Wesley Morris

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For 1,889 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Wesley Morris' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 How to Survive a Plague
Lowest review score: 0 Lost Souls
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,126 out of 1889
  2. Mixed: 439 out of 1889
  3. Negative: 324 out of 1889
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Goodbye Solo
    It sounds like the old unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object trick. Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo has the trappings of such a story, but, mercifully, none of the follow-through.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Wesley Morris
    The House That Jack Built
    Something feels off with von Trier’s sense of artistry now. Something feels stuck, like his head’s wound up lodged in his rear, which brings the movie closer to “The Human Centipede” than I would have thought. But this isn’t cinematic horror. It’s proctology.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    The Tree
    This is an easy movie to watch. If only Julie Bertuccelli had more trust in her most interesting stuff.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Corpse Bride
    Burton, who directed the film with animator Mike Johnson, has rarely been in brisker, friskier form.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Mafioso [re-release]
    Mafioso is the missing link in the mob movie arc.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Small Time Crooks
    Stooge-filled farce offers low laughs but lacks a point.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Inside Job
    The result is a masterpiece of investigative nonfiction moviemaking - a scathing, outrageous, depressing, comical, horrifying report on what and who brought on the crisis.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Chicken Run
    Imbued with infectious pluck. It's also a lucid, competent, titanically entertaining movie loaded with workable gags.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Wesley Morris
    Friday the 13th
    The movie might have worked if it winked more - or if it played things completely straight.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Toy Story 2
    Aspires to the boundlessness of a kid's imagination.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Joshua
    Joshua is the sort of movie in which nobody does what you would do: like spank or demand an extra-strength time out.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
    One wants to find enlightenment - or at least entertainment - in this reconsideration of Playboy and of Hefner. But it's tainted.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    L'Enfant (The Child)
    The arrival of closing credits feels like a trap door. The film is over, and, suddenly, we have to leave these people. The directors make no guarantee for their futures, but the strength of their filmmaking inspires you to hope for the best.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Poetry
    This is a movie whose power comes from the alignment both of Mija's discovery with ours and of a tremendous writer and director with his star.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The Spirit of the Beehive
    This is a modest marvel of grace and framing that unfolds with the patience of a cloud and is driven more by wonder than pure emotion. It doesn't have the exuberance of Francois Truffaut 's "Small Change." Instead, it's that movie's antonym, yet just as wondrous.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Russian Ark
    Who most of these exquisitely costumed people are I have no idea, but they brush past the camera in such rapids of jubilation it's a wonder they don't knock the thing over. I watched most of the film exhilarated, but depressed that I'm not a big Russophile.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Gomorrah
    Both a staggering realist thriller and a jeremiad.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    To Be and to Have
    Nothing momentous happens here, but Philibert has a magical sense of how to find the simple poetry lurking in the universal routine of being a kid. A lot of the film's lyricism is extracurricular.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    A watchful, winding-down tragedy of a movie that delivers what it promises. As commentary, it's grim. As filmmaking, it's a powerfully disturbing odyssey through the Bucharest health care system.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Maria Full of Grace
    Has a power that doesn't announce itself until it's over: You leave not wanting to give up on life, just resentful of the world we live in.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    The film's central drama is not between the former secretary and the filmmaker. It's between McNamara and history.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    As Apichatpong erases, once again, the barriers between the celestial and terrestrial, he also does away with the cordons between film genres - this is sci-firomancefamilyreligiousthrillercomedyporn. No video service has a section for that. The only suitable shelf is the one in your soul.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Tarnation
    A masterpiece.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Caché (Hidden)
    Maurice Bénichou does the most heartbreaking work in the movie, playing a friend of Georges's. It's a character and a performance I'll have a tough time getting out of my dreams.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    All About My Mother
    Almodovar imbues his Harlequin-novel-meets-Marvel-comic-book melodramas with something more than a wink and a smile, and it's beguiling.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Ten
    The new Abbas Kiarostami film is called Ten, and in it something amazing happens: nothing.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
    I don’t know if it’s entirely possible to be supremely conscious of one’s self and yet be vividly unselfconscious, but that’s where Beyoncé finds herself.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    The Straight Story
    A momentously, shockingly moving fit of shape-shifting by a filmmaker grown tired of the macabre.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    Cinema's greatest caveman meets his ancestors. For us, it's a reassurance: The creative process is astonishingly old and its fruits still surprisingly fresh.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    How to Survive a Plague
    We're now far enough from that era that seeing it all again feels like a slap to the face in the same way that watching certain moments in the civil rights epic "Eyes on the Prize" chills your bones. This doesn't have that series' stately magnitude. It's smaller and crasser, but it's comparatively galvanic.
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