'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences -… — 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 you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and… — 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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation. — 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 ignore, which… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
