ROTTEN TOMATOES: Stephen Williams

STEPHEN WILLIAMS

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Biography: Newsday film critic.

Publications: Los Angeles Times, Newsday

Total Reviews: 25

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 27%	Beer League (2006)	" The inanity is harmless, thoroughly predictable and ultimately disposable." — Newsday Posted Sep 19, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 3%	The Covenant (2006)	" The Covenant is just a copycat." — Newsday Posted Sep 13, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 50%	Suicide Killers (2007)	" Rehov seeks answers, but there are none." — Newsday Posted Aug 25, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 43%	Queens (aka Reinas) (2006)	" [A] frothy, occasionally charming romantic comedy." — Newsday Posted Aug 25, 2006
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 70%	Invincible (2006)	" *Unlike most 'feel-good' films in this genre, Invincible* isn't blatantly manipulative, and works so well because it is, in fact, understated.*" — Newsday* Posted Aug 24, 2006
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 4%	Material Girls (2006)	" Madonna's anthem was only good-naturedly arrogant, but the SoCal twins, like the film's script, are arrogant, ghastly immature and offensive to any audience that isn't all of the above." — Newsday Posted Aug 21, 2006
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 4%	Material Girls (2006)	" Madonna's anthem was only good-naturedly arrogant, but the SoCal twins, like the film's script, are arrogant, ghastly immature and offensive to any audience that isn't all of the above." — Newsday Posted Aug 18, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 67%	Lunacy (2006)	" A bad dream leads to constant conscious nightmares in this wacky, surreal creepshow from over-the-edge Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer." — Newsday Posted Aug 12, 2006
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 73%	Conversation(s) with Other Women (2006)	" By fade out, the movie has run out of air: the quick, clever dialogue flattens out and it becomes contrived." — Newsday Posted Aug 12, 2006
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 36%	Accepted (2006)	" More disconcerting is the idea put forward that self-indulgence is a substitute for structured education, or, more to the point, that it's a substitute for life." — Newsday Posted Aug 12, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 4%	Zoom (2006)	" *The director of Zoom* is Peter Hewitt, who also directed Garfield. Nothing more to say about that.*" — Newsday* Posted Aug 12, 2006
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 72%	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)	" *A whole bunch of great racing footage would've ratcheted up Nights* a notch or two -- see Cars for inspiration -- but even the track scenes are ... well, pedestrian.*" — Newsday* Posted Aug 3, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 84%	The Descent (2006)	" The Descent doesn't need to exist: a script that goes beyond outlandish. Actors who'd flunk out of Make Believe 101. Blind creatures that see things. Did we mention continuity?" — Newsday Posted Aug 3, 2006
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 63%	The Ant Bully (2006)	" Luc's transformation from ant destructor to ant protector illustrates a lesson told many times before, but rarely with such down-to-earth charm." — Newsday Posted Jul 27, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 20%	Shadowboxer (2006)	" *Billed as film noir, but because it lacks any subtlety and accentuates gratuitous violence that is more in-your-face than it is implied, the movie is about as noir-ish as Rocky." — Newsday* Posted Jul 21, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 74%	Monster House (2006)	" When the fat lady finally sings -- the filmmakers turn up the volume and the visuals explode. It's these sensations, and not necessarily the content, that might overwhelm some youngsters." — Newsday Posted Jul 20, 2006
Rotten .5/4	Rotten 21%	The Oh in Ohio (2006)	" *Eventually, the oh's* becomes 'zzzzzz's.'*" — Newsday* Posted Jul 13, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 81%	Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)	" Told in a breezy, fast-cut style, and backed by a boisterous soundtrack that ranges from Puccini to James Brown, Lifetime focuses on the players -- on the field and off -- that made the Cosmos such a super, if short-lived, team." — Newsday Posted Jul 6, 2006
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 53%	Strangers With Candy (2006)	" Quickly, no taste leads to bad taste, and dumb leads to dumber." — Newsday Posted Jun 28, 2006
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 86%	The Road to Guantanamo (2006)	" Reality and make-believe get more than mixed: They get muddled." — Newsday Posted Jun 23, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 32%	Click (2006)	" Walken is so adept and natural as Sandler's guiding light -- and his tormentor -- that he seems to be ad-libbing. It's an artful, endearing performance." — Newsday Posted Jun 22, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 60%	Lower City (2006)	" The film is gritty and graphic, with 'artsy' takes where the camera holds on a motionless actor. But art it isn't." — Newsday Posted Jun 16, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 22%	The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2006)	" *There's so much ill-conceived fluff floating about the 'elusive true love' themes that by the finish, Ethan Green* hasn't as much substance as a good Looney Tunes.*" — Newsday* Posted Jun 16, 2006
Fresh 2.5/4	Fresh 86%	Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul ()	" It's a tasty sonic apertif to an unfamiliar world, and likely to inspire more than a few folks to make a beeline for the world music browser at the music store." — Newsday Posted Jun 9, 2006

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