Boston Globe's Scores

Select another publication »
For 7,950 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
7950 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    W.
    When it works, W. can take your breath away. When it doesn't, you can feel Stone still working out his feelings toward the man.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Rudely silly rather than transgressively shocking, Zack and Miri is the sort of bawdy but fundamentally decent farce you could take Grandma to, provided Grandma were familiar with the oeuvre of Traci Lords.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Twilight
    Actually, the movie's a better movie than the book was a book, in part because Meyer struggled to put her characters' galloping emotions into print whereas director Catherine Hardwicke just visualizes them in all their inarticulate purpleness.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Max
    In the end, the lure of the gimmick proves too much for Meyjes, clearly a writer-director of talent. If Max were half as audacious, it would be twice as good.
  5. The Manson Family
    There's no real journalism here, just the sort of appalling revisionism that can turn a bloodbath into a beach party.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
    So spectacularly bent that it exudes a contact cough-syrup high all its own.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Concussion
    I wish the movie were so good that I could say you have to see it; while Smith’s performance takes on a life of its own, the movie seems locked to its talking points.
  8. Calling All Earthlings
    Anchoring this diverting, disparate collage are interviews with those who still believe in Van Tassel’s faith and message.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Edge of Darkness
    The movie’s weaknesses include the overuse of grainy flashbacks of Craven’s daughter as a child, and the conversations he has with her after she is gone. Both are tremendously moving ideas but eventually succumb to bathos from repetition.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Merry Gentleman
    An overly muted and cautious piece of work. Watching it is like seeing a man ease out onto the limb of a tree, constantly testing its strength.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beach Bum
    Thus the hapless hordes of college kids who went to see “Spring Breakers” hoping for a mindless good time and were appalled when the fun got spit back in their faces with candy-colored brio. That movie was and is a conceptual masterpiece, a movie specifically built to cross an audience’s wires. The Beach Bum, by contrast, isn’t close to that level.
  12. Dom Hemingway
    Entertaining if inconsequential gangster farce.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Jihad for Love
    Director Parvez Sharma, a gay Muslim himself, takes pains to show the wide range of Islam's attitudes toward homosexuality.
  14. 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]
    • Boston Globe
  15. The Foreigner
    If the movie can’t maintain its interest in Chan, why should we? This narrative splice job simply doesn’t hold together. Call it a taut mess or a hot mess, take your pick.
  16. Pacific Heights
    Pacific Heights is the hot fall thriller Hollywood has been waiting for. A slick, jolting successor to "Jagged Edge," "Fatal Attraction" and "Sea of Love," it beats the odds by inducing us to sympathize with a San Francisco yuppie landlord couple stuck with a tenant from hell. [28 Sept 1990, p.45]
    • Boston Globe
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'm So Excited
    I’m So Excited! is probably its director’s most forgettable work. But it has its trashy pleasures, and it beats an in-flight movie — the one place you can bet it will never be seen.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    She (Portman) has filmed the book according to its emotional meaning to her, and that’s fine. What she hasn’t done is whip it into shape as a compelling movie.
  19. Back to the Future Part III
    Back to the Future III has no future. The reason is that it never works up much of a past as it sends its gull-winged DeLorean time machine back to the Old West. In effect, it goes back to the Age of Steam and runs out of gas. [25 May 1990, p.45]
    • Boston Globe
  20. Mad Love
    Like an ''Afterschool Special'' with costumes by Gianni Versace, Mad Love looks better than it feels.
  21. America's Heart and Soul
    Schwartzberg does stumble upon some pretty fascinating people.
  22. Series 7: The Contenders
    A gritty, immediate, down-and-dirty satire with a down-and-dirty look.
    • Boston Globe
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Terminal
    Here's a film made by grown-ups for grown-ups, on grown-up themes of statelessness and belonging. Yet you could show it to a 6-year-old and have him or her understand all the nuances of plot and characterization.
  24. Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
    Despite the climactic hugs all around and spiritual healing celebrated by a tearful service in the cathedral, some moments en route make an impression.
  25. Friends with Kids
    There's also new piety and self-righteousness about parenting. Comedies are nervous to find the real humor and wonder in having a family. It's usually tragedy or nothing.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Man of Steel
    Snyder knows how to put on a show, and Man of Steel has a massive scope that’s hard to resist... But what’s missing from this Superman saga is a sense of lightness, of pop joy.
  27. Payback
    Debt is bad, we can all agree, as is its conceptual cousin, greed. It would have been intellectually bracing, though, to have a Gordon Gekko equivalent on hand to argue otherwise.
  28. For a Good Time, Call...
    This movie is basically where some small-screen comedy in the last year has been: "2 Broke Girls," "New Girl," and, their far superior sister, "Girls."
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Christmas Carol
    Shockingly, the new film turns out to be very good, at times close to brilliant: a darkly detailed marvel of creative visualization that does well by Dickens and right by audiences - when it’s not trying to sell them a theme park ride.
  30. Yes
    The result is a unique time at the art house: a work whose badness becomes guiltily pleasurable, like a Harlequin romance novel masquerading as a dissertation.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »