|
C minus
|
43%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
For his parties, Gatsby appears to have hired the entire Cotton Club and Ziegfeld Follies as well as Busby Berkeley to direct them all."
—
Boston Herald
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
B plus
|
76%
|
No Place On Earth (2013) |
"
Perhaps too many reenactments, but nevertheless a moving tale of human endurance."
—
Boston Herald
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
A minus
|
81%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
Lush, captivating."
—
Boston Herald
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
A minus
|
50%
|
Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013) |
"
Real life Mad Man would make Don Draper jealous."
—
Boston Herald
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
A minus
|
77%
|
Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
Go on this journey."
—
Boston Herald
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
B
|
77%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
What next? 'Iron Supplement Man'?"
—
Boston Herald
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
B plus
|
89%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
Lead actor Paul Brannigan, the product of Glasgow's working-class East End, is a natural. "
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
B plus
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
This densely atmospheric film could have used more Mark Twain-like adventure and less dreary adult intrigue."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
D
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
Makes 'Meet the Parents' look like 'Ninotchka.'"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
C plus
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
Michael Bay = More pain than gain."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
A minus
|
96%
|
Blancanieves (2013) |
"
Inspired filmmaking steeped in the imagery of silent film history, a dark Iberian strain of Roman Catholicism and the magic of fairy tales. "
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 21, 2013
|
|
A minus
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
Kubrick fans will take 'Shining' to 'Room 237.'"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 21, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Nothing looks quite real, and in lieu of being any good or engaging you emotionally, the film pounds you into submission."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
B plus
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Is there anything Boyle can't do?"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
68%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
The director of the acclaimed 2005 documentary 'Murderball' takes on a 'Crash'-like feature film involving several storylines on a collision course, and the results are entirely meh."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
The cheeky emperor known as Terrence Malick bares his rump once again to art-house audiences."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
A minus
|
77%
|
42 (2013) |
"
Can a superhero wear a baseball uniform instead of a cape?"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
B
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
'Starbuck' is no father figure"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
A-
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
'Sapphires' got heart and soul"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
D
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
Invasion
of the
time-wasters: 'Host' alienates audience"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
B
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
Olympus Has Fallen is derivative, predictable, heavy-handed and a
lot of fun."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
B plus
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
The film has a dreamy nocturnal lyricism, especially in scenes of Moriarty's streamlined 1949 Hudson Commodore hurtling across America's lamp-lit highways."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
C
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
The nonstop cutting suggests the attention span of a monkey on meth."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
A-
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
Emma Stone can even make you fall for a Neanderthal. "
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
16%
|
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) |
"
Director Roman Coppola is nothing if not soaked in movie lore."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
29%
|
Upside Down (2013) |
"
Writer-director Juan Solanas is a better photographer than writer or director."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
39%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
Silly, sadistic and with a groaner of an ending."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Steve Carell with a puppy down his pants in a role that Will Ferrell must have turned down."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
What a world, all right."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
On the whole I'd rather watch 'The Addams Family'."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
B plus
|
47%
|
The Sweeney (2013) |
"
This throwback to 1970s cops and robbers movies had me 'nicked.'"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
B
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Fee-fi-ho-hum."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
Far from Rock-solid."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
B plus
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
Coscarelli's visual imagination is still capable of making you sit up and take notice"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
C
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
This year's Nicholas Sparks' movie, Lasse Hallstrom's 'Safe Haven' arrives in time for Valentine's Day, and if your boyfriend lets you talk him into seeing this, he's a keeper, ladies."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
C
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
It's "Teen True Blood" minus the corpuscles."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
D
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
20th Century Fox has no one to blame but itself for this stinker."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
A
|
98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
Perhaps the boldest and probably longest running sociological experiment on film."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 9, 2013
|
|
B minus
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
'Side Effects' is perhaps what happens when a screenwriter gets his hands on a dozen Hitchcock movies and prescription pad. "
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 9, 2013
|
|
C minus
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
The snow might be tricky to predict. But the bad winter movies arrive right on schedule"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 9, 2013
|
|
B
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
Are you, at least those of you not sick to, uh, death of the undead, ready for the 'Romeo and Juliet' of zombie movies?"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
C plus
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
A nasty, if also amusing, piece of work."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
B
|
52%
|
Where Do We Go Now? (2012) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
B-
|
63%
|
Delicacy (2012) |
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
C plus
|
59%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
Arguably, a future guilty pleasure."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
A minus
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
There has not been a film of this kind as eerie, creepy and unnervingly evocative since the sleeper hit 'Woman in Black' and Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage.'"
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
B
|
56%
|
Fairhaven (2013) |
"
Great visuals, chemistry."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
C
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone play gangster dress-up."
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
A
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
The ultimate heart-wrenching roller-coaster ride made all the more powerful by a superb cast. "
—
Boston Herald
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
43%
46%
96%
99%
65%
61%
