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Todd McCarthy

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: Hollywood Reporter , indieWIRE , Reuters , Variety
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics

Total Reviews:: 1583

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	47%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" The cast is first-rate, the ambiance and story provide a measure of intoxication and, most importantly, the core thematic concerns pertaining to the American dream, self-reinvention and love lost, regained and lost again are tenaciously addressed." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 6, 2013
	88%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" The production gives the impression of a massive machine cranked up for two hours of full output; it efficiently delivers what it's built to do, but without style or personality." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 3, 2013
	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" A game cast and lots of gamey R-rated shenanigans can't compensate for the silly comic contrivances that dominate The Big Wedding." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 25, 2013
	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Downey is at his superhero genius best here, rattling off dialogue both clever and boilerplate with non-repetitive aplomb." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 24, 2013
	46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" A ham-fisted, thick-skulled comic caper about bodybuilders-turned-criminals which, like its three protagonists, fully lives down to its own potential." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 23, 2013
	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" A terrific-looking sci-fier that loses steam in the second half." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 11, 2013
	77%	42 (2013)	" Rather than letting its hero's accomplishments and behavior speak for themselves, Helgeland hammers home every achievement and then puts a halo around it, as if anyone won't get it otherwise." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 10, 2013
	98%	Mud (2013)	" The story of a sympathetic fugitive who forges a bond with two teenage boys near a mighty river down south, Mud is shot through with traditional qualities of American literature and drama." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 3, 2013
	9%	The Host (2013)	" There's something about novelist Stephenie Meyer that induces formerly interesting directors to suddenly make films that are slow, silly and soporific." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 28, 2013
	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" Good if you're a 12-15-year-old boy, bad if you're just about anyone else." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 27, 2013
	68%	Trance (2013)	" Danny Boyle has great and plainly evident fun adding twists and curves and tunnels and endless style to his modern London noir Trance, but he makes so many left turns that the film turns in on itself rather than going anywhere." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 22, 2013
	48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" Generates a fair amount of tension and produces the kind of nationalistic outrage that rock-ribbed Americans will feel in their guts." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 19, 2013
	67%	Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013)	" Philip Roth may be unmasked but is only partially revealed in this very personable documentary portrait of one of the leading American literary figures of the past half-century." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 13, 2013
	39%	The Call (2013)	" For the most part ... a tense, extreme-jeopardy thriller that delivers the intended goods." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 12, 2013
	43%	Admission (2013)	" Paul Weitz betrays an erratic grip on the comic tone, and the misguided central characters emerge, in the end, as less likeable than they ought to be." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 6, 2013
	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Quite the opposite of the great earlier film, the Oz here is a dull place to be. Given the choice, you might even consider going back to Kansas." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 1, 2013
	26%	21 And Over (2013)	" A raucous boys' night comedy that goes for the outrageous and hits it often enough." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 28, 2013
	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" Simply in terms of efficient storytelling, clear logistics and consistent viewer engagement, Jack is markedly superior to the recent "Hobbit."" — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 26, 2013
	79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" Elle Fanning mesmerizes as a burgeoning teen radical in 1962 London." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 25, 2013
	58%	Snitch (2013)	" Unusual for this sort of thing, Snitch is a film for which you remember the characters and actors more than the big action moments." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 19, 2013
	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" At 98 minutes, this is by far the shortest of the Die Hard films, the rest of which run more than two hours. But it ends not a moment too soon." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 13, 2013
	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" A concoction that makes highly calculated use of fantasy, fates, taboos, young love and visual hocus-pocus to ensnare an audience in a narrative web that's pretty darn ridiculous." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 11, 2013
	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" Another rough comic movie road trip helps give car travel a bad name." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 6, 2013
	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" In trying to merge this alarmist theme with an old-fashioned murder mystery, the filmmakers throw at least one plot-twist sucker-punch too many, leaving the viewer with an "Oh, come on" reaction to the entire film." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 3, 2013
	86%	Breathe In ()	" Director Drake Doremus confirms his knack for pinpointing subtle emotional tremors on fragile personal landscapes, even if some too-easy coincidences and pat dramatic moments chip away at the compressed story's credibility. " — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 28, 2013
	83%	Lovelace (2013)	" Smartly done account of the trials and tribulations of the first porn star." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 23, 2013
	71%	In a World... (2013)	" The world of Hollywood voice-over talent provides a ripe backdrop for Lake Bell's funny and engaging directorial debut." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 23, 2013
	——	Sweetwater (2012)	" A handsomely designed, occasionally funny but ultimately empty female vengeance yarn." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
	20%	Afternoon Delight ()	" There's not much delightful about Afternoon Delight, an off-putting comedy about a too-idle Los Angeles woman that all of a sudden in the last few minutes decides it wants to be a serious movie." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Triage (2009)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	100%	Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)	" An exceptionally beautiful, if a bit fuzzy-headed, romantic Texas outlaw saga that announces a considerable talent in writer-director David Lowery." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
	87%	Upstream Color (2013)	" A dramatically obscure, technically brilliant experiment in speculative fiction from Shane Carruth." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 21, 2013
	92%	Top of the Lake (2013)	" An edgy, disturbing and altogether first-rate crime drama that very much centers on women, though it does have a lot of daddy issues." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 21, 2013
	——	Fruitvale Station (2013)	" A shrewd script and career-launching performances drive a tragic modern story that carries heavy social weight." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 21, 2013
	86%	The Spectacular Now (2013)	" A sincere, refreshingly unaffected look at teenagers and their attitudes about the future." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 20, 2013
	30%	Broken City (2013)	" Would have made for a fine film noir 60 years ago but feels rather contrived and unbelievable in the setting of contemporary New York." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 16, 2013
	65%	Mama (2013)	" In essence, Mama represents a throwback and a modest delight for people who like a good scare but prefer not to be terrorized or grossed out." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 16, 2013
	59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" Arnold ain't all he used to be but still has a little punch left in this just passable violent action potboiler." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 14, 2013
	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" These are good actors, but aside from Brolin and Gosling, they're barely given any special moments of their own to make their marks here." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 7, 2013
	38%	The Guilt Trip (2012)	" The shtick doesn't stick in this kvetchfest with few laughs." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 17, 2012
	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" The anecdotal, odyssey-like structure of this long, talky saga could be considered indulgent, but Tarantino injects the weighty material with so many jocular, startling and unexpected touches that it's constantly stimulating." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 12, 2012
	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" Tom Cruise is in fine form." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 10, 2012
	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" As the enduring success of this property has shown, there are large, emotionally susceptible segments of the population ready to swallow this sort of thing, but that doesn't mean it's good." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 6, 2012
	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" Promised Land presents its environmental concerns in a clear, upfront manner but hits some narrative and character bumps in the second half that weaken the impact of this fundamentally gentle, sympathetic work." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 5, 2012
	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" There are elements in this new film that are as spectacular as much of the Rings trilogy was, but there is much that is flat-footed and tedious as well, especially in the early going." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 4, 2012
	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" Even with all its ups and downs, there are more than enough bawdy laughs and truthful emotional moments to put this over as a mainstream audience pleaser during a holiday season short on good comedies." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 30, 2012
	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" The story of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden builds relentlessly to a powerful end result." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 26, 2012
	48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" The final installment of the immortal Bella/Edward romance will give its breathlessly awaiting international audience just what it wants." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 13, 2012
	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" Hitchcock might be a work of fantasy and speculation as much as it is history and biography, but as an interpretation of a major talent's inner life and imagination, it's undeniably lively and provocative." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 5, 2012

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