James Verniere
@filmcriticjames7.bsky.social
Film critic, book and film poster collector, member of the National Society of Film Critics, the Boston Society of Film Critics, screenwriter, avid bicyclist, annoying father, currently living in L.A.
#Hamnet...#Oscar winner #ChloeZhao's latest...is a tribute to transformative power of art...@Jessie Buckley is radiant...@PaulMescal is a forest witch-besotted #Shakespeare...@EmilyWatson...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/11/26/hamnet-imagines-hamlets-origin-story/
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
#Hamnet...#Oscar winner #ChloeZhao's latest...is a tribute to transformative power of art...@Jessie Buckley is radiant...@PaulMescal is a forest witch-besotted #Shakespeare...@EmilyWatson...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/11/26/hamnet-imagines-hamlets-origin-story/
#SentimentalValue...Maybe best film of the year...#JoachimTrier's #Norwegian family drama recalls #IngmarBergman and #modernist #Scandinaviantheater...#StellanSkarsgard and #RenateReinsve lead stellar cast...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/11/16/sentimental-value-tender-turbulent-unforgettable/
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#SentimentalValue...Maybe best film of the year...#JoachimTrier's #Norwegian family drama recalls #IngmarBergman and #modernist #Scandinaviantheater...#StellanSkarsgard and #RenateReinsve lead stellar cast...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/11/16/sentimental-value-tender-turbulent-unforgettable/
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If you liked Nouvelle Vague, read the real story of the emblematic producer of the Nouvelle Vague, based on his own unknown archives ! It is now available worldwide: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1CQH71H
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Georges de Beauregard, In The Heart OF The Nouvelle Vague
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November 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If you liked Nouvelle Vague, read the real story of the emblematic producer of the Nouvelle Vague, based on his own unknown archives ! It is now available worldwide: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1CQH71H
#nouvellevague #netflix
#nouvellevague #netflix
#NouvelleVague, #RichardLinklater's celebration of #Godard classic #Breathless, is smart, droll, uniquely insightful and very smoky...#ZoeyDeutch...#AubryDullin...#GuillaumeMarbeck...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/31/nouvelle-vague-channels-godard-with-wit-warmth-and-style/
November 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#NouvelleVague, #RichardLinklater's celebration of #Godard classic #Breathless, is smart, droll, uniquely insightful and very smoky...#ZoeyDeutch...#AubryDullin...#GuillaumeMarbeck...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/31/nouvelle-vague-channels-godard-with-wit-warmth-and-style/
See #StitchHead in theaters...The perfect #Halloween treat for kids...Director #SteveHudson brings #GuyBass's books to life in CG-animated #monstermash...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/31/stitch-head-brings-heart-and-humor-to-an-all-ages-monster-mash/
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
See #StitchHead in theaters...The perfect #Halloween treat for kids...Director #SteveHudson brings #GuyBass's books to life in CG-animated #monstermash...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/31/stitch-head-brings-heart-and-humor-to-an-all-ages-monster-mash/
...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...@Fangoria...@RealGDT...@JohnCarroll...@Cinefantastique...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/22/frankenstein-heart-horror-and-style/
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...@Fangoria...@RealGDT...@JohnCarroll...@Cinefantastique...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/22/frankenstein-heart-horror-and-style/
#Frankenstein...#GuillermodelToro's take on Shelley is best film of the year...@MiaGoth is perfect dark fairy princess...@JacobElordi's Creature is majestic...AllHail BernieWrightson..@RealGDT...@OscarIsaac...@DavidBradley...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/22/frankenstein-heart-horror-and-style/
October 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#Frankenstein...#GuillermodelToro's take on Shelley is best film of the year...@MiaGoth is perfect dark fairy princess...@JacobElordi's Creature is majestic...AllHail BernieWrightson..@RealGDT...@OscarIsaac...@DavidBradley...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/22/frankenstein-heart-horror-and-style/
...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...@Fangoria...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/03/chain-reactions-leatherface-and-legacy/
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...@Fangoria...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/03/chain-reactions-leatherface-and-legacy/
#ChainReactions...New film about the original 1974 American masterpiece #TheTexasChainSawMassacre by #TobeHooper is here...#PattonOswalt...#StephenKing...#KarynKusama...#TakashiMiike...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/03/chain-reactions-leatherface-and-legacy/
‘Chain Reactions’: Leatherface and legacy
‘Chain Reactions’ delves into the aesthetic, cultural and artistic imprint of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 landmark film.
