Chuck Wilson

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L.A. Weekly, Village Voice
For 456 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Chuck Wilson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 A Quiet Place
Lowest review score: 0 Bless the Child
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 159 out of 456
  2. Mixed: 219 out of 456
  3. Negative: 78 out of 456
456 movie reviews
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Against the Ropes
    There's not a believable moment in all of it, but for a while the film chugs along on Ryan's innate charisma. Even so, no amount of movie-star twinkle could lighten screenwriter Cheryl Edwards' bizarre character arc, which finds Jackie turning, overnight, into a callous, possibly racist, ninny.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Kill Me Later
    Shawn is clearly meant to have deep feelings, yet the filmmakers have saddled her -- and Blair -- with a shallow angst that bums out the whole movie.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    On the Line
    Bass isn't a gifted actor, but he retains his dignity, mostly by keeping his head down and avoiding the eyes of the idiots around him.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Uptown Girls
    One almost pities the unnervingly twitchy Murphy, whose shiny makeup is dreadful, and who doesn't stand a chance alongside the focused intensity of Fanning, who commands the screen with the precision of a 30-year veteran.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Eban and Charley
    Drab and muddled romance.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Hellions
    Hellions is unsettling, but in all the wrong ways.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Underworld: Blood Wars
    Menzies should be just the spark to bring Underworld back to life, but it doesn’t happen. Screenwriter Cory Goodman (The Last Witch Hunter) isolates Marius from Selene and the other major players so that Menzies is left adrift, like a great fighter without a worthy sparring partner.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Halloween II (2009)
    This time, Zombie doesn’t appear to have many deep thoughts, so Michael doesn’t just stab his victims, he slices and chomps them into gooey pulp — an overkill motif that actually feels false to the character and quickly becomes a depressing bore.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Feel the Noise
    Inane uplift tale for teens.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Open Windows
    The new thriller from Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) is visually dazzling, but the story starts off silly and ends up a confusing, maddening mess.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Soul Survivors
    A horror movie that's not horrific enough, Soul Survivors plays like a "Twilight Zone" by way of "Touched by an Angel."
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    The Brothers Solomon
    There is nothing sadder, either in real life or on the movie screen, than an unlikable idiot, and what we have with this dreadful comedy -- the longest 90 minutes of the film year -- is the sight of not one but two charm-free fools.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Terraferma
    It's all very predictable, very Hollywood. Storytelling cliché, it would seem, knows no borders.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Message in a Bottle
    Even the easily weepy may grow impatient with the snail’s pace of this melancholy romance.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Finding Home
    Moves slowly and deflates completely when the over-hyped family secret turns out to be a dramatic dud. Still, it's an awfully pretty movie. Let's all summer in Maine.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Hotel Room
    Judging by the stilted nature of both the dialogue and acting, that's what this film is -- a thesis project better suited to a grad-night exhibition.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Nurse 3D
    If the onscreen serial killer isn't having fun, how can we?
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Compulsion
    The game of wills that ensues between the two women isn't terribly interesting, much less suspenseful, and in fact, it's not clear that director Egidio Coccimiglio and screenwriter Floyd Byars ever settled on whether they were making a thriller or a satire about food and celebrity.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Alone in the Dark
    Director Uwe Boll (House of the Dead) pulls off a nicely staged fistfight in an open-air market at the start, but soon loses his way amid mind-glazing exposition and endless gunfire aimed at bulletproof giant lizards.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Devil's Due
    Devlin's script tips its hand so early on that Devil's Due lumbers toward a woefully flat, predictable ending, and the unwelcome promise of something truly demonic — sequels.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Twisted
    Insipid embarrassment.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Masked and Anonymous
    After a zippy first hour, the wackos wear out their welcome and the director, perversely, fails to show the big concert.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Blindness
    As a calling card for the stylistic talents of a new filmmaker, writer-director Anna Chi's first feature is a success. As drama, it's a dud.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Summer Catch
    To help Prinze sail past the eventually unbearable clichés of Kevin Falls and John Gatins' script, director Mike Tollin has assembled an impressive supporting cast.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Baby on Board
    Feels like a movie made by men whose world views were shaped, primarily, by "Porky's" and "American Pie."
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    The Boy Who Cried Bitch: The Adolescent Years
    This is a decidedly bizarre movie, nicely photographed and designed -- someone spent some money -- but built entirely around dialogue so stilted and unrevealing that it’s little wonder poor LaVorgna screams it.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    King's Ransom
    Remarkably unfunny.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Jayne Mansfield's Car
    Although Thornton and co-writer Tom Epperson are clearly trying to get to some essential truth about the ways in which machismo hinders love, their insights are scattered and pedestrian.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    My Baby's Daddy
    Strictly Urban Comedy 101, as if the filmmakers had neither the inclination nor the chops to move the genre past timeworn stereotypes.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Besotted
    The director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of New Age–inspired good intentions, but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing.
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