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Joe Morgenstern

Joe Morgenstern

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
Wall Street Journal
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
1042

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92% The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del diablo) (2001) " It's a horror flick, and a creepily good one, that also functions as an allegory of the war that still haunts Spain seven decades later." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 7, 2013
87% 28 Days Later (2003) " Heedlessly derivative though it may be, 28 Days Later does what it sets out to do and then some -- scare us out of our wits, then get us to apply those wits to an uncommonly intelligent and provocative zombie flick." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 6, 2013
97% Gravity (2013) " In one form or another, motion pictures have been with us since the middle of the 19th century, but there's never been one like "Gravity."" — Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 3, 2013
82% Don Jon (2013) " An overheated disquisition on the pleasures and limitations of masturbation." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 26, 2013
91% Inequality For All (2013) " Mr. Kornbluth's documentary argues eloquently for such unassailable goals as investment in education and infrastructure, and complements Mr. Reich's exposition with compelling interviews ..." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 26, 2013
95% Enough Said (2013) " I can't say enough about the way "Enough Said" keeps its scintillating sense of humor as it grows deeper and more affecting." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 26, 2013
81% Prisoners (2013) " In addition to the skin-crawling camera moves and the understated dread that bolsters the surface tensions of "Prisoners" there is a fascinating actor's duel going on." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 19, 2013
67% Haute Cuisine (2013) " Ms. Frot brings a sympathetic mix of determination and passion to Hortense, who dedicates herself to making dishes that suit the president." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 19, 2013
88% Rush (2013) " Working from a very clever script by Peter Morgan ("The Queen"), Mr. Howard doesn't pick sides. He lets two distinctly abrasive characters rub up against his viewers, chafing them into gear." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 19, 2013
74% The Grandmaster (2013) " For those who aren't ardent students of kung fu's schools and styles, however, the movie is, for most of its length, a lifeless snore." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 22, 2013
89% The World's End (2013) " Don't feel excluded if you haven't seen the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead and the buddy cop comedy Hot Fuzz... because The World's End stands on its own as hilarious high-end nonsense." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 22, 2013
99% Short Term 12 (2013) " The dominant style of the acting is naturalistic, but Brie Larson, operating in another realm, creates a marvelously complex heroine." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 22, 2013
81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " This is Terrence Malick territory; you might guess that with the sound turned off, thanks to the bronze sunlight low on broad horizons. Still, Mr. Lowery stakes out his own distinctive boundaries ..." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 15, 2013
96% Cutie And The Boxer (2013) " Viewed in its entirety, "Cutie and the Boxer" is more than a great documentary. It's a great film." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 15, 2013
73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Fiction merges with fact, and finally soars." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 15, 2013
94% March of the Penguins (2005) " Watch them march to the very extremes of extremis, though, and it's easy to feel awe. Life must beget life, whatever the cost." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 5, 2013
91% Minority Report (2002) " Though his movie wraps challenging ideas and ingenious visual conceits in a futurist film-noir style, it's pretentious, didactic and intentionally but mercilessly bleak." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 5, 2013
92% Insomnia (2002) " This one is nowhere near as original -- it's a flawed remake of a fine first feature from Norway -- but Insomnia still stands on its own as a thriller with brains and scenic beauty." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 5, 2013
99% Finding Nemo (2003) " While Mr. Brooks is very funny, Ms. DeGeneres gives a bravura comic performance, as well as a touching one." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 5, 2013
97% The Iron Giant (1999) " Lest all of this sound gravely symbolic, be assured that the film is, before anything else, deliciously funny and deeply affecting. And beautiful, oh so beautiful, as a work of coherent art." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 4, 2013
93% Out of Sight (1998) " [A] now-classic romantic comedy -- with plenty of action and suspense." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 4, 2013
91% Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) " The right word for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is wondersful -- as in full of wonders, great and small." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 3, 2013
92% Saving Private Ryan (1998) " Dramatic lapses notwithstanding, Saving Private Ryan goes beyond technical dazzlement to put a new, indelibly terrible face on war." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 2, 2013
