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Neil Morris

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Biography:

Neil is an attorney and has worked as a freelance film writer since 2002, his work appearing in various publications in North Carolina and beyond. He has been honored for his film criticism seven times by the N.C. Press Association. He has also maintained a collection of film reviews at the blog MarqueeMarquis.com

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Nope (2022) 83% B+ “While we still keep waiting for Peele to replicate the searing social commentary of “Get Out,” he instead produces a triumph of cinematic atmospherics.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Jul 23, 2022 Full Review Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) 69% C ““The Rise of Gru” isn’t the fall of the Minions, but they’re all this franchise really has left.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Jul 7, 2022 Full Review Elvis (2022) 77% B “While the film is sensorily splendiferous, it is also narratively unambitious, from its linear approach to its framing device.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Jun 30, 2022 Full Review Lightyear (2022) 74% B - “A fun and funny diversion, well worth consuming but not as much contemplating.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Jurassic World Dominion (2022) 29% C - “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.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Jun 10, 2022 Full Review Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 96% B+ “Unlike its forerunner, which was firmly focused on restless youth, “Top Gun: Maverick” reminds us that life goes on after the final credits.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) May 31, 2022 Full Review Ambulance (2022) 68% B - “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.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Apr 9, 2022 Full Review Deep Water (2022) 35% C “For the sake of moral complicity, Lyne injects an amorality that takes the steam out of this steamy potboiler.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Mar 16, 2022 Full Review The Batman (2022) 85% C+ “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.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Mar 12, 2022 Full Review Kimi (2022) 92% B+ “Borrows broad strokes from Brian De Palmas Blow Out plus Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo and Rear Window. ” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Feb 27, 2022 Full Review Death on the Nile (2022) 62% B+ “Cinematic comfort food, an engrossing but breezy chamber piece with sufficient depth of setting and character. ” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Feb 11, 2022 Full Review Moonfall (2022) 35% D - “It is a perfect storm of orbital awfulness, a film that is indescribably dopey before it becomes excruciatingly idiotic.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Feb 5, 2022 Full Review Don't Look Up (2021) 56% B “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.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (2021) 80% B+ “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.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Parallel Mothers (2021) 96% B “A tantalizing tale of romance, friendship and betrayal, bookended by a historical fulcrum that seemingly belongs in another movie.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Jan 24, 2022 Full Review The Power of the Dog (2021) 94% A - “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."” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Dec 11, 2021 Full Review Being the Ricardos (2021) 68% B “The real headliner of is Sorkin's circumlocutory script, which is both its own best friend and worst enemy.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Dec 11, 2021 Full Review King Richard (2021) 90% C + “"King Richard's" overarching theme is that the ends justify his means. However, that's where the film and its perspective grow more complicated.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Nov 27, 2021 Full Review The Harder They Fall (2021) 88% B + “Writer-director Jeymes Samuel lends his contemporary musical ear and cinematic eye to this postmodern spin on the spaghetti Western.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Nov 21, 2021 Full Review Eternals (2021) 47% B “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.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Nov 4, 2021 Full Review The French Dispatch (2021) 75% B - “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.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Oct 31, 2021 Full Review Halloween Kills (2021) 39% B - “Dreary and nihilistic, but steeped in the notion that evil is an infectious societal affliction. May as well be titled "Michael Myers Strikes Back."” – Marquee Marquis Oct 16, 2021 Full Review No Time to Die (2021) 83% B + “"No Time To Die" does for the James Bond franchise what "The Last Jedi" sought to do for "Star Wars."” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Oct 10, 2021 Full Review Dear Evan Hansen (2021) 28% c - “For unwitting audiences, "Dear Evan Hansen" reads more like a ransom note.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Oct 1, 2021 Full Review The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) 67% C + “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.” – Chatham News + Record (NC) Sep 27, 2021 Full Review
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