Boston Globe's Scores

Select another publication »
For 7,945 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:
  1. Positive: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
7945 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Eames: The Architect & The Painter
    The Eamery, as some called it, was highly successful as a business - and, more important, as an exercise in tastemaking. "We wanted to make the best for the most for the least,'' the Eameses like to say.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Outrage
    The filmmaking is cool, watchful, and ultimately too distanced. Outrage isn't outrageous enough, and it hurts.
  3. Shame
    There's a misery in Fassbender that's spellbinding. I rolled my eyes for most of Shame. But never at him. That face tells the story of addiction: the joylessness of sex.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sitter
    The Sitter pushes the envelope with such sloppy gusto that you have to give in occasionally, and its comic timing finds its rhythm about every fifth joke.
  5. New Year's Eve
    New Year's Eve is fun in the way that eating at a buffet is fun. It's two hours of foods that have nothing to do with each other piled high on a plate because it was too cheap to resist.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Burke and Hare
    If anything, Burke & Hare is a slaphappy mess that recalls Landis's earliest work on 1970s midnight movies like "Schlock'' and "The Kentucky Fried Movie.''
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tomboy
    Tomboy is as visually beautiful as its 10-year-old heroine is defiantly plain.
  8. Answers to Nothing
    None of what we see is at all credible.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Week with Marilyn
    The point of "My Week'' appears to be that Colin is the one person in Monroe's life who isn't using her, but if squeezing two books and a movie out of one brief encounter isn't exploitation, I don't know what is.
  10. Arthur Christmas
    The film's indefatigable holiday spirit is infectious.
  11. The Muppets
    I've never seen a movie so perfectly balanced between unabashed nerdiness and hipness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hugo
    An exhilarating tale of magic, machines, memories, and dreams, Martin Scorsese pulls off the neatest trick of all. He marshals the marvels of modern movie technology - up to and including the dreaded 3-D - to create a love letter to the earliest of movies and, by extension, to every movie from then to now.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Happy Feet Two
    Little kids, of course, will swallow it whole without thinking twice.
  14. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
    The family snapshots are more revealing. The sight of Colby wearing a tie at family picnics really says something about the sort of man he was. But they're not that much more revealing.
  15. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
    The most interesting part of this lively, likable documentary is the journey.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Descendants
    I can't think of another movie this year that made me laugh or weep harder for the whole lumpy business of being - the compromises and connections that get us through the day and somehow add up to entire lives.
  17. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    The movie is long and uniquely bad, the last of Stephenie Meyer's four books greedily tortured into two installments.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Melancholia
    Watching Melancholia is like being stuck next to a brilliant depressive at a dinner party. The food is exquisite, the conversation scintillating, and the longer you sit there the more trapped you feel in another man's all-encompassing gloom.
  19. Janie Jones
    The actors also acquit themselves well singing the film's numerous tunes. Breslin's voice is pleasantly melodic, while Nivola sounds like someone who's been grinding it out on tour for years.
  20. The Other F Word
    Full of slick editing and various zippy technical tricks: split screens, sped-up footage, song lyrics and other text (in wild fonts) superimposed on the screen. Sometimes it's fun. More often it's distracting.
  21. Jack and Jill
    What's more genuinely wacky is what a kick the movie can sometimes be, completely in spite of its big, flat stunt.
  22. Le Havre
    The achievement of this movie is that Kaurismäki manages the seemingly impossible task of making a farce about farces. In other words, this is a very good movie in quotation marks and a very good movie.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Into the Abyss
    What Herzog almost accidentally captures in his viewfinder is profound and unsettling: an entire American underclass where at least some prison time is the norm and where only luck and the grace of God keep a person from either wrong end of the shotgun.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    J. Edgar
    That J. Edgar never ultimately convinces - that at times it's quite entertainingly bad - can be blamed on both an unfocused script and the project's very bigness. Somewhere in this ambitious, meticulously produced epic is a small love story struggling to get out.
  25. Oranges and Sunshine
    Oranges and Sunshine is like a Mike Leigh movie drained of all its bodily fluids.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Revenge of the Electric Car
    The follow-up, Revenge of the Electric Car, arrives today and it's a lesser animal, more hopeful but also more complex and lacking the focused urgency of the original.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Like Crazy
    Like Crazy gets the evanescence of young passion right - the way it ultimately has to burn off, leaving us standing in an unfamiliar adult world. But it never convinces us of the fire itself.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    Because the "Harold & Kumar'' universe seesaws so delicately between the subversively smart and the ineffably stupid, even the lamest jokes get a witty spin - and even the cleverest ideas can turn into groaners.
  29. Tower Heist
    Smoothly made and smart enough. It's not going for too much, but I laughed a lot.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Martha Marcy May Marlene
    This doesn't feel like art, it feels like a cop-out, as though Durkin couldn't decide how to end his movie, so he didn't. He's a mature filmmaker - a natural - but he's still thinking in shorts.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »