Steven Rea

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Philadelphia Inquirer
For 2,033 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 26% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Steven Rea's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Touch of Evil
Lowest review score: 0 Isn't She Great
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,609 out of 2033
  2. Mixed: 278 out of 2033
  3. Negative: 146 out of 2033
2033 movie reviews
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Steven Rea
    Isn't She Great
    Has to be among the worst movies ever made.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    The Benefactor
    One of those what-were-they-thinking projects in which good talent is on very bad display.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 12 Steven Rea
    The New Guy
    Reaches breathtaking lows of incoherence, sexism, racial stereotyping, and -- did I say incoherence?
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    The Butterfly Effect
    Profoundly knuckleheaded.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Pretty Persuasion
    Another high school vixen movie, this one with a potty mouth (the vixen) and pretensions of social commentary (the movie), Pretty Persuasion brings to mind a number of other titles, all better.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Club Dread
    A slasher spoof of sorts, except that unlike the "Scream" pics, scant effort seems to have gone into the spoofing aspect of the story.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Passion of Mind
    It's too gauzy, and - with its Ron Bass script - too goopy by half.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Red Dawn
    Hobbled by a laughably bad script and a uniformly uncharismatic cast.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Steven Rea
    The Strangers
    No one is getting at anything in The Strangers, except the cheapest, ugliest kind of sadistic titillation.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Play It to the Bone
    This is no "Raging Bull."
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Steven Rea
    An American Carol
    About as not-funny as a comedy can get.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Steven Rea
    The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    The whole affair has a painfully self-conscious, self-referential air. Jokes land with a thud, and so, alas, does Rocky, who seems to have forgotten how to fly.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Steven Rea
    Dragonfly
    A syrup-thick New Age ghost story of the same sappy stripe and mawkishness as another Costner foray, "Message in a Bottle."
    • 20 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    The Informers
    Another tale of Tinseltown drugs, sex and excess - has transferred itself to the screen with mind-boggling, laugh-inciting horribleness.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Hard Candy
    Icky, incoherent thriller.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 12 Steven Rea
    Dark Blue
    The movie heads in a disastrous direction: namely, a police academy ceremony... This lets-wrap-this-thing-up moment sucks the life and the honesty out of an otherwise compelling portrait of tainted lawmen, tainted law.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Stuart Saves His Family
    The contrast to Ramis' last picture, the inspired Groundhog Day, is marked. [12 Apr 1995, p.F03]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    From Hell
    Feels stagy, stiff and entirely unnecessary.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Knight of Cups
    Sitting in the theater, watching Knight of Cups, you hear an incredible amount of thought-balloon babble, but you don't hear anything approaching the sublime.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    She's the One
    Burns' writing style is full of tepid Woodyisms about sex and romance, with Allen's Jewish guilt supplanted by the Christian variety. [23 Aug 1996, p.03]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Duane Hopwood
    A fairly dreadful melodrama drenched in self-pity.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 12 Steven Rea
    Rat Race
    Somnambulistic pacing, kerplunkingly unfunny jokes, and mugging thespians making fools of themselves. Truly torturous spectacle.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Steven Rea
    Irreversible
    Maybe, you think, there is something daring and brilliant going on here: an excursion into the darkest territories of the human soul. But no. In the end -- or the beginning -- there is no point to all this. Or at least not a point worth making, and making us watch.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Steven Rea
    The Fountain
    Has to be one of the nuttiest, sappiest (literally), most unintentionally hilarious spectacles to come down the time-travel turnpike in eons.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Jack Reacher
    The violence is plenty, and pointless.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Flawless
    Hoffman's turn as the drag queen has its endearing and comically catty moments, but Flawless' utter phoniness subsumes all efforts at honest acting.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Duplex
    Duplex's tenant-from-hell scenario is as predictable as it is tedious -- a tinny, unsatisfying throwaway farce.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    The Good German
    Tobey Maguire, terribly miscast and squeaky (that voice - it belongs to a kid!).
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Steven Rea
    Antichrist
    I'm ripping up my Lars Von Trier fan club card.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Steven Rea
    Sleuth
    Art-directed within an inch of its life, Sleuth has the smirky gloss of a project that everyone involved with thinks is terribly good, and terribly clever. These people - Branagh, Pinter, Law and the usually great Caine (even in bad stuff) - are laboring under an epic misconception. Sleuth is just terrible.
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