|
2/4
|
88%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
[A] slyly warped student-and-teacher yarn."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
Charming enough to satisfy even the trenchant-commentary crowd."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
An ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
47%
|
The Lords of Salem (2013) |
"
A portrait of vengeful occult torment that pushes hard to redefine the meaning of "witch trials.""
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Good luck recalling any other would-be set pieces a couple of days after you've seen Retaliation."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
Had the movie figured out a way to stay the less-cliched course, it might have helped the DreamWorks oeuvre take steps toward Pixar's emotional resonance."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
Pop jingoism isn't easy to stir once you've established a vibe that's so deflating."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
26%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
Among the ingredients "21" is missing: the infectiously random silliness of a Zach Galifianakis, the smug hunkiness of a Bradley Cooper, and any sort of Vegas-y gloss whatsoever."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
Phantom (2013) |
"
The plot is dragged down by a script filled with awkward exposition and blunt audience cues."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
If you thought the tale ended when Jack clambered back down from the skies, then you haven't given it as much thought as Singer."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
Nobody is going to confuse a Dwayne Johnson movie with "Les Misérables." But "Snitch" gets a decent amount of drama (and action, of course) out of the argument that there's paying for a crime, and then there's overpaying."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
27%
|
Escape From Planet Earth 3D (2013) |
"
Colorful as the 3-D aliens-among-us comedy is to look at, though, Corddry is handed a role that's beige as can be, and so are his castmates."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
A movie that passably ambles along in generic-melodrama mode before finally insulting audience intelligence one time too many."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
It's just director Walter Hill tweaking his formula from the "48 Hrs." franchise."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
40%
|
Parker (2013) |
"
Parker's vengeance isn't thrilling, there's a pointlessly developed non-love triangle, even the glam settings look cheap, and the tough-guy exchanges are inexplicably flat."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
Wirkola tears through "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" with such giddy abandon, it ends up being splattery fanboy fun. Preposterous, clearly, but fun."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
59%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
Not the most iconic choice for Schwarzenegger to announce that he's back, but not one that's completely prefab, either."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 19, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
The frustration ... is how much the movie leans on made-ya-jump scares and contrived plot devices when its quieter chills and already fraught setups are so potent."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
6%
|
A Haunted House (2013) |
"
You might chuckle at Wayans huddled in the tub, frantically trying to scrub himself clean of something slightly more earthly-freaky than evil spirits. But watching him get it on with stuffed animals? Ick."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 13, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
Fairhaven (2013) |
"
O'Brien and his castmates seem to play loose with his script a bit more than they should in an effort to give the material a lived-in feeling."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
13%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
An even odder war story than the bluntly provocative, Reagan-era original. "
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
The movie's bid for distinctiveness works in lots of little ways ..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
War of the Buttons (2012) |
"
The two threads aren't really woven together into the sort of tight, overarching theme that the film seems built to convey."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
26%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
Just like a Halloween miniatures assortment, something for everyone - or no one, as the case may be."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
43%
|
Hotel Transylvania (2012) |
"
Every generation of trick-or-treaters deserves its monster mash."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
In a generic way, the environment works. But it drains the material of what should be most unique about it, and leaves Urban twisting despite a tightly coiled performance."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
The Expendables 2 (2012) |
"
"The Expendables 2" is lazily satisfied with repeating the first movie's formula, shortcomings and grisly strengths alike, just as the first movie was content to slavishly, ploddingly cover the hits of the '80s."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
The Babymakers (2012) |
"
Ah, infertility comedies - always such a good time. You remember the way you yukked it up at "Maybe Baby" and "A Smile Like Yours," don't you? Oh, wait, you don't? Exactly."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) |
"
The sort of mischief that felt cutely wise-alecky up to this point often just doesn't work here."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
"
Dinklage works hard, and his gold-toothed monkey mariner is amusingly designed, but it's not nearly enough to shake the sense that we're watching elaborate filler."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) |
"
Cascading, colorful 3-D performance sequences are sufficiently dazzling that you'll forgive the bajillionth soundtrack sampling of "Firework.""
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 7, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
God Bless America (2012) |
"
It's about a terminally ill man who decides that if he is going to die, he is going to grab a gun and take a whole bunch of obnoxious people with him."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
Hey, if you're Hasbro and Universal, and you've agreed to make a movie based on nothing more than brand recognition of a game, you've got to fill two hours with something."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
57%
|
Safe (2012) |
"
It's like another "Transporter'' installment trying to be something slightly more - and not quite delivering the goods."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
"
The movie looks meticulously crafted, of course, and is consistently, drily amusing."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
38%
|
Lockout (Unrated) (2012) |
"
First-time writer-directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger have put some thought into all of this - always a bonus in a no-brakes thriller, especially one of Besson's."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
The movie's unlikely sincerity can't completely offset its ugliness for less bloodthirsty viewers, but it helps, and it does smooth over some narrative rough edges."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
[Perseus] just doesn't feel as motivated here. He's Complacent Rocky, when "Wrath'' needs Eye-of-the-Tiger Rocky. At least the 3-D passes muster."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Life Without Principle (Dyut Meng Gam) (2012) |
"
[To] wants to get us thinking about morality, and our survival instinct, and what's really important in life - conversation starters with value the world over."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
11%
|
Gone (2012) |
"
It's a significant letdown that after all Jill's running, and all the guessing Seyfried makes us do, the climactic confrontation plays like an uninspired afterthought."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
Underworld Awakening (2012) |
"
The most generic entry of the bunch."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 21, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
85%
|
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2012) |
"
Soporific exposition culminates in a visually chaotic final act that makes "Tintin'' look downright restrained."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
71%
|
My Reincarnation (2011) |
"
The story and settings hold interest throughout, but at times the very lack of emotional connection that Yeshi laments in his father seems to hinder the film."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
Final Destination 5 (2011) |
"
Stabs at the dramatic don't amount to anything that makes us care, even for Bell, who has been solid on AMC's The Walking Dead and in the chairlift chiller Frozen."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
——
|
My Father's Will (2009) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
5%
|
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011) |
"
Looking back, it's strange to remember that the first two movies were both hits, and that Paul Giamatti and Terrence Howard even saw enough in the premise to sign up for the original. At this point, it's really all just flab."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
32%
|
All Good Things (2010) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
Cherry. (2012) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
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