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
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Eight Legged Freaks
    Doesn't try to be anything it's not. It's happy being a funny, shoot-'em-up, run-for-your-life, green-guts monster movie. And as green-guts monster movies go, it's a beaut.
  2. All About Lily Chou-Chou
    Awash in strangeness, a poem that details what it's like to be 13 at the end of a millennium.
  3. My Wife Is an Actress
    The film's most endearing trait is that these people sincerely love movies, and they truly love their own idiosyncrasies. And is that not the greatest love of all?
    • Boston Globe
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    The downtimes are so flat that it makes you wonder whether director John Stainton and writer Holly Goldberg Sloan made them intentionally bad, just so we'd look forward to seeing Irwin again.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Reign of Fire
    This is quite enjoyable as creature features go, and Bale continues to demonstrate his curious under-the-radar appeal. As for McConaughey, let's just say a star is reborn. Suddenly that whole naked-bongo-playing incident makes a lot more sense.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex and Lucia
    Isn't a first-date movie. As a third -date movie, though, it's just about perfect.
  7. Never Again
    There are moments, too, where the forced hipness falls aside and the two lead characters just plain relate, realistically and maturely, with a seasoned playfulness that is truly charming.
  8. Road to Perdition
    Its seriousness is welcome. It's also a burden the film can't completely surmount.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Last Dance
    Rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results. Last Dance, whatever its flaws, fulfills one facet of its mission in making me want to find out whether, in this case, that's true.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    It is Bowie's alter ego as the androgynous Martian rock star that remains, 30 years later, his most enduring artistic achievement.
  11. Rocco and His Brothers (re-release)
    After “Rocco,” Visconti’s style lost the vestiges of naturalism and indulged in rococo artifice and aristocratic splendor.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Me Without You
    More predictable than it ought to be - you can set your watch by the appearance of the mournful Nick Drake song on the soundtrack.
  13. Read My Lips
    An inventive, propulsive office thriller.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Group
    Is it one of Oprah's book club meetings?
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Like Mike
    I don't want to sell Like Mike as something it's not. It's a cash-in, all right - just better written, more tightly edited, sharply performed, and a little more heartfelt than most.
  16. Men in Black II
    There's something wrong with this picture, and the problem is there on Smith's face -- Smith looks distressingly I-was-an-Oscar-nominee bored. That goes double for Jones.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Songs from the Second Floor
    The film is depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. It's obviously not for everyone, but only because not everyone can meet its stare.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Powerpuff Girls
    Forgoes that split-level wit to concentrate on mere rock 'em sock 'em mayhem.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lovely & Amazing
    A chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort.
  20. Notorious C.H.O.
    Her face is as much a part of her comedic form as her observations are. It's an amazing slapstick instrument, creating a scrapbook of living mug shots.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hey Arnold! The Movie
    The ugly duckling of Nickelodeon's after-bath lineup. That's its strength.
  22. Mr. Deeds
    Armed with a dinner theater accent and hair that looks like an LP melted on his head, Turturro pockets the picture. As a demonstration of his newly accessed maturity and benevolence, Sandler helps him do it.
    • Boston Globe
  23. Juwanna Mann
    It is Kevin Pollak who steals what there is of a show as Jamal's passive-aggressive, pressure-cooked agent. His comedic timing, particularly given the thinness of the script, is the only genuinely impressive slam dunk this movie has to offer.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sunshine State
    There is almost no drama, nor any surprise, in this long effort.
    • Boston Globe
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Lilo & Stitch
    A quirky, welcome addition to Disney's cavalcade of animated stars.
  26. Minority Report
    Cruise will never be a master thespian, but there's no one better at putting across the charisma of control, and the opening sequence of ''Report'' is an astonishingly fluid demonstration of his gifts.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Emperor's New Clothes
    Not without its charms. But it never rises to its clever what-if concept.
    • Boston Globe
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Windtalkers
    The code talkers and their guardians - Beach and Cage, Willie and Slater - do the best they can with the oddly flat-footed script, but their dynamics don't really have a place in Woo's universe.
  29. Scooby-Doo
    This dog will inevitably let down purists looking for the elusive combination of smart and funny.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Bourne Identity
    The best audiences can hope for is that they, too, get amnesia and forget they ever saw this movie.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »