|
|
89%
|
Napoléon (1929) |
"
Like D.W. Griffith, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, but mostly James Cameron, Gance understood the thrill of the cinematic event and had the hubris to bring it off."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
It's almost terrible. It's almost entertaining. But it's missing the shameless insanity of a wonderfully bad movie, and the particular vision, point of view, and coherence of some very good ones."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
19%
|
Texas Chainsaw (2013) |
"
All the makers of "Texas Chainsaw 3D" cared about was getting your $16."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 5, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Bestiaire (2012) |
"
The images are meant to accumulate shame, and they do. But they also might be too much."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
After 2 1/2 hours, the movie's become a bowl of trail mix - you're picking out the nuts you don't like and hoping the next bite doesn't contain any craisins."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Corkscrewed, inside-out, upside-down, simultaneously clear-eyed and completely out of its mind."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
18%
|
Parental Guidance (2012) |
"
This kernel of inter-generational farce never pops."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 24, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
This movie is the height of by-the-book dullness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Barbara (2012) |
"
The movie's quiet power comes from its air of meticulously maintained suspicion."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
35%
|
Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012) |
"
What it doesn't have is drama or wisdom or comedy or heat, something to temper the banalities."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
The Central Park Five (2012) |
"
What's amazing about listening to them speak now, often through tears, is the absence of bitterness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
46%
|
The Comedy (2012) |
"
None of this is necessarily funny. That's the extent of the irony here."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
64%
|
My Worst Nightmare (2012) |
"
"My Worst Nightmare" isn't great, but it isn't apologizing for anything, either. Plus, I laughed out loud at least three times."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
This is modern movie stardom, and it's depressing: the romantic lead who could also be selling us body spray."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
The Collection (2012) |
"
The director Marcus Dunstan and his co-writer, Patrick Melton, strike again."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
The Flat (2012) |
"
There's something touching about the way Goldfinger obeys his moral compass."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
The Waiting Room (2012) |
"
The movie observes the general misery of needing serious medical treatment and the particular awfulness of needing medical treatment you can't pay for."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
It's all surface and formula."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 22, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
No matter how grim it's looking for certain kinds of laughter, as long as there's David O. Russell, things will be OK."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
This fifth and mercifully final installment features so much idle anticipation that it's unclear whether we're watching a movie or an Apple product launch."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
These are truly tedious stakes for an action movie. The franchise isn't worried about world safety. It's fretting over whether to start wearing Depends."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 6, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
The movie might have a point (hey, Environmental Protection Agency, do something!), but it has no dramatic structure or sense of suspense."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
70%
|
The Loneliest Planet (2012) |
"
Loktev has written and directed with a haunting emphasis on the shortcomings of some interpersonal communication. "
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
I don't know what Lavant is playing here because I've never seen anything like it. "
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Just a couple of hours with Washington reclining within the contours of a role until a piece of cardboard becomes a character. "
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
The Other Son (2012) |
"
The movie is shameless and simple yet solemn at the same time."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Big Easy Express (2013) |
"
Malloy's filming-on-a-moving-train conceit produces only a lot of precious, ponderous encounters between the bands and the camera."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
84%
|
Smashed (2012) |
"
Winstead is an inarguably warm actor. She's just not doing the sort of work that transcends the movie's shortcomings."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
33%
|
Chasing Mavericks (2012) |
"
A family movie of aggravating blandness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) |
"
Even for a something about supernatural shenanigans, this ending is embarrassing."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 21, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
12%
|
Alex Cross (2012) |
"
If I hadn't had to stay awake, I would have slept though the whole thing. At home."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
All Together (2012) |
"
Minutes and minutes of cute comedy ensue."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Sister (2012) |
"
Movies about wayward kids are a European specialty. The new film "Sister" deepens the specialty."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
|
5%
|
Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012) |
"
I didn't hate this movie. The first one was far worse -- mercifully, the cast and director have all been replaced."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
Sinister (2012) |
"
As much as "Sinister" wants to tell a story, there isn't much of a story to be told."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
Keep the Lights On (2012) |
"
The movie over-blurs the line between plain and plaintive. It's not necessarily craziness you crave, it's inflection; it's need, if not from the characters then from the filmmaking."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
This is just the sort of movie certain people are hoping to see when they go to the movies but would never say they go to the movies for."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
[Affleck's] ambition for the thriller has gone international, it's gone important, but, crucially, not self-important."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Alps (2012) |
"
An hour and a half of darkening absurdism."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
It's a stupid movie by smart people who aren't smart enough to realize it's stupid."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (2012) |
"
This is the movie equivalent of watching someone walk on hot coals, but for 98 minutes."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Downeast (2013) |
"
An elegy for a vanishing emblem of what once characterized this country's vitality."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (2012) |
"
The movie has a lot going for it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
The throwaway lines in Kay Cannon's script are so many and so expertly deployed that you basically spend the whole movie digging through the trash."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
60%
|
Stars In Shorts (2012) |
"
The performances in tandem with the writing take most of these seven movies to interesting places."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
How to Survive a Plague (2012) |
"
France and his crew have sculpted years of old broadcast-news stories and home videos into a narrative that is impressionistic in its scope but coherent in its feeling."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Step Up To The Plate (2012) |
"
The second shot alone makes the ensuing 80 or so minutes even more enjoyable."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
There are 6 million cop shows on television right now. On none of them have I heard two men speak to each other with as much natural affinity as these two."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
59%
|
10 Years (2012) |
"
An inconsequential high-school-reunion comedy that gets better when it stops trying to make you laugh."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
75%
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