KCRW's Film Reviews
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a biweekly column for the paper as well. He has worked for The New York ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a biweekly column for the paper as well. He has worked for The New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and his freelance writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Playboy, GQ and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for television; his scripts include "The Boy In the Plastic Bubble" and several episodes of "Law & Order." Joe is a founding member of the National Society of Film Critics and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.
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99 Homes
99 Homes is a relatively small, tough-minded drama about pitiless ...
99 Homes is a relatively small, tough-minded drama about pitiless people doing unprincipled things. And it turns out to be one of the most interesting, elegantly crafted and improbably entertaining films to come along in quite a while.
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Black Mass
Johnny Depp creates a seethingly evil portrait of James "Whitey" ...
Johnny Depp creates a seethingly evil portrait of James "Whitey" Bulger, one of the pre-eminent -- and pre-eminently violent -- criminals of recent times.
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A Taste of Telluride
Just back from the Telluride Film Festival, Joe Morgenstern introduces ...
Just back from the Telluride Film Festival, Joe Morgenstern introduces us to a couple of stand-outs.
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Z for Zachariah
In Z for Zachariah the post-apocalyptic thriller gets a renovation, ...
In Z for Zachariah the post-apocalyptic thriller gets a renovation, if not re-invention -- as a love triangle in a valley that has somehow been spared from whatever it was that brought an end to civilization.
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Top Spin
Top Spin starts ultra-slowly, then picks up speed. The subject ...
Top Spin starts ultra-slowly, then picks up speed. The subject of this documentary is table tennis -- or ping pong, for those of us who play it just for fun.
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Straight Outta Compton
Straight Outta Compton is notable for its omissions as well ...
Straight Outta Compton is notable for its omissions as well as its strengths, but that shouldn't be surprising.
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The Gift
One of the many gifts conferred by the new movie ...
One of the many gifts conferred by the new movie The Gift is the pleasure of feeling like putty in the hands of a first-rate storyteller.
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Best of Enemies
Best of Enemies is a must-view film for our media-besotted ...
Best of Enemies is a must-view film for our media-besotted age, a serious film about a serious failure to communicate ideas.
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Southpaw
Southpaw stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a boxer in desperate need ...
Southpaw stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a boxer in desperate need of redemption.
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Trainwreck
American comedy doesn't get much better than Trainwreck at its ...
American comedy doesn't get much better than Trainwreck at its best. Amy Schumer is a fearless artist without borders.