Brad Wheeler

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
For 351 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Brad Wheeler's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Listen to Me Marlon
Lowest review score: 0 War Room
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 260 out of 351
  2. Mixed: 49 out of 351
  3. Negative: 42 out of 351
351 movie reviews
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    Fist Fight
    A stunningly unnecessary comedy, Fist Fight perpetuates unoriginal characters, a preposterous premise and a half-hearted stand-up-for-yourself message.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    The Girl King
    Malin Buska – the Swedish Kirsten Dunst? – is highly watchable as the Descartes-loving ruler, but Canada’s Sarah Gadon as the sheet-warming lady-in-waiting is given little to do but look naive and dumbstruck.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Victor Frankenstein
    McGuigan’s visually vivid Victor Frankenstein races to its lightning-storm finish, running over the solid (if not electrifying) acting of McAvoy and Radcliffe.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Captive
    The film's police-procedural action is unimaginatively presented, but Oyelowo is compelling.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Brad Wheeler
    Forever My Girl
    Sparks fly and so do private helicopters, but will true love prevail? Are you paying attention?
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
    The film has its moments and some things to say about honesty and selflessness, but the plot is manipulated and the ending is not an ending. Truth be known.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    The Forest
    If you’re up for mild startles and unchallenging entertainment, a trip into The Forest should be right up your alley, if not your path.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    Bitter Harvest
    This is a story of villainous oppression, unfortunately told with oppressive earnestness.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    In a franchise rife with missteps, this sequel does not dishonour its source. Hats off (and heads off) to the film’s creators.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    Ice Age: Collision Course
    Toddlers will dig the shenanigans, but bewildered adults should root for the annihilation of this tapped-out series.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Point Break
    “Bodhi,” in Sanskrit, is short for “being of wisdom.” In Hawaii, “Keanu” means “cool mountain breeze.” And, in Hollywood, Point Break means never having to bother with a plausible plot.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Brad Wheeler
    The Space Between Us
    A shameless pastiche of Starman’s alien-on-Earth sci-fi, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’s medical pathos and any number of young-lovers-on-the-run stories, The Space Between Us may set back the Earth-Mars relationship light years.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Brad Wheeler
    The 5th Wave
    Topical ideas on humanity, mistrust and alien-as-immigrant metaphors are a plus, but a laughable romance and a ridiculous wrap-up render the film as only a staging ground for the next two parts of the trilogy to come.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    Ride Along 2
    Hart’s irritating character desperately seeks approval, but his idiocy is too much. The comedian makes Jerry Lewis look like Benedict Cumberbum – and if you think that line is funny, Ride Along 2 is your kind of jam.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Show Dogs
    Grown-ups will find it painful to watch a clearly embarrassed Arnett go through the motions, muttering his lines as he internally wonders why he never became the next Kevin Costner.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Brad Wheeler
    Hurry Up Tomorrow
    It is a slow-moving, self-insistent and exhausting trip. The end can’t come soon enough.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Rock the Kasbah
    Baby it’s a wild film, but not Murray’s best and not Levinson’s either.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    London Has Fallen
    The film is a popcorn-crowd pleaser, but a “yippee ki-yay” or two away from something more memorable.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    Precious Cargo
    A rip-off and a rerun.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
    Awkwardly constructed with laughable romantic suggestions, sword-based gore and a whimsical approach to chronological accuracy, the story involves the Indian uprising against the British East India Company.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Brad Wheeler
    War Room
    The faith-based War Room is so named because life is a battle to be strategized, with, in the case of God’s infomercial of a film, a large bedroom closet serving as scripture-plastered command centre.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    The Choice
    The Choice’s best attractions are the talented Benjamin Walker and the watery, small-town North Carolina scenery.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Brad Wheeler
    The Black Prince
    As entertainment, the film is pedantic and over-dramatic, with the string section working overtime on the soundtrack.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Brad Wheeler
    Extraction
    Lutz and fellow operative Carano are as warm and responsive as Ping-Pong paddles, batting lines back and forth lifelessly.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Gods of Egypt
    It’s all quest, flash and high action.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Collateral Beauty
    Scriptwriter Allan Loeb, the man behind more than one Kevin James vehicle, attempts Christmastime magic à la "Miracle on 34th Street," but ends up conjuring Maudlin on Madison Avenue instead.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    American Heist
    American Heist, I want my 94 minutes back.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 12 Brad Wheeler
    Bakery in Brooklyn
    Naturally, Brooklyn is the setting for the type of old-fashioned brand of fairy-tale film this stinker aspires to be, but each time the inspirational Brooklyn Bridge is shown the desire to jump off it is doubled.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    Father Figures
    The comedy is limp; a sentimental, existential ending is cut-rate and unearned.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Norm of the North
    Norm of the North will occupy the attention of young audiences while getting a message across to them about the dangers of humans going where they don’t belong. Older audiences are less well served; they’ll just have to grin and bear it.
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