St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Scores

  • Movies
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For 1,847 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Asteroid City
Lowest review score: 0 The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Score distribution:
1847 movie reviews
  1. The message that needs to be posted at the theater door is "No trespassing."
  2. Collateral Beauty is based on a premise so preposterous that the film shouldn’t work. But the illusion of credibility is sustained just well enough to keep things from falling apart.
  3. In Couples Retreat, it's Favreau, not Vaughn, who is wound up, and this vacation comedy goes nowhere.
  4. Perhaps tracking down the folks responsible for this film should be Milo's next assignment.
  5. The sanitized setting and sappy script are so littered with cardboard characters and crass product placements that you'll mourn for the muggers and porno theaters that De Niro cursed in "Taxi Driver."
  6. Mostly "Hoodwinked Too" is playing to young video gamers, with overblown action sequences and slangy 'tude.
  7. Where the original play "La Ronde" was a social satire about the transmission of venereal disease, 30 Beats is a sickly stepchild.
  8. A toxic potion that will put children to sleep and kill his (M. Night Shyamalan) career.
  9. With few exceptions, the dialogue's high point is when it's only dull. [15 Apr 1989, p.4D]
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  10. Old Dogs is so oafish, when it tosses us a biscuit, it feels like we've been smacked with a newspaper.
  11. A FEW mildly erotic soft-core sex scenes separated by long stretches of very pretentious, bad dialogue and some travelogue shots of Carnival in Rio: That's about it for Wild Orchid. [25 May 1990, p.6F]
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  12. There are good movies to be made about romantic obsession, but the premise doesn't work if the crazy stalker isn't juxtaposed with a sympathetic victim.
  13. This send-up of current horror movies is a go-for-broke hoot, a hot mess of a comedy that doesn’t have a lick of sense. And knowing that going in adds to the often knee-slapping laughs.
  14. Calling it "idiotic" would be unfair to all other idiotic movies. Find a word that combines moronic and malevolent. [14 July 1993, p.3F]
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    • 13 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Nothing But Trouble may be the stupidest movie ever made by anybody you ever heard of. [22 Feb 1991, p.3F]
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  15. Comedies, in general terms, are easy to evaluate. If you laugh a lot, it's good. If you don't, then it isn't. Well I didn't and it wasn't. [02 Feb 1994, p.6F]
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  16. In this flick, the dark side is as bright as a cruise-ship showroom, where the singing and dancing would fit nicely, while the jokes are as dull as Disney sitcom throwaways.

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