Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle
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For 45 reviews, this critic has graded:
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37% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.5 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Wesley Morris' Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 45
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Mixed: 13 out of 45
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Negative: 11 out of 45
45
movie reviews
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Wesley Morris 100
A further, captivating extension of Oshima's marriage of the oblique and the erotic. -
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Wesley Morris 100
Her (Anderson) performance is a study in the difference between hubris and pride, remarkable for how unshowy but profoundly devastating it is. -
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Wesley Morris 100
There's a seething moral core in Amores Perros that uses the canine savagery as an entre to human brutality. -
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Wesley Morris 100
A vicious horror flick with an actual beast and someone who just acts like one. -
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Wesley Morris 75
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. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The film is built to quaver and buckle along with its victims and martyrs. In an almost soulful way, it bespeaks the reality lingering when the final fantasy ends. -
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Wesley Morris 75
At its most compulsive, this is the only action flick you'll need this summer. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The emphasis here is less on cuteness and romance and more on the "Raiders of the Lost Ark"-style adventure. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The resulting film is nobly ridiculous and ridiculously noble, doing everything in its power to subvert the dross it's fooling around with. -
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Wesley Morris 75
This is a film about small victories, huge defeats and finding the will to keep fighting. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The director has concocted a tragedy that actually feels tragic. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Plays like a holy, erotic mood piece, steeped in so much subdued jungle fever that it practically runs on photosynthesis. -
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Wesley Morris 75
In addition to being his filthiest, this is his most free-associative movie. In spite of and because of its homemade look, it's also his funniest. -
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Wesley Morris 75
It's fun, it's kind of somber and it succeeds in making you think about how you might be squandering middle age. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The movie is as modestly unpretentious as David O. Russell's "Spanking the Monkey." -
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Wesley Morris 75
Disarmingly intelligent if scattered documentary. -
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Wesley Morris 63
The film feels like bare- bones docu-fiction, though, resisting the attendant drama until the bitter, grisly end. -
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Wesley Morris 50
The film has a persuasive murkiness and one extended mythopoetic final sequence that's almost moving in its silence. -
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Wesley Morris 50
What should have been 90 zippy minutes of jingling, giggling, winking fakery adds up to only about 20 minutes of fun. -
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Wesley Morris 50
If you want to watch a gaggle of pretty faux-neurotic people hang out and throw quips, you're probably better off watching "Friends." -
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Wesley Morris 50
It's a fact that becomes riotously evident in the reel of outtakes that caps the picture and incites wonder about why no one thought to give us 90 minutes of those instead. -
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Wesley Morris 50
The Others is great as a collection of acknowledgments, but a ghost story made of a bunch of ghoulish thank-yous isn't that haunting. -
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Wesley Morris 50
A pure Frankenstein flick -- ugly, profane, terror-inducing, clumsy, nasty, desperate, stupid, contemptible, horny and brought to life by schlocky, shoddy science and an electric wish to prove that its makers still matter. -
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Wesley Morris 50
Osmosis is really an occasion for the brothers to take their culture- debasing scatology to a PG crowd. -
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Wesley Morris 50
Moreover, what the film lacks in temporal credibility, it amply makes up for in sheer rawness -- the rawness being literal. -
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Wesley Morris 25
At least one chapter in the yet-to-be-written book "When Bad Movies Happen to Good People" belongs to the folks of Company Man. -
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Wesley Morris 25
This version is a well-meant but corny distillation -- a whole lot of bombast and phony exaltation in the name of entertaining enrichment. -
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Wesley Morris 25
Neither epochal nor epic in its ludicrousness. It's just run-of-the-mill trash. -
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Wesley Morris 25
Builds into a shapeless riff on the existentialist misery of company. -
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Wesley Morris 25
This plot leaves ample room for viewers to sweat the small stuff, like whether Trevor Nunn's score is more Marines ad or deodorant commercial. -
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Wesley Morris 25
The film is like watching Ozzy Osbourne bite the head off a rubber bat -- it's only almost heinous. -
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Wesley Morris 0
The movie can barely muster the bravery to be even "Dude, Where's My Car" stoopid. -
