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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    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    The Island
    Bay's strength as a filmmaker, the reason his superficial yet entertaining productions can never be completely ignored, is that he appears to lack shame. He'll blow anything up and run anybody over. The moral complexities don't matter to him. He just wants to stage spectacles, appreciate very good-looking people, and assert his cowboy aesthetic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Waste Land
    Waste Land is just what the film's website says it is: "stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit."
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Segues from the merely quirky into the bizarrely unthinkable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Ça commence aujourd'hui
    This is a film about small victories, huge defeats and finding the will to keep fighting.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Wesley Morris
    Nosferatu
    Setting aside some gratuitous jump scares, Eggers has now made a Dracula movie that’s more than an exercise, more than an assertion of talent. There’s a vision at work.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Wesley Morris
    The Women
    The movie is a work of ambivalence. Is English making fun of these women? Or is she making a pilot for Lifetime?
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Hukkle
    There's scarcely any dialogue, and the "hukkle" sound is universal enough to make subtitles unnecessary and to please an audience of any age and attention span.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    Climates
    It's one of the great movies on the vicissitudes of love, commitment, and attraction.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Wesley Morris
    The Virgin Suicides
    Ethereal.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Pollock
    Renders the juicy bits of the artist's life in two hours of pulsing highlights that suggest a man who never really had any emotional or psychic downtime.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Reconstruction
    The movie is so chilly and fundamentally empty at its core that we're more or less on the outside looking in.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    8 Mile
    A hip-hop cousin of Prince's ''Purple Rain,'' which had braver fashion sense and better original songs.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Shut Up & Sing
    Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's film is a fascinating look at the intersection of commerce, celebrity, and controversy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Wesley Morris
    Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)
    The movie gets lost in the gulf between standard, if illuminating, biography and roiling existential crisis.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    The Messenger
    The scenes between Montgomery and Stone in plainclothes would seem to be tangential to Moverman's movie, but they're very much its point. Only in uniform do these men make sense to themselves.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Under the Sea 3D
    It's all a treat to behold, and, at least where the turtle and the jellyfish are concerned, it's transcendently beautiful, too. I just wish there was more of it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Wesley Morris
    Sin Nombre
    It's the tone of the movie's two sides - action and stillness, graphic violence and romantic melodrama - that don't cohere.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    Mountain Patrol
    Never has a movie so soberingly made the fight to save life and the struggle to hold on to it seem so futile.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Humanité
    Staggering, gorgeously ambiguous.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Wesley Morris
    You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    Nothing has brought me more cheap pleasure at a movie this year than the sight of shampoo and conditioner bottles falling off a rocking wall while comedian Alec Mapa, as a fellow stylist, tries to keep a straight face. He does a much better job than I did.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    The War Tapes
    Really the film is a deft first-person character study with a war zone for a background.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Yes Man
    The biggest problem with this movie - not that it's mediocre, dull, or barely written (though it's guilty on all counts). It's that Carrey himself is miscast.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Wesley Morris
    Incantato
    One wishes Incantato was made of something other than musty air. Avati provides no real emotional counterweight for all the whimsy and nonsense, and the movie carries neither the force of morality nor the titillation of trashiness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Wesley Morris
    Daughter from Danang
    That commendable sense of balance, which Dolgin and Franco use to approach this family reunion, ultimately makes the finished product devastating.
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