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Nick McCarthy

Nick McCarthy

Agrees with the Tomatometer 52% of the time.

Publications:
House Next Door , Slant Magazine
Total Reviews:
58

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/4 —— La jalousie () " Due to its rather pure and unburdened perspective of complex relations, it's a plausibly hand-me-down portrait accessed from the point of view of a young child. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 7, 2013
3.5/4 —— Când se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau metabolism (When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism) () " Corneliu Porumboiu's wry and cryptically titled film is both oblique and about obliqueness." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/4 —— L'image Manquante () " It contextualizes cinema not only as a form of magic (capable of transformative, elated power), but also of revolution." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/4 83% Shepard & Dark (2013) " Treva Wurmfeld's documentary addresses, and acutely analyzes, the way friendship can bend, and occasionally snap, over time." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2013
78% Night Moves () " Ambiguously hints that perhaps the devastating nadir of an activist's soul, having given way to world-weary guilt, is simply taking a step toward compromising one's ideals." — House Next Door
Posted Sep 17, 2013
70% Tom à la ferme (Tom at the Farm) () " In tackling the genre of psychological thriller with Tom at the Farm, wunderkind writer-director-actor Xavier Dolan reigns in his often flagrant use of formalism without sacrificing his confidence as a filmmaker." — House Next Door
Posted Sep 17, 2013
67% Història de la meva mort (Story of My Death) () " Albert Serra's impish impulses are stretched thin as vampirism reigns supreme." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2013
—— Pozitia copilului (Child's Pose) () " The film, more than the complicated milieu it depicts, is at odds with itself." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2013
64% August: Osage County (2013) " It pokes and occasionally stabs, but doesn't twist the knife as much as it should." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2013
89% Dallas Buyers Club (2013) " Despite its good intentions and moxie-filled performances, Dallas Buyers Club is ultimately marred by its impulse to compromise its freewheeling humanity in favor of crowd-pleasing tropes." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 14, 2013
89% Dallas Buyers Club (2013) " Despite its good intentions and moxie-filled performances, Dallas Buyers Club is ultimately marred by its impulse to compromise its freewheeling humanity in favor of crowd-pleasing tropes." — House Next Door
Posted Sep 13, 2013
97% Gravity (2013) " The gut-wrenching, immersive elements are almost above reproach, but ultimately it's all effect and little affect." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2013
—— Pozitia copilului (Child's Pose) () " The film, more than the complicated milieu it depicts, is at odds with itself." — House Next Door
Posted Sep 7, 2013
2/4 75% Populaire (2013) " Candy-colored to a potentially cavity-causing degree, the film is a bubbly regurgitation of retrograde romantic comedy tropes and reactionary sexual politics." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2013
2.5/4 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " The film's highly calculated beauty suffocates rather than elevates the story's emotional underpinnings. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2013
3/4 82% Jug Face (2013) " Chad Crawford Kinkle impressively imbues this supernatural world of backwoods mysticism with a plausible milieu while still staying committed to the film's own brewing insanity." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/4 68% The Artist and the Model (2013) " This safe, solemn tale of an aged artist whose vitality is briefly revived by a pretty young thing is unconvincing as an articulation of the potentially spiritual nature of the artist/model relationship." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2013
2.5/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " One of Woody Allen's strongest and most pointed films in over a decade despite mildly falling victim to his recent propensity for clunky narrative development, cynicism, and stereotypical characterizations." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2013
1.5/4 37% Dealing With Idiots (2013) " The film is reduced to a series of unfunny mockery laid out so Garlin can display his trademark deadpan reaction." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2013
2/4 56% The Look of Love (2013) " With its softened edges, bland aftertaste, and watered-down distillation of Raymond's life and career, Michael Winterbottom's film represents the house champagne of biographical cinema." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2013
2.5/4 47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " Pedro Almodóvar's diverting pop-art bauble firmly placing the "relief" in comic relief and the "cock" in cockpit." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2013
2/4 78% Monsters University (2013) " Unfortunate proof that the animation studio previously known for its brains is now resting a little too heavily on its nominal brawn." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2013
91% Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2013) " Brad Bernstein's documentary proves that Ungerer's legacy is as historically significant as it is artistically." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2013
2/4 86% Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) " Inflammatory talk-show host Morton Downey Jr. sparked, delighted, and quickly faded like a firecracker--not unlike the erratic, quick-fire presentation of his persona in the doc." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 4, 2013
