Boston Herald

James Verniere Boston Herald Jan 25, 2025 B+ Burger smartly exploits the freedom of shooting with an iPhone13 in streets, markets, planes and trains. He makes exotic countries his special effects, their people his extras. It's conceptually brilliant. Dynevor's Maya is a believable badass rebel. Go to Full Review Inheritance (2025) 55% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Mar 1, 2024 B Mario Van Peebles, son of film pioneer Melvin Van Peebles, revisits the American West. Go to Full Review Outlaw Posse (2024) 47% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Mar 1, 2024 A- Composer Hans Zimmer added a fire engoine to the horn section. Go to Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% 75%

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 23, 2024 A- As new as today's news, as ancient as world mythology. Go to Full Review Io Capitano (2023) 96% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 23, 2024 A- Cinema is where all things live again. Go to Full Review Pictures of Ghosts (2023) 100% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 23, 2024 A- Yakusho delivers beatific performance. Laborare est orare. Go to Full Review Perfect Days (2023) 96% 93%

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 15, 2024 B+ Ben-Adir makes this well worth seeing. His ecstatic dancing is reggae's answer to Mick Jagger's gyrating goat. Go to Full Review Bob Marley: One Love (2024) 43% 36%

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 15, 2024 A- A lovely tale of cuisine and amor. Go to Full Review The Taste of Things (2023) 97% 44%

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 15, 2024 C- A total stinker. Johnson seems to be rehearsiing, rather than acting in title role. From the people who brought us Morbius, no less. Go to Full Review Madame Web (2024) 10% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 9, 2024 B The Scottish Highlands are the real star of this tale of Stone Age survival. Go to Full Review Out of Darkness (2022) 85% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 9, 2024 B Bang and the rest of the cast are appealing. Go to Full Review Float (2023) 46% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 9, 2024 A- Another beautifully exhausive examination from wizard documentary Frederick Wiseman. Go to Full Review Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) 100% 83%

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 2, 2024 B+ Ridley is a complete revelation as lonely Oregon singleton. Go to Full Review Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) 82% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 2, 2024 B Fun animated adventure until co-writer Kaufman cannot help himself and throws in a completely unnecessary twist. Go to Full Review Orion and the Dark (2024) 91% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 2, 2024 C+ Meaningless Bond knockoff from director with nothing to say Matthew Vaughn. Fun cast wasted on this. Even the cat is a bore. Go to Full Review Argylle (2024) 32% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Feb 2, 2024 A- Based on a true story, "The Promised Land" is a great Danish Western featuring Mads Mikkelsen and a breakout turn by Amanda Collin. Go to Full Review The Promised Land (2023) 97% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Jan 26, 2024 A- Origin captures the acts of writing a book and living a life all at the same time, combining non-fiction and fiction filmmaking techniques, sometimes jarringly The film and Ellis-Taylor deserved Oscar consideration. Go to Full Review Origin (2023) 82% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Jan 26, 2024 B+ Jenna Ortega's Cairo Sweet is the bayou Wednesday Addams. Go to Full Review Miller's Girl (2024) 30% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Jan 26, 2024 B Cast and production team are first-rate. It's the R-rated Bad News Bears. Go to Full Review The Underdoggs (2024) 42% - -

James Verniere Boston Herald Jan 26, 2024 B+ Ian McShane, an actor of tremendouis power and authority, holds this existential enigma together as we watch, enthralled. Go to Full Review American Star (2024) 78% - -