Film Quotes by Wesley Morris

18 Film quotes by Wesley Morris

Wesley Morris shares eighteen reflections that blend criticism and admiration, highlighting the nuances of storytelling, direction, and cultural impact. The set reads like a seasoned critic’s notebook, full of pointed insight.

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Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

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Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

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I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.

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Mr. Clooney has directed six movies; five are set in the middle of the previous century. And 'Suburbicon' clarifies why. Race is…

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I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but…

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'Get Out,' of course, is the surprise hit movie that Peele wrote and directed about a black man named Chris, who discovers…

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I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a…

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Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you…

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A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker…

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The reason to do any barking - well, the reason for me - is that 'Three Billboards' feels so off about so…

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There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and…

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Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face…

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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."…

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I don't see a lot, but I think what the movie studios know and what they always know but they kind of…

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Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could…

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Spare a thought for 'Suburbicon' as it swiftly vanishes from America's megaplexes. This is George Clooney's movie about - well, I'm not…

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Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand…

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Ultimately the social change has to come from the people who make the movies, so the people who make the movies have…

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Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

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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…

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