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. Employee of the Month
    Perhaps Employee of the Month, which was typed then directed by Greg Coolidge, is unfolding in the key of satire. But you'd have to be a dog to hear it.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    The new prequel isn't really a slasher movie at all. It's a mess, with too much to say, and an odd genre in which to preach.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    49 Up
    No matter their wealth or social status, these people share disappointments and elations and a sense that life, in the end, may be what life is about.
  4. Black Gold
    You buy "fair - trade" coffee; you assume you're being socially responsible. But now, along comes Black Gold to tell you that all fair-trade coffee is not created equal, and that Ethiopia, the "birthplace of coffee" and home of some of the world's best beans, may be getting the least fair shake of all.
  5. Tales of the Rat Fink
    To those filmgoers who wouldn't know Rat Fink from Barton Fink, this reviewer's advice is: Pass. The latest counterculture tribute by Mann, director of 1988's "Comic Book Confidential" and 1999's "Grass," is as proudly silly as it is informative, and it can't help that a critical amount of brand coolness gets lost in the translation.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kettle of Fish
    The result is movie goulash: made with love, impossible to digest.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shortbus
    In Shortbus, the impish writer-director John Cameron Mitchell does the unthinkable: He puts the joy back in movie sex.
  8. ...So Goes the Nation
    Distinguishes itself from the recent glut of mediocre political documentaries by opting for nonpartisanship.
  9. Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
    The filmmaker invites us to reconsider the author as someone warmer and less intimidating than his body of work. On that count, Wrestling With Angels succeeds.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Queen
    A subtle, often very funny, ultimately touching tragedy of royal manners and meaning.
  11. The Guardian
    The point of all this solemnity may be to pay serious respect to those rescue swimmers, who courageously look after errant kayakers or victims of Hurricane Katrina. But what we get in exchange is a movie that feels too much like a Coast Guard recruitment film. Who wants to pay to see that?
  12. Open Season
    As cartoon rip-offs go, Open Season can be surprisingly entertaining, in a made-for-6-year-olds kind of way.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    School for Scoundrels
    It achieves something previously thought impossible: It renders Billy Bob Thornton unfunny.
  14. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
    The first-time filmmaker aspires to show us what caused him to leave his neighborhood and stay gone for 20 years. All I can really glean is that the place was too loud.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
    Even a fan, however, might prefer the excellent, recently released concert DVD "Pixies: Live at the Paradise in Boston" to this tepid behind-the-scenes experience.
  16. The Last King of Scotland
    The Last King of Scotland joins the ranks of nightmarish innocents-abroad movies, from "Midnight Express" to "Hostel," where the disillusioned hero fights to return to civility.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All the King's Men
    I'm not the first observer, or even the second, to liken the star's (Penn) portrayal of fictional Louisiana governor Willie Stark to the late John Belushi's impersonation of Joe Cocker.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flyboys
    The movie's straightforward and ingratiating, and as pretty-boy history lessons go, it's a lot less obnoxious than "Pearl Harbor."
  19. Jackass Number Two
    This is extreme comedy, and it's amazing how director Jeff Tremaine, who along with Spike Jonze has been affiliated with this troupe from its outset, creates an environment where self-inflicted torture is uncontrollably funny without being morally offensive.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fearless
    Call it "Jet Li's Wushu Retirement Party."
  21. Jesus Camp
    If we are in the midst of a culture war, as many people proclaim in Jesus Camp, then the left should be concerned. The right's Christian soldiers appear to be extremely well trained.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Hardcore
    A sloppy mosh note to the genre, with its own excesses and oversights. It's like a flier for a band you've never heard of: torn, soaked with beer, itchy with aggression.
  23. The Science of Sleep
    This pop-up book of a film is an ideal arrangement between director and star.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Renaissance
    Stark eye candy of the first order, the film is saddled with the oldest story this side of "Blade Runner." Still, comic-book fanboys and graphic designers with time to kill should feel no shame in checking this one out.
  25. Old Joy
    Kurt and Mark's trip to those hot springs is a figurative return to Eden. Anyone who's had a disillusioning reunion with a moony old friend knows what Mark discovers: They're too old to stay that innocent. None of this hit me until after the movie ended. But it hit me hard: You can't go home again.
  26. Sólo con tu pareja
    Without trivializing the disease, the film challenges AIDS' stigma (albeit for heterosexuals) at a moment when it was still considered a death sentence.
  27. The Black Dahlia
    The first thing you notice about this so-so adaptation of James Ellroy's novel is the shoddy acting.
  28. Everyone's Hero
    Everyone's Hero is sincere and heartwarming; sometimes it's funny.
  29. Gridiron Gang
    The movie's inevitabilities (the humiliating loss, the ebb and flow of camaraderie, the triumphant finale) have deep resonance.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Kiss
    It very much wants to be "Garden State" five years down the line.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »