Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
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For 1,499 reviews, this critic has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
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Wesley Morris' Scores
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| Average review score: | 60 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 896 out of 1499
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Mixed: 346 out of 1499
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Negative: 257 out of 1499
1,499
movie reviews
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Wesley Morris 75
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. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Busch combines French absurdist theater and American performance art with a drag queen's flamboyant wit. -
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Wesley Morris 75
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. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The movie sets Ferrell's assaultive and juvenile physical comedy in a less-combative playground, and the result might leave the Ferrell-intolerant exiting the theater on a high. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The movie is like an extra-strength episode of MTV's ''Diary,'' which is like ''A&E Biography'' in the first person. Only ''Resurrection'' has a subject who's been dead for six years. -
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Wesley Morris 75
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. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The performances by Plotnick, Leupp, and Roberson comprise a jarring special effect. -
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Wesley Morris 75
It takes almost an hour for The Legend of Leigh Bowery to make a case for Bowery's sort of genius, and in the last third, the movie gives a real sense of what made him him. -
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Wesley Morris 75
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. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Part Marxist social drama and part Michael Moore corporation-needling, with fed-up residents trying to outsmart the big, bad naive company to keep their lights on for free. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The reliable Mike Newell directs Mona Lisa Smile with such assurance that the important moments are never mawkish or dull, and he encourages the women to act with absolute conviction. -
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Wesley Morris 75
If Millennium Mambo is the only chance to see Hou Hsaio-hsien's work at a movie theater, you'd better take it. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Aileen is Broomfield working compassionately. Perhaps it's only because he knows he can't save Wuornos that he can offer her as she might have been: part wounded animal, part self-destructive martyr, and all tragedy. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Demonstrates an idiosyncratic human touch. Kon is unafraid of the unseemly and unsightly. People are captured as they really might be. -
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Wesley Morris 75
In Robot Stories, technology hasn't colonized human life, it's finding ways to make living (and loving) better. -
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Wesley Morris 75
There is a lot to recommend about James' Journey to Jerusalem. Its people are not among them. This searing little parable contains some of the more deplorable folks you're likely to see in a movie about faith. -
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Wesley Morris 75
This intimate, warmly made family portrait always feels true. The performances are particularly good. -
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Wesley Morris 75
This is a smart piece of revisionist fluff that dares to question what happens after the royal honeymoon is over. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The movie's queer delight is contagious. You'll exit lip-synching. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The movie is always entertaining and frequently smart about the new ground one girl will break to humiliate another. -
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Wesley Morris 75
At the heart of most of these encounters is talk about the nature of relationships -- cousins, twins, and peers. Mostly, though, Jarmusch displays an unexpected interest in the ironies and banalities of fame. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Hardship and suffering don't drive this movie so much as a romantic's gloss on the two. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Part of what hooks you to this movie is how Leth outsmarts his taskmaster, and how the two men have divergent, almost incompatible aesthetic ideals. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The mother-child dynamic here is the fraught stuff of any worthy melodrama. -
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Wesley Morris 75
At its most effective, the movie is a chastening, sobering, and thorough work of film journalism, however shortsighted. -
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Wesley Morris 75
It's hilarious -- and on purpose, too. This is the first satisfying adult summer comedy set in New England to come out of Hollywood since "The Witches of Eastwick" in 1987. -
