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Wesley Morris

Wesley Morris

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:
Boston Globe , Grantland , San Francisco Chronicle , San Francisco Examiner
Total Reviews:
2041

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
10% Runner Runner (2013) " It looks like everybody's lying, and that's only because the acting is pretty bad." — Grantland
Posted Oct 4, 2013
85% Blue Caprice (2013) " The film creates one of the most chillingly becalmed portraits of insanity I've seen. " — Grantland
Posted Oct 4, 2013
34% Adore (2013) " Would Fontaine have made this film if the mothers looked like and were as old as Barbra Streisand and Kathy Bates and the sons weren't built like surfers? Of course not." — Grantland
Posted Oct 4, 2013
35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Most of [Wan's] peers shoot a bunch of scenes and let the editor make a smoothie. Wan no longer relies on visual gibberish. He has become a classicist in that sense." — Grantland
Posted Oct 4, 2013
81% Prisoners (2013) " Jackman is still in his phase of high-masculine misery... The entire performance is an exclamation point, and he swings it like a baseball bat." — Grantland
Posted Oct 4, 2013
98% Gravity (2013) " The movie isn't perfect. But it provides a perfect moviegoing experience, and that's almost as good. The second time I went I watched a lot of the faces in the audience, and they looked just as I imagine mine did the first night I saw it: Whoa." — Grantland
Posted Oct 3, 2013
15% Baggage Claim (2013) " Patton is best at contagious bliss. She might be the best at it. When she smiles, you smile. You want her to have what she wants even when how she wants it is stupid." — Grantland
Posted Sep 30, 2013
88% Rush (2013) " The script is another Peter Morgan special. Like, say, The Queen and Frost/Nixon, it's a speculative duet built around a moment of newsworthiness." — Grantland
Posted Sep 30, 2013
90% The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) " The film deploys the usual nonfiction arsenal of news footage, archival photographs, and interviews to bring home the strange electricity of these seven or so years." — Grantland
Posted Sep 30, 2013
89% Dallas Buyers Club (2013) " The movie adds vulgar emotional sweetener. It's Erin Cockovich." — Grantland
Posted Sep 13, 2013
68% Labor Day (2013) " Wherever he seemed to be headed after Up in the Air and Young Adult, it's a shame to see him responsible for a movie so flavorless and that makes so little sense. " — Grantland
Posted Sep 13, 2013
C+ 66% Mama (2013) " [The movie] has more integrity than its creepshow peers. The story basically comes down to a dead-looking woman who doesn't want to be a mother fighting for parental custody against a long-dead woman who does. (Grad students, start your theses.)" — Grantland
Posted Aug 1, 2013
D+ 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Directors are always digging around in their psyches for material - David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lars von Trier ... Refn's anxiety seems out to top theirs. But there's no joy or folly or transcendence. It's a one-dimensional video game of death." — Grantland
Posted Aug 1, 2013
F 14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " I watched this movie with three chatty strangers on [a] Thursday night in an otherwise empty theater. Universal couldn't say "no." Looks like that's our job now." — Grantland
Posted Aug 1, 2013
A- 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " [A]... thing of wonder. What you're looking for with [Allen] are signs of life, as opposed to shtick and koans... You want to see that the finery of character writing still means something to him. This is his 43rd movie, and it's inspired." — Grantland
Posted Jul 29, 2013
C+ 69% The Wolverine (2013) " Getting [Wolverine] to the movie's above-average finale required three writers - Christopher McQuarrie, Mark Bomback, and Scott Frank - to pad the plot." — Grantland
Posted Jul 29, 2013
B 83% Computer Chess (2013) " Bujalski is having fun with Night of the Living Dead, on a community-access palette. But I also can't think of another director who's come closer to capturing how antique technology would dream about us." — Grantland
Posted Jul 26, 2013
C 47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " [This is] Almodóvar for people who assume they can't get Almodóvar otherwise. It's Almodóvar for Target." — Grantland
Posted Jul 26, 2013
A- 78% Monsters University (2013) " Studios don't often seem to be thinking about the ideal moviegoer, just about the maximum number of moviegoers ... Pixar is no different in that regard, but even in this relatively fallow period ... it's never stopped thinking the most of us." — Grantland
Posted Jul 26, 2013
D- 60% The Last Stand (2013) " The weaponry is so ridiculously bountiful that the movie must be a defense against something. But it's just another lousy action movie. And for more than an hour, it's less than that. " — Grantland
Posted Jul 26, 2013
C+ 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " You wonder if Coogler would have felt freer had Grant somehow lived that night, if the director weren't put in a position where he felt the need to honor the dead by bringing him to dramatic life. But he believes in his ambition." — Grantland
Posted Jul 26, 2013
