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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Sister
    It's delicately made, yet forceful in its delicacy.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Wattstax (re-released)
    Wattstax is a disorienting and ironic moviegoing experience. It's a film about the curative powers of rhythm-and-blues music that sets out to frustrate your sense of rhythm in its insistence on the blues.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Black Orpheus
    This is a movie about the marriage between sound and image, and the sound is wearing the pants in the relationship.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Chris & Don. A Love Story
    As loving and welcome as Chris & Don is, it's not well enough conceived to create equilibrium among its many parts.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Skyfall
    These are truly tedious stakes for an action movie. The franchise isn't worried about world safety. It's fretting over whether to start wearing Depends.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Hell and Back Again
    Dennis's film attempts something few documentaries have: to inhabit the psyche of its subject.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    I'm the One That I Want
    Priceless.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Wesley Morris
    Charlie St. Cloud
    It has no pulse, no apparent breath.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The mother-child dynamic here is the fraught stuff of any worthy melodrama.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The World
    The director is becoming a master of blending the political and the personal with eloquence and deceptive lightness.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    To Live and Die in L.A.
    To Live and Die in L.A. is as urgent and exhilaratingly paced as anything William Friedkin's done.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Bad Education
    This is a brilliantly structured hall of mirrors that wraps Catholicism and the movie industry into a tasty film noir.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Flight
    Flight is a so-so movie with Denzel Washington as a commercial-airline pilot who crash-lands a plane while drunk, high, hung over, and horny. It doesn't do much that you couldn't anticipate just by seeing the trailer - the trailer is more exciting than the movie itself.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Silver Linings Playbook
    Cooper gives the performance just the right lunacy and doubt.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Waiting for 'Superman'
    This is a patient, simmering movie. It's contemplative but without his usual smitten indulgences.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Kisses
    What the writer and director, Lance Daly, means as some kind of transporting urban adventure for them is a disenchanting slog for us.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Wendy and Lucy
    Wendy Carroll is a character we rarely see in movies anymore, a woman left alone with her thoughts. That a moviegoer would care what she's thinking testifies to the power in Williams's brand of solitude.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 38 Wesley Morris
    The Secret in Their Eyes
    The secret here is that the movie is rather tasteless. It has the high, slightly nauseating stink of perfume on garbage.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Food, Inc.
    The whole thing is as subtle as a watermelon in a bowl of Cheerios but necessary, nonetheless.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Tony Takitani
    The film itself is also a beautiful work of art, exquisitely framed and precisely envisioned.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    The Patriot
    The Patriot makes the Revolutionary War look like super-produced studio footage of the L.A. riots.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    Judy Irving's terrific documentary 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is ostensibly about birds, but only in the way that a game of Scrabble is about tiles.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Wesley Morris
    The Proposal
    Neither (Bullock/Reynolds) brings out anything good in the other, and watching them try hurts the eyes, the tummy, and the libido.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    You Hurt My Feelings
    This is a work of discipline and structure. It’s a situation comedy in the best, classical sense: These people’s ethical problems are sometimes ours. I’ve been Beth. I’ve been Don. And I had to watch half of what they’re dealing with through my fingers.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    True Grit
    This isn't a rousing movie as much as a reassurance. The brothers (Coens) prove they can play it straight, but they're preferred, for better and worse, at a sharp angle.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The Blair Witch Project
    Blair Witch forgoes a literal boogeyman in favor of the unseen, which, in this case, is as scarily bone-chilling as anything they could show you.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Wesley Morris
    American Virgin
    An undernourished exercise in pop critique.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Rabbit-Proof Fence
    As ambitious as this may be, however, the movie's objectives tax its energy even as the girls' plight tears at your heart.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    My Dog Tulip
    Many of the backgrounds look like watercolors that are either drying or dying.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The Mill and the Cross
    The Mill and the Cross captures the wish that some of us have had while standing in front of a great painting. What hangs before us is so striking, beautiful, strange, vast, horrifying, ethereal, lifelike - so alive - that we're desperate to enter the other side of the canvas, to be inside the painting.
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