For 7,365 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | |
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Lowest review score: | All About Steve |
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There are many twists and turns to the story, and the documentary is consistently surprising.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 19, 2022
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What a waste of a superb actress. Buckley almost makes Men worth sitting through. Almost.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 18, 2022
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The series’ many diehard fans will still, and should, flock to their beloved Downton and its denizens. But, as a standalone film, the fatigued period drama goes in one era and out the other with little to add.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 17, 2022
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The editing of the action sequences — and let’s face it, they’re the heart of the movie — is terrifically effective. Speed is one thing. Clarity is another. Top Gun: Maverick has both.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 17, 2022
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Hurwitz takes a terrific subject and treats it with undisguised, and justified, affection.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 12, 2022
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A fine cast — Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton — do their stiff-upper-lip best. It’s not good enough.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 10, 2022
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Strange’s superpowers are many. So are Cumberbatch’s, and one of them is making sneering seem practically jolly.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 3, 2022
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Petite Maman feels more like an extended short story. That’s only in part owing to its having a runtime of just 72 minutes. It also has a deceptive uneventfulness and a sense of everything being casually . . . just so.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 28, 2022
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It’s a pleasure watching Broadbent and Mirren share the screen. That’s true even when they bicker, which they frequently do.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 27, 2022
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Everything feels strange, savage, implacably other: royalty alongside slavery, formality prized yet pity nowhere to be found. The Northman seems so foreign, as it should. Yet what Eggers never forgets, and this does almost as much as his talent does to make his film so frequently compelling, is that what to the characters is mundane is to us unreal — and vice versa.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 21, 2022
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The Bad Guys takes the cute kid with a fishing pole in the DreamWorks logo and replaces him with a rather raffish-looking wolf who sneaks his way up onto that crescent moon. Right off the bat, we’re being told to expect irreverence and inventiveness. Those expectations will be met.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 21, 2022
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Memoria isn’t a film about explanation. You get caught up in it. You don’t ask why. You don’t wonder what’s going on, what will happen next. You just accept it. You trust Weerasethakul. Until about the 100-minute mark (the runtime is 136 minutes), he justifies that trust. Then things begin to falter.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 21, 2022
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Nicolas Cage has had one of the stranger careers in Hollywood history. Considering Hollywood history, that’s saying something. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, with its splendidly winking title, trades on that strangeness.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 20, 2022
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It’s a happy task to report that Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a marked improvement on “Crimes.”- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 14, 2022
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Ultimately, Father Stu is a movie about faith, but some kinds of faith have limits. So does casting. Wahlberg as a seminarian is one kind of stretch.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 12, 2022
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The movie is what it is: relentless, shameless, and purely as an exercise in technique almost dementedly skilled. A Bay explosion explodes, a Bay collision collides, and Ambulance has both in abundance. For some viewers, the result will be 2 hours and 16 minutes of movie heaven. It might make others want to call for an ambulance.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 7, 2022
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The filmmaking is stylish yet impersonal — or can true style be impersonal? Maybe that’s why proficiency is a better word. A general slickness obtains.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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In his last movie, The King of Staten Island (2020), Apatow was stretching, both emotionally and tonally, and it largely worked. Here he isn’t, and it doesn’t.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 1, 2022
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This is movie as inundation. It’s daring, dashing, often delirious — except that the writer-director team of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (the Daniels, as they like to bill themselves) keeps the delirium under just enough control.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Even at 104 minutes, practically a short by superhero-movie standards, Morbius feels draggy.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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As in Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993), about the last day of school and first night of summer vacation in a Texas town in 1976, Apollo 10½ maintains a wondrous balance between Lone Star specific and anywhere-in-America general.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 30, 2022
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Sometimes it works — let’s say 12 percent of the time — and The Lost City can actually be deft and imaginative. Unfortunately, that leaves 88 percent which doesn’t.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 24, 2022
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Not to get all Aristotelian about it, but for a plot to be more than just a succession of incidents, it needs some kind of mindful opposition to the protagonist’s efforts. This “Infinite Storm” lacks.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 24, 2022
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The Outfit would be a splendid thing if limited to Rylance’s voiceover and long lingering shots of him working with fabrics.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 17, 2022
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Open-endedness in a narrative can be a good and challenging thing; or it can be a sign of having gotten in too deep and not being able to figure out how to get out. “Get Out” knew how to get out. “Master” doesn’t.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 17, 2022
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For a stylish thriller to work, it needs to be at least a little bit stylish and offer an occasional thrill. Deep Water does neither.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 16, 2022
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From the texture of red panda fur to the detailing of a Toronto streetcar, “Turning Red” is a feast for the eyes. But the plotting, dialogue, and characters aren’t quite up to the studio’s standards.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 11, 2022
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The movie has an unhurried rhythm, not slow, but unpressured. It’s a visual equivalent of the clacking of the railroad tracks.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 10, 2022
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With so much going on, that means a lot of balls need to be kept in the air. Some of them drop. Of course they do: The Adam Project is entertaining but no masterpiece. What’s unusual, and impressive, is that the dropped balls often keep bouncing. That’s a tribute to the movie’s wit, energy, and imaginativeness.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 9, 2022
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- Posted Mar 2, 2022
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