St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Scores

  • Movies
For 964 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Beasts of the Southern Wild
Lowest review score: 25 Hesher
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 69 out of 964
964 movie reviews
  1. Penn has created a colorful tour guide, but in This Must Be the Place, there's no there there.
  2. Like the politicians it tries to pull into the big picture, Killing Them Softly promises more than it delivers.
  3. Hitchcock is an amusing lark, but the clumsy way it dissects the director is for the birds.
  4. The Holocaust must never be forgotten, but like many well-intentioned documentaries, The Flat derives more power from the implicit strength of the subject than from the explicit choices of the director.
  5. There's an alliance of interesting stories fighting for dominance here, but instead of a clear victory, Hyde Park on Hudson is the site of a muddled truce.
  6. Because he's the protagonist of the movie and played by the likable Matt Damon, we keep an open mind, but Promised Land is morally ambiguous to a fault.
  7. Obviously a labor love, and its very existence in a godforsaken marketplace is a minor miracle.
  8. This true-ish story adds a romantic subplot to the prosecution of Japanese war criminals by American general Douglas MacArthur, but neither the love nor the war are completely baked.
  9. It’s too cheesy and predictable to be a real miracle, but by Vegas standards, it’s a winner.
  10. Like a taxidermied owl, Stoker is lovely to look at, but in the end it’s hard to give a hoot.
  11. Draining most of the blood, sweat and tears from a true story, this music-minded movie capably covers a song we’ve heard a hundred times before.
  12. Redford is an adequate director, and he keeps things moving at a moderate pace, passing up exits to more spectacular vistas or hotter issues.
  13. A high-concept comedy that peddles some slapstick laughs and life lessons but little insight.
  14. While the underrated Brosnan is effective as the cold-hearted produce mogul, the character starts as such a sourpuss that after he softens in the Sorrento lemon groves, it’s still hard to root for his inevitable hookup with Ida.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    What saves the movie from taking a nose-dive is the confident performance of Helena Bonham Carter and some genuinely funny scenes involving her character. She plays Jane, a smart, feisty, rebellious young woman who is confined to a wheelchair because she is dying of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). [22 Jan. 1999, p.E3]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  15. Good but not-good-enough schlocker.
  16. Despite its brainy title, Monsters University only earns a passing grade on its looks.
  17. Whether on stage or the screen, Much Ado About Nothing is a pleasure that passes like a midsummer night’s dream.
  18. Watson is a revelation here as a brand-obsessed bad girl.
  19. A buddy comedy disguised as a political thriller. It’s full of malarkey, but as a campaign of shock and awe, it’s hard to resist.
  20. This loony 'toon is dizzy with wonderments, especially in 3-D. The spindly-limbed character design owes more to Charles Addams' family than to Walt Disney's kingdom, while the story and settings evoke James Bond on laughing gas.
  21. The crescendo of two resonant careers makes the false notes of Unfinished Song forgivable.
  22. The movie is an eyeful, especially in 3-D, but even with humans at the helms of the machines, it’s a hollow exercise in homage.
  23. With its forked tongue planted loosely in cheek, this haunted-house flick is enjoyably retro in both style and substance.
  24. There’s plenty of talk about sex — even from Brandy’s supportive mom (Connie Britton), who offers her lubricant — but not much nudity or consequence. In The To Do List, sex is just another dubious achievement to outgrow.
  25. It’s amusing fluff, but from an Oscar-winning dramatist, this return to comedy is a bit of a letdown.
  26. Cue the folky music and the two eccentric locals who are the only other characters, and Prince Avalanche is a molehill that dreams it’s a mountain when it’s really, really stoned.
  27. There’s much to appreciate here. Like “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” which had a stronger sense of its place in the world, this coming-of-age movie should appeal to smart, sensitive young people who haven’t been exposed to the better examples of the genre.
  28. Targeted toward horror-film junkies looking for a terror throwback, You’re Next mixes gore and dark humor with yet another home invasion plot line.
  29. Although the characters are three-dimensional, the simultaneous crises and last-act resolutions are a little too neat for a movie about the messiness of life.

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