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Joe Morgenstern

Film Critic

United States

United States

262 pro reviews

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Latest published

The Automat (2021)
Publish Date: February 16, 2022
"It’s something special"

The Wall Street Journal
Cry Macho (2021)
Publish Date: September 15, 2021
"The film suggests that old doesn’t need to be cured, only worked through with as much grace and equanimity as possible (...) It’s a slow-release dose of sincere feelings"

The Wall Street Journal
On Broadway (2019)
Publish Date: August 25, 2021
"Smart and spirited, it reminds us that there's still nothing in American entertainment like the Broadway ritual of hundreds of live, superbly talented performers playing to thousands of live, rapt theatergoers six nights a week"

The Wall Street Journal
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters (2020)
Publish Date: July 14, 2021
"It’s a fertile idea, beautifully executed. We learn as they learn what the piece means, and why it has endured"

The Wall Street Journal
Enforcement (2020)
Publish Date: March 17, 2021
"It’s impressive for its strong performances and polished technique, though familiar in substance and form (...) But the derivative nature of 'Enforcement' isn’t all bad"

The Wall Street Journal
Rams (2020)
Publish Date: February 3, 2021
"The fate of the sheep is just as heartbreaking as it was in Iceland (...) But the director, Jeremy Sims, and the writer, Jules Duncan, have no gift for, or interest in, comedic nuance"

The Wall Street Journal
Two of Us (2019)
Publish Date: February 3, 2021
"[It] is elevated by the beauty of its performances, and by its masterly technique, which would suggest a filmmaker at the height of his career"

The Wall Street Journal
Gunda (2020)
Publish Date: December 9, 2020
"These creatures are in no rush either. Watching them, you get some sense of their life rhythms while readjusting your own."

The Wall Street Journal
Fantastic Fungi (2019)
Publish Date: October 23, 2020
"An eloquent paean to an underexplored kingdom (...) Fantastic Fungi” is never uninteresting, and often startling in the natural beauty it reveal"

The Wall Street Journal
The Sounding (2017)
Publish Date: October 14, 2020
"Eaton’s dramatic imagination is strong (...) It’s never less than fascinating, and often beautiful"

The Wall Street Journal
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Publish Date: October 11, 2020
"An endearing, intelligent and tender comedy from a premise that, in other hands, might sustain a five-minute sketch on TV."

The Wall Street Journal
Robin's Wish (2020)
Publish Date: August 26, 2020
"A moving portrait of Robin Williams and a harrowing account of the disease that ravaged him."

The Wall Street Journal
Rebuilding Paradise (2020)
Publish Date: July 29, 2020
"Would anyone want to watch a film about a local tragedy, however notable, at a time when our national life is being torn asunder by a global pandemic? Because the film’s larger subject is community and a rise from real ashes."

The Wall Street Journal
Joker (2019)
Publish Date: October 2, 2019
"If you're feeling insufficiently anxious in your life, 'Joker' could be just the ticket. If not, look elsewhere to be entertained."

The Wall Street Journal
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Publish Date: August 8, 2019
"This lovely debut feature (...) trafficks in the pleasure of watching intriguing people working through outlandish problems in unlikely ways. Go in expecting the best and you’ll come out smiling."

The Wall Street Journal
All Is True (2018)
Publish Date: May 8, 2019
"The screenplay (...) wasn't woven from whole cloth. But its inventions and speculations aren't very interesting. Nowhere do they hint at the man who gave us the plays"

The Wall Street Journal
Peterloo (2018)
Publish Date: April 3, 2019
"This is historical re-creation on an epic scale. Yet it's a down-to-earth epic, with a density of detail that's stirring in its humanity and frightening in its clarity about miscalculations on both sides."

The Wall Street Journal
Diane (2018)
Publish Date: March 27, 2019
"The movie is populated by people we seldom see in mainstream films, so seldom that we may not remember the pleasure we've been missing."

The Wall Street Journal
Daughter of Mine (2018)
Publish Date: January 30, 2019
"[It] asks big questions and answers them fully, vividly and affectingly, without a trace of sentimentality."

The Wall Street Journal
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
Publish Date: December 19, 2018
"It is the second, and artistically superior, half of a single epic film that springs from a single, stunning act of compassionate imagination."

The Wall Street Journal

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