Boston Globe's Scores

For 7,947 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 1.1 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:
7947 movie reviews
  1. A high-impact, high-powered mess that raises the bar for over-the-topness.
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  2. Just because Rad — who died in 2007 at the age of 70 — wasted 26 years bringing Dangerous Men to the screen doesn’t mean you should waste 80 minutes watching it.
  3. Some of the film is slow. Some of it is silly.
  4. Stumbles over its own clumsiness until it goes down for the count.
  5. The lack of sexual tension is astounding.
  6. As perfectly bad horror movies go, Wrong Turn is something new: a gore-splattered workout flick.
  7. The Forger wants to be many things: gritty crime thriller, heist picture, domestic drama. Family bonds get “forged,” too, right? Director Philip Martin, who’s mainly done British TV work, is best known for “Prime Suspect 7.” Martin keeps things moving a little too briskly, perhaps. Scenes generally feel underdeveloped, and transitions abrupt.
  8. You want to make lemonade from this, but even the lemons stink.
  9. There are three main reasons for seeing Someone Like You - Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, and Ashley Judd.
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  10. Director and Team Besson member Camille Delamarre (“Brick Mansions”) speeds us from one action sequence to the next with a style that alternates between routine, clunky, and modestly inspired.
  11. The best thing about Saint John of Las Vegas is that it makes you really appreciate guys like David Lynch and Joel and Ethan Coen.
  12. It's a warmed-over suspense thriller that's more disturbing than it is surprising or scary.
  13. It's hard to find the movie unpleasant, but it's hard to imagine it causing any strong reaction at all.
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  14. Would seem to be surefire casting. The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders.
  15. Whitney's body of work doesn't suggest a filmmaker so much as an opportunist with a video camera. He makes a very specific sort of reality movie. It's called porn.
  16. Almost all mainstream movies steal from other movies, but the better ones get away with it because they possess some distinctive identity. The best that Ken Scott’s Unfinished Business can come up with is Vince Vaughn — as the straight man.
  17. The humor is crass when it isn’t forced. The violence, which barely pauses for reloading, feels even more mechanical than it does mindless, and it’s very mindless. How can a movie so full of action feel so tired?
  18. The movie wants us to find this frightening, but there's no suspense, no terrifying images.
  19. There is a mild pleasure in the sight of Jude Law pirouetting with a hacksaw through gangs of extras, but the amusement is notional. I actually don’t find him terribly interesting as a kinetic object.
  20. A horror film whose only scare is that it was made at all... As with so many stupid horror movies in these post-''Scream" times, this one is at such a creative loss that all it can do is make its audience feel duped for having purchased a ticket.
  21. Fired Up feels like everybody's first time doing anything - writing, acting, directing, cheerleading.
  22. This is not a movie that has great passion for pleasures of the flesh. Its sexiest scenes involve bullets cutting through the air in the slowest motion possible.
  23. Fifty Shades Freed is as boring as . . . well . . . Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele. It’s a trilogy climax that should be fun, but it’s monotonous — maybe because we’ve seen it all before.
  24. Tens of millions of dollars were spent to tell us what we should have known going in: that the makers of the movie you're slogging through will spare no expense to demonstrate how much they hate us. Do us a favor. Tell them the feeling is mutual.
  25. It's not as bad as the average Hollywood movie, it's stupendously worse.
  26. Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
  27. Your kids will probably love this movie, which means you’ll be watching it often. Excuse me while I giggle with unSmurflike malice.
  28. Marks a return to a not-so-distant time when horror movies weren't soul-rotting atrocities but just enjoyably bad.
  29. The repartee, as ever, is weak. Even with all the extra layers of digital detail, it’s still tough to keep these four straight. And the CG characters’ slimy rendering and motion-capture expressiveness could go down with “The Polar Express” as a study in inadvertent, technologically misguided screen creepiness. Wackier would have been OK, guys — it’s the Ninja Turtles.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
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