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
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    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Wesley Morris
    My Soul to Take
    I watched at least a quarter of My Soul to Take, the worst horror movie Wes Craven's made perhaps ever, with the glasses off. It was shot - and is available - in a standard format, and, like many conversions, the 3-D gimmick is like watching a movie through an ashtray.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Happy Endings
    The cast is strong. Kudrow and Gyllenhaal provide the movie's emotional center.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Erin Brockovich
    Loose and funny with verve.
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    DysFunktional Family
    More vulgar than funny.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Girl Cut in Two
    It's intriguing. To be honest, though, there is less to it all than meets the eye.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Bird also really punches up the ensemble playing. I imagine one of the upsides of being the director of nonhuman beings is that you're trained to respond to characters as much as stars.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Layer Cake
    A lot of the problem is that the picture's protagonist is both naive and foul.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    The director has concocted a tragedy that actually feels tragic.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Twin Falls Idaho
    Beautiful, wandering little love story that wants to break your heart and probably will.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Love & Basketball
    Prince-Bythewood's movie is an occasionally clunky, mostly engaging coming out party for herself.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Thompson - his brilliance, his self-destruction, and the ground he broke - is always at the center, but the film occasionally loses its focus.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Bowfinger
    Priceless enough to flush "Metro," "Dr. Dolittle" and "Holy Man" from memory.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The 40 Year Old Virgin
    A lot of the credit for what's right with 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin goes to the screenplay, which Carell and Apatow wrote. They like these characters and, when it matters, they dare to give them feelings, none truer than Andy's.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Original Kings of Comedy
    Crassly funny passages.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Shattered Glass
    Shattered Glass, with its dumb title, is smart about good vs. evil. Incidentally, the good is Lane, who now works at The Washington Post and was a consultant on this picture.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
    It's an imperfect but ambitious film willing to confront an enormous, complex period in this country.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Amreeka
    It’s one of the richer movies you’re likely to see about average Arabs in America.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Road to Perdition
    Its seriousness is welcome. It's also a burden the film can't completely surmount.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    It's the videotaped equivalent of a primary research data dump. But to quote Bette Davis by way of Edward Albee: What a dump.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Climates
    It's one of the great movies on the vicissitudes of love, commitment, and attraction.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    In the Land of Women
    In the Land of Women sounds like a piece of cheap science fiction about the last man on earth. If you're the lovelorn mother and daughter in Jonathan Kasdan's first movie, a grating romantic drama, that's painfully close to the truth.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Quinceañera
    At its core, Quinceañera, a modest but remarkably poignant comedy, is the story of a neighborhood.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    In ''Trials,'' Hitchens is almost endearing, stalking Kissinger from one event to the next like a bleary-eyed Michael Moore.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Stone Reader
    A deep, exhaustive, and moving piece of do-it-yourself detective work.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Bowling for Columbine
    Moore's roving essay feels even more urgent now than it did when the jury had to make up an award to honor it at the Cannes film festival in May.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Millennium Mambo
    If Millennium Mambo is the only chance to see Hou Hsaio-hsien's work at a movie theater, you'd better take it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Welcome to Collinwood
    At some point we're flashed a junkyard billboard telling us that Collinwood is the ''Beirut of Cleveland'' - yes, but here, it's by way of Looney Tunes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Dogtooth
    Dogtooth is slightly less self-congratulatory than the average Dogme movie, a few of which belong to Lars von Trier. This feels, instead, more like an extreme summer at a Dadaist acting camp.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Thomas Crown Affair
    McTiernan's film mines what substance it has from its two stars, but is admittedly about keeping up its own appearances.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Good Hair
    There’s a lot of Michael Moore’s ambulatory spirit in this film, which the comedian Jeff Stinson directed. There’s also a lot of the damning comedic commentary that made Rock’s old HBO series so urgent.
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