Jay Boyar

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Orlando Sentinel
For 396 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jay Boyar's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Age of Innocence
Lowest review score: 0 Revenge
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 209 out of 396
  2. Mixed: 140 out of 396
  3. Negative: 47 out of 396
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Jay Boyar
    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
    Except for the political implications of the addition of Freeman's character (which he brings off gracefully) and some revisionism about the nobility of the crusades (which, in my opinion, is long overdue), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is just an adventure movie - which is basically what I like about it. The second half is stronger than the first because it's swifter and more action-packed. Robin's feats of derring-do are always (as Costner might put it) neat - the more improbable, the better.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Jay Boyar
    3 Men and a Little Lady
    When the comedy is on this level, all the actors can do is to hang on and hope for the best. [23 Nov 1990, p.7]
    • Orlando Sentinel
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Jay Boyar
    The Net
    The problem is that producer-turned-director Irwin Winkler (Night and the City, Guilty by Suspicion) simply has no idea what he's doing. I take that back. He knows what a producer ought to know: how to latch onto a hot topic and a hot star. Winkler also appears to have picked up enough from the directors he has worked with to give his film a certain second-hand slickness.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Jay Boyar
    Mighty Joe Young
    This rather basic story is really just a place to hang the action scenes, which should have been the movie's glory. But those scenes turn out to be the worst things about Mighty Joe Young, in which the action is edited, MTV-style, for maximum incoherence.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Jay Boyar
    Wild Bill
    Wild Bill is uncompromising almost to the point of orneriness. Director Hill takes you from one incident to the next, trusting you - or, rather, expecting you - to work out the connections among them. [01 Dec 1995, p.21]
    • Orlando Sentinel
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Jay Boyar
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Children will undoubtedly enjoy the ninja flick a lot more than their parents will, and it probably won't even give most kids nightmares. But couldn't a steady diet of this sort of thing help to desensitize very young children to real violence? If so, that's awful - not awesome - dudes.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Jay Boyar
    The Gods Must Be Crazy II
    Occasionally, the scenes of the bush people are just enough like the best parts of the original Gods to remind us what we're missing in the new one. But most of the time, Gods II is unamusingly antic. [13 Apr 1990, p.4]
    • Orlando Sentinel
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Jay Boyar
    Poison Ivy
    Working from a script she wrote with producer Andy Ruben, director Katt Shea gets some sexy vibes going, and the atmospherically lit production has an unexpected visual distinction.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Jay Boyar
    Indian Summer
    The basic problem with Indian Summer: The movie sacrifices credibility in an attempt to get easy laughs. [23 Apr 1993]
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