'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his.… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
We don't yet call it 'Thxgvng,' because any holiday whose centerpiece sits in an oven for four to six hours, after having… — 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
Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could… — 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
I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
'Brokeback Mountain' is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn't know we… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
The difference between me and, say, the opera critic is that I'm charged with thinking about the world beyond opera. I could… — 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
