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
439 movie reviews
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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.
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