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 70
A perfectly respectable kid-friendly family offering. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
A pretty skillfully handled domestic thriller about a criminal activity that, while always upsetting, is especially noxious now due to the too many recent tragic and highly publicized instances of it. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Builds and sustains considerable interest through its unexpected characterizations, unusual milieu and atmospheric style. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Has a jaunty, cosmopolitan air that proves appealing for considerable stretches, and Chin's love of cinema and mostly humorous approach to weighty themes will win points with buffs who have seen the same films the director has. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Nunez achieves a rare, and rarely earned, emotional depth that rewards the moderate demands he makes on contemporary viewers' short attention spans. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Possesses sufficient intrigue to hook audiences and keep them on board much of the way. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Careens from decade to decade, and from relative dramatic realism to frequent hilarity, in often-winning fashion. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Artfully evokes the physical realities of Irish poverty, but mostly misses the humor, lyricism and emotional charge of Frank McCourt's magical and magnificent memoir -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Much of the dialogue is good, and Smith does a decent job of presenting the emotional fallout from every major participant's p.o.v. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Preposterous whimsy that sort of gets by thanks to lustrous settings, slick production values and, especially, its ultra-attractive stars. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
A zippy, frothy confection that emerges as agreeable middle-range Woody. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Director Alan Rudolph achieves fresh as well as humorous insights into family life and strategies for keeping a damaged relationship from expiring. But a tiresome final act proves trying. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Clever and jokey in a vaudeville sort of way, but lacks the heart and sheer imagination of the company's best work for Disney, "Toy Story 2" and "A Bug's Life." -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Succeeds far more often than not in delivering a credible, kaleidoscopic portrait of creative, and often famous, individuals. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Crudely made, somewhat overlong and larded with plenty of things that don't work, pic stands as proof positive that a comedy can be far from perfect and still hit the bull's-eye if it delivers when it counts in its big scenes. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Scorsese has met most of the challenges inherent in tackling such a formidable period piece, but the material remains cloaked by the very propriety, stiff manners and emotional starchiness the picture delineates in such copious detail. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Generates tension from the get-go, albeit of an increasingly unpleasant variety, on its way to a disappointingly generic climax. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Moppet appeal of the present feature rests in three can't-miss concepts -- cool gadgets, the desire to see grownups disappear and space travel. Pic delivers on all three points and doesn't have to do a whole lot more. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Audiences looking for something fresh and different, not to mention a head trip, will find it in Waking Life. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
An intermittently powerful and meticulously crafted drama that falls short of its full potential due to considerable over-length and some shopworn, simplistic notions at its center. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Everything about the film suggests that its makers consider it a deep, emotionally probing drama, but it's merely a soap opera with elevated production values and a sterling cast. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
An impudently comic, stylistically aggressive and, finally, very thoughtful manner. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
A lighthearted yarn designed to stand out by virtue of its intricate structure and trippy time-travel element. But the fanciful material wears thin pretty quickly, the air leaking out of the balloon long before party's over. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
The whole picture may be hokey, but the first part is agreeably so, the second part not. At the very least, one comes away with a new appreciation of the difficulty of inner-office romance at the CIA. -
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Todd McCarthy 70
Spiked with wonderfully funny sequences and some brilliantly original notions, The Big Lebowski, a pseudo-mystery thriller with a keen eye and ear for societal mores and modern figures of speech, nonetheless adds up to considerably less than the sum of its often scintillating parts. -
