Jay Carr

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Boston Globe
For 1,227 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jay Carr's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Husbands and Wives
Lowest review score: 0 Beaches
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 845 out of 1227
  2. Mixed: 223 out of 1227
  3. Negative: 159 out of 1227
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Jay Carr
    Last Orders
    Richly textured, beautifully acted.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Jay Carr
    Sabrina
    Sabrina is a nice try that doesn't quite strike the romantic pay dirt it's after, but you won't walk away from it empty-handed. [15 Dec 1995, p.61]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Jay Carr
    Josie and the Pussycats
    Mindless glitz-o-ramas don't get any snazzier.
    • Boston Globe
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Jay Carr
    Nenette and Boni
    It's a powerful depth charge of a film about reinvented family values. In Denis's hands, this urgent, loving brother and sister act is lyrical, exhilarating, flecked with mystery. [24 Oct 1997, p.C6]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Jay Carr
    Undercover Blues
    The script by Ian Abrams puts them through strictly formulaic moves, but it has flashes of wit and it's even literate. [10 Sept 1993, p.47]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Jay Carr
    A Man of No Importance
    Albert Finney's name on a cast list is a guarantee of pleasure, and there's much to savor besides in Suri Krishnamma's A Man of No Importance. [03 Feb 1995]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Jay Carr
    Star Maps
    Miguel Arteta's Star Maps is an uneven first feature, but what's good in it is very good. It's got invigorating rawness to spare, making its low budget work in its favor. [22 Aug 1997, p.F5]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Jay Carr
    Girl, Interrupted
    There's too much control in it and not enough danger.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Jay Carr
    Love Affair
    What makes Love Affair fun isn't that its stars are offscreen lovers, but that onscreen they so obviously succeed at convincing you they're movie stars playing movie lovers, powering up the dream factory again, dishing out schmaltz like there's no tomorrow. [21 Oct 1994, p.50]
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Jay Carr
    Antitrust
    An example of a film that begins with a provocative idea and then runs itself into the ground with clumsy structuring.
    • Boston Globe
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jay Carr
    Monster's Ball
    The kind of film that could easily be undone by its own high-minded ambitions and dissolve in a pall of uplift. But it stays the course and gives the season two of its notable performances.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Jay Carr
    The Deep End
    A perfect example of a small, well-made, and (in its central role) rivetingly acted film.
    • Boston Globe
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Jay Carr
    Encino Man
    This one, a comic vacuum, is close to amateurish. [22 May 1992, p.32]
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    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Jay Carr
    The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
    The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a nonstop gross-out contest of absolutely no socially redeeming value at all, unless you happen to value laughter. Ford Fairlane is funny garbage. [11 Jul 1990, p.41]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Jay Carr
    Coneheads
    There's no getting around the fact that the movie is pretty ponderous. The problem is that its writers and producers haven't really expanded or deepened the basic Conehead setup - they mostly drown it in more time and money than it ever had the first time around. [23 July 1993, p.42]
    • Boston Globe
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Jay Carr
    Bounce
    Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.
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    • 13 Metascore
    • 50 Jay Carr
    Freddy Got Fingered
    His (Green) new gross-out comedy is crude and stupid, but just as often rudely funny. It doesn't so much push the envelope as shred it.
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Jay Carr
    Scream 2
    I'm not sure that I really want to see "Scream 3,'" but Craven, Williamson, and the screamers certainly bring this one off by not only slapping all their cards on the table, but insisting we admire the way they play them.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Jay Carr
    The Cable Guy
    Never mind that it doesn't always work or that the film's two halves never quite mesh. The Cable Guy essentially is a genie escaped from a bottle, except that the bottle is a TV screen. [14 June 1996, p.59]
    • Boston Globe
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Jay Carr
    Deep Cover
    Although expertly directed by Bill Duke, Deep Cover becomes the cinematic equivalent of a drive-by shooting, posing as community uplift. [15 Apr 1992, p.91]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Jay Carr
    Fried Green Tomatoes
    If you don't get hooked on the storytelling in Fried Green Tomatoes, you'll surely be charmed by its five terrific actresses. Fried Green Tomatoes can't match the dramatic focus and rich texture of Rambling Rose, it's far more appealingly nuanced than Steel Magnolias - and with actresses like Tandy, Masterson, Bates, Parker and Tyson on the job, it's downright irresistible. [10 Jan 1992, p.73]
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