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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    Shanghai Noon
    It's too bad screenwriters Gough and Millar didn't have enough faith in their premise to play it straight; if they had, they might have produced a classic rather than a "Blazing Saddles" without the courage of its convictions.
    • 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.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Simels
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    This totally sucks.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Very Annie Mary
    The cast is uniformly excellent -- Pryce in simultaneously utterly horrible and a real hoot as the wildly egomaniacal paterfamilias -- but the film itself is merely mildly charming.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    X-Men
    Stylish, exciting and an occasionally poignant sci-fi adventure spectacle.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    Boricua's Bond
    If this is even a reasonably accurate account of someone's real life, then we as a culture may be in worse shape than we imagine.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    This megastar mix of CGI animation and live action is remarkably faithful to the spirit of the original.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    The Specials
    A very funny superhero spoof.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    Shallow Hal
    Something of a cop-out, lacking the courage of its convictions.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Erin Brockovich
    Entertaining -- if predictable.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Italian for Beginners
    None of this is any more fun as it sounds -- the cancer ward scenes are truly disturbing -- but to be fair, writer/director Lone Scherfeg (the first woman to make a Dogme 95 film) manages some black-humored laughs.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Steve Simels
    Cotton Mary
    A creepily unpleasant study of race and class.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    The Four Feathers
    The film's center will not hold. Either crucial scenes were cut (perhaps for length) or Kapur has a problematic sense of narrative structure; sometimes it's unclear who's doing what to whom.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    Undercover Brother
    Saturday Night Live veteran Chris Kattan more or less steals the film as the racially confused Mr. Feather, a white supremacist bad guy whose speech patterns tend to get down and funky against his will.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    Stuart Little
    A charming, technically sensational version of E.B. White's children's classic.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    Go Tigers!
    The film is at heart a look at a unique slice of Americana, particularly an opening montage in which we realize that football here is a cradle-to-the-grave proposition -- literally.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    Antwone Fisher
    But there's a vaguely self-congratulatory tone to the screenplay that's a bit off-putting.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    A smartly stylized hoot.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    Hanging Up
    This is essentially a glib soap opera whose main characters are two-dimensional cliches used as clotheslines on which to hang sitcom-level jokes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    The Original Kings of Comedy
    The relentlessly self-congratulatory tone is oppressive.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Steve Simels
    The Last September
    There's a certain built-in poignance to the end-of-an-era proceedings here, regardless of how frostily they're dramatized.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Tomcats
    Criticism seems irrelevant at best.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Steve Simels
    What Women Want
    A wildly overblown, unpleasantly smirky mess of a film.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Steve Simels
    Waydowntown
    The acting is similarly accomplished across the board, though it must be noted that Currie nearly walks off with the film: He's the funniest preppie seducer since Tim Matheson in "Animal House" (1978).
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Steve Simels
    Maid in Manhattan
    To say that the film is unenjoyable would be an overstatement; a good time can be had counting the number of reassuringly stock characters it offers up.
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