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Stephen Silver

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Biography:
Stephen Silver is the Philadelphia-based film critic for EntertainmentTell and has been writing movie reviews regularly since 1996. He is also an editor for Dealerscope and CustomRetailer and Tell magazines, a contributor to Philadelphia Magazine's Philly Post, and his work his appeared on Philly.com, Boston Magazine, New York Press, Patch, the Detroit News, and other outlets. He maintains a blog at SteveSilver.net.
Publications:
American Dreamer , EntertainmentTell , Patch , The Trend
Total Reviews:
230
Location:
Philadelphia

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 19% Just Go with It (2011) " A deeply repugnant and mean-spirited movie, and probably the worst film Sandler or Aniston has been a part of, which is saying something" — The Trend
Posted Feb 11, 2011
0/5 20% Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) " The worst thing about the movie, out of many, is that it takes a $200 million budget and a two-and-a-half hour running time, and not a single memorable, impressive or fun thing happens." — The Trend
Posted Jul 6, 2009
0/4 28% New In Town (2009) " All it does is mine stereotypes about the small-town Upper Midwest that were starting to get cliched when "The Music Man" was first staged in 1957." — The Trend
Posted Feb 11, 2009
1/5 68% Men in Black III (2012) " With the exception of the special effects department, I get the sense that just about no one in any aspect of the production tried, at all." — EntertainmentTell
Posted May 24, 2012
1/5 47% The Three Stooges (2012) " A little of it goes a long way. There's a reason the Stooges always made short films." — EntertainmentTell
Posted Apr 12, 2012
1/5 25% This Means War (2012) " A bottom-feeding mess. Everyone involved has done much better work and would likely like to forget about this " — Patch
Posted Feb 16, 2012
1/5 23% The Sitter (2011) " A truly odious and repugnant comedy, the first I can remember in which I spent the entire running time rooting for the hero to get arrested." — Patch
Posted Dec 11, 2011
1/5 68% Our Idiot Brother (2011) " Wastes a cast of very talented comedic performers by giving them just about nothing funny to do, and sticking them in a plot in which every character is a moron, a moral monster or both. " — Patch
Posted Aug 26, 2011
1/5 73% POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) " Once again, Spurlock has one point to make-a point that's crushingly obvious and not particularly brave, shocking or controversial-and spends the entire movie making it over and over again." — The Trend
Posted Apr 22, 2011
1/5 26% Arthur (2011) " There was no need to remake the original "Arthur," its arrival is ill-timed, Russell Brand should never have been cast, and it never should have gone into production with a script this bad." — The Trend
Posted Apr 8, 2011
1/5 23% Sucker Punch (2011) " What an abysmal, pointless film. Its ability to collect gorgeous actresses is its one and only defensible quality. " — The Trend
Posted Mar 25, 2011
1/5 11% Red Riding Hood (2011) " Taking a bloody dagger to centuries of folklore, the producers of Red Riding Hood have shamelessly turned the Little Red Riding Hood legend into a carbon copy of the Twilight movies. " — The Trend
Posted Mar 13, 2011
1/5 46% Hereafter (2010) " "Hereafter" has some quality parts, but ultimately fails because it doesn't really care about what it's supposed to be about." — The Trend
Posted Nov 1, 2010
1/5 15% Sex and the City 2 (2010) " A new nadir. It's a movie that ignores just about every one of the show's good aspects and plays up everything bad - all while lasting an unforgivably long 146 minutes." — The Trend
Posted Jun 6, 2010
1/5 32% The Lovely Bones (2009) " The story is just told very poorly... what is this movie? A thriller? A ghost story? A police procedural? A tearjerker? It's all of those and none of them." — The Trend
Posted Jan 31, 2010
1/5 70% Sherlock Holmes (2009) " No, the problem isn't that the movie makes the Holmes character more of an action hero than Doyle ever intended. It's that it sticks Holmes and Watson into one of the dumbest, most boring stories imaginable." — The Trend
Posted Jan 3, 2010
1/5 25% Fame (2009) " a totally unoriginal and unnecessary remake that runs far, far away from anything edgy, controversial or interesting." — The Trend
Posted Oct 4, 2009
1/5 88% Big Fan (2009) " I could imagine a very good movie being made about rabid, angry football fans in New York and Philadelphia... but Big Fan just plain doesn't work, mostly because it doesn't understand the world it inhabits." — The Trend
Posted Sep 7, 2009
1/5 26% The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) " A mediocre comedy that wants desperately to be "Anchorman" on a used-car lot, but can't measure up, mostly because it's so lacking in laughs" — The Trend
Posted Aug 23, 2009
1/5 58% Paper Heart (2009) " The biggest problem is that Yi's quest for love, and understanding of such, simply isn't all that interesting." — The Trend
Posted Aug 17, 2009
1/5 13% The Ugly Truth (2009) " A truly wretched romcom, which combines tired battle-of-the-sexes cliches with a shocking amount of raunchiness. It's a romantic comedy that fails at both romance and comedy." — The Trend
Posted Aug 2, 2009
1/5 72% Sunshine Cleaning (2009) " Formulaic, "gritty" indie films don't get much more cloying or pointless... it's as generic as generic indie gets." — The Trend
Posted Mar 18, 2009
1/5 25% Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) " Shopaholic's biggest problem is that it wants to have it both ways. It wants to luxuriate in expensive clothes and shoes and other princess-fantasy accoutrements while at the same time posing as a heavy-handed brief against debt, shallowness and financial" — The Trend
Posted Feb 22, 2009
