Here’s a film where the parts are better than the whole.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2023

Morris From America is not, in its overall arc or familiar trajectory, surprising, but it is a crowdpleaser that actually pleases because of how specific it is.

| Jan 18, 2023

An ironic and detached sense of machismo, a tone the movies doesn't quite pull off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2021

...the chemistry and skill of the two leads can't help them when we get to the obligatory heartwarming finale...

| Jan 7, 2021

Overall, Morris from America is sweet and offbeat, giving a new take on growing up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2019

Every scene just made me feel warm inside, especially scenes with Morris' father Curtis, who Craig Robinson plays with the utmost sincerity.

| Apr 20, 2019

A feel good movie that can't help but be imbued with its protagonist's imagination and infectious good humour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2019

This is not Martin Bonner...This is Morris Gentry.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 12, 2018

When Morris finally takes up the mic and explodes onstage, even audience members will find themselves proud as a pickle.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 11, 2018

There's an emotional honesty that runs through every frame of Morris From America, embodied in the phenomenal performance from Craig Robinson

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2018

It's hard not to like this litttle film...

| Aug 22, 2018

I don't think I've ever seen a coming of age story told this well and this realistically, ever.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 23, 2018

The exciting youth of an African-American kid who follows his dad to Germany.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 13, 2017

Unfortunately, with only the exception of the language barrier, writer/director Chad Hartigan introduces one cliché after another, without supplying insight or anything new to racist, sexist attitudes too familiar here.

| Aug 29, 2017

[Morris] is efficient and likeable, as if by contract. But the premise gives us more to think about than the movie can handle - that would require getting its hands dirty.

| Aug 10, 2017

Morris from America isn't shy about rolling around in genre tropes - it manages to be a fish-out-of-water story, a coming-of-age story and a slice-of-life all at once - but it rarely comes across as false or forced.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 9, 2016

Yes, it's the old fish-out-of-water scenario, but Hartigan does so much with it that it actually seems fresh.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 9, 2016

As a European, albeit one whose country is apparently leaving Europe, I found the cliched approach to 'otherness' a little annoying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2016

"Morris from America" is funny and unusual, and while it teases storytelling disaster as it unfolds, the production remains amusing and periodically genuine.

| Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2016

While "Morris From America" trundles along familiar tracks, Hartigan's eye for detail and individuality yields enough dividends to keep the film moving tartly and congenially along.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2016