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Matthew Gilbert

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Predator 2 (1990) 36% EDIT “The tensions between Glover, streetwise cop, and Busey, slick agent, are the stuff of failed TV pilots.” – Boston Globe Oct 30, 2025 Full Review The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 85% EDIT “Unlike The Rescuers of 1977, which was flat and negligible, this sequel features full-bodied images and a number of distinctive, memorable characters. It also features an adventure plot that serves as a wry, environmentally conscious allegory.” – Boston Globe Dec 15, 2024 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% EDIT “Home Alone is a cotton-candy stick of a movie, one that kids will love but one that's too cloying for their parents.” – Boston Globe Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Diana (2021) 80% EDIT “The Princess gives pretty much equal time to media and sensation alike. This makes a much-told story fresher than it might otherwise be. It also makes the story even more unsettling. ” – Boston Globe Aug 11, 2022 Full Review Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) 0% EDIT “Highlander 2: The Quickening is the dullest and shoddiest action-adventure flick of the year, with only a few cute Sean Connery moments to rescue it from total, sheer and utter bogosity.” – Boston Globe Feb 15, 2022 Full Review The Many Saints of Newark (2021) 72% EDIT “The movie was, to borrow an image from the "Pine Barrens" episode, like sucking ketchup packets.” – Boston Globe Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Cool as Ice (1991) 3% EDIT “Curiosity wears thin fast, and Cool as Ice ends up seeming tired as well as twisted. The man whom promoters call the rap-era Elvis has negative charisma.” – Boston Globe Aug 13, 2021 Full Review Friends: The Reunion (2021) 67% EDIT “No one is going to reflect on the flaws, screw-ups, and offenses. That might have been a more engaging and less predictable special, but it also would have been less true to the shiny, happy spirit of the original series.” – Boston Globe Jun 1, 2021 Full Review Wayne's World (1992) 79% EDIT “Director Penelope Spheeris, often linked with hardcore rock for her documentaries The Decline of Western Civilization and its sequel, keeps things light and quirky with Wayne's World.” – Boston Globe Mar 11, 2021 Full Review Elizabeth is Missing (2019) 93% EDIT “It's both emotionally challenging and entertaining, and it once again shows the range that has distinguished "Masterpiece" across the decades.” – Boston Globe Jan 4, 2021 Full Review My Psychedelic Love Story (2020) 90% EDIT “My Psychedelic Love Story is a small but resonant piece of the ever-growing chronicles of 1960-'70s drug politics, and it's an ode to the raw power and electricity of sharp first-person storytelling.” – Boston Globe Nov 25, 2020 Full Review Between the World and Me (2020) 95% EDIT “A gorgeously sorrowful prose poem about being Black in America, then and now. It hits you in your head but mostly your heart.” – Boston Globe Nov 19, 2020 Full Review Iron Jawed Angels (2004) 56% EDIT “Iron Jawed Angels relies on a disappointingly conventional script, one that delivers stock characters who have no dimensionality, and simplistic plot abbreviations that you'd find in a high school textbook.” – Boston Globe Nov 11, 2020 Full Review The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) 89% EDIT “The writing was a bit grandiose and self-important, a tendency that the movie's writer-director, Aaron Sorkin, has turned into a style. But he structured the late 1960s story strategically, even if he decided not to worry about historical accuracy.” – Boston Globe Oct 21, 2020 Full Review David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) 97% EDIT “The show is a musical wonder... The songs are the thing, old and new ones equally transporting, their clarity as rich as their mystery.” – Boston Globe Oct 15, 2020 Full Review The Boys in the Band (2020) 85% EDIT “It's the cast the kept me hooked, though. Having worked together on stage, the actors bring a strong lived-in feeling to their interplay, but they don't need to project into a theater. They can blend effortlessly.” – Boston Globe Oct 9, 2020 Full Review Coastal Elites (2020) 57% EDIT “Each of the actors holds attention expertly, ranging through emotions seamlessly, with Roach making only a few cuts within each monologue.” – Boston Globe Sep 10, 2020 Full Review The Special Relationship (2010) 83% EDIT “It's a pat view of history, of course... [But] The Special Relationship works well enough despite having been reduced and shaped. It's a miniature portrait of how political bonds can be created, and tested, and broken.” – Boston Globe Sep 9, 2020 Full Review You Don't Know Jack (2010) 83% EDIT “There are many, many haunting scenes in HBO's docudrama You Don't Know Jack.” – Boston Globe Aug 10, 2020 Full Review The Girl (2012) 70% EDIT “If you approach The Girl' as a sliver, and don't expect a full serving, you are more apt to appreciate it. And Jones is mesmerizing.” – Boston Globe Aug 4, 2020 Full Review Temple Grandin (2010) 100% EDIT “Even when the predictably rousing moments come, you may not feel manipulated so much as fascinated. The movie keeps its cool, so that Claire Danes can keep her dignity.” – Boston Globe Jul 29, 2020 Full Review Father Soldier Son (2020) 91% EDIT “It's a pure, focused look into the complex relationship between one family and the country they serve.” – Boston Globe Jul 18, 2020 Full Review Cinema Verite (2011) 61% EDIT “A finely constructed docu-dramatic piece, Cinema Verite folds together the stories of the Louds of Santa Barbara and the PBS filmmakers who took over their home.” – Boston Globe Jun 4, 2020 Full Review The Lovebirds (2020) 66% EDIT “Thinking while watching "The Lovebirds" is like wearing globs of red lipstick under your mask. Not needed, not recommended.” – Boston Globe May 21, 2020 Full Review Bad Education (2019) 94% EDIT “It's a small and economical movie, but not slight, as it gives us a good taste of the banality of greed and entitlement, never turning its compromised characters into easily dismissed comic monsters.” – Boston Globe Apr 24, 2020 Full Review
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