89% Napoléon (1929) " Like D.W. Griffith, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, but mostly James Cameron, Gance understood the thrill of the cinematic event and had the hubris to bring it off." — Boston Globe
Posted Feb 26, 2013
2/4 32% Gangster Squad (2013) " It's almost terrible. It's almost entertaining. But it's missing the shameless insanity of a wonderfully bad movie, and the particular vision, point of view, and coherence of some very good ones." — Boston Globe
Posted Jan 10, 2013
0.5/4 19% Texas Chainsaw (2013) " All the makers of "Texas Chainsaw 3D" cared about was getting your $16." — Boston Globe
Posted Jan 5, 2013
2.5/4 85% Bestiaire (2012) " The images are meant to accumulate shame, and they do. But they also might be too much." — Boston Globe
Posted Jan 2, 2013
2.5/4 70% Les Misérables (2012) " After 2 1/2 hours, the movie's become a bowl of trail mix - you're picking out the nuts you don't like and hoping the next bite doesn't contain any craisins." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 25, 2012
3.5/4 88% Django Unchained (2012) " Corkscrewed, inside-out, upside-down, simultaneously clear-eyed and completely out of its mind." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 25, 2012
2/4 18% Parental Guidance (2012) " This kernel of inter-generational farce never pops." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 24, 2012
2/4 61% Jack Reacher (2012) " This movie is the height of by-the-book dullness." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 20, 2012
3/4 93% Barbara (2012) " The movie's quiet power comes from its air of meticulously maintained suspicion." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 20, 2012
2/4 33% Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012) " What it doesn't have is drama or wisdom or comedy or heat, something to temper the banalities." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 13, 2012
3.5/4 93% The Central Park Five (2012) " What's amazing about listening to them speak now, often through tears, is the absence of bitterness." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 13, 2012
2.5/4 45% The Comedy (2012) " None of this is necessarily funny. That's the extent of the irony here." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 6, 2012
2.5/4 64% My Worst Nightmare (2012) " "My Worst Nightmare" isn't great, but it isn't apologizing for anything, either. Plus, I laughed out loud at least three times." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 6, 2012
1.5/4 4% Playing for Keeps (2012) " This is modern movie stardom, and it's depressing: the romantic lead who could also be selling us body spray." — Boston Globe
Posted Dec 6, 2012
2/4 35% The Collection (2012) " The director Marcus Dunstan and his co-writer, Patrick Melton, strike again." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 29, 2012
3/4 84% The Flat (2012) " There's something touching about the way Goldfinger obeys his moral compass." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 29, 2012
3.5/4 100% The Waiting Room (2012) " The movie observes the general misery of needing serious medical treatment and the particular awfulness of needing medical treatment you can't pay for." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 29, 2012
1.5/4 63% Hitchcock (2012) " It's all surface and formula." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 22, 2012
3.5/4 92% Silver Linings Playbook (2012) " No matter how grim it's looking for certain kinds of laughter, as long as there's David O. Russell, things will be OK." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 15, 2012
2/4 48% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) " This fifth and mercifully final installment features so much idle anticipation that it's unclear whether we're watching a movie or an Apple product launch." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 15, 2012
2/4 92% Skyfall (2012) " 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." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 6, 2012
2/4 77% The Bay (2012) " The movie might have a point (hey, Environmental Protection Agency, do something!), but it has no dramatic structure or sense of suspense." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
3.5/4 70% The Loneliest Planet (2012) " Loktev has written and directed with a haunting emphasis on the shortcomings of some interpersonal communication. " — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
3/4 91% Holy Motors (2012) " I don't know what Lavant is playing here because I've never seen anything like it. " — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
3/4 78% Flight (2012) " Just a couple of hours with Washington reclining within the contours of a role until a piece of cardboard becomes a character. " — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
3/4 80% The Other Son (2012) " The movie is shameless and simple yet solemn at the same time." — Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
2.5/4 —— Big Easy Express (2013) " Malloy's filming-on-a-moving-train conceit produces only a lot of precious, ponderous encounters between the bands and the camera." — Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
2.5/4 84% Smashed (2012) " Winstead is an inarguably warm actor. She's just not doing the sort of work that transcends the movie's shortcomings." — Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
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