The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I like Rob Morgan in 'Mudbound.' Most of the attention being paid to this movie has focused on Rachel Morrison's cinematography and… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Spare a thought for 'Suburbicon' as it swiftly vanishes from America's megaplexes. This is George Clooney's movie about - well, I'm not… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this."… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I don't see a lot, but I think what the movie studios know and what they always know but they kind of… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, either. But if they're anything like some… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
'Get Out,' of course, is the surprise hit movie that Peele wrote and directed about a black man named Chris, who discovers… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody who wants… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Jordan Peele is famous, in part, for imitations - of rappers and dingbats and the 44th president of the United States. But he would… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
If Judge Steven T. O'Neill sent Mr. Cosby away for the rest of his life, that sentence couldn't undo what he's convicted of having… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind,… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I like Rob Morgan in 'Mudbound.' Most of the attention being paid to this movie has focused on Rachel Morrison's cinematography and Mary J.… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation. — Wesley Morris Copy Share
I don't see a lot, but I think what the movie studios know and what they always know but they kind of ignore, which… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Ms. Sciorra is a member of a dwindling fleet of actors who actually sound like they come from somewhere. In her case, 'somewhere' is… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
Suddenly, stories of abuse and harassment are being believed; abusers and harassers are being toppled. Yet, at the same time, one of the top… — Wesley Morris Copy Share
