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Dana Barbuto

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Biography:

Dana Barbuto is an entertainment journalist covering film for Boston Movie News and formerly for The Patriot Ledger, part of the USA Today network. She is co-president of the Boston Society of Film Critics. She watches “Casablanca” every April on her birthday and the first movie that ever made her cry was “The Outsiders.”

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% C EDIT “Cut to the first sight of Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear”) performing as Springsteen, shirt soaked in sweat, banging out “Born to Run” on a Cincinnati stage. It shook me more than expected — in all the wrong ways.” – Boston Movie News Oct 25, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% B- EDIT “... when Roberts starts to unravel, you can’t look away.” – Boston Movie News Oct 18, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% C EDIT “Two fetching stars. Zero sparks.” – Boston Movie News Sep 20, 2025 Full Review Oh, Hi! (2025) 64% C- EDIT “‘Oh, Hi’ spirals into a haywire attempt at a dark romantic comedy that wants to say something about modern love but mostly just says … not much.” – Boston Movie News Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 75% B EDIT “Bernthal’s only job in this movie is to bring cocksure swagger. Mission very much accomplished.” – Boston Movie News Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 92% B EDIT ““Warfare” doesn’t just depict combat—it traps you inside. ” – Boston Movie News Apr 12, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% B+ EDIT “... a toy story gone terribly wrong, ” – Boston Movie News Feb 19, 2025 Full Review You're Cordially Invited (2025) 48% C+ EDIT “The setup has potential but dissolves into scattered matrimonial mishaps. ” – Boston Movie News Feb 1, 2025 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% B EDIT “... there are worse places to be than trapped inside a haunted house with Soderbergh telling a ghost story.” – Boston Movie News Jan 25, 2025 Full Review The Last Showgirl (2024) 83% C+ EDIT ““The Last Showgirl” may not dazzle, but Anderson still knows how to work a spotlight.” – Boston Movie News Jan 12, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% B EDIT “Despite minor annoyances, “Wicked” reminds us of the enduring power of its tale: that appearances can deceive, that friendship can transform, and that even in a world quick to judge, there’s a bit of green in all of us.” – Boston Movie News Nov 23, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% A EDIT “Sean Baker’s wild, Cannes-winning hit blends humor, heartbreak, and raw humanity for a film you won’t soon forget.” – Boston Movie News Oct 25, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% B+ EDIT “... you can feel his reflections on love, loss, and legacy coursing through the story. It’s a disjointed culmination of everything Coppola has learned and experienced as a filmmaker and a person. ” – Boston Movie News Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Good One (2024) 98% A- EDIT “... fresh-faced newcomer Lily Collias plays Sam, a 17-year-old who is somehow tasked with navigating the treacherous terrain of both the Catskills and the emotional wreckage of her father and his buddy. Spoiler: She’s not impressed.” – Boston Movie News Aug 18, 2024 Full Review It Ends With Us (2024) 55% C EDIT “Once we enter the more intense second half, the film struggles to hold up its end. It never feels quite sad or suspenseful enough to meet the demands of its heavy subject matter. ” – Boston Movie News Aug 9, 2024 Full Review The Instigators (2024) 41% B- EDIT “.... the Boston setting starts to feel like a gimmick ... ” – Boston Movie News Aug 2, 2024 Full Review The Fabulous Four (2024) 28% C EDIT “Kudos to the filmmakers and cast for fighting back against aging stereotypes and showing that older women are still the polydactyl cat's meow. (Just make it funnier next time). ” – Boston Movie News Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% B+ EDIT “If you’re craving something big, loud, and fun, buy the jumbo bucket of popcorn and follow Powell’s tornado-chasing cowboy right into the eye of the storm. Giddy up.” – Boston Movie News Jul 18, 2024 Full Review Polite Society (2023) 91% B+ EDIT “A mix of comic-book action, crass comedy, and a kidnapping plot that is executed with all the details of an “Ocean’s 11” heist. ” – Boston Movie News Jul 7, 2024 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 82% B EDIT “An effects-laden spectacle propped up by an out-of-this-world ensemble whose charm carries the film through expository back story, narrative set-up, dizzying fight scenes and enough platitudes about friends and family to fill a “Fast and Furious” movie. ” – Boston Movie News Jul 7, 2024 Full Review Fast X (2023) 56% B EDIT “It's a 141-minute barrage of car carnage, beautiful women gyrating in short skirts, street races, insane tricks, explosions, double crosses, globe-trotting missions and Dom’s iconic black Dodge Charger R/T. Vroom-vroom.” – Boston Movie News Jul 7, 2024 Full Review The Blackening (2022) 87% B EDIT “Drawing on classics of the genre like “Scream” and “Get Out,” the movie is self-aware and hilarious with rapid-fire one-liners and fresh takes on classic horror beats. ” – Boston Movie News Jul 7, 2024 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% B EDIT “The story-telling structure of “Asteroid City” is Anderson’s version of the Multiverse of Madness, minus the Marvel hyperactivity.” – Boston Movie News Jul 7, 2024 Full Review Stonebreakers (2022) B EDIT “The documentary brings attention to an issue that remains a political and social hot-button topic. ” – Boston Movie News Jul 7, 2024 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 71% B EDIT “ “Dial of Destiny” is just Indy being Indy and nobody does it better than Ford.” – Boston Movie News Jul 7, 2024 Full Review
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