Todd McCarthy, Variety
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For 1,238 reviews, this critic has graded:
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.6 points higher than other critics.
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Todd McCarthy's Scores
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Positive: 630 out of 1238
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Mixed: 485 out of 1238
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Negative: 123 out of 1238
1,238
movie reviews
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Todd McCarthy 90
Its sharp writing and essential credibility make this small, intimate tale fresh and involving.- Posted Sep 29, 2012
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Todd McCarthy 90
Dramatically gripping while still brandishing a droll undercurrent of humor, this beautifully made film will certainly be embraced as one of the best Bonds by loyal fans worldwide and leaves you wanting the next one to turn up sooner than four years from now.- Posted Oct 14, 2012
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Todd McCarthy 90
This absorbing drama provides Denzel Washington with one of his meatiest, most complex roles, and he flies with it.- Posted Oct 14, 2012
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Todd McCarthy 90
Nutty, arcane and jaw-dropping in equal measure, this is a head-first plunge down the rabbit hole of Kubrickiana from which, for some, there is evidently no return.- Posted Feb 10, 2013
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Todd McCarthy 90
The director mixes moods with a playfulness that is both brazen and carefree and yet precisely modulated, yielding results that amplify the specific content of the screenplay. This makes for a film that, however cheap it was to make, is incredibly rich to watch.- Posted Feb 19, 2013
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Todd McCarthy 80
The central idea is quite clever and appealing, and that the charm meter is turned up all the way. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Nicholson is outstanding as he gradually but tellingly sketches in aspects of a man driven by a mission that outstrips his instincts as a professional lawman. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
An eye-popping visual spectacle that serves up a vivid picture of what the planet might have looked like when reptiles ruled the Earth. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
The lively visuals, busy story, zippy pace and TV show running time will make this go down very easily with the target moppet audience. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
An intelligent, insidiously plotted Hitchcockian thriller directed in souped-up, modern expressionistic style. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Snappy and unusually funny under fundamentally serious circumstances, without being contrived or sitcomy. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Taking film noir material and turning it inside out visually and morally, The Deep End is an absorbing, beautifully made melodrama that succeeds on formal levels more than it does with suspense or emotion. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Bright, glossy, grandly scaled and dramatically stolid, 79-year-old writer-director Jerzy Kawalerowicz's longtime dream project mixes earnest religiosity with the depraved cruelty of Nero's Rome in the classic De Mille tradition. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Lee has made a brutal but sensitively observed film about the fringes of the Civil War. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Schroeder's first non-American film in 16 years feels like a rejuvenation; his adaptation of Fernando Vallejo's 1994 novel has a naturalistic freedom and ease that is both refreshing and direct in the way it tells a deeply disturbing story. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
May or not be Robert Altman's best film in years, but it is certainly his most pleasurable. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
A charming, if lightweight, Coen brothers escapade flecked by plenty of visual and performance grace notes. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Eastwood's latest picture boasts tight storytelling, sharp acting and an eye for unexpected, enlivening detail. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Engaging, refreshingly human in its humor and becomingly modest in its aspirations, this hip look at being out of it announces some promising new talent and will play well with young audiences looking for comfortable entertainment that doesn't feel manufactured. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
This unlikely collaboration between actors Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott is extremely well directed, making for a smartly made, delightfully acted period piece whose sensibility neatly straddles art films and the mainstream. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
A randy, irreverent, slice-of-life no-budgeter that's played for laughs and gets them. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
All the meticulousness, intelligence, taste and superior This curious, cloistered piece... is continuously absorbing but lacks the emotional resonance that would have made it completely satisfying. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Underachieves in its own way by trapping an expansive, probing story in a brittle, highly artificial style that constricts character and emotional development. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Opulently produced, fittingly enough, and quite entertaining as a surface ride through the up, down and somewhat up again life of one of the New Hollywood's most colorful characters. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
An intensely scenic, refreshingly humanistic oater that dares to be sincere and open-hearted. -
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Todd McCarthy 80
Serves up a judicious blend of showy action, political intrigue, ticking-clock suspense and intramural CIA one-upsmanship for mainstream entertainment. -
