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John P. McCarthy

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:: Boxoffice Magazine , ReelTalk Movie Reviews , Variety
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 500

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	Bloodknot (1996)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	32%	The Oranges (2012)	" There's not enough tension for the humor to diffuse. What we're left with is a bland dramedy featuring a strong cast." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 5, 2012
—	——	Phillip The Fossil (2011)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2012
—	——	Sideshow: Alive on the Inside (2005)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Gulliver's Travels (1996)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Frank and Jesse (1995)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	In Pursuit of Honor (1995)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	SugarTime (1995)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Triplecross (2006)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
—	——	Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995)	— Variety Posted Feb 23, 2012
3/5	60%	El Bulli: Cooking In Progress (2011)	" You can't help but appreciate the food's visual beauty -- and the physical, mental and emotional energy that went into creating it -- but you don't come away feeling you have to taste any of Adrià's food before you die." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 29, 2011
—	——	MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994)	— Variety Posted Jun 29, 2011
1.5/5	26%	The Best and the Brightest (2011)	" Strictly bush league, save for a few bravura performances." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 21, 2011
—	96%	One Lucky Elephant (2011)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 10, 2011
—	55%	Mr. Nice (2011)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2011
2/5	19%	Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer (2011)	" This ho-hum offshoot of Megan McDonald's book series earns negative "thrill points" as it chronicles the mirthless backyard shenanigans of a suburban Pippi Longstocking." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2011
—	86%	Breaking the Waves (1996)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 28, 2011
2.5/5	34%	The Hangover Part II (2011)	" Its sense of fun-loving camaraderie feels forced and tinged with buzz-killing danger." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 24, 2011
—	——	The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1995)	— Variety Posted May 19, 2011
2.5/5	59%	The First Grader (2011)	" Guilt and glossiness form the foundation of the slick production, which, despite the best intentions of all those working under director Justin Chadwick, exudes a mildly patronizing vapor that dampens the emotional affect and any historical incisiveness." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 14, 2011
3.5/5	96%	Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011)	" Is any filmmaker more comfortable moving between the didactic and the lyrical, between quotidian facts and profound speculation?" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2011
0.5/5	41%	Footprints (2011)	" The barely coherent Footprints seems bent on erasing any nostalgia one might have for Hollywood's heyday." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 12, 2011
—	——	Trapped in Space (1994)	— Variety Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (2010)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Wrecked (2009)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 2, 2011
3.5/5	84%	Jane Eyre (2011)	" Cary Joji Fukunaga's romantic thriller Jane Eyre is to19th-century literature what Black Swan is to ballet: a thoroughly cinematic, occasionally exhilarating reimagining of a repertoire standard." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 10, 2011
—	90%	Public Speaking (2011)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2011
2/5	72%	We Are What We Are (2011)	" We Are What We Are is a superficially provocative movie that tries way too hard to be memorable." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 19, 2011
0.5/5	5%	Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)	" Big Momma has laid a gigantic egg." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 19, 2011
3/5	86%	Carancho (2011)	" Without resorting to sensationalism, gratuitous gore, false spirituality, or any extraneous artificiality, Trapero has fashioned an emotionally involving picture." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 15, 2011
1.5/5	4%	The Roommate (2011)	" What's most memorable about this plodding thriller are the copious amounts of foundation and lip gloss." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 4, 2011
3/5	80%	Ward No. 6 (2011)	" The movie's profundity shines through because it gestures at something that might counter its aura of futility and despair." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 22, 2010
3/5	100%	Con Artist (2010)	" [Director Michael Sladek] lets Kostabi hang himself and the auto-execution is fully effected about halfway through." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2010
2/5	81%	Today's Special (2010)	" Those with even modestly adventuresome cinematic palates will have their appetites whetted before exiting unsatisfied." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2010
2.5/5	39%	Due Date (2010)	" With its premise so easily established, Due Date is able to be modestly raucous as well as character-driven, which is how it goes astray since it tries to evoke complex moods and feelings that are beyond its ken." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 5, 2010
2.5/5	29%	The Tempest (2010)	" The result is cacophonous." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2010
4/5	61%	The Kids Grow Up (2010)	" Ranks as one of the best non-fiction films of the year." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2010
3/5	59%	Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)	" As semi-spooky and splatter-free as its predecessor." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 23, 2010
1/5	0%	Kalamity (2010)	" Kalamity is a real klunker." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 22, 2010
3.5/5	83%	Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2010)	" Although its claims about Hildegard's modernity and relevancy should be taken with a grain of salt, one readily imagines Vision attracting a cross-section of the curious, not limited to feminist cinephiles and true believers." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 16, 2010
3/5	52%	Devil (2010)	" A Sunday school parable wrapped in an adequately nail-biting supernatural thriller, Devil uses its triteness to its advantage." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 18, 2010
2/5	58%	The Freebie (2010)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 18, 2010
2/5	83%	Our Beloved Month of August (2010)	" Elliptical and episodic, the hybrid blends music, documentary and narrative elements into an intriguing but frustratingly vague whole." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 10, 2010
3.5/5	——	Honeymoons (Medeni mesec) (2010)	" You don't want Honeymoons to be over quite so soon, but you know it must end at some point." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 10, 2010
3.5/5	72%	Machete (2010)	" How often can you see Cheech Marin nailed to a cross or Lindsay Lohan in a threesome with Trejo and the actress playing her mother?" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2010
3/5	——	The Living Wake ()	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2010
2.5/5	79%	Smash His Camera (2010)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2010
3/5	100%	DDR/DDR (2010)	— Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2010
4/5	100%	Enemies of the People (2010)	" As if the subject matter weren't disconcerting enough, Daniel Pemberton's music is positively eerie." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 30, 2010

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