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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Kevin C. Johnson
    Sinister
    It comes together with a gruesome though excellent ending that some will find difficult to shake.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Lottery Ticket
    It's hard to love and hard to hate.
    • 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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    Black Nativity
    Count Black Nativity as a more noble than notable effort.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    San Andreas
    The special effects and especially the 3-D are top-notch.
    • 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Purge
    Good but not-good-enough schlocker.
    • 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.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Kevin C. Johnson
    Dracula Untold
    This toothless attempt is just dead on arrival.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Kevin C. Johnson
    The Boy Next Door
    It’s unashamedly of the B-movie variety — a quick and easy time-killer.
    • 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.
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