The Globe and Mail (Toronto)'s Scores

Select another publication »
For 7,293 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
7293 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Kicking & Screaming
    Luckily for the viewer, Ferrell is an irresistible presence. His occasional moments of unwarranted weirdness are the only thing that makes this otherwise pedestrian movie bearable (let alone interesting) to watch.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Revenge of the Pink Panther
    There are pratfalls and car chases and explosions enough to please youngsters but the adult appeal of the Pink Panther series has disappeared. [24 July 1978]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  3. The Cutting Edge
    There's probably a good film to be made about the judgmental world of figure skating, but The Cutting Edge isn't it. Nor does it try to be. Instead, it's the sort of movie that aims low - somewhere in the region of competent pulp - and pretty much hits the mark. [31 March 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Malevolence
    A low-budget American horror film that's already established itself as a fan favourite, Malevolence flaunts all the trappings of an old-school slasher flick.
  5. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    Formula sequel right down to its zany subtitle -- Armed and Fabulous. Bullock deserves better. We deserve better. Rev up that '57 Chevy.
  6. The Great Raid
    The picture's broad outline may be fact, but everything inside gets painted in a deep shade of bogus.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Meet the Browns
    Perry's methods are never subtle, but no contemporary filmmaker works harder to make sure ribs are tickled and tears are jerked.
  8. Crossing Over
    Had Crossing Over chosen to tell one of them well, rather than seven badly, it would have made for a fine movie. Instead, all we get is a mess of good liberal intentions loosely anchored to a mass of pure Hollywood hokum.
  9. A Home at the End of the World
    Farrell looks so stymied we feel for the guy -- and when the door closes on A Home at the End of the World, that's the only feeling in town.
  10. The Young Victoria
    Really, Young Victoria is just a lot of costumes in fond search of some drama. And finding precious little.
  11. Boychoir
    Hoffman’s role is an important one, but not a big one. He’s not called upon to bring a lot to the table, and, as a pro, doesn’t muscle up his part.
  12. Angels in the Outfield
    For this Disney remake of a saccharine 1951 baseball comedy, the targeted age group has been lowered to around nine. That means plenty of mustard-squirting slapstick and not very much of the beauty and drama of the actual game [15 July 1994]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  13. Beautiful Boy
    There is a strange emotional detachment to Felix van Groeningen’s adaptation, which renders the tale needlessly cold.
  14. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
    Unfortunately, this reverent and old-fashioned biopic is a prime example of the kind of inspirational movie that is, itself, uninspired.
  15. Show Dogs
    Grown-ups will find it painful to watch a clearly embarrassed Arnett go through the motions, muttering his lines as he internally wonders why he never became the next Kevin Costner.
  16. The Good House
    If you can ignore an ending ripped straight from the AA playbook, there’s minor fun to be had along the way.
  17. Jumanji
    The terror sequences (not only animals but monsoons and earthquakes and quicksand) are scary until they get monotonous: after a while, you have a sense you're watching a clip reel from every Hollywood disaster flick ever made.
  18. The Pelican Brief
    Pakula's screenplay looks to bulldoze a clear path through the narrative thickets, but this stuff is impenetrable - meant to be complicated, it's just confusing.
  19. Out of Blue
    Part police procedural, part supernatural thriller, part lesson in metaphysics and all neo-noir, Carol Morley’s Out of Blue never gels into a convincing whole.
  20. Pan
    In fashioning a creation myth for Peter Pan, director Joe Wright and writer Jason Fuchs have produced such a thin story that they reduce, rather than amplify, J.M. Barrie’s famous characters.
  21. 3 Men and a Little Lady
    The follow-up to Three Men and a Baby offers more of the same. Mixed in among the cliches and stereotypes, there's a genial chuckle or two to be found Laughs that are strictly low-cal. [24 Nov 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  22. The Rock
    The Rock is just typical big American dumb fun.
  23. The Producers
    This is the stage experience documented on film, from the perspective of someone sitting front row centre watching actors pitching for the back rows of the balcony.
  24. The Walk
    As directed by Robert Zemeckis from a script he co-wrote with Christopher Browne, the film limps through its first two acts, putting in time until the big moment.
  25. The End
    An absurdist comedy such as The End, with the tone teetering from slapstick to sorrow, is quite another matter, requiring a sophistication Reynolds simply doesn't have. [27 May 1978]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  26. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    Only Tudyk’s dry humour in the role of the tactless droid K-2S0 makes Edwards’s darkly reductivist approach occasionally seem smarter rather than lesser. In the end, this hardening of the franchise seems likely to alienate both the fans and the uninitiated.
  27. Rise of the Guardians
    From time to time, as Alexandre Desplat's insistent score surged yet again while the characters rushed by, I found myself wanting the movie to slow down. Some of these images are too beautiful to disappear so quickly.
  28. Nowhere in Africa
    Isn't really a dull film so much as an oddly quaint one that seems to find a comfortable perspective about drastic circumstances.
  29. Hard Rain
    The characters don't stay still long enough for the audience to worry about them. The high-priced actors (Freeman is especially wasted) are so much flotsam in the big water-tank action scenes.
  30. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    The greatest story ever has finally been told. Or, if you prefer, the damn thing has come to its merciful end.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »