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MAITLAND MCDONAGH

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Biography: Maitland McDonagh is TV Guide Online's Senior Movie Editor, and has been writing about movies for more than 15 years. She is the author of three books on film: Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Filmmaking on the Fringe: The Good, the Bad and the Deviant Directors and The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time, and has written for publications ranging from The New York Times to Paper and Time Out New York.

Publications: AMCtv.com, Boxoffice Magazine, Film Journal International, Hollywood Reporter, Horror Hacker, Miss FlickChick, Time Out, Time Out New York, TV Guide's Movie Guide

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, New York Film Critics Online

Total Reviews: 2259

Location: New York, USA

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Fresh	Fresh 89%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Hugely entertaining .... Reitman can turn bitter, unpalatable material into mainstream movies without stripping away all the bite" — Miss FlickChick Posted Dec 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 0%	Transylmania (2009)	" Spoofs horror cliches rather than stringing together random, witless pop-culture gags like the Scary Movie franchise .... [but is] vulgar, juvenile, gross and not particularly funny." — Horror Hacker Posted Dec 5, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 72%	The Road (2009)	" *The high-minded antithesis of 2012... The Road* is mired in morning-after misery, set in a world where fear of a living hell is more reasonable than hope of heaven.*" — AMCtv.com* Posted Nov 25, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 60%	A Civil Action (1998)	" This is a case in which the material really is better served in book form." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 22, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 28%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" *The first sequel to Twilight* has the feel of a placeholder ... but Twi-hards, like Bella, have mastered the art of willing themselves to see only what they want to see.*" — Horror Hacker* Posted Nov 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" A sly, witty and utterly enchanting adaptation of Roald Dahl's mordantly whimsical book about a thoroughly domesticated gentleman fox who pines for days when the world respected his wildness." — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 77%	Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)	" A slick, mannered and frequently clever comedy." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 46%	The Box (2009)	" Richard Kelly's convoluted moral thriller gets off to a terrifically eerie start but collapses beneath the weight of its Big Ideas." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 0%	Eulogy for a Vampire (2009)	" The gay-themed Eulogy for a Vampire is dead serious about its mix of eroticism and horror, but the more serious it tries to be, the campier it becomes." — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" A campfire story for the cyber generation, a bogey tale wrapped in time codes and misplaced faith in the power of technology to banish ghosties, ghoulies and long-leggedy beasties." — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 3, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 29%	Gamer (2009)	" A streak of genius runs through this dystopian vision of a world in where VR games are played with real people ... it touches some exposed nerves before retreating into clich�s." — AMCtv.com Posted Nov 3, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 56%	9 (2009)	" A flat-out gorgeous vision of a devastated world whose script is as thin and formulaic as the imagery is rich and original." — AMCtv.com Posted Nov 3, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Sorority Row (2009)	" Welcome to Skank Ho sorority, where you'll skills like covering up the grotesque death of one of your sisters during a mean-spirited prank." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" It's more clever than funny ha-ha, and has a handful of seriously creepy moments ... the movie a smarty-pants horror buff cooks up while ticking off grade-Z slasher clich�s." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" Surprisingly cute for a movie awash in blood, entrails and icky zombie drool, admirably brisk ... and occasionally scary, especially if zombies creep the bejesus out of you." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 11%	The Stepfather (2009)	" Astonishingly dull and carefully scrubbed of all but the most sanitized violence in the name of securing a PG-13 rating." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 37%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" A colossal bore of a teen fantasy movie ... crammed with trite, prepackaged lessons." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 45%	Saw VI (2009)	" When torture porn becomes as snooze-inducing as lecture hall, it's time to call it a day." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 87%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" If you love a nerve-stretching build up to a seriously creepy payoff, you'll want to see for yourself." — AMCtv.com Posted Nov 2, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 93%	Out of Sight (1998)	" Faintly melancholy and alluringly fatalistic, this mercurial romance passing as a crime thriller is slyly entertaining and darkly sexy." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 30, 2009
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 72%	Habit (1997)	" Despite its low budget, the assets of Fessenden's film include startlingly rich cinematography and an above-average cast, most of whom have roots in New York's downtown performance scene." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 20, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 70%	Return to Paradise (1998)	" Despite solid performances from the leads, it comes shrouded in a heavy cloud of ethics-class complications that makes it feel like a "dilemma of the week" TV movie." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 4, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Pandorum (2009)	" Cobbled together from chunks of Battlestar Galactica, The Descent, Serenity, Cube, Resident Evil, Event Horizon and Alien ... Pandorum is an efficient scare machine if you ignore the plot contrivances." — Horror Hacker Posted Sep 25, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 7%	Mortal Kombat - Annihilation (1997)	" This tedious hodgepodge of martial-arts mayhem, bogus mysticism and computer-generated special effects doesn't even pretend to have a plot." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Grace (2009)	" It's hard to say who's the real monster here: Sure, the ghoulish Grace is some kind of vampire-zombie something ... but in Solet's movie (s)mother love comes in all shades of crazy." — Horror Hacker Posted Aug 27, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" A delirious pastiche of WWII movie tropes via the naughty Nazi pictures that flooded Italy in The Night Porter's wake ... Tarantino knows exactly how vulgar it is to spin pulp entertainment from the iconography of mass murderers, and how bracingly" — Miss FlickChick Posted Aug 21, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The White Reindeer (1952)	" Beneath a blanket of glittering snow, this mix of Sami folklore, anthropological fantasy and horror tells the story of a neglected bride who becomes a vicious shapeshifter." — Miss FlickChick Posted Aug 18, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" District 9 is a bracing breath of fresh air [that] wears its influences well, integrating them into a well thought-out drama about what it means to be human ... a drama with big guns, car chases and exploding cars." — Miss FlickChick Posted Aug 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 72%	I Sell the Dead (2009)	" A fresh, darkly funny blend of crime [graverobbing, to be precise] and supernatural hijinks ... that delivers an offbeat but carefully balanced mix of shocks, homages and uneasy chuckles." — Miss FlickChick Posted Aug 7, 2009
Fresh 1.5/4	Rotten 16%	The Scarlet Letter (1995)	" Rage, love, defiance, confusion, fear -- Moore just sticks out her chin and makes her eyes brim with tears. She's the stolidly immovable object at the film's center, and there's no getting around her." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Aug 4, 2009
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 0%	Foolish (1999)	" Eddie Griffin buffs have the best reason to check out this amateurish effort: Griffin's profane, sometimes sharply observed stand-up routines take up a big chunk of the movie's total running time." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Aug 3, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 0%	Simon Sez (1999)	" This on-the-cheap action thriller appears to exist purely as a showcase for the limited talents of self-created caricature Dennis Rodman, who in turn clearly needs to exploit himself while the exploiting is good." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Aug 3, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 25%	The Collector (2009)	" A mean-spirited throwback to the nastiest, cruelest home-invasion movies of the '70s and '80s ... And I mean that in the best possible way:" — Horror Hacker Posted Aug 1, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Thirst (2009)	" *Park Chan-wook's melodramatic "revenge trilogy" set a high bar for perversity and squirm-inducing violence that Thirst* ... easily matches.*" — Horror Hacker* Posted Jul 31, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 7%	'Til There Was You (1997)	" Graceless star Tripplehorn -- who's called upon to execute a painful series of pratfalls in a high-tech restaurant -- is not a natural comedian, and overall the movie is awkward and leaden." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 28, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 0%	The Shadow Conspiracy (1996)	" Corpses pile up, dreadful secrets are uncovered, and Bishop eventually gets to the bottom of things, a full hour after the least attentive viewer will have figured out who's behind it all." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 28, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 50%	The Cable Guy (1996)	" In all, about a third of the film (most of it contained in three extended sequences) is audaciously funny and genuinely disturbing. The rest will sorely test the devotion of Carrey's fans." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 27, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 31%	Deadgirl (2008)	" A pitiless look at the worst aspects of teenage male horndog-dom ... if there weren't some poisonous kernel of truth in its grotesque, testosterone-poisoned "what if?" premise, no-one would be squirming." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jul 26, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 13%	Holy Man (1998)	" Good intentions abound, but we all know where they lead." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 21, 2009
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 2%	Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)	" By the time you get to rescue Annie from the madman one last time, it's time to check out." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 21, 2009
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 8%	Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)	" A crude, vulgar satire of Hollywood shallowness, insincerity and moral bankruptcy." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009)	" Engaging, fast-paced documentary about the glory days of Australian exploitation movies that will delight existing fans of scurrilous films from Down Ynder and recruit new one from the ranks of moviegoers who aren't offended by extensive nudity, violence" — Film Journal International Posted Jul 16, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" The impending magical apocalypse and the agonies of young love get equal time in this fantasy with its roots planted firmly in the realm of real human relationships and experience." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jul 16, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)	" *An stew of international genre influences that plays like a Vietnam-era cross between Blade* and TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with elaborate martial arts sequences.*" — Horror Hacker* Posted Jul 12, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Munde U.K. De (2009)	" This fish-out-of-water comedy about two UK-raised young men of Punjabi descent summering in India with one youth's aging grandfather is overlong and painfully cliched." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 67%	New York (2009)	" Kabir Khan uses thriller conventions to address such issues as the suspension of civil liberties and the [US] government's ever-expanding power to harass, detain and deny due process to detainees." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jul 2, 2009
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 87%	Donnie Brasco (1997)	" Depp's tight, guarded performance is almost painful to watch, and Newell seems to have reined in the flamboyant Pacino, whose portrait of the mobster as a grumpy old man may be his best work in years." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 20, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 81%	Under Our Skin (2009)	" *It�s the same argument Michael Moore made in Sicko, but it bears repeating." — Time Out New York* Posted Jun 17, 2009
Rotten 2.5/4	Rotten 46%	Forces of Nature (1999)	" Make no mistake: This slackly paced picture doesn't gel. But it so consistently undermines the pastel-pretty conventions that currently rule the genre that some sneaky admiration is in order." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jun 14, 2009
Fresh 4/6	Fresh 96%	Herb & Dorothy (2009)	" Sasaki�s documentary really shines when she gives center stage to the grateful artists whom they helped nurture." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 3, 2009

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