Steve Davis

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Austin Chronicle
For 530 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 63% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Steve Davis' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 12 Years a Slave
Lowest review score: 0 I Am Sam
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 265 out of 530
  2. Mixed: 163 out of 530
  3. Negative: 102 out of 530
530 movie reviews
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Ransom
    A reprehensible movie from just about every perspective, Ransom tries to justify the behavior of its lead character as something grounded in principle, but make no mistake about it: This is the act of a man who can't bear the thought of losing, a man who will turn the tables on his enemy at the risk of a beloved's death.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Strange Magic
    It’s like watching a cartoon version of American Idol on an endless karaoke loop.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    The Vatican Tapes
    Movies like The Vatican Tapes are by nature sloppy and derivative, seeking to evoke a thrill that’s long gone.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Paranoia
    You could drive an 18-wheeler through the substantial number of plot holes in Paranoia.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Zoolander 2
    The movie is as lifeless as a mannequin until Ferrell appears near the end as the absurdly coiffed villain Jacobim Mugatu.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    The best bit, however, is not even in the movie, but in the film’s end credits: an expletive-filled parody of We Are the World in which a host of has-beens croon about their halcyon days as child stars.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    The Addams Family 2
    With the exception of Kroll’s gravelly-intoned Uncle Fester, the voicework is sketchy, with Theron’s Seven-Sisters elocution bordering on sacrilege.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    The Transporter Refueled
    It appears that this franchise has hit a dead end, running on nothing but fumes.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    The Quiet Ones
    There’s no sense of trepidation in The Quiet Ones, because suspense requires a cogent storyline to either create or defy the viewer’s expectations. This lack of plausible narrative is either the result of lazy filmmaking or shortcut editing. Either way, you lose.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Jem and the Holograms
    Sure, Peeples has a nice (if unmemorable) voice, but the vapid storyline with fantastic overtones transports Jem and the Holograms into another dimension, one that’s utterly flat. Control. Alt. Delete.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Premonition
    If only Bullock could have foreseen how bad Premonition would turn out to be, she would have spared herself (and us) a lot of agony.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Hot Pursuit
    Nothing in the film remotely resembles any location between San Antonio and Dallas, the beginning and end points of its labored trajectory. For someone in Fresno or Akron, this may not be a big deal, but for those of us in these here parts, it’s a damned distraction.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    American Mary
    Given its many failings, nothing short of an extreme makeover could save American Mary. Scalpel, please.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Morgan
    The entire plot exists for the sole purpose of the yawning revelation in the film’s last five minutes.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Deliver Us From Evil
    The mutilated, slobbering, howling possessed in Deliver Us From Evil crawl on all fours like animals, and furiously dig into surfaces until their fingers bleed, but they’re nothing more than a sideshow, freaks on display for your perverse enjoyment. It’s unsettling, but never terrifying.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Wish Upon
    Unfortunately, the filmmakers here have no earthly idea how to execute this nifty supernatural conceit (Barbara Marshall’s screenplay appeared on the 2015 Black List), teetering between cheap laughs and cheap thrills without doing either very well.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    The Only Living Boy in New York
    The too-too-precious title flashes like a cautionary traffic sign. Warning: Pretentiousness and Pedantry Ahead.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Gloria
    While the somewhat indefatigable Stone may survive this misfire (she's survived plenty of others), Lumet may not.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Deception
    Whether you view it as intellectually dishonest or just plain sloppy, Deception is a movie that more than lives up to its title.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Fire in the Sky
    It sounds like great fodder for sensationalism and special effects, but Fire in the Sky is disappointedly earthbound.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    The Bachelor
    This is one movie best left unattached.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    The Glass House
    It is truly one of the year's dumbest movies.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    The Triumph of Love
    All icing, with a few crumbs devoted to the notion that it is futile to resist the heart's desires.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Mrs. Winterbourne
    The improbabilities pile up on top of each other in Mrs. Winterbourne, an anxious-to-please romantic comedy about mistaken identity that sounds vaguely familiar.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
    The laughs are few and far between.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Davis
    Extreme Ops
    It's like "Jackass," but with a budget and no midgets.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 11 Steve Davis
    The Forest
    The snap of a twig, the rustle of a branch – that’s about as scary as it gets in The Forest, a supernatural horror movie afraid of its own shadow.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 11 Steve Davis
    Doogal
    A wretched experience from start to finish.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 0 Steve Davis
    Glitter
    Assure Patient, who has paranoid delusions about Jennifer Lopez being molded into the new M______ C_____, to rest easy because Lopez has never made a film as bad as Glitter.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 0 Steve Davis
    Playing with Fire
    This mirthless comedy about a manly crew of smokejumpers helplessly babysitting a trio of rescued brats has more dead air in it than a radio broadcast hosted by a narcoleptic disc jockey.
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