Boston Herald

Rating Title | Year Quote Author
73%

Love Is All You Need (2013)

"'Mamma Mia!' without ABBA or the singing."

James Verniere

82%

Sightseers (2013)

"Bloody good camping trip tale"

James Verniere

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Nicky's Family (2013)

"A true story about an ordinary person, who turned out to be an extraordinary human being when it counted the most."

James Verniere

96%

Stories We Tell (2013)

"Sheds fascinating light on Polley's art."

James Verniere

87%

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

"Cast has chemistry and sparkle, but 'Star Trek Into Darkness' just okay."

James Verniere

50%

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."

James Verniere

76%

No Place On Earth (2013)

"Perhaps too many reenactments, but nevertheless a moving tale of human endurance."

James Verniere

77%

Renoir (2013)

"Lush, captivating."

James Verniere

50%

Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013)

"Real life Mad Man would make Don Draper jealous."

James Verniere

81%

Kon Tiki (2013)

"Go on this journey."

James Verniere

78%

Iron Man 3 (2013)

"What next? 'Iron Supplement Man'?"

James Verniere

88%

The Angels' Share (2013)

"Lead actor Paul Brannigan, the product of Glasgow's working-class East End, is a natural. "

James Verniere

98%

Mud (2013)

"This densely atmospheric film could have used more Mark Twain-like adventure and less dreary adult intrigue."

James Verniere

8%

The Big Wedding (2013)

"Makes 'Meet the Parents' look like 'Ninotchka.'"

James Verniere

47%

Pain & Gain (2013)

"Michael Bay = More pain than gain."

James Verniere

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. "

James Verniere

94%

Room 237 (2013)

"Kubrick fans will take 'Shining' to 'Room 237.'"

James Verniere

56%

Oblivion (2013)

"Nothing looks quite real, and in lieu of being any good or engaging you emotionally, the film pounds you into submission."

James Verniere

68%

Trance (2013)

"Is there anything Boyle can't do?"

James Verniere

67%

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."

James Verniere

42%

To The Wonder (2013)

"The cheeky emperor known as Terrence Malick bares his rump once again to art-house audiences."

James Verniere

77%

42 (2013)

"Can a superhero wear a baseball uniform instead of a cape?"

James Verniere

65%

Starbuck (2013)

"'Starbuck' is no father figure"

James Verniere

93%

The Sapphires (2013)

"'Sapphires' got heart and soul"

James Verniere

9%

The Host (2013)

"Invasion 
of the 
time-wasters: 'Host' alienates audience"

James Verniere

47%

Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

"Olympus Has Fallen is derivative, predictable, heavy-handed and a 
lot of fun."

James Verniere

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."

James Verniere

66%

Spring Breakers (2013)

" The nonstop cutting suggests the attention span of a monkey on meth."

James Verniere

69%

The Croods (2013)

"Emma Stone can even make you fall for a Neanderthal. "

James Verniere

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Restless Virgins (2013)

"You can find more complex narratives on the back of a cereal box."

Mark A. Perigard

16%

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)

"Director Roman Coppola is nothing if not soaked in movie lore."

James Verniere

29%

Upside Down (2013)

"Writer-director Juan Solanas is a better photographer than writer or director."

James Verniere

40%

The Call (2013)

"Silly, sadistic and with a groaner of an ending."

James Verniere

37%

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

"Steve Carell with a puppy down his pants in a role that Will Ferrell must have turned down."

James Verniere

60%

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

"What a world, all right."

James Verniere

67%

Stoker (2013)

"On the whole I'd rather watch 'The Addams Family'."

James Verniere

46%

The Sweeney (2013)

"This throwback to 1970s cops and robbers movies had me 'nicked.'"

James Verniere

52%

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

"Fee-fi-ho-hum."

James Verniere

58%

Snitch (2013)

"Far from Rock-solid."

James Verniere

60%

John Dies at the End (2013)

"Coscarelli's visual imagination is still capable of making you sit up and take notice"

James Verniere

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."

James Verniere

45%

Beautiful Creatures (2013)

"It's "Teen True Blood" minus the corpuscles."

James Verniere

15%

A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

"20th Century Fox has no one to blame but itself for this stinker."

James Verniere

98%

56 Up (2013)

"Perhaps the boldest and probably longest running sociological experiment on film."

James Verniere

85%

Side Effects (2013)

"'Side Effects' is perhaps what happens when a screenwriter gets his hands on a dozen Hitchcock movies and prescription pad. "

James Verniere

20%

Identity Thief (2013)

"The snow might be tricky to predict. But the bad winter movies arrive right on schedule"

James Verniere

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?"

James Verniere

47%

Bullet to the Head (2013)

"A nasty, if also amusing, piece of work."

James Verniere

32%

Won't Back Down (2012)

Stephen Schaefer

52%

Where Do We Go Now? (2012)

James Verniere

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