Kevin C. Johnson

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For 59 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kevin C. Johnson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 88 Carrie
Lowest review score: 25 Get Hard
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 59
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 59
  3. Negative: 9 out of 59
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Whitney
    Sensational slanting notwithstanding, Whitney is as powerful and quintessential as it is overwhelming and grueling.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Forest
    The Forest is flawed on so many levels. It’s a tiresome bore, and the story is filtered through white characters when an Asian lead could have carried the movie just fine.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Sisters
    A mention must be given to John Cena, who also appeared in “Trainwreck,” for his comedic talents. Here, he’s a stone-faced drug dealer with a supermarket of goods.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Kevin C. Johnson
    Straight Outta Compton
    Credit goes to smart casting of unknowns in the leads, who click uniformly; a packed script that manages not to feel overly long and social commentary that is timeless.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Dope
    Dope is funny, slick and sharp.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    San Andreas
    The special effects and especially the 3-D are top-notch.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin C. Johnson
    Hot Pursuit
    The trailers for the Reese Witherspoon-Sofia Vergara comedy Hot Pursuit hint at a movie that’s unfunny, insufferable and obvious. You can’t say you weren’t warned.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Kevin C. Johnson
    Get Hard
    This mess is guilty of being both racist and homophobic. And it’s as shamelessly lazy and crude as its title suggests.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Lazarus Effect
    For the hour or so it’s on screen it’s a harmless, little chiller that doesn’t scare much but serves as a holdover until something truly scary comes along.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Boy Next Door
    It’s unashamedly of the B-movie variety — a quick and easy time-killer.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Beyond the Lights
    Mbatha-Raw continues to be a true revelation in a role that could be not be any more different from her star turn in “Belle” this year.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin C. Johnson
    Ouija
    Directed by Stiles White, whose credits lean more heavily in the special-effect arenas, Ouija is bland, safe horror for those who like their scares nonexistent.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin C. Johnson
    Dracula Untold
    This toothless attempt is just dead on arrival.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Tusk
    It has a game cast, it’s watchable, fun, sick, sad and has to be seen to be believed.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    Into the Storm
    Not all of it makes sense, but for disaster movie fans, Into the Storm has enough destruction to go around.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Get On Up
    Cameos from actors portraying Little Richard, Mick Jagger, Frankie Avalon and Alan Leeds add up to some fun.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Purge: Anarchy
    Like the first movie The Purge: Anarchy, is trash masking as social commentary, and its depiction of unrelenting, sanctioned violence can be hard to stomach.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    Think Like a Man Too
    Every character from the original is here, navigating the dating jungle, but this time there’s no pushing of Steve Harvey’s book.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    A Haunted House 2
    This send-up of current horror movies is a go-for-broke hoot, a hot mess of a comedy that doesn’t have a lick of sense. And knowing that going in adds to the often knee-slapping laughs.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Oculus
    The flashbacks, which get almost as much screen time as the present day story, are far more compelling.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    About Last Night
    The four leads are entirely engaging including the manic Hart.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Black Nativity
    Count Black Nativity as a more noble than notable effort.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Best Man Holiday
    A full plate of tear-jerking drama is served here. And it’s even tastier than the first time around.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 88 Kevin C. Johnson
    Carrie
    Long before the blood starts spilling, it’s clear the new team has mostly nailed it. The reboot is as good a Carrie remake as possible, though it’s not truly a scary movie; the film takes its time living up to its R rating.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    You're Next
    Targeted toward horror-film junkies looking for a terror throwback, You’re Next mixes gore and dark humor with yet another home invasion plot line.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
    The film is flat and lazy, and the audio mix is so low it sounds as if the audience is barely laughing. His cable comedy specials have better production values.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Purge
    Good but not-good-enough schlocker.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Kevin C. Johnson
    Evil Dead
    It’s ultimately everything a modern horror movie should be.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Warm Bodies
    If you're a zombie purist or a fan of "The Walking Dead," Warm Bodies is not for you.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Mama
    The finale is heavy on CGI. But it never takes away from this respectable entry into the horror genre that values chills over kills.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Sinister
    It comes together with a gruesome though excellent ending that some will find difficult to shake.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Kevin C. Johnson
    Sparkle
    Energetic, colorful and packed with strong performances and musical numbers good enough to get by, Sparkle beams brightly.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Katy Perry: Part of Me
    Perry manages to pull it off here, coming off completely likable and real, never insufferable and fake.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
    Ice-T delivers a love letter to hip-hop with Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Five-Year Engagement
    There are enough F-bombs, a couple of chopped-off appendages and a flash of gratuitous male nudity to earn an R rating. But fans of producer Judd Apatow would expect nothing less.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Think Like a Man
    Despite the crass book promotion, the overlong film is harmless romantic fun that's well played.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Cabin in the Woods
    Moviegoers looking for a thrill should go into The Cabin in the Woods knowing as little as possible about the film.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Red Tails
    Overreaching fits of melodrama, occasionally stilted dialogue, and performances by Gooding Jr. and Howard that are mostly a series of serious faces can't keep the shiny Red Tails from taking flight.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin C. Johnson
    Joyful Noise
    Nothing more than uninspired mushiness.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    In Time
    After a nifty setup, In Time mostly fails to deliver as it gets lamer by the minute.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Fright Night
    It honors the original throughout, including a memorable nightclub scene and a surprise cameo that's a huge crowd-pleaser, while at the same time giving updates to make it fresher and better than ever.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    Despite accusations of nearly succumbing to spotlighting beefs over beats, the film comes off as an honest representation of a great group that's not to be forgotten.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Jumping the Broom
    Amid other wedding movies crowding screens these days, not to mention Perry's "Madea's Big Happy Family," Jumping the Broom feels instantly familiar. And tired.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Scream 4
    Don't be late to this homecoming of director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson's horror series, which begins with a twisty opening sequence that's bloody fun.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Battle: Los Angeles
    The so-so film isn't nearly as good as any of the movies that may have inspired it, or even its own knockout trailer.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Rite
    That's right - this is an exorcism movie that those who actually saw "The Exorcist" in theaters can get into.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    For Colored Girls
    In the end, the movie is still a poetic injustice.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    Why the bloodsucker and the wolf boy treat Bella as if she's the cat's meow is still a mystery.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Virginity Hit
    If The Virginity Hit had been filmed as a straightforward sex comedy, it could've been a riot.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Lottery Ticket
    It's hard to love and hard to hate.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    May be one of the most fun-free, angst-ridden teens we've seen on the big screen in a long time.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Orphan
    During a summer with the usual transforming robots and young wizards, this chilly flick is a bit of a break, and there are worse options than letting this Orphan in the door.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Back-up Plan
    With movies like this, Lopez might want to start leaving low-end romantic comedies alone and look at her movie career's backup plan.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Kevin C. Johnson
    It Might Get Loud
    Davis Guggenheim, the St. Louis director who won an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth," mines less controversial material this time around.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    Splice
    Moves along well until the characters and situations become too ridiculous to be believed.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin C. Johnson
    Our Family Wedding
    Director Rick Famuyiwa did much better when focusing just on African-American culture in films such as "Brown Sugar" and "The Wood." Here, in bringing together two cultures, he does neither any favors.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    A Perfect Getaway
    More scenic than scary.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Good Hair
    Rock misses the boat in deciding not to relate Good Hair to non African-Americans more.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Machete
    Moviegoers will know in the first five minutes whether the new B-movie Machete is their cup of tea - or bucket of blood.

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