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 11 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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    • 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.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    What they don't do often enough is battle anacondas. It's all tease and no payoff.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Little Black Book
    Screenwriters Melissa Carter and Erica Bell (Sleepover) have given Murphy -- perhaps the twitchiest actor of her generation --cutesy quirks to play in lieu of a character.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Case 39
    Has there ever been a more inept trio of big-city caseworkers? Go ahead, Lilith. Unleash the hounds.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    Very Good Girls
    Very Good Girls is a film one wants to like but can't. It just doesn't work.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    After a first hour that plays like a bad TV show, Sommers hits his groove with an over-the-top Paris chase sequence that, in turn, leads to an underwater finale that’s absurdly overproduced, momentarily diverting, and then instantly forgettable.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Chuck Wilson
    The Girl
    Like the film's characters, the city of Paris has been made faceless, as if it too were merely the pawn in a representational hell where light and color and shading are forbidden.
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