Todd McCarthy, Variety
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For 1,221 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.8 points higher than other critics.
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Todd McCarthy's Scores
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Positive: 622 out of 1221
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Mixed: 477 out of 1221
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Negative: 122 out of 1221
1,221
movie reviews
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Todd McCarthy 100
Blasting onto the screen at warp speed and remaining there for two hours, the new and improved Star Trek will transport fans to sci-fi nirvana. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
A captivating odd-couple adventure that becomes funnier and more exciting as it flies along. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Boldly and magnificently strange, There Will Be Blood marks a significant departure in the work of Paul Thomas Anderson. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
A scorching blast of tense genre filmmaking shot through with rich veins of melancholy, down-home philosophy and dark, dark humor, No Country for Old Men reps a superior match of source material and filmmaking talent. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Mel Gibson is always good for a surprise, and his latest is that Apocalypto is a remarkable film. Set in the waning days of the Mayan civilization, the picture provides a trip to a place one's never been before, offering hitherto unseen sights of exceptional vividness and power. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Ever-eclectic director Jon Favreau, who briefly pops up onscreen as a Stark minion, maintains a brisk but not frantic pace, and, in concert with lenser Matthew Libatique, production designer J. Michael Riva and the first-rate visual effects team, has made an unusually elegant looking film for the genre. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Staying at the top of his game when most of his contemporaries have long since hung up their gloves, Clint Eastwood delivers another knockout punch with Million Dollar Baby. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Represents that filmmaking rarity -- a third part of a trilogy that is decisively the best of the lot. With epic conflict, staggering battles, striking landscapes and effects, and resolved character arcs all leading to a dramatic conclusion to more than nine hours of masterful storytelling. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Rourke creates a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic screen performances. An elemental story simply and brilliantly told, Darren Aronofsky's fourth feature is a winner from every possible angle. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed, this true story-inspired drama begins small with the disappearance of a young boy, only to gradually fan out to become a comprehensive critique of the entire power structure of Los Angeles, circa 1928. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
An astonishingly good and daring film that richly develops several intertwined thematic lines, The Crying Game takes giant risks that are stunningly rewarded. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Enormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
An irresistible treat with enough narrative twists and memorable characters for a half-dozen films. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Had the aura of an instant classic when it was released, and the good news is that it looks at least that good, if not better, on the eve of its 20th anniversary reissue. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Stunningly made and incisively acted by a large and terrific cast, Michael Mann's ambitious study of the relativity of good and evil stands apart from other films of its type by virtue of its extraordinarily rich characterizations and its thoughtful, deeply melancholy take on modern life. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
This spirited and often very funny lark accomplishes something that most films in the bygone Hollywood studio era used to do but is remarkably rare in today's world of niche markets: It offers entertainment equally to viewers from 4 to 104. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
A searingly visceral combat picture, Steven Spielberg’s third World War II drama is arguably second to none as a vivid, realistic and bloody portrait of armed conflict. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Originally conceived as one film, the two-parter that has finally emerged can now be seen as a truly epic work. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
The Usual Suspects is an ironic, bang-up thriller about the wages of crime. A terrific cast of exciting actors socks over this absorbingly complicated yarn that's been spun in a seductively slick fashion by director Bryan Singer. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Rare proof that a gigantic production in contemporary Hollywood can possess a distinctive personality and its own approach to storytelling, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World proves as bracing as a stiff wind on the open sea. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Clint Eastwood has crafted a tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn that is also an exceedingly intelligent meditation on the West, its myths and its heroes. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
The pleasure is doubled in Spider-Man 2. Crackerjack entertainment from start to finish, this rousing yarn about a reluctant superhero and his equally conflicted friends and enemies improves in every way on its predecessor and is arguably about as good a live-action picture as anyone's ever made using comicbook characters. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
As deliriously smart escapist fare, The Incredibles is practically nonpareil. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
An enormously entertaining slice of biographical drama, The Aviator flies like one of Howard Hughes' record-setting speed airplanes. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
But the filmmakers have invigorated and enriched the story through the use of a thousand details, a strong sense of time and place, outstanding characterizations and a display of energy and cinematic flair that marks an advance on "My Left Foot." -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Remarkably funny and entirely convincing, film pulls off the rare accomplishment of being an in-drag comedy which also emerges with three-dimensional characters. -
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Todd McCarthy 100
Fully justifying the decision, once thought purely mercenary, of splitting J.K. Rowling's final book into two parts, this is an exciting and, to put it mildly, massively eventful finale that will grip and greatly please anyone who has been at all a fan of the series up to now.- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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Todd McCarthy 100
Precise, lucid and thrillingly disciplined, this story of boundary-testing in the early days of psychoanalysis is brought to vivid life by the outstanding lead performances of Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender.- Posted Oct 24, 2011
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Todd McCarthy 100
After a five-year wait since "Sideways," Alexander Payne has made his best film yet with The Descendants. Ostensibly a study of loss and coping with a tragic situation, this wonderfully nuanced look at a father and two daughters dealing with the imminent death of his wife and their mother turns the miraculous trick of possibly being even funnier than it is moving.- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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