Mary Elizabeth Williams

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For 66 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 15 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mary Elizabeth Williams' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 51
Highest review score: 90 The Iron Giant
Lowest review score: 0 Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 66
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 66
  3. Negative: 16 out of 66
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    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    A Little Bit of Heaven
    A moment of silence, please, for Kate Hudson's career.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Runaway Bride
    You would never have predicted it from the breakout success of "Pretty Woman" nearly a decade ago, but it turns out that the pairing of Richard Gere and Julia Roberts has ripened over the years into something resembling month-old brie.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    The Watcher
    It stinks pretty bad, but not so bad you'd go out of your way to avoid it.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    The Women
    The whole vibe is so shrill and frantic that the truly accomplished actresses, like Bening and Bergen, are left to flounder. The less nuanced ones -- that would be you, Debra Messing -- are, to use the idiom of the movie, as pleasant to watch as a bikini wax is to feel.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Simply Irresistible
    When the enchanted crab is the most appealing character in a movie, you know you're in some serious metaphoric hot water.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Superstar
    You'd have thought, in his infinite wisdom, the Lord would at least send stinkers like this direct to video.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 0 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    "Morgans" does bear the distinction of boasting the sourest cast ever assembled outside of a Lars Von Trier production.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Jawbreaker
    Despite all their seamed stockings and Wonder Bras, the Reagan High girls are as far removed from their sexuality as Jawbreaker is from comedy.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 10 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    The Pink Panther 2
    One of the most dreadfully unnecessary movies in recent memory.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 10 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    The Way of the Gun
    The directorial debut of the writer of "The Usual Suspects" keeps tossing the genre hand grenades one might expect, but they all wind up duds.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Stigmata
    A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism...a soggy mess.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Mickey Blue Eyes
    An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 0 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Idle Hands
    As stupefyng as Idle Hands is while the title appendage is still attached to Anton, it goes into a whole other realm of godawfulness when the demon digits take off on their own.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    The Mod Squad
    One of the most mindless, shamelessly lazy films.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 30 Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    It's supposed to be visually exciting, but the result is more like a corpse-strewn Gap khakis ad than a triumph of technique. At least, based on the film's grainy texture and amber lighting, it's nice to know that the guy who shot every porn movie released in the '70s appears to be working again.

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