Wesley Morris

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Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The New York Times
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
1889 movie reviews
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    The Song of Sparrows
    The images in The Song of Sparrows have a poetic grace that's to be desired in storytelling. You feel Majidi's hand much more than you do God's.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Linda Linda Linda
    As directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita , the sluggish haze between extracurricular activities is exquisitely captured and framed, then patiently edited. Every shot feels like a gift.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    La faute à Fidel!
    Brilliantly, the movie becomes a double coming-of-age story. The parents' political awakening parallels their daughter's.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    It's a gas, dude!
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Cropsey
    A chillingly effective documentary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Dinner Game
    A featherweight parlor-room French farce in need of an anchor to keep it from being blown away by the summer blockbuster gales.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Red Cliff
    Even at 148 minutes (and viewed twice!), you still feel as if you’re watching the longest coming attraction ever for a John Woo movie.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    The Limey
    Makes a term like neo-noir seem like a fatuous catch phrase.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    All About Lily Chou-Chou
    Awash in strangeness, a poem that details what it's like to be 13 at the end of a millennium.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    The Iron Lady
    It's a parade float atop which Streep can pose and impose. Sometimes her showmanship amounts to shamelessness. She wants us to watch her sack another part.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Wesley Morris
    Wham!
    Nothing here’s overthought or pumped up. To invoke the words of a different beacon of catchiness, “Wham!” is a teenage dream. You could drink it from a coconut.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    Through it all, Ozon supplies a sense of pathos that makes fun of its own soullessness, transforming a self-serious suicide note into an existential love letter.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Wesley Morris
    The Ward
    Even by the standards of mental-institution-movie misogyny, what an accidental but predictable creepshow this is.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    The Princess and the Frog
    The voice actors are also excellent, especially Michael-Leon Wooley as a bouncy trumpet-playing alligator and Jim Cummings as a lovelorn Cajun firefly.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Araya
    While it insists that everyday lives in Araya are full of drudgery and toil, the film fails to produce a single ugly image.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Strange Fruit
    The film spends its first half explaining the song -- famously and vividly about the cycle of Southern lynching. Its better second half-hour unmasks its composer as a compassionate Jewish guy from the Bronx.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Made-Up
    It wants, as Kate says about her documentary, to be a "seminal work on beauty and aging." But it wears like a gauzy romantic comedy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Memory of a Killer
    Entertaining.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Meet the Parents
    What begins as unassumingly dull wanders into disarming chaos.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Matrix
    Where most effects-laden extravanganzas aspire to be nothing more than a live-action comic book, The Matrix sees things with the venturesome clarity of a graphic novel.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Big Animal
    Gathers a sort of darkness as it comes to its oblique conclusion.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Last Life in the Universe
    There is no plot in Pen-ek Ratanaruang's exceedingly mellow situation comedy, and that's preferred, frankly.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    I'm Not Scared
    Watching it is like being lost in somebody's richly moody campfire story -- it's so good, in fact, that only once it's over do you realize you've been holding your marshmallows too close to the flame.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Divorce Iranian Style
    A document of vexing (and vexed) immediacy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Exiled
    This intriguing story, like many tales of mid-20th-century American art, is fueled by testosterone.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    The Price of Sugar
    Offers yet another example of how a lot of what we consume is produced at somebody else's expense. In this case, it's sugar.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Declaration of War
    As ponderous and overwrought as a film hogged by a couple of young hipsters named Roméo and Juliette can be.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Corporation
    At its most effective, the movie is a chastening, sobering, and thorough work of film journalism, however shortsighted.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Not One Less
    Like a Sally Field movie by Vittorio De Sica: Zhang wants to affect you with the subtle sting of his politics.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Space Cowboys
    From both sides of the camera, Eastwood works the crowd better than he has in years.
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