1/5 68% Revolutionary Road (2008) " Except for a handful of misplaced laughs, "Revolutionary Road" is nothing but loud arguments, awkward silences and other bits of unpleasantness." — The Trend
Posted Jan 15, 2009
1/5 40% Hancock (2008) " It's a pointless, plodding and just plain ugly effort which fails on just about every level." — The Trend
Posted Jul 9, 2008
1/5 16% Jumper (2008) " "Jumper" is a plodding, action-less mess, in which we'd only be interested if we could comprehend what the heck was going on." — The Trend
Posted Jun 11, 2008
2.5 76% The Debt (2011) " Sports an intriguing premise and uniformly strong performances, but its second act is mediocre and its third act even worse, and it can't help but pale in comparison to Munich" — Patch
Posted Sep 2, 2011
1.5.5 38% Cars 2 (2011) " Pixar's first true disaster, which totally fails to understand what was good about the first film, or what's great about Pixar itself. " — Patch
Posted Jun 24, 2011
1.5/5 41% Dark Shadows (2012) " A bit of a mess, with way too many characters and full of jarring tonal shifts. It's trying to do about five different things and doesn't do any of them especially well." — EntertainmentTell
Posted May 11, 2012
1.5/5 44% J. Edgar (2011) " Goes wrong in just about every way that a biopic can go wrong. Plenty of wrong choices, starting with the makeup" — Patch
Posted Nov 16, 2011
1.5/5 84% Contagion (2011) " Gets off to a very strong start, but eventually gets bogged down in questionable plotting and weak characterization. " — Patch
Posted Sep 16, 2011
1.5/5 23% Conan the Barbarian (2011) " While not lacking for lamentations from women or anybody else, primarily concentrates on the "crush your enemies" part. The movie fails because it can't make that gore interesting" — Patch
Posted Aug 26, 2011
1.5/5 25% The Change-Up (2011) " Seems to believe that bodily fluids and bare breasts are just inherently hilarious, and surrounding them with jokes isn't necessary. " — Patch
Posted Aug 9, 2011
1.5/5 55% The Conspirator (2011) " "The most bored I've been at the movies this year"" — The Trend
Posted May 7, 2011
1.5/5 49% No Strings Attached (2011) " After the intensity of "Black Swan," it's sort of jarring to see Portman in something as vapid and and inconsequential as this. Kutcher? It's not quite so jarring." — The Trend
Posted Jan 20, 2011
1.5/5 44% The Green Hornet (2011) " Brings together almost a dream team of elements which add up to only a very small fraction of the sum of their parts. The movie's just a huge mess. " — The Trend
Posted Jan 13, 2011
1.5/5 58% It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) " The title of 'best movie ever set in a mental hospital' remains firmly secure with 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' " — The Trend
Posted Oct 17, 2010
1.5/5 71% Never Let Me Go (2010) " Takes a scintilla of an interesting premise and blows it, thanks to lackluster storytelling, unimpressive performances and numerous plot holes, including one so humongous that it's quite possibly larger than the movie itself." — The Trend
Posted Oct 3, 2010
1.5/5 37% Eat Pray Love (2010) " This film is about a woman trying to move mountains to make herself happy, and the singular quest of every other character in the movie is to serve her in that quest. " — The Trend
Posted Aug 13, 2010
1.5/5 67% The Karate Kid (2010) " It's ridiculously long, it's paced as poorly as any movie this year, it's set in China for no apparent reason, and it's not, in fact, about karate at all" — The Trend
Posted Jun 21, 2010
1.5/5 69% Babies (2010) " I think babies are like fantasy football teams. I have my own, which I love, to the point of obsession. But I'm not nearly as interested in some complete stranger talking about his own for an hour and a half. Much less four of them." — The Trend
Posted May 10, 2010
1.5/5 52% The Greatest (2010) " Yet another film that tries to pass off a whole lot of screaming and crying as great acting. This fails especially in Brosnan's big crying scene, in which he audibly squeaks" — The Trend
Posted Apr 18, 2010
1.5/5 53% Green Zone (2010) " "Green Zone" comes along as if to remind us how mediocre Iraq War movies were before Kathryn Bigelow's film came along." — The Trend
Posted Mar 23, 2010
1.5/5 21% Leap Year (2010) " A generally witless and uninspired rom-com that follows the genre's forumla to a tee without adding anything entertaining or funny to the mix" — The Trend
Posted Jan 19, 2010
1.5/5 28% The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) " The scenery is still there, but just about everything else that worked in the first film doesn't in 'New Moon.' For one thing, the structure is a mess." — The Trend
Posted Dec 3, 2009
1.5/5 81% Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) " A deeply creepy and disturbing exercise, in which we're exposed to footage that was likely never meant to see the light of day, featuring a performer who at the time was, literally, days away from death." — The Trend
Posted Nov 11, 2009
1.5/5 19% Righteous Kill (2008) " Even if it were pretty good - which it's not - Righteous Kill would fall a distant third in the rankings of films in which Al Pacino and Robert De Niro both appeared." — The Trend
Posted Sep 19, 2008
1.5/5 21% Semi-Pro (2008) " Aside from the 'fro and his sport of choice, Jackie Moon is really no different whatsoever from Ricky Bobby, or whatever Ferrell's character's name was in "Blades of Glory." — The Trend
Posted Jun 11, 2008
1.5/5 22% Never Back Down (2008) " While both [this movie and "Karate Kid"] are unintentionally hilarious, the difference is no one will remember "Never Back Down" in two weeks, let alone 20 years." — The Trend
Posted Jun 11, 2008
1.5/5 52% Leatherheads (2008) " "Leatherheads" fails because it has trouble balancing its many plots, and because it has nothing remotely interesting to say about any of them." — The Trend
Posted Jun 11, 2008
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