James Verniere

James Verniere

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Boston Herald
Critics' Group:
Boston Society of Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics
Total Reviews:
1370
Total QuickRatings:
5

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
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
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