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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Janice Page
    Love and Diane
    fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Janice Page
    Underdog
    Underdog! Rest assured, there is no superhero cliche left unchewed; they even manage to slide in a "Lady and the Tramp" homage while they're at it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Janice Page
    The Blood of My Brother
    Combines an insider's perspective with what can only be described as gutsy cinematography.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Janice Page
    Chaos
    The best that can be said of the men in Coline Serreau's Chaos is that some of them are pimps.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    The Backyard
    The most disturbing thing about this grass-roots-inspired extreme-wrestling documentary by Paul Hough is how much worse you expect the violence to be.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Shrek Forever After
    To see this final installment is to know: It’s time.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    The Weight of Water
    Though it never rises to its full potential as a film, still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    The World's Fastest Indian
    The film is at its best in Utah, both because in David Gribble's exhilarating cinematography we finally get to feel the full power and intoxication of the sport.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    Look Both Ways
    The debut live-action feature of Australian animator Sarah Watt has several other things to recommend it as well, including a black-humored screenplay, realistic performances, eye-catching artwork, and a few creative turns on some well-worn themes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Janice Page
    Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
    A rousing, sometimes funny, frequently depressing documentary.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Winter Solstice
    Ultimately undercut by its fictional elements and its flat characters.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    The movie's heart is in the right place, but all its messages of tolerance might resonate better if the Spanish-accented pirate didn't get drawn with a gold tooth and the turban-wearing Khalil wasn't an opportunistic rug merchant.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Janice Page
    The Event
    Dukakis gets off some of the film's best lines and keeps the worst from sinking the whole affair; Polley's role is limited, but her character's audition for a feminine hygiene commercial is by far the best thing here.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Janice Page
    Earth
    This Earth doesn't really have anything new to say, but it does present some newly entertaining ways of saying it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    The Warrior
    What really makes 'The Warrior worthwhile is its indomitable soul.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Janice Page
    Mr. Woodcock
    The film logs almost all of its laughs when it's at its crudest, meanest, and most unfiltered. Everything else - and that is to say most of the movie - is a big, fat, derivative waste of time.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Janice Page
    Venom
    If ridiculous, hackneyed, gratuitously violent slasher movies aren't your thing, don't go near Venom with a 10-foot snake pole.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Janice Page
    Piccadilly [re-release]
    As casually insensitive and careless as you might expect from a film of this era, but it's also surprisingly crafty about finding ways to incite discussion
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    October Country
    What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 12 Janice Page
    Alone in the Dark
    Think of the lamest horror movie you've ever seen. Now think of Tara Reid in the lamest horror movie you've ever seen. See how much worse it could have been?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    Friday Night
    Has a sultry and complex psychological intent all its own, yet it's reminiscent of some earlier Denis works, including ''Nenette and Boni.''
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Assassin is funnier and less awkward than her last concert film, 2004's ''CHO Revolution," but nowhere near as consistently gut busting as 2002's ''Notorious C.H.O." or (first and still best) 2000's ''I'm the One That I Want."
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    After Midnight
    Can be quite amusing and enjoyable to watch.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Janice Page
    Everyone's Hero
    Everyone's Hero is sincere and heartwarming; sometimes it's funny.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Janice Page
    One Last Thing...
    Dylan and Nikki are an awkward match at best, and their combined story is about as creative/convincing as a Hallmark card.
    • 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Janice Page
    Sahara
    In the end, the thing that Cussler's fans will probably object to most is the nonsensical way Sahara manhandles his story.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Janice Page
    My Sister Maria
    Artful, especially in the ways it avoids sentimentality and employs vintage film clips of truly riveting performances...But Maximilian's narcissistic examination of his theatrical family -- can be boring, and his creative license with the truth is kind of troubling.
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