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Marsha McCreadie

Agrees with the Tomatometer 87% of the time.

Biography:: Marsha McCreadie has written four books on women and film before becoming pleasantly obsessed with the documentary form and writing Documentary Superstars, interviews with prominent documentary filmmakers. She was the staff film critic at the Arizona Republic for many years, currently reviews for Film Journal International, and her film articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles times, Film Comment, sensesofcienma, and many other Googleable publications. Her interest in film started as a child when her mother, a disappointed actress, took her to Saturday double features as a child in a tiny village in upstate New York, reminding her to always comb her hair before going to the ladies room, because a producer might be in the lobby. It?s been a push-pull between cinematic fantasy and reality ever since.
Publications:: Film Journal International , New York Press

Total Reviews:: 26

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	89%	Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2012)	" When every month has its own disease, and each satin ribbon pinned to your chest is in a different color, it's an eye-opener by a splash of cold water to see this documentary questioning the uses of philanthropy for the fight against breast cancer." — Film Journal International Posted May 31, 2012
	60%	Never Stand Still (2012)	" A witty, visual demonstration of the wild muscularity of contemporary dance--and why we no longer giggle at "men in tights."" — Film Journal International Posted May 18, 2012
	23%	What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)	" What to Expect is like what they say about childbirth--You'll scarcely remember a thing when it's over, but you won't need that epidural either. " — Film Journal International Posted May 18, 2012
	25%	Mansome (2012)	" It's a cute enough, au courant idea, though the Spurlock matrix of interviews plus graphics is wearing a little thin, the probes less probing." — Film Journal International Posted May 15, 2012
	74%	Chimpanzee (2012)	" Chimpanzee is Bambi for simians, but-spoiler alert-with a less trauma-inducing mother loss, especially for the audience." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 19, 2012
	94%	Marley (2012)	" This documentary about the reggae megastar Bob Marley will be called a benchmark (and it is) and a must-see (it's that too). Yet it still doesn't quite get the man." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 19, 2012
	67%	To the Arctic (2012)	" A lovely fable about nature and motherhood in the North Pole. The problem is, it may scare the pants off you. The other problem is, it's all true." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 19, 2012
	77%	Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)	" This film about brothers by brothers (Jay and Mark Duplass) is a gentle yet spunky comedy for anyone looking for a life direction, feeling trapped, or wondering what happened to their youthful idealism. In other words, most of us." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 13, 2012
	85%	Chronicle (2012)	" Chronicle turns out to be--surprise!--a morality tale of good versus evil in the guise of a supernatural thriller: a phony faux doc." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 3, 2012
	31%	Man on a Ledge (2012)	" Action star Sam Worthington plays a disgraced cop threatening suicide from atop a hotel ledge, but we rapidly lose interest." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 31, 2012
	87%	Miss Bala (2012)	" Mexico's official Oscar entry for best foreign-language film presents startling iconography with its star, Stephanie Sigman, emblematic of the country's current problems of drug cartels and weapons trafficking." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	89%	To Be Heard (2011)	" This documentary about self-empowerment through a poetry-writing program in a rough South Bronx high school pulls us into the lives and struggles of three students who see the program as their only way up and out of a dreary life. They may be right." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	94%	Pina (2011)	" With a breakout use of 3D for artistic rather than solely commercial blockbuster purposes, German director Wim Wenders gives extraordinary life to the work of choreographer Pina Bausch." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	14%	Zookeeper (2011)	" A high concept-movie falls almost as flat as star Kevin James doing pratfalls." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	23%	The Sitter (2011)	" Warning! Though The Sitter obliges with all the elements crowd-pleasing filmmakers think they need these days-oral sex, flatulence, drugs, car smash-ups, guns 'n violence, hints of S&M, twisted adolescents-it's a sweet-natured film in disguise." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	100%	Raw Faith (2011)	" Part personal documentary and part doc-as-tribute, Raw Faith needed a true star to work at all. She's found in Marilyn Sewell, a sixty-something Unitarian minister." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	100%	Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2008)	" The conclusion to the trilogy about the plight of three wrongly convicted men has an intriguingly new, if bittersweet, slant. It's an understatement to say that the documentary format comes off a lot better than the justice system." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	67%	Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football (2011)	" In this slick, professionally assembled football documentary, Muslim-American director Rashid Ghazi focuses on Arabs living in Dearborn, Michigan in a post-9/11 world." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	25%	The Beginning of a Great Revival (2011)	" History of Chinese Communism drowns in data." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	23%	The Smurfs (2011)	" ...a cynical extension, not even an earnest spin-off." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
	55%	In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)	" As powerful as its creator, Angelina Jolie, whose spirit hovers over her writing-directing-producing debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey shows the horrifying byproducts of the terrible war in the former Yugoslavia." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 6, 2012
—	75%	In Her Shoes (2005)	— Movie Reviews in Croatian Posted Apr 12, 2011
—	93%	An Inconvenient Truth (2006)	— Movie Reviews in Croatian Posted Apr 12, 2011
—	86%	Junebug (2005)	— Movie Reviews in Croatian Posted Apr 12, 2011
	88%	Young@Heart (2007)	" Sure to be a hit not just with the AARP crowd, we'll surely see a lot of the film's ready-to-be excerpted videos." — New York Press Posted Apr 9, 2008

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