Calvin Wilson

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For 439 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 79% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 21% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Calvin Wilson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 A Prophet
Lowest review score: 25 A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 377 out of 439
  2. Mixed: 49 out of 439
  3. Negative: 13 out of 439
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Skyscraper
    Skyscraper clearly aspires to be a 21st-century update of “Die Hard” (1988), one of the best action thrillers ever made. Instead, it’s just another film that squanders the movie-star charisma of Johnson, who should consider lending his box-office clout to more worthy projects.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Boundaries
    Perhaps it’s time for a moratorium on road movies. Despite its strenuous efforts to come across as quirky and original, Boundaries goes nowhere.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Life of the Party
    Working from a screenplay that he co-wrote with McCarthy, director Ben Falcone (who happens to be her husband) keeps things moving but without much of a spark.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Final Portrait
    This film might give you the urge to check out a comic-book movie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Rampage
    Clearly, this is a star vehicle — and the eminently likable Johnson is unquestionably a star. Through sheer force of personality, he elevates Rampage into something reasonably entertaining.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    The Miracle Season
    It’s downright depressing to see Oscar winners Hunt and Hurt struggling to make something meaningful out of their superficially written characters.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    7 Days in Entebbe
    Based on true events, 7 Days in Entebbe pulls off the difficult trick of making terrorism boring.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    A Wrinkle in Time
    It’s hard to understand what went wrong — the cast couldn’t be more appealing, and the film is bursting with special effects. But as an emotionally satisfying experience, it’s a bust.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Justice League
    This is a generic, uninspired and mind-bogglingly boring comic-book movie that’s out to steal your money and time.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    Valerian has some cool visuals. But there’s more to science fiction than pretty pictures.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    My Cousin Rachel
    It doesn’t help that Weisz and Claflin have zero chemistry, and both come across as miscast. She lacks the aura of mystery that her character requires, and he’s woefully low on the charisma required of a romantic hero.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    The franchise has sadly devolved into a cynical cash grab.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Table 19
    If being seated at Table 19 is a drag, watching the film of the same name is worse.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Gold
    Inspired by a true story, Gold is a major disappointment — a film of admirable ambition but woefully underwhelming execution.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Nocturnal Animals
    Nocturnal Animals is far less imaginative than even your most banal nightmare.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    This halftime walk is more like a long slog.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Inferno
    Don’t get burned by Inferno.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Keeping Up with the Joneses
    Keeping Up With the Joneses is hardly worth the effort.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    The Magnificent Seven
    Only when there’s an opportunity to blow things up does Fuqua seem fully engaged. Another Western bites the dust.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Genius
    Genius, like most films about the literary life, has trouble dramatizing what’s involved and making us care.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    X-Men: Apocalypse
    McAvoy and Fassbender appealingly reprise their frenemy chemistry. But Lawrence has little to do but look perplexed.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    A Bigger Splash
    A Bigger Splash? More like a small trickle.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Demolition
    Offbeat and unpredictable, Demolition takes a wrecking ball to audience expectations.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    I Saw the Light
    If you’re interested in Williams and his music, this film is better than nothing — but not by much.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Knight of Cups
    This is the kind of film that makes moviegoers long for good, old-fashioned storytelling.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    There’s a sharp comedy to be made about America’s misadventures in Afghanistan. This isn’t it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Mojave
    In a small role as a self-absorbed film producer, Mark Wahlberg is touchingly effective.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Stonewall
    In a way, Stonewall is proof that the gay community has fully made the transition to the mainstream. It’s now subject to the kind of Hollywood nonsense that was previously reserved for heterosexuals.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Saint Laurent
    Saint Laurent was a truly mythic figure. It’s a shame that Bonello’s film doesn’t do him justice.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    In the Name of My Daughter
    It doesn’t help that the characters caught up in this fact-based melodrama aren’t particularly engaging. Or that Téchiné doesn’t seem to have much of a feel for the material.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Penguins of Madagascar
    Strives to be entertaining, but for much of its run time it is so emotionally uninvolving that even the smallest children might find themselves bored.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Laggies
    Laggies is the kind of indie film that gives the genre a bad name.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Third Person
    Third Person doesn’t lack for ambition, and it’s nice to see Neeson in the kind of role that he excelled at before he morphed into an action star.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Admission
    Admission is one film you may not want to get into.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    The Salt of Life
    Episodically structured and lethargically paced, the new film attempts to convince us that there's something incredibly charming about an old guy who makes a habit of ogling young women. Actually, the whole scenario is pretty creepy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Outrage
    On its own terms and against all odds, "Outrage" is adequately entertaining, with more than enough cringe-inducing violence and cruel humor to please the average American moviegoer. But true Kitano fans will find its title sadly ironic.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Griff the Invisible
    Struggles heroically, but unsuccessfully, to strike a balance between whimsy and pathos.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Chasing Madoff
    A documentary that clearly aspires to the highest standards of cinematic muckraking but makes for a frustrating experience.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    One Day
    One Day fails to make us care about the young couple at its center.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Kaboom
    An inconsequential mess.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    No Strings Attached
    A foul-mouthed comedy, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. "Bad Santa" (2003) also had plenty of crude language and lewd behavior. The difference is, "Bad Santa" was extremely funny.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    The Tourist
    A would-be light thriller that's so deficient in the genre's essentials - such as witty dialogue, intriguing characters and surprising yet credible plot turns - that you're embarrassed for everyone involved.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Post Grad
    After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    9
    Although it has a great look and offers a few thrills, the animated film 9 is one of this year's biggest disappointments.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Easy A
    Manages to waste the talents of its strong supporting cast, which includes Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell and Stanley Tucci.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Leap Year
    In Hollywood, it’s all about the concept, and some studio executive must have thought it would be fun to watch Adams slogging around in the Irish mud. Unfortunately, there’s no accounting for taste.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Tooth Fairy
    The comedy is so lame that the whole enterprise comes across as depressing.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Dancing Across Borders
    Would have benefited from the kind of objectivity that Bass -- as Sar's well-heeled sponsor -- was hardly in a position to deliver.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Calvin Wilson
    Brothers
    As a melodrama, Brothers is passable entertainment. But the film squanders the opportunity to meaningfully portray the impact of war on American lives.

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