Boston Globe's Scores

Select another publication »
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:
  1. Positive: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
7964 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    When We Leave
    As powerful as the movie is, it stays on the outside of a culture looking in.
  2. Miral
    Miral feels like gastric bypass moviemaking. It's a miniseries awkwardly stuffed in the body of a two-hour drama about the Palestinians' long struggle against the Israelis.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super
    Smart, sick, and subversive, Super gives you what you want only to make you wonder why you want it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Music Never Stopped
    A drably directed yet terrifically affecting drama about family bonds, classic rock, and the human brain. It's sentimental, yet so honest and eccentric that it rises above schmaltz.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cold Weather
    This is a slacker detective story, emphasis on the slack, and if you can downshift into its loping rhythms, it's pretty wonderful.
  6. Certified Copy
    You can see her (Binoche) effect on Kiarostami's filmmaking: She brings out something new in him, too.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Insidious
    The crazy train of Insidious runs fully off the rails when the filmmakers go logical and some of the strange gets explained away as a double shot of demonic possession and astral projection.
  8. Hop
    Hop may have taken years to design and animate, but it feels as if minutes were required to compose it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Source Code
    I'm still not sure what "source code" means here. I suspect the actors, the director, and the screenwriter haven't a clue either. But the thing keeps you watching.
  10. Strongman
    By the end, you don't entirely understand either of these people, but you come to understand why they need each other.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sucker Punch
    It's a surprisingly joyless mash-up of every bit of fanboy flotsam floating around in its maker's cranium.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Irish Drinkers
    All the good intentions in the world can't save White Irish Drinkers from playing like the baldest of retreads.
  13. Orgasm Inc.
    Canner is either overwhelmed by so much impressive access to so many alarming business opportunities or lacking the investigative rigor to drive home the moral problems of these drugs and the existential problems of these women.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monogamy
    Monogamy sets up a nifty idea that it doesn't follow through.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Win Win
    Confident enough to simply go with the exotica of average middle-class Americans who are well-intentioned, flawed, and dog-paddling like crazy to keep their heads above water. There's nothing at all unusual about them, and that's unusual.
  16. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    Credit Bowers and company, finally, for making some good calls about where to follow the leads furnished to them by the book and the first movie, and where to get creative.
  17. I Saw the Devil
    But that ending is a whopper all the same: a heartless blast of tragedy, exploitation, amusement, and general flagrance.
  18. Kill the Irishman
    The best thing about the picture (unless you like exploding cars, in which case the rest of the movie is just so many interruptions between getting to see all these big old '70s boats going boom) is its proudly hammy supporting cast.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jane Eyre
    This may not be the greatest movie version of the novel, but it's possibly the truest.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Of Gods and Men
    Like the best spiritual movies, of whatever faith, "Of Gods and Men" moves us toward a union with the infinite, and when we come to the monks' last supper, the moment is staggeringly powerful.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Lord of the Dance in 3D
    If you're a fan of this Lord, find a copy of the 1999 DVD "Lord of the Dance" and don't waste your time with this flat vanity piece.
  22. Paul
    Never achieves the exhilarating feat of exemplifying the types of Hollywood movies it wants to unpack.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lincoln Lawyer
    Formulaic enough to suggest that franchise would be B level at best, a TV series at worst. But it's also just good enough to make you want to watch it, anyway.
  24. Limitless
    Basically an addiction thriller in which the thirst is for the acquisition and execution of knowledge. So you need an actor who seems surprised by how smart he is but not afraid to be charmingly intelligent. Cooper turns out to be perfect for the part.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Red Riding Hood
    A laughably inept series of adolescent poses trying to pass itself off as a movie.
  26. Mars Needs Moms
    "Mars" needs Mom more than the filmmakers seem to realize.
  27. Elektra Luxx
    Does a lot of winking and teasing.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Battle: Los Angeles
    The Duke is not only name-checked in passing, but Eckhart (who's excellent) even bears a squinty resemblance by the final scenes.
  29. Heartbeats
    The good news is that the movie advertises Dolan's delirious visual talent.
  30. The Desert of Forbidden Art
    In The Desert of Forbidden Art, documentarians Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev offer some background on the late Savitsky, a painter who initially collected ethnic folk art quashed by the Stalin regime.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »