A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Ms. Sciorra is a member of a dwindling fleet of actors who actually sound like they come from somewhere. In her case,… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
My father didn't do a lot of direct education. My mother was the direct educator. She would put on these movies on… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
'Bloodlight and Bami' delivers. Ms. Jones shucks her own oysters - stressfully. She does her own make up and performs her own… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
'Bloodlight and Bami' is all verite. The director Sophie Fiennes began filming Ms. Jones in the mid-2000s and simply observes her on… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
When a black person is acting up or showing off, somebody might say she's 'wilin' out.' In sports, an athlete who really… — 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
