Jay Carr, Boston Globe
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For 727 reviews, this critic has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.7 points higher than other critics.
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Jay Carr's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 519 out of 727
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Mixed: 114 out of 727
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Negative: 94 out of 727
727
movie reviews
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Jay Carr 75
It is Close's performance that gives the movie its oomph and will leave adults with smiles as wide as the kids'. -
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Jay Carr 75
It turns the nerve-fraying Cuban missile crisis into a big pop myth with the grip of a vise. -
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Jay Carr 75
A bittersweet world, and it's frankly one to which we've been before, but seldom do we see it rendered with such exquisite, if pained, craftsmanship. -
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Jay Carr 75
It offers pleasures of a kind that fewer and fewer films even seem to remember, much less aspire to. -
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Jay Carr 75
Not only reminds us that there's a little larceny in all of us, it reminds us how much fun it can be to commune with our inner thieves. -
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Jay Carr 75
There are three main reasons for seeing Someone Like You - Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, and Ashley Judd. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's not afraid to play cornball when it isn't playing baseball, but The Rookie gets away with it. -
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Jay Carr 75
One of the most warmly beguiling romantic comedies the Southern Hemisphere has sent our way in ages. -
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Jay Carr 75
In the end, it's simple warmth and sincerity that make this ensemble piece so disarming. -
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Jay Carr 75
The best thing about Together, apart from the way some of its characters grow on you even as others put you off, is the way it snatches idealism back from the brink of life-smothering orthodoxy. -
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Jay Carr 75
Is a chamber romance, in that there's nothing grand or sweeping about it, but it's got all the style it needs to go with those glorious Tuscan settings. -
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Jay Carr 75
Avoids the potentially suffocating pall of uplift hovering over its quite exhilarating story. -
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Jay Carr 75
Wacky enough and gadget-driven enough to appeal to bored kids looking for fresh energies. -
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Jay Carr 75
The kind of movie you can enjoy easily enough, as long as you don't think about it much. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's a sunny, funny, fittingly cartoony blend of computer-generated 3-D representations of the flying squirrel and his pal the moose with actors. -
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Jay Carr 75
As generic as its title, but two things enable it to land: the basic likability of Mark Wahlberg as the wannabe protagonist, and the contagious energies in the rock concert sequences. -
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Jay Carr 75
Too quick to uncritically and unthinkingly accept its subject's rollickingly self-mythologizing take on himself. -
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Jay Carr 75
Give your brain the night off, and Myers will make you smile too. -
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Jay Carr 75
''The Silence of the Lambs'' was a classic; Hannibal is only a good movie of its type. -
