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

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  • 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
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    Shelter
    Wright is a find, while Rowe may surprise those who dismissed him as a Brad Pitt look-alike when he first came to attention in "Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss." Here, Rowe displays new authority and confidence, as if lately he’s been looking in the mirror and seeing himself, rather than that other, more famous blond.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    Dahmer
    The purest of horror films.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    Brother to Brother
    In movies, the young are forever being taken back in time by the old, but what sets apart this low-energy yet ambitious debut feature by writer-director Rodney Evans is the complexity of the questions that journey raises.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    No One Lives
    Director Ryûhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train) is too talented for material this retro-junky, but he and screenwriter David Cohen keep the action coming hard and fast.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    Gypsy 83
    Karen Black gives her sharpest performance in years as Bambi LeBleau, a roadside-dive karaoke hostess who invites the kids back to her house for a night of booze and lounge classics.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    Maybe Baby
    A film we hereby proclaim the finest fertility comedy ever made, in the faint hope that another will not be attempted.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    The Embalmer
    Mahieux, who is superb, methodically paint Peppino as a man for whom solitude is torture.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    Guess Who
    Has surprising depth and charm, descriptors never before ascribed to a movie starring Ashton Kutcher.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 70 Chuck Wilson
    I Love Your Work
    The filmmaking is actually quite polished, and Ribisi is fascinating to watch -- his fluttery weirdness has never seemed more grounded and resonant, turning Gray's self-destructive egoism into near tragedy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    The Summit
    The Summit is at its most powerful when the filmmakers simply tell the tale, which gradually develops the unsettling suspense of a horror movie, with K2 cast as the implacable killer.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Frailty
    Audiences are destined to debate the film's final scenes, where Hanley piles on plot twists, leading to a coda that turns a creepily ambiguous story about God and the terrifying power of paternal love into something closer to an X-File.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Big Momma's House 2
    Mercifully free of excess mania, sexual innuendo and fart jokes, this sweet-natured comedy, ably directed by John Whitesell (Malibu's Most Wanted), has some nice bits of business.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Elvira's Haunted Hills
    Peterson and her longtime writing partner, John Paragon, as well as director Sam Irvin, clearly worship the Poe-inspired Roger Corman/Vincent Price films of the 1960s, so of course there’s a pit and a pendulum in that dungeon, but who’d have expected it to be so beautifully designed?
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Who's Driving Doug
    The road-trip drama Who's Driving Doug is earnest but not overly sweet — a blessing for a film with built-in sentimentality traps.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    The Backyard
    Though engaging from beginning to end, be warned that this is also harrowing, utterly depressing stuff.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Algorithms
    [A] slow-moving yet soulful documentary.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Downtown: A Street Tale
    Clichéd though it may be, this movie was clearly made with love.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    A Walk to Remember
    West delivers the emotional goods when tragedy strikes in the final reel. If 17-year-old pop star Moore isn't a skilled actress, she's at least unassuming.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Enemy at the Gates
    Despite the success of these action sequences, Annaud and his ultraserious cast are so determined (admirably) to keep war from seeming romantic that we are never quite pulled into the movie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    HellBent
    You can be sure that his victims die shirtless, and are as dumb as the hetero dimwits who fell prey to Jason or Freddy, but what you might not expect is that this queer-slanted slasher flick is actually pretty good.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Live Cargo
    The need to tell a story and the desire not to collide in Live Cargo, the narratively uneven but visually exquisite debut feature from writer-director Logan Sandler.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Welcome to Collinwood
    With a dream cast that also includes Patricia Clarkson and, in a cameo, a tattooed George Clooney, fullness of narrative may not have struck the filmmakers as key, and their film feels slight, as if it were an extended short, albeit one made by the smartest kids in class.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Cézanne et Moi
    The film gains power in the final third...one wishes Thompson had chosen to view the great artist's lives through the eyes of the women who loved (and tolerated) them
    • 25 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Venom
    Although, in the end, this is basically just a moss-strewn remake of his 1997 hit, "I Know What You Did Last Summer," director Jim Gillespie appears invigorated, sending his capable young cast into a series of nicely staged suspense sequences.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    One Last Thing...
    Formulaic but refreshingly low-key weepie.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    The Story of Luke
    The Story of Luke is a charming little film in need of a bit more grit.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Saving Shiloh
    Saving Shiloh takes place in 2005, but in its setting and sensibility, it feels like 1930s Walton's Mountain.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Dark House
    Dark House is one nutty horror movie, but what's crazier still is how well it works — until it doesn't.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Dead Before Dawn 3D
    Dead Before Dawn's best jokes are grounded in the warm, believable camaraderie between Casper and his friends, but Mullen is less confident with crowds. The zemon-horde attack scenes are a visual jumble.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 60 Chuck Wilson
    Diamonds
    Kirk Douglas turns 83 this very week, and surely the fact that he's pulled a rabbit out of the hat at this late date deserves a deep bow.
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