Ron Stringer

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L.A. Weekly
For 51 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 17.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ron Stringer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 48
Highest review score: 90 Les Destinées
Lowest review score: 0 The Hillside Strangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 51
  3. Negative: 14 out of 51
51 movie reviews
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Ron Stringer
    Holy Man
    What's most disturbing about this ineptly scripted, utterly implausible (and at the same time curiously likable) comedy of sin and redemption in TV's home-shopping universe is how close a committed cast and a talented director (Stephen Herek, late of Mr. Holland's Opus) come to pulling it off, to making us feel good about the 110 minutes or so we've just pissed away.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Ron Stringer
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Still and all, the makeup special effects are as over the top as anything in Hooper and L.M. Kit Carson's 1986 Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and -- for those of us without the sense to steer clear of this sort of thing -- that's saying something.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Ron Stringer
    The Other Side of Heaven
    A fine specimen of clean-cut Mormon family entertainment, but it may also be a step in the wrong direction for the fledgling production company.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Ron Stringer
    God's Army
    A fine cast of unknowns in a story of faith -- lost, found and continually challenged -- that neither romanticizes nor condescends to its milieu.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Ron Stringer
    Last Party 2000
    Those seeking anything resembling a real discussion of the issues had best seek elsewhere.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Ron Stringer
    No Such Thing
    Fails in so many respects, even die-hard constituents may have trouble learning to like it.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 70 Ron Stringer
    Equilibrium
    The fun here is not so much in the solid if stolid performances from Bale and co-stars Taye Diggs and Emily Watson (gussied up to resemble the Jefferson Airplane–era Grace Slick) or in Wimmer's overpolished plot devices as it is in the production values.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Ron Stringer
    The Battle of Shaker Heights
    While decidedly green, at least isn't mealy or tasteless. And if the juice in tyro screenwriter Erica Beeney's witty dialogue can't quite flow through the hard tissue of underripe gimmicks and derivative set pieces, there's enough sweetness in the performances, and tautness in the direction (by Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin), to forestall any serious bellyaching.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Ron Stringer
    Big Momma's House
    Yo momma so fat, when she gets in an elevator, it has to go down. Had enough?
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Ron Stringer
    Not Another Teen Movie
    Of course, this is just another teen movie -- with tons of dick jokes that don't know when to quit, and buckets of realistic-looking "excrement" splattered all over its "juvenile" cast, and even a couple of gags that actually fly.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Ron Stringer
    Gods and Generals
    By highlighting the human costs of slavery to everyone BUT the enslaved -- here, relations between African-American domestics and their owners are cordial, even respectful, on both sides -- Maxwell risks being pilloried as an apologist for that institution.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Ron Stringer
    Exorcist: The Beginning
    The “surprise” ending, when it comes, is more of a hoot than a holler.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Ron Stringer
    Blue Moon
    What this turkey produces in the way of hang-ups is a transparently phony class conflict.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Ron Stringer
    House on Haunted Hill
    Low-budget, high-camp.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Ron Stringer
    Dead Man on Campus
    The fault lies mostly with the writers, who consistently come up short on wit and imagination enough to finish, let alone flesh out or polish, a joke.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 40 Ron Stringer
    Bats
    Overlong, hard look at the perils of tampering with Creation.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Ron Stringer
    Running Free
    Let horses be horses, scrap the tin-eared Lukas Haas narration.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 0 Ron Stringer
    The Hillside Strangler
    A good horse kick, or a fistful of Valium, may help you get through this relentlessly sadistic exercise with your soul more or less intact.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Ron Stringer
    The Omega Code
    Bad photography, bad acting and bad dialogue.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 10 Ron Stringer
    Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A stinker.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Ron Stringer
    My 5 Wives
    The deliriously deficient new excuse for a comedy.
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