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
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Black Sheep
    Farley, with his bowl-cut of strawberry hair and grinning double chin, does have a certain airhead charm, but Spade and his slackeresque, snooty weenie shtick, is, at best, an acquired taste. Farley seems to enjoy Spade's company, and Spade seems to be enjoying his own company, and SNL kingpin and Black Sheep producer Lorne Michaels obviously believes these guys have a future together . . . but I don't know, give me Stan and Ollie, or Bud and Lou or Dean and Jerry. Or a nice big scoop of Ben and Jerry's, for that matter. [2 Feb 1996, p.13]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    RocknRolla
    If only RocknRolla's characters were at all believable - even in the context of its own cartoon universe.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Blow
    The real problem is that there's nothing to George but the movie's props.
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Cassandra's Dream
    There's not a believable character, nor line of convincing dialogue to be found.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Fantastic Four
    It's overstating things to say the stars of Fantastic Four are Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, and Jamie Bell, because I can't remember the last time four actors appeared less invested in a movie for which they've teamed up.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Run All Night
    Run All Night isn't dull. The pace is breakneck, and necks get broken. But the violence is relentless, ugly, unredeemed by any real humanity.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Killer Elite
    Loaded with careening car chases and rooftop runs, glass-shattering shootouts and exploding fireballs, Killer Elite offers more than enough to keep action junkies happy.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Kill the Irishman
    Stevenson is big and swarthy and not altogether without credibility, but he's got as much charisma as a potato.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    The Da Vinci Code
    McKellen, Hanks and Tautou - and Alfred Molina, as a bishop with an agenda - are no slouches when it comes to emoting, but screenwriter Goldsman's rigorously faithful interpretation of Brown's flatfooted prose stylings is the filmic equivalent of putting big chewy baguettes in the actors' maws.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Big Eden
    Too cute by half (or maybe three-quarters).
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Ricki and the Flash
    Finally - and the news should really come as a relief - here is a role Streep should not have tried, in a movie that should not have been made.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Magic in the Moonlight
    For all its visual delights, Magic in the Moonlight, the 44th feature written and directed by the admirably industrious Woody Allen, has to be one of his bigger duds.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    The Expendables
    The trailers already have given away the "surprise" cameos in The Expendables, so try not to blink when Stallone goes into a church (shades of John Woo) to meet his mystery boss, played by a bald-pated, trademark smirking Bruce Willis.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    The Ref
    A loud, abrasive comedy that squanders the talents of its three stars, The Ref is the sort of project that stands or falls on its writing - it needs to be deep and deliciously dark. But as scripted by Richard LaGravenese and Marie Weiss (he penned The Fisher King, this is her first produced screenplay) and directed by Ted Demme (Jonathan's nephew, making his feature film debut), all we get is superficial rage. [11 Mar 1994, p.03]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    What's Eating Gilbert Grape
    DiCaprio provides one of those tailor-made Oscar turns - cocking his head at odd angles, twitching and gesticulating with childlike awkwardness, his face a mask of sweet innocence and uncontrollable tics. [4 Mar 1994, p.03]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Cars
    And did I mention that it's long? It's long.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Ceremony
    The offbeat comedy is not entirely devoid of charm, but its derivativeness is almost embarrassing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    The Monuments Men
    Alas, it's a throwback that's thrown its back out - limping along, trailed by battalions of stereotypes and ammo rounds of cliche.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    The Watch
    Reality aside, The Watch is harmless enough - and even occasionally humorous, in a riffy, sketch-comedy kind of way.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Knockaround Guys
    It has its moments of swaggering camaraderie, but more often just feels generic, derivative and done to death.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    The Price of Milk
    Fairy-tale-like musing on true love in cynical times.
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Asylum
    Alternately tedious, cliched and unintentionally funny.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    What Lies Beneath
    Dumb, dumb, dumb - borrowing scare tactics from Hitchcock and other suspense masters, but forgetting basic story.telling essentials such as character development and logical exposition.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Beowulf
    Zemeckis, who blazed trails mixing live-action with animation in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," blazes not even a footpath here.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    The Kid
    There's nothing Disneyesque about this bomb except the forced levity of its musical score.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    To the Wonder
    "There's nothing here!" screams Romina Mondello - Kurylenko's Euro gal pal, walking the deserted sidewalks of this Anytown, U.S.A. Boy, truer words . . ..
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Stuck on You
    Despite its penchant for the crude and lewd, is gooey in ways that have nothing to do with bodily fluids.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    xXx
    Less a movie than a collection of pretty cool action set-pieces, linked together with some seriously awful acting and dialogue that even Dr. Evil couldn't deliver with a straight face.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    The Weather Man
    The Weather Man belongs to a school of earnest, artsy Hollywood flicks that includes the Michael Douglas-goes-bonkers "Falling Down," and a lineage that goes back to revered 1970s pics like "Five Easy Pieces."
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Steven Rea
    Enough
    At this point in her career, Lopez can clearly bend the universe -- but no amount of bending can make Enough anything more than formulaic.
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