Boston Globe's Scores

Select another publication »
For 7,948 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: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
7948 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    As ambitious as this may be, however, the movie's objectives tax its energy even as the girls' plight tears at your heart.
  2. Jakob the Liar
    Deserves a place alongside "Life Is Beautiful" and, yes, even "Schindler's List."
  3. Godzilla 2000
    A ton of fun, and then some.
    • Boston Globe
  4. Willard
    Wonderfully deranged.
  5. Just an American Boy
    Earle's song introductions, like those of his mentors Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, are as meaty, pointed, and touching as the tunes themselves, and his spoken words -- full of humor and humanity -- are the heart of the film.
  6. Sylvia
    At heart, Sylvia is constructed as a psychological suspense film framed around the ambiguities of Hughes's infidelity and Plath's resulting paranoia. So at its strangest, the movie is a potboiler.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Eden
    It's a refreshing alternative to hipper-than-thou moviemaking.
    • Boston Globe
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Babí léto
    This wistfully charming slice-of-life comedy celebrates an elderly man defiantly thumbing his nose at old age.
  9. 102 Dalmatians
    It is Close's performance that gives the movie its oomph and will leave adults with smiles as wide as the kids'.
    • Boston Globe
  10. Big Animal
    Gathers a sort of darkness as it comes to its oblique conclusion.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Northfork
    This is very much the bargain that Northfork offers an audience: Buy into the brothers' elegiac meditation on angels, Eden, and the death of American innocence or sit back and scoff at it as so much David Lynch lite.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    A tale of narrow talent destroyed by pop hubris, raging insecurity, substance abuse, and murder.
  13. Thirteen Days
    It turns the nerve-fraying Cuban missile crisis into a big pop myth with the grip of a vise.
    • Boston Globe
  14. Rana's Wedding
    An invitation to see something a little less pretty, and potentially more enduring.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dog Park
    A romantic comedy with an adult sensibility, a film that avoids characters-as-caricatures (with one exception), and deftly mixes cynicism and hope.
  16. Welcome to Collinwood
    At some point we're flashed a junkyard billboard telling us that Collinwood is the ''Beirut of Cleveland'' - yes, but here, it's by way of Looney Tunes.
  17. The Man Without a Past
    It's a quiet little gag homage both to Boris Karloff and to the set up of shelf-loads of pulp novels and films noir. And Peltola, with his flat, serious face and damp, oil-black hair, happens to look, at times, like Richard Widmark and Kirk Douglas.
  18. Dark Blue World
    A bittersweet world, and it's frankly one to which we've been before, but seldom do we see it rendered with such exquisite, if pained, craftsmanship.
    • Boston Globe
  19. Men of Honor
    Just what Gooding needed to restart his stalled career.
  20. Swimming Pool
    Very much a genre picture, relying on notions of suspense, surprise, and comeuppance. Indeed, at the center of this movie is a question of whether what we're seeing is really to be believed.
  21. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    It offers pleasures of a kind that fewer and fewer films even seem to remember, much less aspire to.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phone Booth
    Short, suspenseful, funny, and profane, the film's a throwback to the neat little B-level thrillers the entertainment industry used to crank out by the dozen in the post- World War II era and the early days of TV.
  23. Heist
    Not only reminds us that there's a little larceny in all of us, it reminds us how much fun it can be to commune with our inner thieves.
    • Boston Globe
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Demonlover
    Expect Demonlover to become a midnight-movie staple in the coming years. And expect shards of it to roil your dreams for weeks.
  25. Someone Like You...
    There are three main reasons for seeing Someone Like You - Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, and Ashley Judd.
    • Boston Globe
  26. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    Only loosely concerned with behind-the-scenes gossip and is squarely focused on the nature of Fellini's insatiability.
  27. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    A train worth catching.
  28. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    This third installment is the loudest, dopiest, and least inventive of the three. But what the movie...lacks in intelligence it makes up for in sheer doom.
  29. The Rookie
    It's not afraid to play cornball when it isn't playing baseball, but The Rookie gets away with it.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All About the Benjamins
    All About the Benjamins has: flash, cash, and enough videogenic eye candy to make ''Miami Vice'' look like ''Little House on the Prairie.''
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »