks to Bateman’s brick-wall malevolence and screenwriter Andrew Dodge’s inventively rude dialogue.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Joe Williams
    Natural Selection
    Snark is not art. In the evolutionary spectrum of cinema, Natural Selection is like the duck-billed platypus, pretending to be warm-blooded but more than a little fowl.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Joe Williams
    Albert Nobbs
    The double deception of suppressed personality and repressed sexuality could have been the basis for a rewarding character study, but after Albert meets a kindred spirit and dares to dream of a happy ending, her denial and naivete become too much to swallow.
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