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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    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Suck It Up
    The childish manner in which Glowicki plays impulsive, irresponsible Ronnie makes it hard to develop sympathy or understanding toward the character. It's a problem in an otherwise gentle diversion of a film.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Brad Wheeler
    Wonder
    Owen Wilson cries, but audiences will more likely roll their eyeballs at writer-director Stephen Chbosky's outrageous emotional manipulations.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Jane
    Director Morgen is a bit messy with his timeline and his relentless insect photography really bugged me. But the biggest nit to pick is with Philip Glass's intrusive, crazily grandiose score.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    LBJ
    Reiner is no Oliver Stone, but he does stir things up by presenting Bobby Kennedy in the villain's role as a serious jerk and crafty underminer.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Brad Wheeler
    Dina
    Co-directors Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles tell the story gracefully, doling out Dina's tragic backstory in excellent increments.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Brad Wheeler
    The Breadwinner
    The picture sings and inspires.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Brad Wheeler
    California Typewriter
    There's a certain nostalgia at work here, but where the film really clicks is on the subject of the creative process and as a meditation on the human-machine dynamic.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Thank You for Your Service
    Not once does anyone question the war or their involvement in it. We can't depend on big answers from filmmakers, but to not ask big questions seems like a dereliction of duty.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Brad Wheeler
    The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    The comedy is clever; the study of family dynamics is sharper still. Sandler's performance is superb, his character limping through the movie psychically as well as physically.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    The Foreigner
    The intrigue is high and the action is furious, but a sort of meta subplot is also at work: Sextagenerian action-film hero Chan against onetime 007er Brosnan.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Happy Death Day
    There's a spunky charm to the Scream-meets-Groundhog Day thing, and the film is well-built. The problem is its chipper message.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Lucky
    Making his directorial debut is actor John Carroll Lynch (no relation to David Lynch). This first-timer quirks things up occasionally with surreal scenes of a nightmare and an on-the-nose allegory (Lucky walking toward an exit sign and standing at an abyss).
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Bugs
    Though it might initially look like a wacky foodie adventure show, Bugs has a conscience.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    The result is an irreverent, kinetic presentation with snappy dialogue and a hammered-home message that is graspable to even those with cup-shaped hands: One's true powers are internal, not external devices.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Brad Wheeler
    Battle of the Sexes
    The film is surprisingly timely: Today's fierce, revitalized misogyny makes the 1970s male chauvinism droll and quaint in comparison.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    The plot finds loopholes as it rambles ahead semi-plausibly to its conclusion. Audiences will no doubt applaud this entertaining film, but the case is under appeal.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Gaga: Five Foot Two
    Entertaining but manipulative.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    Bushwick
    Bushwick is an unpolished work, but there's an adrenalin charge, sure thing. It's close combat and it's closer than most Americans might wish to believe.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    The Queen of Spain
    Trueba, 62, has reassembled a lot of the old cast, most of whom play characters trying to recapture old magic. Make of that what you will. It's fun.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Brad Wheeler
    Good Time
    Tense, immersive and excellently assaulting, Good Time is hella time.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    In This Corner of the World
    The elegant, condensed saga covers a dozen years, starting in 1933. You don't need to be an Einstein to guess where the story is heading. An evocative, slow-blooming feature is a study on the flash horrors of war and the gradual death of dreams.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Menashe
    The news behind the understated drama Menashe is that it’s a rare thing, a film performed in Yiddish, covertly shot in Brooklyn’s guarded Hasidic community.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Brad Wheeler
    The Trip to Spain
    Over all, the food porn was played down, the series is getting a little road-weary and who knows what happens with these guys next. If they’re thinking about heading to France, a horny Frenchman has some good advice: Paris can wait.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Landline
    Dad’s suspected infidelity is the tension in a film that hammers its nineties setting so relentlessly it could be called Sex, Lies and Videotape (and Floppy Disks and Payphones).
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Brigsby Bear
    An oddball charmer of a motion picture about nostalgia, the pursuit of artistic passion and a coming of age bizarrely delayed and uniquely fulfilled. The bear itself is but a bit player.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
    This film is about giving credit where previously neglected credit is due. “You wouldn’t let us talk about it before,” Robertson says at the end of the doc. “But now I’m going to talk about it real loud.” No volume is too much at this point.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    The Women's Balcony
    Well conceived, deftly comic and finely acted (particularly Evelin Hagoel as the gutsy wives’ ringleader), The Women’s Balcony overlooks nothing when it comes to addressing faith, segregation and sexism in a peppery, entertaining way.
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    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    I Am the Blues
    Cross’s light-handed (but too long) film doesn’t romanticize or overcomprehend, choosing instead to concentrate on life’s non-choices.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Brad Wheeler
    13 Minutes
    An interrogation session involving a psychotropic drug is just too weird for words and some will find the film sentimental and too naked in its Academy baiting. That said, 13 Minutes works like clockwork as an artful (if not terribly ambitious) take on a grotesque era.
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