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
    Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    A superior entertainment to both "RE 1" and "Alien vs. Predator."
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Too much diary, not enough movie.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Stephen Cole
    Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    All of this is interesting, but not all that entertaining.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Stephen Cole
    Roll Bounce
    There's the roller-disco music and skating, which isn't so much hot as a hoot.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Stephen Cole
    Rails & Ties
    The film's best and most carefully shaded performance belongs to Bacon.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Friday the 13th
    Despite an evident appetite for mayhem, however, Bay is not the right guy to produce slasher movies. Horror requires intimacy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Stephen Cole
    The Duchess of Langeais
    A typically hypnotic, slow-coiling drama from 80-year-old French filmmaker, Jacques Rivette.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Cole
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    An amused and affectionate look at the writer who formed a crucial link between the New Journalism of the 1960s and today's blogosphere.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Cole
    Assault on Precinct 13
    One of this enlightened B-movie's many pleasures is French director Jean-François Richet's handling of atmosphere and setting. Shot almost entirely at night in a blinding snowstorm, the crime drama is an intriguing remodelling of a classic film noir.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Stephen Cole
    Deliver Us from Evil
    Another angry, searching document about pedophile priests, Deliver Us from Evil makes for unexpectedly gripping drama.
    • 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.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Trust the Man
    A botched adult romantic comedy that strands its leading player, and its audience, in a wearying, sitcom-slight battle of the sexes.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Stephen Cole
    Nobody Knows
    Nothing short of mesmerizing.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Cole
    Serenity
    After witnessing the wearying parliamentary debates among good and bad senators in recent Star Wars episodes, it's a pleasure to watch a sci-fi movie where more than just the spaceships move quickly.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Little Ashes
    Anyone interested in hearing the artist's heart-to-hearts properly translated is encouraged to seek out Leonard Cohen's flamenco serenade, "Take This Waltz."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Cole
    Moon
    Watching Moon is kind of like seeing a booster rocket thrust seventies' sci-fi films deeper into orbit.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    The plot feels both familiar and far-fetched.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    The Burning Plain
    It's possible to admire the performances of stars Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger in The Burning Plain , even as you backpedal from the film, hoping the ponderous megasoap will just go away.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Micmacs
    A comedy should provoke more than smiles. Should have characters instead of show-offs. Although often charming, Micmacs seems so pleased with itself that it hardly needs an audience.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Cole
    The Fugitive
    Though not as memorable as the series on which it is based, it does the job as big-screen entertainment.
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Bee Season
    Though bathed in ecclesiastical light and a work of obvious craft and ambition, Bee Season is grimly serious and rather full of itself.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Cole
    Bart Got a Room
    Here's something you don't see every day: a high-school comedy for old poops.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Stephen Cole
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    A chilling film best experienced bundled up in a sweater and scarf.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Stephen Cole
    Just Like Heaven
    Sounds promising. What a disappointment then to report that Just Like Heaven is more like purgatory, a sweating, straining attempt to marry the wisecracking fury of the modern sitcom to the classic Rock-Doris, Cary-Kate romantic comedy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Stephen Cole
    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Surely the real story of Enron is that so many accountants, lawyers, bankers and politicians were willing to call a dog a duck in order to remain happy insiders in the world's biggest pyramid scheme.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Stephen Cole
    Countdown to Zero
    A mess of a movie – a sprawling PowerPoint argument that covers too much ground way too fast, dispensing Wikipedia-calibre essays on a variety of subjects, from a blurred bio of J. Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atom bomb, to an unsatisfying sidebar on A.Q. Khan, the world's first door-to-door nuke salesmen.
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