Education
Born in 1957, he studied film at Dartmouth College and New York University.
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Burr has been the film critic for the Boston Globe since 2002. Burr has written articles for The New York Times, Spin, The Boston Phoenix, and other publications. Some of the movies to which Burr has assigned his top ratings are Broken Flowers, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby.
He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, working as a Film Evaluator or in-house critic.
From 1992 until 2002 he worked for Entertainment Weekly as the magazine"s chief video critic. (Burr still contributes to the magazine occasionally) Burr also makes appearances on NECN, Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, and various local and national radio programs to discuss the latest movies.
Burr lives with his family in Newton, Massachusetts. at The Boston Globe at Entertainment Weekly The Best Old Movies for Families page at Random House Boston Globe "Movie Nation" blog.
Membership
He is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics.
