Damon Wise

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Empire, The Guardian
For 108 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Damon Wise's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Changeling
Lowest review score: 20 The Benchwarmers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 108
  2. Mixed: 39 out of 108
  3. Negative: 1 out of 108
108 movie reviews
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    Blood Diamond
    Great performances, provocative ideas and gripping action scenes fall prey to Hollywood logic and pat storytelling in the final hour.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Damon Wise
    Two-Lane Blacktop
    This is not a film about narrative but loneliness and life on the road, which it captures with a mysterious brilliance.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    Gomorrah
    A sombre, slow, but well-paced study of organised crime in urban Naples that leaves a very grim taste in the mouth.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    Arguably not the most proficiently crafted film in Cannes this year and certainly not the most balanced, but Moore’s assault on the Bush administration is a terrific polemic.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    Tyson
    Very humane portrait of a potentially extremely unlikeable character.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Damon Wise
    Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    John C Reilly just about holds together a funny but patchy comedy that puts a ten-megaton bomb under the cliched rock biopic – and never detonates it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    Lolita
    Although it is often seen as a precursor to the multiple parts played in Dr Strangelove, Sellers' turn here is a reminder of his true potential, soon to be swallowed up by a stream of ever more awful Pink Panther films.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Damon Wise
    Bruno
    A patchy, hit-and-miss comedy with a few outrageous highs and a lot of just-okay padding, Brüno suggests that Sacha Baron Cohen's in-your-face fool routine sadly isn't working any more.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Damon Wise
    The Ordeal
    A black comedy with flashes of genius, but let down by a sharp slide into chaos.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    The Station Agent
    Ultimately this is a film about feelings, moments and things not said. Like "Lost In Translation," it’s about what happens when people living in their own little worlds collide.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Damon Wise
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Tense, kinetic, intelligent and real – as if Paul Greengrass had remade Vera Drake.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    The White Ribbon
    A hard film to love, but a hypnotic meditation on all the elements -- gossip, religion, bullying -- that can turn a parish and country bad.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    New York, New York
    More than a fascinating misfire, it’s a rare and telling glimpse into a legendary filmmaker’s fiercely guarded soul.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Damon Wise
    Black Snake Moan
    Sam Jackson delivers the electric blues in a not-so-blue movie that promises more Deep South sin than it actually delivers.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Damon Wise
    The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    Perhaps not an entirely a faithful portrayal of the era or the great man, but interesting in parts.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Damon Wise
    Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    A frustratingly soft documentary that would sooner teach the world to sing than get to the bottom of the Bin Laden enigma.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Damon Wise
    Everything Is Illuminated
    A thoughtful approach to a much-covered topic, mixing prickly issues of roots and genocide with an eye for the surreal and an ear for the earthy.
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