Mark Feeney

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Boston Globe
For 460 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mark Feeney's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Hermia & Helena
Lowest review score: 12 The Inbetweeners Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 301 out of 460
  2. Mixed: 115 out of 460
  3. Negative: 44 out of 460
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Mark Feeney
    1911
    It swoops, it pans, it noses around. The camerawork is almost as agitated as the editing. The directors seem to be trying to compensate for all the speechifying with as much random motion as possible.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Mark Feeney
    Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
    It's slambang in pacing, bald in exposition, and offers cast-of-hundreds spectacle.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Mark Feeney
    Farmageddon
    The one-sidedness of Farmageddon isn't just an artistic failing. It's an argumentative failing, too.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Mark Feeney
    Rapt
    Rapt is smooth, cool, and efficient. It's a movie with very little wasted motion - or, for much of its length, wasted emotion.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Mark Feeney
    The Hedgehog
    Achache's direction is deft and assured. She lends the film a nice, easy rhythm that conceals the story's alternating whimsy and melodrama and almost compensates for them (almost).
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Mark Feeney
    Magic Trip
    It's the movie "Yellow Submarine'' should have been but didn't know how to be.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Mark Feeney
    Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
    This is a person you'd enjoy spending time with and learning from. That's certainly the case with Dorman's film.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Feeney
    Brighton Rock
    Joffe's biggest mistake isn't visual, it's chronological. What makes Pinkie so terrifying in the novel is that he's just 17.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Feeney
    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    The problem is that the heart of the movie is McGowan. He's just not a very compelling figure. He's a bit doughy and inert.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Mark Feeney
    Zookeeper
    As for other voices, the most notable are Adam Sandler, whose capuchin monkey wears out his welcome pretty quickly; Maya Rudolph, whose jivey giraffe comes perilously close to aural blackface; and Nick Nolte's gorilla.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Mark Feeney
    Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
    The first step in getting beyond preaching to the converted is letting the other side show how wrong it might be.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Feeney
    Bride Flight
    Bride Flight is pretty predictable once the basic situation gets established.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Mark Feeney
    Jig
    Jig is involving, if at times overly slick.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Mark Feeney
    Nostalgia for the Light
    What starts out as a beautifully depopulated filmic exercise - it's 14 minutes into the movie before Guzman introduces any people - becomes toward the end a nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Mark Feeney
    Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
    Hey, Boo is the documentary equivalent of a group hug, right down to the segments showing middle schoolers in Westchester County, N.Y., and Birmingham, Ala., discussing the book in class.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Feeney
    The First Grader
    You marvel all the more at Litondo's and Harris's performances, considering how much claptrap Ann Peacock's script requires them to put up with.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Mark Feeney
    The Princess of Montpensier
    There is a great and perhaps unique French cinematic tradition of braiding together love and manners and the past. Think of "Children of Paradise," "Casque d'Or," "The Earrings of Madame de . . .," "Elena and Her Men." Now one can think of The Princess of Montpensier, too.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Feeney
    Priest
    Priest is based on a series of Korean graphic novels. What it's really based on, though, is other movies - a whole lot of other movies.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Mark Feeney
    There Be Dragons
    In fairness, putting holiness onscreen is an enormous challenge. It can be done, as several directors have shown, most notably Dreyer and Bresson. Bad enough that Joffe is the poor man's Lean. He's also the nonbelieving man's Dreyer and Bresson.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Mark Feeney
    Kill the Irishman
    The best thing about the picture (unless you like exploding cars, in which case the rest of the movie is just so many interruptions between getting to see all these big old '70s boats going boom) is its proudly hammy supporting cast.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Mark Feeney
    Man with a Movie Camera
    A marvel of energy, wit, and visual imagination, The Man With a Movie Camera remains one of the most exhilarating movies ever made. [06 Feb 2015, p.G5]
    • Boston Globe
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Mark Feeney
    Grey Gardens
    Truly, there is no looniness like looniness with lineage.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Mark Feeney
    Let's Get Lost
    The miraculous thing about Let's Get Lost is that Weber has managed to create something that's both impossibly stylized and unmistakably moral (not judgmental, moral).
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Mark Feeney
    8: The Mormon Proposition
    A deeply felt, and numbingly partisan, documentary about how the Mormon Church both bankrolled and masterminded passage of the initiative.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 88 Mark Feeney
    Ran
    In Ran, color plays a role not unlike that of language in "Lear": a kind of ground bass of beauty, a product of pure imagination, that both affirms life and surpasses it. Yet Kurosawa uses that beauty more as negation: a reminder not of what man is capable of but how puny he is in comparison.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Mark Feeney
    Stonewall Uprising
    "This was the Rosa Parks moment,'' another participant says, "the time that gay people stood up and said, 'No.' ''
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Mark Feeney
    Waking Sleeping Beauty
    Vividly captures a period of movie history. It’s just that the period seems less vital -- sleepier, if you will -- than it once did.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Mark Feeney
    45365
    For such a small place (officially a city, Sidney sure feels like a town), it's strikingly diverse.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 88 Mark Feeney
    Killer of Sheep
    Killer of Sheep is a drama that’s hardly at all dramatic, which makes it all the more moving. It’s quiet, unhurried, understated, unblinking. Mood matters more than style, dailiness more than incident. All movies are about other movies. A few are also about life. “Killer of Sheep” is one of them.
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