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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    21 Grams
    Long on mood and moodiness, but at a loss as how to break any interesting human ground.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 38 Wesley Morris
    Our Idiot Brother
    It's all emotionally counterfeit, and that bogusness infects the comedy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Contagion
    As a filmmaker Soderbergh requires nothing more of us than a willingness to enjoy ourselves. He had fun. Why shouldn't we? With Contagion, the fun begins with a cough.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    En la ciudad sin límites
    A tidy soap opera. But it's a discreet, warmly made one, too. In a show of restraint, the intrigue never rises above mildly juicy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    It Might Get Loud
    As documentary, it’s low concept. But it’s never dull.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Warlords
    It’s all lavish, if disposable. But in a nifty change of pace, the warriors in The Warlords are interesting.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Cedar Rapids
    The movie shouldn't work, yet it does.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Strayed
    Hardship and suffering don't drive this movie so much as a romantic's gloss on the two.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Lars and the Real Girl
    When a movie about a guy who orders a sex doll off the Internet can turn vice into virtue, something miraculous has occurred. Lars and the Real Girl achieves that kind of miracle.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Tears of the Black Tiger
    A parody of and winking homage to the history of Thai melodrama, Wisit Sasanatieng's uproarious filmmaking debut exuberantly combines pop and kitsch with a wholesome belief in the thrills of bad art.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Never Let Me Go
    Amazingly, Never Let Me Go could have been assembled from the Merchant-Ivory kit. It's stale with suppressed anguish.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Frankly, the story isn’t remotely as interesting as Cage. Nothing is. In Ferrara’s movie, Keitel emptied himself out. But there’s a hellion’s joy in Cage’s cop.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Girlhood
    Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus spent three years shooting two teenagers living in a Maryland juvenile detention center. The completed film is called Girlhood and it feels as much a work in progress as its two troubled subjects do.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Dung che sai duk
    "Ashes of Time" was always more a work of philosophy than pure entertainment, and a decade and a half later it still is.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Up for Grabs
    A rarity for documentaries. The movie is a full-tilt farce, and were it not completely true, it'd be a piercing satire that Preston Sturges might have polished into a resonant screwball.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The September Issue
    What the movie unfolds is how the magazine is inextricable from Wintour’s vision of it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
    When the film ends, we're haunted. We've been driving with a ghost.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 12 Wesley Morris
    The Strangers
    A horror film with a moral. No matter how nasty a gang of murderers is, the moviemaker calling the shots is ultimately worse.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Giorni e nuvole
    In American movies, the iconic question usually is, can men and women be friends without the sex part getting in the way? Here it's, can a husband appreciate his wife as a woman? The movie's success in Italy is partly a matter of frustration: Women need their men to grow up.
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