Janice Page

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Boston Globe
For 152 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Janice Page's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 88 Marooned in Iraq
Lowest review score: 12 Alone in the Dark
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 87 out of 152
  2. Mixed: 33 out of 152
  3. Negative: 32 out of 152
152 movie reviews
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Here Comes the Boom
    Kevin James's latest comedy doesn't promise any bing or bang, only boom. Take it at its word.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Knockaround Guys
    Likable performances are critically wounded by implausible scenarios and derivative-minded direction referencing everything from ''Reservoir Dogs'' to ''Fargo.''
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Ramona and Beezus
    Ramona and Beezus the movie, should not be confused with "Beezus and Ramona'' the book.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Dear John
    Unfortunately for Tatum and Seyfried, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did a far more convincing version of this same basic dance in “The Notebook.’’
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Shrek Forever After
    To see this final installment is to know: It’s time.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Winter Solstice
    Ultimately undercut by its fictional elements and its flat characters.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Everyone's Hero
    Everyone's Hero is sincere and heartwarming; sometimes it's funny.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Pretty Persuasion
    Isn't so much awful as it is self-conscious, overdone, shallow, and just not up to the level of its star.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Never Again
    There are moments, too, where the forced hipness falls aside and the two lead characters just plain relate, realistically and maturely, with a seasoned playfulness that is truly charming.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Darkness Falls
    So much schlock and melodrama find their way into Darkness Falls that when an exasperated character shouts near the end ''All this over a [expletive] tooth!,'' you know how he feels.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Eat This New York
    So, how's the food? The camera never even goes up close. That's the kind of restaurant documentary this is.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Chronicles
    For a movie about serial killings and media sensationalism, Cronicas sure is wimpy.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Ladling in so much schmaltz that even his in-house critic says, ''This thing's worse than `Terms of Endearment.'''
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Open Season
    As cartoon rip-offs go, Open Season can be surprisingly entertaining, in a made-for-6-year-olds kind of way.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    It's mostly flat, despite being presented in 3-D, and the writing is so unimaginative that at one point a character yells out "yabba dabba doo!"
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Till Human Voices Wake Us
    Despite being well acted and sweetly moving when it strips down to the tender poem at its heart, Till Human Voices Wake Us spends too much time playing to an otherworldly suspense that simply isn't there.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Roll Bounce
    This nostalgic licorice whip of a movie assumes there's still an audience for a straight-faced, family-friendly salute to the 1970s heyday of competitive roller disco.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    On_Line
    Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a ''delete'' key, we could be rid of them completely.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    Muniz has better secret-agent toys to play with, funnier lines and sidekicks helping him out, and a bit more discerning director in Kevin Allen ("The Big Tease").
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Been Rich All My Life
    A so-so documentary about another fascinating, underreported piece of Harlem history.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    Highly unoriginal tale.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Wendigo
    Ultimately, this film is only scary if you're afraid of artfully self-conscious, grainy cinematography.
    • Boston Globe
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    The Roost
    Keep your big-budget horror movie expectations locked away in a separate crawl space, because this grainy feature debut from writer-director Ti West demands that you buy into the silliness, and the cheese.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Mardi Gras: Made in China
    Redmon's film is a welcome reminder that everything comes from somewhere and responsible people should at least pause to examine the label. For one thing, that's how bigger and better documentaries get made.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Bang Rajan
    Choppy, cheesy historical war epic really has only a couple of things going for it, and its biggest asset remains the heroic popular legend that inspired its making.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Wall
    Coming and going through the wall's checkpoints is a tiresome and undignified process that makes US airport security look like a cocktail reception.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    Fails to drum up much excitement.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Fidel
    Unabashed Fidel worship.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Irina Palm
    Doesn't deliver on a lot of fronts. But then again it gives us full-on Faithfull, who manages to bare herself completely without ever actually getting undressed.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    The Joneses
    It’s cute and clever to a point -- especially if you don’t know much about the film’s premise going in -- but then the cleverness runs on like the one-note punch line of an interminable “Saturday Night Live’’ sketch, sponsored by Audi.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Saint John of Las Vegas
    The best thing about Saint John of Las Vegas is that it makes you really appreciate guys like David Lynch and Joel and Ethan Coen.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    What a Girl Wants
    It's not that What a Girl Wants is dreadful; it's merely slapdash, wildly inconsistent in tone and style, and mind-numbingly predictable in character and plot.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Tales of the Rat Fink
    To those filmgoers who wouldn't know Rat Fink from Barton Fink, this reviewer's advice is: Pass. The latest counterculture tribute by Mann, director of 1988's "Comic Book Confidential" and 1999's "Grass," is as proudly silly as it is informative, and it can't help that a critical amount of brand coolness gets lost in the translation.

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