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Chatham News + Record (NC)

Chatham News + Record (NC) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Neil Morris.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B+
Nope (2022) Neil Morris While we still keep waiting for Peele to replicate the searing social commentary of “Get Out,” he instead produces a triumph of cinematic atmospherics.
Posted Jul 23, 2022  Edit critic review
C
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) Neil Morris “The Rise of Gru” isn’t the fall of the Minions, but they’re all this franchise really has left.
Posted Jul 07, 2022  Edit critic review
B
Elvis (2022) Neil Morris While the film is sensorily splendiferous, it is also narratively unambitious, from its linear approach to its framing device.
Posted Jun 30, 2022  Edit critic review
B -
Lightyear (2022) Neil Morris A fun and funny diversion, well worth consuming but not as much contemplating.
Posted Jun 15, 2022  Edit critic review
C -
Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Neil Morris Once a technological movie marvel, “Jurassic World Dominion” further consigns every this-raptor and that-asaurus as any other movie kaiju, cogs in just another loud, computer-generated creature feature.
Posted Jun 10, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Neil Morris Unlike its forerunner, which was firmly focused on restless youth, “Top Gun: Maverick” reminds us that life goes on after the final credits.
Posted May 31, 2022  Edit critic review
B -
Ambulance (2022) Neil Morris A loud, sensorially assaultive cacophony that, when graded on the post-pandemic parabola, satisfies you by doing what you would expect while avoiding most of the usual Bay pitfalls.
Posted Apr 09, 2022  Edit critic review
C
Deep Water (2022) Neil Morris For the sake of moral complicity, Lyne injects an amorality that takes the steam out of this steamy potboiler.
Posted Mar 16, 2022  Edit critic review
C+
The Batman (2022) Neil Morris If you strip down the characters iconography deep enough, you are left not with a film about capital-B Batman but rather just a sullen sociopath who dresses up like a bat to fight bad guys.
Posted Mar 12, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Kimi (2022) Neil Morris Borrows broad strokes from Brian De Palmas Blow Out plus Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo and Rear Window.
Posted Feb 27, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Death on the Nile (2022) Neil Morris Cinematic comfort food, an engrossing but breezy chamber piece with sufficient depth of setting and character.
Posted Feb 11, 2022  Edit critic review
D -
Moonfall (2022) Neil Morris It is a perfect storm of orbital awfulness, a film that is indescribably dopey before it becomes excruciatingly idiotic.
Posted Feb 05, 2022  Edit critic review
B
Don't Look Up (2021) Neil Morris As the most risible responses to the virus outbreak become commonplace and normalized, sometimes it takes sardonic, albeit unnuanced allegory to snap us back to reality.
Posted Feb 03, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Nightmare Alley (2021) Neil Morris It is all very nihilistic, a feature-length waking nightmare, and a tremendous motion picture. In other words, exactly what youd expect from Guillermo del Toro.
Posted Feb 03, 2022  Edit critic review
B
Parallel Mothers (2021) Neil Morris A tantalizing tale of romance, friendship and betrayal, bookended by a historical fulcrum that seemingly belongs in another movie.
Posted Jan 24, 2022  Edit critic review
A -
The Power of the Dog (2021) Neil Morris The film opens with an air of "There Will Be Blood" before morphing into full-blown "A Streetcar Named Desire," then flirts with "Call Me By Your Name" before landing somewhere between "The Beguiled" and "Basic Instinct."
Posted Dec 11, 2021  Edit critic review
B
Being the Ricardos (2021) Neil Morris The real headliner of is Sorkin's circumlocutory script, which is both its own best friend and worst enemy.
Posted Dec 11, 2021  Edit critic review
C +
King Richard (2021) Neil Morris "King Richard's" overarching theme is that the ends justify his means. However, that's where the film and its perspective grow more complicated.
Posted Nov 27, 2021  Edit critic review
B +
The Harder They Fall (2021) Neil Morris Writer-director Jeymes Samuel lends his contemporary musical ear and cinematic eye to this postmodern spin on the spaghetti Western.
Posted Nov 21, 2021  Edit critic review
B
Eternals (2021) Neil Morris Chloé Zhao manages to forge this spectacle about gods and monsters into one of the most human Marvel films to date. Still, the seams of this unwieldy amalgam are showing and stretched.
Posted Nov 04, 2021  Edit critic review
B -
The French Dispatch (2021) Neil Morris The overall product is the handsome, impressive spectacle of a director in full command of his craft, yet in service to a disjointed, antiseptic narrative.
Posted Oct 31, 2021  Edit critic review
B +
No Time to Die (2021) Neil Morris "No Time To Die" does for the James Bond franchise what "The Last Jedi" sought to do for "Star Wars."
Posted Oct 10, 2021  Edit critic review
c -
Dear Evan Hansen (2021) Neil Morris For unwitting audiences, "Dear Evan Hansen" reads more like a ransom note.
