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Nick McCarthy

Agrees with the Tomatometer 58% of the time.

Publications:: House Next Door , Slant Magazine

Total Reviews:: 31

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/4	60%	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	65%	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	87%	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	75%	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	27%	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	96%	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	94%	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	86%	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	92%	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. 3D (2012)	" 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
3/4	97%	Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012)	" Jay Bulger's seemingly erratic doc formally channels Ginger Baker's almost defiant refusal to lead a life that adheres to a linear narrative." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 26, 2012
2/4	80%	Hitler's Children (2012)	" The film drains its subjects of the shame forced on them by Nazi ancestors and yet has difficulty arriving at an effective, constructive thesis." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2012
	——	Shepard & Dark ()	" While Radioman involves questionable camaraderie on a weak subtextual level, Shepard & Dark addresses, and acutely analyzes, the way friendship can bend, and occasionally snap, over time. " — House Next Door Posted Nov 7, 2012
	67%	Radioman ()	" Like Radioman, the documentary never becomes more than an eccentric, but sadly peripheral, curiosity." — House Next Door Posted Nov 7, 2012
2/4	79%	A Late Quartet (2012)	" Yaron Zilberman's soap opera jettisons character plausibility in favor of pop psychology and leaden instrument analogies." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2012
2.5/4	70%	Sexy Baby (2012)	" What Sexy Baby lacks in the way of sophisticated filmmaking it compensates for with an earnest insistence on open dialogue. " — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2012
.5/4	0%	That's What She Said (2012)	" An embarrassing girls-behaving-badly indie romp you'd expect a group of friends to write after an all-you-can-drink brunch." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2012
2/4	63%	Sinister (2012)	" Ellison's fascination with celluloid to solve a crime recalls Antonioni's Blowup, but Scott Derrickson is unable to conjure an aura that isn't as transparent and weightless as a ghost. " — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2012

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