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James Verniere

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Biography:

James Verniere started out in New York City as a freelance critic and feature writer for the Aquarian Arts Weekly, Film Comment, Heavy Metal, Twilight Zone Magazine and others. He was the film critic for the Boston Herald for 39 years. He also wrote for the L.A. Times, the Chicago Sun-Times and Sight and Sound. His weekly reviews now appear on the website Boston Movie News.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
H Is for Hawk (2025) 78% B EDIT “Claire Foy is riveting as an academic using a hawk to deal with her father's death. The human-animal connection is strongest since Chloe Zhao's "The Rider."” – Boston Movie News Jan 27, 2026 Full Review My Neighbor Adolf (2022) 44% A- EDIT “Incredibly charismatic, prolific, recently deceased German actor Udo Kier delivers another slyly delightful performances.” – Boston Movie News Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% A EDIT “"Resurrection" is a tribute to the history and aesthetic of cinema, evoking Murnau, the Lumiere brothers, Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard and Richard Linklater among others with Chinese star Jackson Lee giving a tour de force performance in multiple roles.” – Boston Movie News Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% B- EDIT “Over three hours of eye-gouging 3D? Is James Cameron crazy? The short answer is, yes. ” – Boston Movie News Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 74% B EDIT “Not brilliant, a kind of "Downton Abbey" crossed with one of the vulgar, hit-miss, old "Carry On" films. But funny enough and with a very talented cast.” – Boston Movie News Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% A EDIT “The film is full of sparkling chemistry, joy and tragedy and explores the way in which we transmute the stuff of life into art. As Agnes Shakespeare, Buckley is radiant.” – Boston Movie News Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% B+ EDIT “Hold on to your hats. The Finnish commando who puts Rambo to shame is back, and he's on a road to revenge. How on earth did director Helander make this for around $14 million bucks? The action is non-stop and totally outrageous.” – Boston Movie News Nov 24, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% B EDIT “Schwarzeneggerwas and still is unique screen presence. Powell is more like the new Tom Cruise. This "Running Man" is fun (and punk) in bursts. But it often runs out of steam.” – Boston Movie News Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% A EDIT “Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve lead a stellar cast in Ingmar Bergman/HenrikIbsenesque family drama. ” – Boston Movie News Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% C+ EDIT “Psychiatric misery porn. Didn't Lawrence learn not to do this after "mother!?"” – Boston Movie News Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% A- EDIT “Witty, droll, insightful, Linklater's celebration of Godard is brilliant. The cast is a treat. ” – Boston Movie News Nov 2, 2025 Full Review Stitch Head (2025) 71% A- EDIT “Steve Hudson, Guy Bass and the cast have created a clever monster mash-up. This is a future Halloween staple.” – Boston Movie News Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% C+ EDIT “Gimmicky and overwrought, its a bit of a dud.” – Boston Movie News Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% A EDIT “Del Toro's very personal and lavishly Gothic "Frankenstein" is the best film of the year.” – Boston Movie News Oct 22, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% A- EDIT “Revolution has never been this funny.” – Boston Movie News Sep 30, 2025 Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 75% B+ EDIT “Two-timeOscar winner Emma Thompson goes all Rambo on gun-toting, fentanyl-crazed ex-nurse brilliantly played by Judy Greer. Composer has an Oscar, too. DP shot Shogun.” – Boston Movie News Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Clemente (2024) 84% A- EDIT “A vibrant, insightful and moving tribute to one of the world's greatest athletes, who was also an outspoken, early advocate for civil rights.” – Boston Movie News Sep 14, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% B+ EDIT “Not much drama, but cast is nicely showcased, and Michelle Dockery is a standout as usual. Fans will enjoy this. Is it really over?” – Boston Movie News Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% C EDIT “The fans have gotten what they wanted. All the same jokes 41 years later.” – Boston Movie News Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Love, Brooklyn (2025) 69% C+ EDIT “A love song to Brooklyn, including its lovely green parks, courtesy of Frederick Law Olmsted, "Love, Brooklyn" lacks heat and detail. The actors are very good, however.” – Boston Movie News Sep 7, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% C EDIT “In "The Conjuring: Last Rites," Milllennials turn their dying Boomer grandparents into ghoulish ghosts. Sweet. "The Conjuring?" "Insidious?" What's the diff?” – Boston Movie News Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% B+ EDIT “Sexy, funny, offbeat, raunchy, all the good things. Plua Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona, bliss. ” – Boston Movie News Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 82% A- EDIT “New York city-set Hitchcockian thriller from the eclectic David Mackenzie of Hell or High Water and Outlaw King captures the poisonous paranoia of our times. ” – Boston Movie News Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% B- EDIT “It's not a great "Cast Away"-type film because the characters are mostly unlikable. But it has Law as a toothless German, Kirby, Breuhl and de Arms, a colorful location and features a surpisingly strong Sydney Sweeney.” – Boston Movie News Aug 22, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% A- EDIT “Spike Lee's deep attachment and love for booth New York City and Denzel Washington in their fifth collaboration are the subcurrents of this "reinterpretation" of Kurosawa's Okahama-set classic. ” – Boston Movie News Aug 14, 2025 Full Review
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