Wes Greene

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For 146 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 32% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Wes Greene's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 88 I Touched All Your Stuff
Lowest review score: 12 Happy Birthday
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 146
  2. Mixed: 38 out of 146
  3. Negative: 27 out of 146
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Wes Greene
    Gaia
    After a while, the film’s elaborate, often breathtaking special effects come to feel like it’s only source of complexity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    The Tainted Veil
    The filmmakers refuse to promote a political agenda of their own in order to let the varied convictions of others foster a necessary dialogue.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    Phantom Boy
    The filmmakers are thankfully willing to render, with unremitting vigor, how grief can batter the human heart.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Wes Greene
    Users
    The film’s triumph is keeping us on our toes by sending us into an ether where fear and wonder live hand in hand.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    Kingdom of Shadows
    The visible numbness and empty stares of the doc's three subjects painfully evoke years of being gripped by the war on drugs.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    Antarctic Edge: 70° South
    It appears afraid of alienating viewers by overloading on scientific jargon, and in the process becomes too attracted to ultimately superfluous anecdotes from her subjects.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    A Letter to Momo
    It offers a realistic portrayal of Momo's emotional state, but this comes at the expense of a deeper exploration into both the story's lush supernatural landscape and its inhabitants.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Wes Greene
    The Phantom of the Open
    The film loses its satiric edge as it begins to melodramatically detail how Maurice Flitcroft inherited the mantle of folk hero.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    The Party
    The comically rich visual tapestry of Blake Edwards’s The Party still endures.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    Madeleine Collins
    Seemingly channeling the spirit of Claude Chabrol, Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins is a decidedly classy throwback thriller about a seemingly humdrum character committing perverse acts of subterfuge against others.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    Danny Says
    It ends on a muted whimper of a note that one doesn't expect given that the film's subject is such an immensely entertaining raconteur.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    Dreamin' Wild
    The elegantly underplayed performances ensure that the film never succumbs to melodrama.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Wes Greene
    If the Dancer Dances
    It's less of an insightful backstage documentary than a gushing, sycophantic love letter to the late Merce Cunningham.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Wes Greene
    La Última Película
    The film isn't so much about "the end of cinema" as it is about the people who abuse the medium and their subjects for their own political agenda.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    Food Chains
    Perhaps Sanjay Rawal's most fascinating excursion into agriculture's dark side is the vineyards of Napa Valley, where the practically Eden-like scenery masks a dreary labor model.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    Joshy
    The film feels most real, even at its most absurd, when focused on the idea of closure as a kind of fantasy.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Wes Greene
    I Touched All Your Stuff
    A documentary whatsit acutely aware of the inherent performance people put into social discourse to maintain appearances.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Wes Greene
    The Tower
    As the psychology of the characters hardly connects with their distinctive milieu, the film merely suggests a conventional family drama littered with empty pot-shots at governmental authority.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    Copshop
    With its pulpy thrills, hyperbolic dialogue, charismatic scumbags, and a score heavy in electronic effects and percussion, the film effortlessly coasts on a gnarly old-school vibe.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Wes Greene
    Bicycling With Molière
    Even though the subtext about the past and modernity constantly being at odds throughout the setting's changing times is intriguing, the director presents this in a clunky, almost didactic fashion.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    Dog
    Dog cannily smuggles a nuanced inquiry of a social issue under the guise of popular entertainment.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    All I Can Say
    The film refuses to shy away from the unvarnished honesty of Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon during his brief moment of fame.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    Antarctica: Ice and Sky
    The documentary advances its cause through an intimately diaristic depiction of hard work done well.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    Human Factors
    Despite the mystery of the home invasion becoming increasingly tangential, Human Factors remains a compelling puzzle-box.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
    Yael Melamede doesn't dwell on each of her subjects' stories beyond the condensed version that's related on screen.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Wes Greene
    The Secret Garden
    In lieu of pluming the emotional states of the characters, the film resorts to a whimsical, otherworldly fantasy element as an easy resolution.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Wes Greene
    Seeds of Time
    First-person accounts from individuals most affected by the drop in agricultural productivity are rarely the focus of the film's vision.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Wes Greene
    The Wanted 18
    The eccentric artistry calls so much attention to itself as to make the subject of the film feel like an afterthought.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    A Land Imagined
    Writer-director Yeo Siew Hua suggests that becoming another person is as easy as dreaming it.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Wes Greene
    All Is True
    It’s an unfussy, intimate chamber drama that’s fearless in confronting the attitudes of its exalted subject.
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