Stephen Cole

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
For 230 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Stephen Cole's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Lowest review score: 25 Paparazzi
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 114 out of 230
  2. Mixed: 88 out of 230
  3. Negative: 28 out of 230
230 movie reviews
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Tooth Fairy
    Sorry to disappoint anyone who saw the cast list of this film and presumed Julie Andrews was going to play the horrific serial killer Tooth Fairy from the Hannibal Lecter movies.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Stephen Cole
    The Eye
    A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    A superior entertainment to both "RE 1" and "Alien vs. Predator."
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    Are We Done Yet?
    If all this sounds familiar, it should. Fathers seldom fare very well in family comedies.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Stephen Cole
    Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    All of this is interesting, but not all that entertaining.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Alpha and Omega
    If you have kids who are easily frightened, bring them to Alpha and Omega, a 3-D movie with training wheels. Kids may not like it, but they'll never fall off the ride.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    Saw IV
    There is no narrative tension in the film, however, just a variety of grisly crucifixions. And the morality tales are blood-stained window dressing.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    Unfortunately, both Bridges and Anderson are only intermittently in the movie. And when they're not around, How to Lose Friends loses its satirical edge, becoming an alarmingly safe, almost corny romantic comedy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    Formula sequel right down to its zany subtitle -- Armed and Fabulous. Bullock deserves better. We deserve better. Rev up that '57 Chevy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Ninja Assassin
    A convincing, reasonably co-ordinated action movie. Nothing special, but lovers of the genre will enjoy the workouts, especially if they bring night-vision glasses.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Stephen Cole
    My Best Friend's Girl
    An ugly, strictly-for-meatheads comedy that can only be recommended to couples who wear matching Tie Domi Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys out on a date.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    Jonah Hex
    The best part of Jonah Hex is Josh Brolin on a horse. Especially when he's not saying anything, just moseying into or out of town. Too had he never moseys into a better movie.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Love Happens
    Aniston's constituency will enjoy seeing her again in Love Happens . She's lovely and fun to be with, as always.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Just Go with It
    The Super Bowl MVP is awarded a trip to Disneyland. Maybe in the future, he should be awarded a part in an Adam Sandler movie. There is no bigger male fantasy land.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 63 Stephen Cole
    Soul Plane
    A third of the way into Soul Plane, maybe earlier if you're in the right mood or with the wrong company, you might actually start to enjoy disliking the movie. Like, say, Prince's "Purple Rain," certain Joan Crawford movies, and Leslie Nielsen at his best worst, the film inspires cathartic ridicule.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    The Brothers Solomon
    There is no getting these boys down. They are just like Lloyd and Harry in the Farrelly brothers' breakthrough 1994 hit, "Dumb & Dumber." Except that they are never, ever funny.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    I Love You, Beth Cooper
    The movie feels like something parents want their kids to see. Harold and Kumar wouldn't want anything to do with Beth Cooper or Denis Cooverman. You're probably not going to like them much either.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    The plot feels both familiar and far-fetched.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    The Viral Factor
    The Viral Factor is deliriously far-fetched. And one wishes director Dante Lam (The Beast Stalker) could have at least had some giddy fun smashing all his toys around. But his new film is tediously overwrought and drably made, with scenes punctuated by synthesized drums out of eighties American TV drama.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    Cop Out
    Fails as a comedy-drama because it’s neither funny nor involving. But it fails as a buddy movie because Willis and Morgan make for a dull couple.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    My Way
    Adolescent boys will savour My Way's bombast and solemnity. Cringing adult audiences will more likely beat a retreat before final call.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Premonition
    Once Bullock's character clears her head at the top of the thrill ride, Premonition becomes inescapably dull because it is her mental health, not her purposefully dull husband's fate, that interested us.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Delgo
    Delgo is blocky and hastily coloured in. Characters are stiff; there is little variety in movement. It's a cheapo product ideally suited for a Saturday-morning pyjama vigil in front of a small screen. And the film suffers from a poverty of imagination to boot.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    Because I Said So
    A 105-minute cringe-a-thon that reduces the Katharine Hepburn of her generation to a sitcom harpy presiding over a brood of Valley Girl chicks.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Bangkok Dangerous
    Doesn't work because it isn't much of a ride. The action scenes are strictly by rote. The incidental characters are all incidental.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Piranha 3DD
    Piranha 3DD is overcrowded and pointlessly mean. The stunt casting of David Hasselhoff playing himself, riffing off his infamous 2007 drunken home video, gets in the way of the storyline.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Stephen Cole
    The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    The Boondock Saints II does, from time to time, display a vulgar charm. Or maybe it just wears you out.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    The Condemned
    It is hard to say what is more despicable about The Condemned: the overtly racist portrayal of Brekel-Goldman as Jewish-media bloodsuckers, or the film's sleazeball attempt to pass off lovingly attentive sequences of ritual torture - often scenes of incredible hulks bashing cowering women - as a critique of media violence.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    Killers
    So here’s an idea: Maybe filmmakers should shoot what Ashton’s up to off-camera, because not many laughs are making it to the screen.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Cole
    Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
    The story of Canada’s tragically unhip – Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart, charter members of a group that has sold 40 million or so albums and discs since 1973, without ever getting a whole lotta love. Never mind the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Rush never even made it on American TV until funnyman Stephen Colbert invited them on The Colbert Report in 2008.
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