3/4 —— Pig Across Paris (1957) " An exaggerated epic of traditional buddy-comedy trappings wrapped in a picaresque farce." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 23, 2013
1.5/4 95% We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) " We Steal Secrets lacks perspective and still feels wrapped in secrets and lies. " — Slant Magazine
Posted May 20, 2013
3/4 74% The Source Family (2013) " The research and elucidating synthesis on display effectively illuminate the pernicious aura of a lifestyle pursued by the yearning, lost souls of the time." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 16, 2013
2/4 77% Venus And Serena (2013) " Opting for inspiration over insight, Venus and Serena is a starry-eyed pop doc that cannot transcend its scattershot, for-fans-only filmmaking." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 7, 2013
2/4 69% Greetings From Tim Buckley (2013) " Despite the counter-culture subjects at its core, Daniel Algrant's film possesses a put-upon hipness that cannot mask its disarming dorkiness." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2013
1.5/4 —— Steekspel (Tricked) () " The film is experimental in the way that the final product is much more of a labor-intensive challenge for the filmmakers than a cerebral one for the movie-going audience." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 25, 2013
2/4 —— Bluebird () " Knitted-together by its sense of place and lived-in performances, yet unraveled by anemic false melodrama and overbearing music." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 24, 2013
2.5/4 88% In the House (2013) " It's buoyant and titillates, striking that distinctly Ozonian balance between the beautiful and the sinister, but it doesn't resonate. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 17, 2013
3/4 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " With his wry latest, David Gordon Green consolidates the bromantic interplay of Pineapple Express and Your Highness and the erstwhile elliptical lyricism of George Washington and All the Real Girls." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2013
2/4 26% The Brass Teapot (2013) " Imbued with a buoyant mysticism, the film is more gag-friendly than idea-based, primarily relying on the considerable charm of its leads to ground its supernatural conceit." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2013
2/4 95% Blancanieves (2013) " Pablo Berger digs for emotional intensity in his gothic retelling of Snow White and only uncovers layers of gloss." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 28, 2013
2/4 50% You Don't Need Feet to Dance (2013) " Despite its title, there's actually very little dancing, or rhythmic flair, in You Don't Need Feet to Dance. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 23, 2013
2.5/4 —— Soldate Jeannette (Soldier Jane) () " Channeling the aesthetics of a tasteful European art film, yet thumbing its nose at haute-bourgeois institutions, Soldate Jeannette depicts the disillusioned failure of materialism as it pushes its grass-is-greener agenda. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2013
3.5/4 95% Stories We Tell (2013) " Sarah Polley is much more interested in the malleability of memory and the consequential refractions felt throughout her kin rather than telling a linear narrative." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 18, 2013
1.5/4 30% Gut Renovation (2013) " Due to the one-minded construction of the documentary, there's little to parse beyond impassioned harrumphs. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 3, 2013
2.5/4 88% Welcome To Pine Hill (2013) " Keith Miller doesn't always trust the fluency of his visual language, occasionally forcing a point that's already being captured." — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 26, 2013
2/4 78% Red Flag (2013) " It surprisingly abandons its obvious meta elements and unfolds as a straightforward road-trip flick, opting for an exhibition of self-loathing rather than self-reflexivity." — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 21, 2013
3/4 65% The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013) " Teasing out a subversive portrait of a complex and rather subdued monster, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files unfolds with the same meticulousness exemplified by the eponymous serial killer. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 12, 2013
2.5/4 93% Lore (2013) " Copious amounts of landscape and wilderness shots cover up its schematic plot, as its indirect visual allusions take precedence over thematic development. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 6, 2013
1/4 28% Knife Fight (2013) " Bill Guttentag exaggerates the absurd lengths advisors go to win an election and yet ultimately aggrandizes their behavior." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/4 56% Fairhaven (2013) " The film plays coy with its quintessential indie-dramedy setup, eschewing narrative and tension in favor of convivial character interplay and master shots of wintry landscapes." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 9, 2013
3.5/4 96% Monsters, Inc. (2001) " Not even the opportunistic 3D-ification can squander the pure delight of the film's meticulously detailed world of ragtag creatures." — Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2012
0/4 17% Saving Grace B. Jones (2012) " This cumbersome and graceless 1950s-set period drama possesses the reactionary life insights and amateurish production values of a Lifetime soap." — Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 12, 2012
2/4 42% Heleno (2012) " The film hints at a kicky, impressionistic style that director José Henrique Fonseca never effectively employs to actually communicate Heleno de Freitas's demons. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 4, 2012
1/4 27% Addicted To Fame (2012) " The cinematic equivalent of staging a disaster and then bitching about the mess." — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 28, 2012
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