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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Calvin Wilson
    Ocean's 8
    The charismatic cast can’t be faulted. Bullock and Blanchett are more than credible as crooks, and Hathaway is delightful as the self-absorbed Daphne. Unfortunately, Ocean’s 8 turns out to be a poor showcase for their talents.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Calvin Wilson
    Secretariat
    Only a heartfelt performance by Diane Lane rescues the film from abject mediocrity.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    Watermelon Man
    In the early scenes, Cambridge brilliantly conveys Gerber's obnoxiousness while making him sympathetic. Later, Cambridge imbues the character with a blend of outrage and pride that's breathtaking. [31 Jul 2008, p.8]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Calvin Wilson
    The Man Who Invented Christmas
    Working from a screenplay by Susan Coyne, director Bharat Nalluri maintains a pace that brings to mind a wagon loaded down with too many Christmas trees. Though the movie has a great look, it’s short on storytelling magic.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    SPECTRE
    Spectre isn’t bad — just slightly disappointing.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Calvin Wilson
    Ghostbusters
    This reboot starring some of today’s finest comic actors — male or female — is a wonderfully hilarious and boldly imaginative creation in its own right.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Calvin Wilson
    Our Idiot Brother
    Our Idiot Brother is smart entertainment.
    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Calvin Wilson
    Allied
    An old-fashioned film that slyly nods to contemporary sensibilities, Allied is an engaging showcase for Pitt and Cotillard.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 100 Calvin Wilson
    The Adjustment Bureau
    An exhilarating balancing act, at once a science-fiction romp, a paranoid thriller and a philosophical treatise.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    The Beaver
    The Beaver isn't a perfect film, but it's challenging and original.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    Gifted
    An engaging comedy-drama that avoids becoming too much of a tearjerker.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    Isn't as memorable or provocative as it might have been. But it's an engaging love story that should appeal to moviegoers with a flair for the offbeat.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    Complete Unknown
    What the film has going for it is a terrific performance from Weisz, who renders Alice at once sympathetic and enigmatic.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    To the Wonder
    To the Wonder teeters between experimentation and incoherence. Does it deserve to be seen? Absolutely. Just be aware of what you’re getting into.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Calvin Wilson
    Jason Bourne
    Working from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Christopher Rouse, director Paul Greengrass has come up with a post-Snowden film that delivers nonstop thrills.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    13 Minutes
    Friedel turns in a poignant performance as a man who feels that he has no choice but to act on his principles, regardless of the consequences.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Calvin Wilson
    Snowden
    Gordon-Levitt turns in an Oscar-worthy performance as a man who’s all too aware of what he’s letting himself in for. And Woodley skillfully balances a range of emotions as Lindsay.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Calvin Wilson
    A Hologram for the King
    It’s true that not much happens — except cinema at its finest.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    The Tree
    The Tree might have suffered from too much symbolism if not for writer-director Julie Bertuccelli's deft touch and Gainsbourg's appealing performance.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Calvin Wilson
    The Seagull
    One has to wonder why the film was even made if it had to be so disastrously compromised. Chekhov would be appalled.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    Hotel Artemis
    Hotel Artemis is neither a sequel nor a remake, but a film of considerable originality. And that makes it a rarity at the multiplex.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    We Bought a Zoo
    As a man committed to reinventing himself, Damon is terrific. And Johansson brings to Kelly just the right blend of spunkiness and hard-won maturity.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Calvin Wilson
    Stone
    Stone isn't for everyone. But for all its shortcomings, it is courageously original.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Calvin Wilson
    The Zookeeper's Wife
    Little more than an old-fashioned melodrama, but for some moviegoers that will be enough.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Calvin Wilson
    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Burton delivers his most ambitious and engaging film since “Sweeney Todd” (2007). Although the story becomes increasingly complex as it goes along, the emotional payoff is more than worth it.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Calvin Wilson
    The Wall
    Taylor-Johnson — who earned high praise for his performance in last year’s “Nocturnal Animals” — is riveting as a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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