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. Negative: 25 out of 113
113 movie reviews
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    The lame and apparently tacked-on ending (which seems to crib footage from 2000's "Gladiator"), suggests the rather terrifying prospect of a Roman-era sequel. Five words: Be afraid, be very afraid.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    A self-consciously arty ensemble piece that's alternately exploitative, implausible and cliche ridden.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    It's actually a sweet, often very funny story about a schlemiehl redeemed by love.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Steve Simels
    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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Along the way, director Brian Robbins indulges Reeves in too many laughable inspirational speeches. He also wastes the terrific Diane Lane in the thankless role of the kids' dedicated teacher.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Simels
    It's hard to overstate just how awful this movie is, despite the efforts of the appealing cast.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    A shamelessly derivative, if basically likeable, kid's picture.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Simels
    A butt-numbing exercise in tedium, sporadically redeemed by moments of unintentional hilarity.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Exciting and well-shot.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    There's so much going on it's hard to keep track, and after a while you may be tempted to give up.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    For every inspired bit -- Templeton playing chauffeur to 40 I Love Lucy-era Lucille Ball impersonators -- there's one that falls spectacularly flat.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    A kitchen-sink realist coming-of-age story in the venerable British tradition, with all the good and bad that entails.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Numbingly predictable.

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