91% Face/Off (1997) " [A] gorgeously shot, repetitively violent, occasionally repellent, sometimes silly and consistently trashy fantasy." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 2, 2013
78% Europa Report (2013) " "Europa Report" goes ploddingly where bolder films have gone before." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 1, 2013
64% 2 Guns (2013) " Mr. Kormákur stages a succession of action sequences that are satisfying in their own right and might be better still if they were part of a coherent whole." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 1, 2013
91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " "The Spectacular Now," which was directed by James Ponsoldt, is a movie of uns-unforced, unhurried, unpretentious." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 1, 2013
95% Apollo 13 (1995) " The film succeeds brilliantly at organizing great gobs of information into powerful drama." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 30, 2013
97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " [It] may be one of the most horrifying films you'll ever see, and one of the most edifying." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 25, 2013
91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " The movie's observations about economic disparity are cloaked in zestful comedy that's broad or stiletto-sharp." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 25, 2013
42% Red 2 (2013) " Any movie that gives Helen Mirren a chance to shoot really big guns, wear an ermine astrakhan and channel Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth can't be all bad, and "Red 2" isn't, though it comes close." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 18, 2013
40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Nicolas Winding Refn's excruciatingly-though definitively-pretentious exercise in ritual violence gives chiaroscuro a bad name." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 18, 2013
98% Blackfish (2013) " After watching "Blackfish," you come away with a sense of orcas' singular intelligence, to be sure, even their astonishing playfulness, but most of all their glorious power, and the majesty of their existence in their natural habitat." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 18, 2013
87% The Conjuring (2013) " This saga of demonic possession deploys the full audio firepower of modern multiplexes, and does so with brain-battering frequency, like a ghostbusting version of a Japanese Taiko drum ensemble." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 18, 2013
72% Pacific Rim (2013) " My head is still ringing, and hurting, from long stretches of this aliens vs. robots extravaganza that are no better than the worst brain-pounders of the genre." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 11, 2013
95% The Hunt (2013) " This is filmmaking of a high order, even though the production's scale is modest and the climax is not without its facile contrivances." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 11, 2013
94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " At a time when the multiplexes are crowded with coarse comedy and inept spectacle, here's a homegrown movie that honors its subject and the medium." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 11, 2013
85% The Way Way Back (2013) " The film is bursting with life-and blissful silliness ..." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 4, 2013
90% The Attack (2013) " Remarkably accomplished and self-confident." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 27, 2013
47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " Some of it qualifies as first-class hilarity, and all of the acting is superb." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 27, 2013
65% The Heat (2013) " One wonders ... what the future holds for Ms. McCarthy's career if every new film is going to exploit her more shamelessly than the previous one." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 27, 2013
50% White House Down (2013) " "White House Down" is solidly within its genre. In a deeper sense, though, it bespeaks a fatigue that's hard to distinguish from brain death." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 27, 2013
97% A Hijacking (2013) " This feature film shows how much tension, telling detail and sheer dramatic expertise can be squeezed into a running time of less than two hours." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 20, 2013
59% The Bling Ring (2013) " Is this anthropology, or simply entropy? It's partly the former and lots of the latter, with precious little insight." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 20, 2013
78% Monsters University (2013) " It's an awful disappointment-and one more reason to worry about Pixar's future under Disney ownership." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 20, 2013
67% World War Z (2013) " This enjoyable shambles of a sci-fi thriller, directed by Marc Forster in impressive 3-D, stands on its own as a powerful vision of planetary chaos." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 20, 2013
56% Man of Steel (2013) " What seals the movie's doom ... is its surrender to the lower power of coarsegrained action and computer-generated images of inexplicable banality." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 13, 2013
84% Much Ado About Nothing (2013) " The joyous spirit of the play has been preserved in this modest, homegrown production." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 6, 2013
72% Wish You Were Here (2013) " Even a drug-sniffing police dog gives a vivid performance." — Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 6, 2013
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