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October 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#ChainReactions...New film about the original 1974 American masterpiece #TheTexasChainSawMassacre by #TobeHooper is here...#PattonOswalt...#StephenKing...#KarynKusama...#TakashiMiike...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/03/chain-reactions-leatherface-and-legacy/
#OneBattleAfter Another...Terrible title #PTA...But great film...Revolution has never been this funny...#LeonardoDiCaprio...#SeanPenn...#TeyanaTaylor all #Oscar worthy...The film, too...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/28/one-battle-after-another-sex-bombs-and-revolution/
September 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#OneBattleAfter Another...Terrible title #PTA...But great film...Revolution has never been this funny...#LeonardoDiCaprio...#SeanPenn...#TeyanaTaylor all #Oscar worthy...The film, too...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/28/one-battle-after-another-sex-bombs-and-revolution/
#DeadofWinter...#EmmaThompson goes #Rambo as widow trying to save girl kidnapped by fentanyl-crazed killer ex-nurse (hello #JudyGreer)...Composer has an Oscar...DP shot #Shogun...Check this out..https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/28/dead-of-winter-snow-way-out/
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
#DeadofWinter...#EmmaThompson goes #Rambo as widow trying to save girl kidnapped by fentanyl-crazed killer ex-nurse (hello #JudyGreer)...Composer has an Oscar...DP shot #Shogun...Check this out..https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/28/dead-of-winter-snow-way-out/
...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...See this review of #Football #Faust mash-up Him...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/19/him-hells-huddle/
September 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...See this review of #Football #Faust mash-up Him...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/19/him-hells-huddle/
#DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale...Not much drama, but a lot of fun...The cast is nicely showcased... #MichelleDockery, #SophieMcShera and #JimCarter are standouts...@thecoolidge...@amctheaters... #JulianFellowes...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/11/downtons-last-waltz/
September 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale...Not much drama, but a lot of fun...The cast is nicely showcased... #MichelleDockery, #SophieMcShera and #JimCarter are standouts...@thecoolidge...@amctheaters... #JulianFellowes...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/11/downtons-last-waltz/
#SpinalTapIITheEndContinues...At least the title is funny...All the same jokes 41 years later...The mockumentary has been beaten to death...The divine #FranDrescher appears all too briefly...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/11/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues-the-encore-nobody-asked-for/
September 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
#SpinalTapIITheEndContinues...At least the title is funny...All the same jokes 41 years later...The mockumentary has been beaten to death...The divine #FranDrescher appears all too briefly...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/11/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues-the-encore-nobody-asked-for/
#LoveActually depicts a new kind of #Brooklyn, including its parks, but the romantic drama lacks detail and focus. The actors, however, are excellent...@AndreHolland...@NicoleBeharie...@WandaWise...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/06/a-triangle-without-tension-in-love-brooklyn/
September 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
#LoveActually depicts a new kind of #Brooklyn, including its parks, but the romantic drama lacks detail and focus. The actors, however, are excellent...@AndreHolland...@NicoleBeharie...@WandaWise...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/06/a-triangle-without-tension-in-love-brooklyn/
In #TheConjuriongLastRites...#Millennials turn their dying #Boomer grandparents into #demonic #ghouls...Sweet...#Conjuring?...#Insidious?...What's the diff? #Fangoria...@KendallCinema...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/06/the-conjuring-last-rites-the-devil-you-know-again-and-again/
September 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
In #TheConjuriongLastRites...#Millennials turn their dying #Boomer grandparents into #demonic #ghouls...Sweet...#Conjuring?...#Insidious?...What's the diff? #Fangoria...@KendallCinema...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/06/the-conjuring-last-rites-the-devil-you-know-again-and-again/
#Splitsville...#Sexy, funny #offbeat comedy from the team that brought us #TheClimb...Is having #DakotaJohnson and #AdriaArjona in the same movie just too much?...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/31/splitsville-marital-meltdown/
August 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
#Splitsville...#Sexy, funny #offbeat comedy from the team that brought us #TheClimb...Is having #DakotaJohnson and #AdriaArjona in the same movie just too much?...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/31/splitsville-marital-meltdown/
