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
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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    X-Men
    Stylish, exciting and an occasionally poignant sci-fi adventure spectacle.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Glacially slow going.
    • 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.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Tomcats
    Criticism seems irrelevant at best.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    Antwone Fisher
    But there's a vaguely self-congratulatory tone to the screenplay that's a bit off-putting.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    Men of Honor
    By the film's big finale, the whole thing has begun to feel distinctly ridiculous.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    Restaurant
    Cudworth's script gives the characters more depth than is the genre norm, and the ensemble acting is terrific.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Crazy/Beautiful
    Numbingly predictable.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Get Bruce
    The aroma of hagiography is unavoidable.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    Stuart Little
    A charming, technically sensational version of E.B. White's children's classic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Blue Crush
    The lead girls are easy on the eyes, and comic Faizon Love, who plays one of Matt's non-surfing, sumo-wrestler-size teammates, nearly steals the show when the girls teach him a few of their better moves.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Simels
    Only the Strong Survive
    Most of the music is as fine and fierce as you could want.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    Happenstance
    Episodic, pretentious, and more than a little silly.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    Even generally sympathetic adults may eventually find their minds wandering, if only because of the characters' continual, annoying hopping; being vegetables, they have no legs, you see.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Steve Simels
    The Legend of 1900
    Visually dazzling, touching and funny.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    The Grandfather
    Veers inconsistently between sit-com jokeiness and nostril-flaring melodrama.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    Cecil B. DeMented
    Has a giddy silliness that's thoroughly endearing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    The Five Senses
    A self-consciously arty ensemble piece that's alternately exploitative, implausible and cliche ridden.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    Exciting and well-shot.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    Dinosaur
    An old-fashioned dinosaur opera, in the worst sense of the term. An obviously formulaic effort, designed more as a cash machine than a piece of cinema.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    The Tigger Movie
    Without question the breeziest viewing experience now available at a multiplex near you.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    40 Days and 40 Nights
    This is a smart and witty romantic farce that mixes sweet and sexy with surprising aplomb.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Malibu's Most Wanted
    The film delivers some genuine laughs — Diggs and Anderson are a hoot throughout — and real rapper Snoop Dogg all but steals the picture with his brief voice turn as Ronnie Rizzat.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Barenaked in America
    A reasonably entertaining way to kill an hour and a half.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Anger Management
    But by the time the big not-so-surprise ending rolls around -- no, nothing that happened was exactly as it seemed -- most viewers will have long since stopped caring.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    That's the Way I Like It
    There's something inherently funny and surreal about Chinese kids speaking Singlish while trying to be goombahs from Brooklyn.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Simels
    Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Think "The Lion King" redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by Bryan Adams.
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