Posted Oct 01, 2021  Edit critic review
C +
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) Neil Morris Only near the end does Chastain's flamboyant performance find its pathos. She deserves her inevitable plaudits. The film, on the other hand, is just another rags to riches to redemption parable.
Posted Sep 27, 2021  Edit critic review
B
Malignant (2021) Neil Morris So deliriously deranged is director James Wan's big reveal that you'll delight in the fact that you're shocked even when you know the shock is coming.
Posted Sep 27, 2021  Edit critic review
A -
Candyman (2021) Neil Morris The filmmakers rework Candyman into both a collective coping mechanism and a lineage of monsters created and contorted by the injustices of their times.
Posted Aug 29, 2021  Edit critic review
C +
Reminiscence (2021) Neil Morris Alas, the real reminiscence is of previous and better movies of this sort.
Posted Aug 25, 2021  Edit critic review
B -
Respect (2021) Neil Morris The net effect is a film that resurrects an interest and appreciation for the Queen of Soul.
Posted Aug 23, 2021  Edit critic review
B
The Suicide Squad (2021) Neil Morris Where "The Suicide Squad" really succeeds, and separates itself from its predecessor (which was more about America relying on bad people to do our dirty business), is re-framing its characters as victims, not just villains.
Posted Aug 16, 2021  Edit critic review
C ?
Jungle Cruise (2021) Neil Morris The real race in "Jungle Cruise" is to if see you lose track of or lose interest in the plot first.
Posted Aug 08, 2021  Edit critic review
D +
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) Neil Morris A misguided, shambolic sequel of sorts that's really an algorithm-assembled branding exercise.
Posted Jul 26, 2021  Edit critic review
C
Old (2021) Neil Morris "Old" is a heady concept, but like most of Shyamalan's oeuvre, its ambitions outstrip its execution.
Posted Jul 26, 2021  Edit critic review
C +
Black Widow (2021) Neil Morris Combining "The Americans" with "Salt," the otherwise erratic plot boils down to if Paige Jennings grew up to become Evelyn Salt.
Posted Jul 10, 2021  Edit critic review
C +
Luca (2021) Neil Morris The film treads water amid a sea of animated tropes.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
C -
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) Neil Morris The sort of lamebrained film in which the main character yells (without an ounce of irony), "If we don't stop the drill, they'll upload the virus and destroy Europe!"
Posted Jun 18, 2021  Edit critic review
B ?
Army Of The Dead (2021) Neil Morris While it may sound like a hoot - and it occasionally is - the audience never quite shakes the origin story that wasn't and the wanting character development that might have lent the story more resonance.
Posted May 31, 2021  Edit critic review
C +
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) Neil Morris Perhaps it is no coincidence that Allison is the only character who gets to ride a horse.
Posted May 21, 2021  Edit critic review
C
Wrath of Man (2021) Neil Morris If Ritchie spent as much screen time on character development as the minutiae of heist planning, "Wrath of Man" might have been a durable genre entry.
Posted May 19, 2021  Edit critic review
C
Nobody (2021) Neil Morris "Nobody" is the "RED" of "John Wicks."
Posted Mar 25, 2021  Edit critic review
B +
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) Neil Morris The four-hour behemoth is a cinematic singularity.
Posted Mar 25, 2021  Edit critic review
C +
Crisis (2021) Neil Morris 'Crisis' is not a great film even absent Hammer's pall, but it is also a worthwhile one despite it.
Posted Mar 13, 2021  Edit critic review
B -
The Mauritanian (2021) Neil Morris A generally engrossing true story about a national stain that forgets, or glosses over, the things that make good movies great.
Posted Mar 07, 2021  Edit critic review
B?
Nomadland (2020) Neil Morris Like the nomads it spotlights, where the film thematically starts is not where it ends up.
Posted Feb 18, 2021  Edit critic review
A -
One Night in Miami (2020) Neil Morris Although based around a contrivance, the screenplay's depth of truth-telling and honesty is even-handed and bold.
Posted Jan 24, 2021  Edit critic review
C +
Promising Young Woman (2020) Neil Morris "A moderately engaging potboiler buttressed by a superlative performance from Mulligan, whose every scene unearths emotional depth not found in the screenplay."
Posted Jan 18, 2021  Edit critic review
D
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Neil Morris It's the anti-"Incredibles."
Posted Jan 03, 2021  Edit critic review
B +
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Neil Morris "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' is less a biopic than a biopsy.
Posted Dec 30, 2020  Edit critic review
B -
News of the World (2020) Neil Morris It is a generally satisfying film that ultimately feels unfulfilling, never realizing the potential of its pedigree.
Posted Dec 21, 2020  Edit critic review
C +
Mank (2020) Neil Morris The result is handsome but hollow pastiche.
Posted Dec 12, 2020  Edit critic review
C
Hillbilly Elegy (2020) Neil Morris "Hillbilly Elegy" feels extraneous, less a poetic lament and more just lamentable.
Posted Dec 03, 2020  Edit critic review
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