Wesley Morris

He wasn't a critic's director, right?

In a lot of ways, you go back and read the reviews of his movies, and it would always be, the charge would be the movies didn't go far enough.

They didn't go deep enough.

They weren't getting into, like, the nitty-gritty of human relationships in the way that they probably could have.

I mean, I think the thing about Rob Reiner that's important to make the distinction between is a question of what the greatest movies are.

and what your favorite movies are.

He makes your favorites.

That man has made your favorite movie.

He's made one of your favorite movies, and everybody's got one.

He's made two of my favorite movies, and like, you know, When Harry Met Sally.

I mean, come on.

There's a couple things with Rob Reiner that makes this outpouring of grief over his death important.

His peak as a director was at a time when the movies were interested in just simple things.

brought to life by a good script and a couple of stars.

These are not values the movies have anymore.

These are bygone aspects of American moviemaking.

And he embodied, he was one of the principal embodiments, his movies were, of that era.

For me, When Harry Met Sally was great because it had these two people that I kind of knew, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.

Rob Reiner made them movie stars.

This movie made them movie stars.