Ty Burr

Ty Burr

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
Boston Globe , Dallas Morning News , Deseret News, Salt Lake City , Entertainment Weekly
Total Reviews:
1921

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/4 95% Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013) " It adds up to an unexpectedly moving portrait of a maverick at twilight." — Boston Globe
Posted Oct 3, 2013
1.5/4 8% Runner Runner (2013) " It's not that "Runner Runner" is predictable. It's that you don't care, either about the characters or what happens to them." — Boston Globe
Posted Oct 3, 2013
2.5/4 46% Parkland (2013) " Peter Landesman's well-made but dramatically unfocused re-creation of that November day and its aftermath ..." — Boston Globe
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/4 98% Gravity (2013) " The movie's an astonishingly detailed, visually painstaking state-of-the-art production that advances what the cinema can show us-even as the human story at its center feels a little thin after a while." — Boston Globe
Posted Oct 2, 2013
4/4 95% Enough Said (2013) " Holofcener delivers her most confident character comedy to date - a work of deceptively informal mastery - and Gandolfini's gentle performance just about breaks your heart." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/4 83% Don Jon (2013) " R-rating aside, it should be required viewing for every 15-year-old boy on the planet." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/4 86% Blue Caprice (2013) " The film's a character piece with a tightening noose of suspense, and while it has its artsy-indie-dawdly moments, it's disturbing in ways that aren't easy to shake." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/4 67% Haute Cuisine (2013) " If you love France and food, separately or in combination, you will almost certainly forgive Christian Vincent's workmanlike direction, the tedious score, and the near-total absence of dramatic conflict." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3.5/4 88% Rush (2013) " In a way, "Rush" is a philosophical drama about the varying ways men move through the world. It's just a really fast drama." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 25, 2013
1/4 34% Salinger (2013) " The movie epitomizes everything in the culture from which Salinger himself fled. It is, as Holden Caulfield would put it, phony." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2.5/4 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " "Thanks for Sharing" is what Variety would call a "twelve-stepper"-an engagingly didactic drama about addiction and recovery." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/4 80% Prisoners (2013) " As gripping as it is grueling, with performances that swing for the fences and a knotty central mystery." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/4 83% The Patience Stone (2013) " A startling fantasy of Muslim feminist empowerment that allows the Iranian-born actress Golshifteh Farahani to put on what amounts to a one-woman show." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
76% How I Live Now (2013) " Weird, weird, weird." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2013
100% All Is by My Side () " Ridley doesn't treat Hendrix as a bio-pic enigma to be explained but simply as an instinctual artist, for better and for worse. The only mystery that remains is where the music came from." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2013
70% Fading Gigolo () " This is the most confident of Turturro's directing jobs and one of his tenderest performances; at times the movie's a mess, but it goes to such special places that you don't mind." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2013
85% The Invisible Woman (2013) " The movie's a hushed and hesitant thing, extremely beautiful in its camerawork, lighting, and editing, and extremely British in its repression. " — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 13, 2013
3/4 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " [Swanberg] points the movie in directions that defy our expectations, exploring the characters' immaturity and the entropy of human interaction." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3/4 59% Afternoon Delight (2013) " The results are a little life lesson-y but well-observed." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2/4 60% Riddick (2013) " The movie's cheap but has a sense of humor, and it's smart enough to let Riddick just get back to being a badass." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2013
1/4 31% Austenland (2013) " Hess has made a classic rookie mistake: Any spoof has to be at least as smart as the thing it's spoofing, and this one's twice as dumb." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
1.5/4 13% The Lifeguard (2013) " The movie's being billed in some quarters as a comedy, which is a hell of a stretch given that the plot expands to take in statutory rape and teen suicide." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
3.5/4 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " It's a lovely, tough-minded film." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2.5/4 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " The characters are too ordinary to care deeply for and the story doesn't add up to much, but Lowery has made a shrine to his actors, to the land through which they move, and to the kind of cinema that once sustained us." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2.5/4 89% The World's End (2013) " "The World's End" is more frantic than funny, but it's still funny enough-just-to outweigh its own silliness." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2013
4% Paranoia (2013) " "Paranoia" is a plug-and-play Hollywood thriller, not the best the genre has to offer but hardly the worst." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 16, 2013
3.5/4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " A cleareyed, disarmingly tender teenage romance that bears comparison with the best of its genre, both old ("Say Anything") and new ("The Perks of Being a Wallflower")." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3.5/4 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Remarkable not for its "Forrest Gump"-itude but for its unerring social portrait of a black middle class torn by the stress-fractures of an era." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " A witless, mean-spirited sequel, "Kick-Ass 2" has the emotional maturity of an arrested 12-year-old and the ethical compass of a turnip." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Despite some thin writing, it's Allen's weightiest work in years." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/4 100% Le Pont du Nord (2013) " The whole movie seems made of rebar." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/4 68% Elysium (2013) " An expertly-made slice of future shock that breaks no new ground whatsoever." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2013
47% We're The Millers (2013) " For a movie about a group of drug smugglers pretending to be an all-American clan, "We're the Millers" hogs the middle of the road like the big, farty RV at its center." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 7, 2013
2/4 63% 2 Guns (2013) " What's the old expression about putting lipstick on a pig? "2 Guns," a busy and bullet-riddled new action movie, has some mighty fine lipstick, but it's still a porker." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2013
2.5/4 81% André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013) " The film sees the creative process as a sacrament in which the play's not the thing but the getting there is." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3.5/4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " It's a film to make you weep with sorrow and anger, and one of the most necessary films of the year." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3/4 83% Computer Chess (2013) " Watching "Computer Chess" is like opening an ancient Altair 8800 to peer at the tiny people inside." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3/4 52% The To Do List (2013) " In its exuberantly smutty way, "The To Do List" is revolutionary: A teen sex comedy where the girls get to play nasty and the boys stand around looking terrified." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2/4 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " "Only God Forgives" is the kind of remarkable disaster only a very talented director can make after he finds success and is then allowed to do whatever he wants. " — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 18, 2013
1.5/4 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " It means well and everyone appears to be having a good time, but so many things are wrong with the film, from a limp script to slack editing that leaves entire scenes hanging." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2.5/4 87% The Conjuring (2013) " A trim, effective haunted-house spook show, "The Conjuring" is both a throwback to early-'70s real estate shriekers like "The Amityville Horror" and a big-studio response to the "Paranormal Activity" found-footage genre." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2.5/4 47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " It's broad, occasionally uproarious, a little wheezy, and every so often inspired." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3.5/4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " A titanic sci-fi action fantasy that has been invested, against all expectations, with a heart, a brain, and something approximating a soul. " — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2013
3/4 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " "The Way, Way Back" is a minor pleasure rather than a major work. But minor pleasures have their place, especially in summertime, and this one goes down like a popsicle on a hot day." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 4, 2013
1.5/4 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " Like watching an elephant tap dance in your living room: Everything gets trampled and the dancing's not very good." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 2, 2013
3.5/4 97% A Hijacking (2013) " It's the second feature from the young writer-director Tobias Lindholm, and it showcases his gift for tightly focused stories told without an ounce of fat." — Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2013
4/4 99% 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) " A film that may be the happiest time you'll have at the movies all summer." — Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2013
3/4 65% The Heat (2013) " If you're going to make a dopey, bawdy, foul-mouthed, predictable lady-buddy-cop movie, you might as well make it funny." — Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2013
2.5/4 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " What does Coppola want us to think about these beautiful young idiots? What does she think? She's too cool or too wary or too close to her subject to engage." — Boston Globe
Posted Jun 20, 2013
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