Boston Globe's Scores

For 4,757 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
4,757 movie reviews
  1. Affecting, troubling, dazzling film.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Stillman has become a master at escalating the laughter by waiting an extra beat and then understating something devastatingly funny, as when someone looks Chris Eigeman's club manager, Des, in the eye and says, "I consider you a person of integrity - except, you know, in the matter of women."
    • Metascore: 73
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Films that achieve the dimension of seraphic embrace achieved by 'Innocence, as it explores a return to first love, are the rarest of the rare.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    The sly and subtle Minus Man is a wicked little sidewinder of a black comedy.
  2. Beautifully crafted and brutally honest.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Roberts and Erin Brockovich have Oscar contender written all over them.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    With Carrey hitting a career peak, this Grinch doesn't steal Christmas; it restores the season by helping energize us enough to make it through the whole thing.
    • Metascore: 99
    • Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
      100
    Moves like hot mercury, and it draws a viewer so thoroughly into its world that real life can seem thick and dull when the lights come up.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    One of the year's most winning performances, Logue's Dex will grow on you as he stumbles toward emotional fullness.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    A civilized delight.
    • Metascore: 93
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Slly, sublime, buoyant mischief that is virtually without parallel in 20th-century art, much less 20th-century film.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    A gorgeous autumnal period piece that catches a vanishing proprietary class on the eve of its extinction in Ireland in 1920.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    The story is spun forth ravishingly, tenderly, and urgently, with a captivating mix of beauty, spare sophistication, and profound humanity.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of works in any given year to which one is moved to apply the word ''masterpiece.'' Raul Ruiz's Time Regained is one of them.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Terrific French film about that most universal of subjects - work.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Deeper and richer in humanity than all but a handful of the American films released this year.
    • Metascore: 97
    • Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
      100
    The one aspect of the original Producers that still stuns is the roaring, over-the-top, in-your-face thereness of its two lead performances.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Simple, but loaded. It celebrates the humanity and humanism at the heart of Iran's remarkable flow of films, but it's also more of a rebuke to materialistic values than any ideologue could ever hope to be.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    We're in a golden age of comedy, and one of the reasons is Margaret Cho.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 100
    The impact of this stunning film - and the lessons to be learned from it - are as remarkable as when it was first released 30 years ago.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Few, if any, films this year will approach, let alone equal, Autumn Tale in its subtle sparkle.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    A sweet screenful of quirky chaos.
  3. Lawrence is back on the big screen, and it simply demands to be seen. Yes, again.
    • Metascore: 98
    • Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
      100
    Foreign intrigue is raised to an art form.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Satisfying in every respect, it's a piece of blue-collar chamber music, never treating the characters cheaply, allowing them a complex entwinement of emotions.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Reviewed by
      Jay Carr
      100
    Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
      100
    Blistering and brilliant work.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
      100
    The movie is pricelessly comic -- the Harvey/Joyce scenes catalog the couple's neuroses with glee -- but it just as often reaches for something richer.
  4. Guy Maddin is a scholar, poet, prankster, and ferociously devoted classicist who likes to resurrect dead cinemas and deader directors and make them vital all over again.