Boston Globe's Scores

For 7,964 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 0.9 points 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:
7964 movie reviews
  1. He's (Willard) a one-man storm of escalating inanity, and he's hilarious.
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  2. A steadily engaging and winningly humane film that loves its characters.
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  3. Although dated, it's not a bad musical.
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  4. Awful in ways that are just clever enough often enough to make it intermittently watchable.
  5. A romantic fairy tale that's light and in several ways seductive, if not exactly filling.
  6. Leaves you questioning its intentions.
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  7. Movingly recounts a hitherto untold story in the voices of the people who lived it.
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  8. The kind of heartwarming, well-intentioned film many audiences claim they want to see at their local theaters.
  9. Hits mostly flat notes, then a few really sour ones.
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  10. It plays like Scorsese's ``After Hours,'' but for higher stakes.
  11. Terrific French film about that most universal of subjects - work.
  12. Rich as it looks, it lacks the feverishness of Goya's art.
  13. Bait ends up seeming pretty wormy.
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  14. Hollywood filmmaking at its best, brimming over with feeling, texture, spirit, and several kinds of keenness that transmute experience into big pop myth.
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  15. Isn't even worth a glance.
  16. It's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances, and offbeat fun.
  17. Sometimes trips over its own contrivance, especially at the ammo-ridden end.
  18. Offers some entertaining moments now and then in its relatively short running time.
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  19. A crass, witless knockoff of better films.
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  20. Mother's peace crusade ennobles Irish Town.
  21. Engrossing and eye-opening in several respects and even, when you least expect it, humorous.
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  22. In its zeal to counter the negativity usually found in depictions of Mormons, God's Army eventually succumbs to overearnestness, sentimentality, and cliche.
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A heady, sometimes blurry combination of fable, legend, and social-political commentary.
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  23. The sweetly enticing Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire repays the bit of patience it asks.
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  24. Dogged allegiance to blandness.
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  25. It takes us nowhere we haven't been before, except geographically.
  26. Brightly sidesteps the cliches that cling to the genre like barnacles and reinvents a lot of the old moves.
  27. She's (Dunst) the big reason the film rises above instantly rejectable formula to campy pop.
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  28. It's rare that a crime movie achieves such emotional complexity, but this one is smartly layered.
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  29. Many of the film's images will prove more than some viewers can take.
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