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Stephen Williams

Stephen Williams's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Newsday film critic.

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Beer League (2006) 31% 0.5/4 EDIT “The inanity is harmless, thoroughly predictable and ultimately disposable.” – Newsday Sep 19, 2006 Full Review The Covenant (2006) 4% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Covenant is just a copycat.” – Newsday Sep 13, 2006 Full Review Suicide Killers (2006) 50% 2/4 EDIT “Rehov seeks answers, but there are none.” – Newsday Aug 25, 2006 Full Review Queens (2005) 45% 2/4 EDIT “[A] frothy, occasionally charming romantic comedy.” – Newsday Aug 25, 2006 Full Review Invincible (2006) 71% 3.5/4 EDIT “Unlike most 'feel-good' films in this genre, Invincible isn't blatantly manipulative, and works so well because it is, in fact, understated.” – Newsday Aug 24, 2006 Full Review Material Girls (2006) 4% 0/4 EDIT “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 Aug 18, 2006 Full Review Lunacy (2005) 64% 2.5/4 EDIT “A bad dream leads to constant conscious nightmares in this wacky, surreal creepshow from over-the-edge Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer.” – Newsday Aug 12, 2006 Full Review Conversations With Other Women (2005) 74% 1.5/4 EDIT “By fade out, the movie has run out of air: the quick, clever dialogue flattens out and it becomes contrived.” – Newsday Aug 12, 2006 Full Review Accepted (2006) 38% 0.5/4 EDIT “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 Aug 12, 2006 Full Review Zoom (2006) 5% 1/4 EDIT “The director of Zoom is Peter Hewitt, who also directed Garfield. Nothing more to say about that.” – Newsday Aug 12, 2006 Full Review Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “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 Aug 3, 2006 Full Review The Descent (2005) 87% 1/4 EDIT “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 Aug 3, 2006 Full Review The Ant Bully (2006) 61% 3/4 EDIT “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 Jul 27, 2006 Full Review Shadowboxer (2005) 17% 2.5/4 EDIT “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 Jul 21, 2006 Full Review Monster House (2006) 75% 2/4 EDIT “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 Jul 20, 2006 Full Review The Oh in Ohio (2006) 23% .5/4 EDIT “Eventually, the oh's becomes 'zzzzzz's.'” – Newsday Jul 13, 2006 Full Review Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006) 83% 2.5/4 EDIT “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 Jul 6, 2006 Full Review Strangers With Candy (2005) 51% 0/4 EDIT “Quickly, no taste leads to bad taste, and dumb leads to dumber.” – Newsday Jun 28, 2006 Full Review The Road to Guantanamo (2006) 86% 2/4 EDIT “Reality and make-believe get more than mixed: They get muddled.” – Newsday Jun 23, 2006 Full Review Click (2006) 34% 2.5/4 EDIT “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 Jun 22, 2006 Full Review Lower City (2005) 60% 1/4 EDIT “The film is gritty and graphic, with 'artsy' takes where the camera holds on a motionless actor. But art it isn't.” – Newsday Jun 16, 2006 Full Review The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2005) 30% 1/4 EDIT “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 Jun 16, 2006 Full Review Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “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 Jun 9, 2006 Full Review
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