...#BostonHerald readers who'd like to read #JamesVerniere's #filmreviews can find them at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/eden-a-real-life-survival-story-in-the-galapagos/
August 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
...#BostonHerald readers who'd like to read #JamesVerniere's #filmreviews can find them at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/eden-a-real-life-survival-story-in-the-galapagos/
See #Relay in theaters...#RizAhmed and #LilyJames tie complicated romantic knot in #NewYork-set #Hitchcockian thriller from #DavidMackenzie (#OutlawKing, #HellorHighWater)...@SamWorthington...@WillaFitzgerald...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/riz-ahmed-takes-on-corporate-espionage-in-relay/
August 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
See #Relay in theaters...#RizAhmed and #LilyJames tie complicated romantic knot in #NewYork-set #Hitchcockian thriller from #DavidMackenzie (#OutlawKing, #HellorHighWater)...@SamWorthington...@WillaFitzgerald...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/riz-ahmed-takes-on-corporate-espionage-in-relay/
#Eden...#JudeLaw is naked and toothless as eccentric German in #RonHoward's violent #desertislandadventure...#VanessaKirby...@DanielBruehl...@SydneySweeney is one of few highlights...@AnadeArmas...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/eden-a-real-life-survival-story-in-the-galapagos/
August 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#Eden...#JudeLaw is naked and toothless as eccentric German in #RonHoward's violent #desertislandadventure...#VanessaKirby...@DanielBruehl...@SydneySweeney is one of few highlights...@AnadeArmas...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/eden-a-real-life-survival-story-in-the-galapagos/
#DenzelWashington plays another troubled monarch in #SpikeLee's visually masterful #NewYorkCity set reinterpretation of #Kurosawa classic in #Highest2Lowest...
@JeffreyWright...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/14/highest-2-lowest-spike-lee-brings-a-classic-kurosawa-story-to-the-streets-of-nyc/
@JeffreyWright...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/14/highest-2-lowest-spike-lee-brings-a-classic-kurosawa-story-to-the-streets-of-nyc/
August 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#DenzelWashington plays another troubled monarch in #SpikeLee's visually masterful #NewYorkCity set reinterpretation of #Kurosawa classic in #Highest2Lowest...
@JeffreyWright...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/14/highest-2-lowest-spike-lee-brings-a-classic-kurosawa-story-to-the-streets-of-nyc/
@JeffreyWright...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/14/highest-2-lowest-spike-lee-brings-a-classic-kurosawa-story-to-the-streets-of-nyc/
In #Nobody2, our wishes are the commands of the cinematic angels of mayhem and murder...@TimoTjahjanto...@bobodenkirk69...@ConnieNielsen...@SharonSton...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/14/bob-odenkirk-turns-a-water-park-into-a-battlefield-in-nobody-2/
August 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In #Nobody2, our wishes are the commands of the cinematic angels of mayhem and murder...@TimoTjahjanto...@bobodenkirk69...@ConnieNielsen...@SharonSton...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/14/bob-odenkirk-turns-a-water-park-into-a-battlefield-in-nobody-2/
#KristinScottThomas's matrimonial dramedy #MyMothersWedding is not great...But it is going to be in the top ten when it streams...Mark my words...#ScarletJohansson...#SiennaMiller...#EmilyBeecham...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/08/my-mothers-wedding-something-old-nothing-too-new/
August 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#KristinScottThomas's matrimonial dramedy #MyMothersWedding is not great...But it is going to be in the top ten when it streams...Mark my words...#ScarletJohansson...#SiennaMiller...#EmilyBeecham...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/08/my-mothers-wedding-something-old-nothing-too-new/
#ItsNeverOverJeffBuckley...In @AmyBerg's evocative and at times touching film, she pays tribute to a bohemian artist whose light was prematurely extinguished...@thecoolidge...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/08/hallelujah-and-heartbreak-the-brief-beautiful-life-of-jeff-buckley/
August 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#ItsNeverOverJeffBuckley...In @AmyBerg's evocative and at times touching film, she pays tribute to a bohemian artist whose light was prematurely extinguished...@thecoolidge...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/08/hallelujah-and-heartbreak-the-brief-beautiful-life-of-jeff-buckley/
See #Cloud moody, #darkweb thriller from writer director #KiyoshiKurosawa at #BrattleTheatre...#JanusFilms...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/04/dark-web-of-vengeance-unfolds-in-kurosawas-cloud/
August 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
See #Cloud moody, #darkweb thriller from writer director #KiyoshiKurosawa at #BrattleTheatre...#JanusFilms...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/04/dark-web-of-vengeance-unfolds-in-kurosawas-cloud/