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 1.1 points 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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Brad Wheeler
    Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
    If you see only one movie this summer, see the movie about the movie it took seven summers to make. Hype? You bet. But the hard sell is warranted when it comes to a documentary with a high-flying title and an action-adventure blockbuster legacy attached.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Now You See Me 2
    In real life, of course, nobody can be hypnotized against their will. To be mesmerized is to willingly succumb. Just keep that in mind when you head off to see something like Now You See Me 2.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    The Conjuring 2
    A supernatural winner.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    They’re back for an entertaining enough 3-D sequel to their 2014 franchise revival, and so is the rest of the cast that includes foxy Megan Fox and her ability to wear a naughty schoolgirl outfit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Dark Horse
    The racer turns out to be a contender, but the small-time syndicate is the real story, an inspiring tale heard, as it were, straight from the horse’s mouth.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    A Bigger Splash
    Fiennes really shines here, with an electric-cocaine vigour and lust for life.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    The Meddler
    It’s a sitcom-y, Sarandon-wrapped Mother’s Day valentine.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Mother's Day
    Mother’s Day is a concocted market-driven holiday, and so is this M&M’s-obsessed movie – candy for the sweet-toothed among us.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Brad Wheeler
    Precious Cargo
    A rip-off and a rerun.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Sing Street
    As he did with "Once," Carney with the somewhat autobiographical Sing Street mixes hardscrabble realism with highly charged romanticism, filmed on a low budget with mostly unknown talent.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Brad Wheeler
    The Dark Horse
    The cinematography is evocative – rainy, rich, gritty and raw, for this inspiring but not always pretty story – and Curtis is 100-per-cent watchable as a puffy, mumbling shuffler whose chess lessons double as life strategies.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Barbershop: The Next Cut
    While the film is well meaning and the joshing crew at Calvin’s Barbershop is a hoot, the Malcolm D. Lee-directed comedy is plagued by relentless mawkishness, indifferent storytelling, willful naiveté and clunky seriousness.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    I Saw the Light
    Perhaps a better name for Marc Abraham’s well-crafted biopic would be His Cheatin’ Heart, for this motion picture concentrates on the marital distress between a philandering Williams and his flat-singing wife (played with vibrancy by Elizabeth Olsen).
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Hardcore Henry
    Is it much of a movie? Not really. It’s more of an experience – a passive sort of virtual reality – that uses a bare-bones narrative as a vehicle for a big-time body count.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Brad Wheeler
    The Boss
    A lazy Melissa McCarthy vehicle that relies on relentless potty-mouth moments.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Darling
    Keating’s flattery is sincere, and so is his wish to stylishly freak you silly.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Eye in the Sky
    The political buck-passing from all entertains and creates the film’s time-sensitive tension.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Forsaken
    Typical themes (redemption, forgiveness) are laid out with little imagination.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Brad Wheeler
    The Little Prince
    The audience is invited to celebrate the purified wonder of youth and the dazzle of life’s invisible indispensables.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Glassland
    Glassland is a small film with an emotional punch that wallops above its weight class.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Born to be Blue
    Budreau constructs with imagination and pleasing fluidity, painting a portrait with a soft, sympathetic focus while steering clear of worship.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    The Wave
    While The Wave doesn’t quite match the saga of, say, The Impossible from 2012, it’s a film absolutely worth catching.
    • 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.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Gods of Egypt
    It’s all quest, flash and high action.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Triple 9
    Though compelling in the acting and cinematography, Triple 9’s plot is by the numbers and about nothing.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Only Yesterday (1991)
    A butterfly metaphor is employed by the time-flipping Takahata, a filmmaker whose delightful Only Yesterday took 25 years to arrive right on time.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Touched With Fire
    Dalio’s script doesn’t always flow as smoothly as the camera work, but an air of calm authenticity should leave audiences touched, in a good way.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Snowtime!
    The colourful film of course is allegorical: Peace is tough and tedious; war is an easy solution. And while the kids’ enthusiasm for battle wanes, pint-sized audiences will likely remain engaged.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Brad Wheeler
    Lazer Team
    The comedy is sophomoric and sort-of spoofy; satire happens here and there.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 38 Brad Wheeler
    A Date with Miss Fortune
    [An] occasionally cute romantic comedy.
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