Steve Simels

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For 113 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 38% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 18.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Steve Simels' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 47
Highest review score: 90 Cradle Will Rock
Lowest review score: 20 Cotton Mary
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 113
  2. Mixed: 73 out of 113
  3. Negative: 25 out of 113
113 movie reviews
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Simels
    Down from the Mountain
    Musically it's often breathtaking.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    Detroit Rock City
    A very sweet, very funny coming-of-age story, featuring Kiss as the Great White Whale of adolescence.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    Sleepy Hollow
    A triumph of genre filmmaking.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    Superstar
    A delightful surprise, a tightly written, savvy slapstick comedy with genuine heart.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Simels
    The Legend of 1900
    Visually dazzling, touching and funny.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    Any Given Sunday
    Stone handles his huge ensemble cast extremely well.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    Moonlight Mile
    An occasionally surreal meditation on coping with loss, and a love story with a dark side the size of Montana.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Simels
    Only the Strong Survive
    Most of the music is as fine and fierce as you could want.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    A genuinely heartbreaking, romantic film based on a true story; frankly, if it doesn't make you cry, we don't want to know you.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    Ride with the Devil
    A moving, gorgeously filmed look at one of the Civil War's more obscure chapters, the quasi-official combat that divided friends along the Missouri-Kansas border.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Simels
    Calle 54
    This is one of the most infectiously joyous celebrations of musicmaking ever committed to film. See it and be ennobled.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    High Fidelity
    One of the sharpest and emotionally resonant romantic comedies in what seems like years.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    Grateful Dawg
    It's especially nice that all the songs on the soundtrack are heard in their entirety, even if the accompanying video footage is sometimes drawn from performances of different vintage.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Steve Simels
    Outside Providence
    Meanwhile Baldwin (bulked up a la DeNiro and playing totally against type), is a revelation, funny and touching.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Steve Simels
    Cradle Will Rock
    Stunningly cinematic and audacious on every level, writer/director Tim Robbins's look at the collision of the Depression-era art world and politics may well be a masterpiece.

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