KCRW's Film Reviews
Summary: 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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Rather than let nuance intrude, Gone Girl doubles down on perversity, and its stars follow suit.
Two luminaries of Saturday Night Live are reunited in The Skeleton Twins ? Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader. It?s hard to say if they give wonderful comic performances with a tragic dimension, or wonderful dramatic performances with a comic dimension.
Joe Morgenstern reviews the new Pixar short Lava, as well as Birdman, Leviathan, and Mr. Turner from the Telluride Film Festival.
Joe Morgenstern reviews the new Chloe Grace Moretz film If I Stay, and the new comedy The Trip to Italy from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.
For all of its gastronomic and cultural crosscurrents, The Hundred-Foot Journey boils down to comfort food.
Get On Up is about the transformative power of performance. James Brown was a performer of legendary gifts, immeasurable influence and almost infinitely renewable energy.
Lucy doesn't keep track of its own logic, but it's gleefully bold, often funny, surprisingly concise, and 100% entertaining.
I Origins, the second feature from director Mike Cahill, features intriguing characters, but the script lays out more highways and byways than a single movie could possibly navigate.
I Origins, the second feature from director Mike Cahill, features intriguing characters, but the script lays out more highways and byways than a single movie could possibly navigate.
On rare occasions a movie seems to channel the flow of real life. Richard Linklater's Boyhood is one of those occasions.
In Clint Eastwood's film version of Jersey Boys, the first signs of trouble come in the opening scene...
How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a movie the world needs. This sequel is gleeful and smart, funny and serious...
What can you say about a movie that brings two beautiful teens together in a cancer support group?
What can you say about a movie that brings two beautiful teens together in a cancer support group?
Disney's "Maleficent" and Seth MacFarlane's "A Million Ways to Die in the West" are opening this week, but the significant event is a little independent film from Sweden.
