The Globe and Mail (Toronto)'s Scores

  • Movies
For 3,633 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Days of Being Wild (re-release)
Lowest review score: 0 People Like Us
Score distribution:
3,633 movie reviews
  1. In what is surely a tribute to the dazzling mediocrity of director Luis Llosa, the real jungle looks as bland as the fake jungle.
  3. A twisted, but not particularly clever, black comedy.
  4. In its nearly two-hour running time, in its always lugubrious pace, in its almost complete absence of laughs, The Prince & Me is a comedy that plays like a tragedy. No stricken bodies, though, unless you count the ones in the audience slumped back in their seats -- perchance they slept.
  5. Okay, it's just a movie, but his "reward" just doesn't cut it, even on a basic storytelling level. A crooked casino and a nephew's experiment with drugs are not enough justification for the hero's violent acts of vengeance.
  6. The United States of Leland has a resonance of "Elephant" without the visual poetry or structural sophistication, or "American Beauty" without the leavening comedy, but it's neither an insightful nor well-made film.
  8. An overemphatic revenge fantasy devoid of even a trace of excitement or wit.
  9. The plot's not so hot -- it feels like it was jotted down by someone on an after-dinner napkin.
  10. The net result is a few shaky laughs and one unwavering sensation -- that The Terminal is interminable.
  12. With the performers given zilch to perform, the result is a picture that's all chassis and no engine, or, in the parlance of the genre, a bunch of pointy hats in search of a transporting broomstick.
  13. There, in its midst, stands a freeze-dried Arthur -- stripped of his legend, shivering in the cold and wondering, like the rest of us, where in hell the magic went.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The finale just seems hypocritical, even nonsensical in a comedy that derives its few laughs from a farting dog and an accidental gynecological exam. This book is better left closed.
  14. A vigorously cross-marketed product, with comics, collectable cards, games and a television series.
  15. The devil is back in Exorcist: The Beginning, and he is more disgusting than ever. Not more scary, just really yucky, in a kind of maggots-on-a-pizza-slice way.
  16. A crashing bore.
  17. Very little of it works.
  19. [Law] talks straight to the camera like the young Michael Caine, but this time our hunk has got zilch to say. That's because a bastard's candour is off-limits in today's politically correct market &#151; it just wouldn't be polite.
  20. It's the perfect sort of movie to have playing on a television in the corner of a rec room during a low-key beer and pizza party.
  21. They are singing the jingle in the bath, in bed, in the car, ready to send you, like George, smack into a tree.
  22. Dull Blade just doesn't cut it.
  23. The countdown begins with the first negative integer &#151; an amped-up score that overpowers the proceedings like a bad band at a high-school dance.
  24. It's possible to insult even a teenager's intelligence.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
  26. Is Kazaam racist? In effect, yes. But it'sracism linked to bad marketing: You can't really mix a black-pride rap film with a revamped version of "Free Willie" and expect them to magically jibe.
  28. The problem is that director Wayne Wang seems deaf to the tonal differences between coming-of-age, magic realism and children's comedy.