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Todd McCarthy

Todd McCarthy

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Film Comment Magazine , Hollywood Reporter , indieWIRE , Reuters , Variety
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics
Total Reviews:
1623

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
8% Runner Runner (2013) " An uncompelling, sketchy telling of an intriguing crime story." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 25, 2013
83% Don Jon (2013) " Crude, repetitive and rigorously single-minded, the popular actor's writing and directing debut lays it all on a bit thick, as the few points the film has to make are underscored time and time again." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 24, 2013
89% Prodigal Sons (2010) " A film that will fascinate inquisitive viewers on multiple levels." — Variety
Posted Sep 16, 2013
94% Only Lovers Left Alive () " Almost nothing happens in this minor-key drift through a desolate, imperiled modern world, and yet it is the perennial downtown filmmaker's best work in many years, probably since 1995's Dead Man." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 13, 2013
85% The Invisible Woman (2013) " A first-rate portrait of Charles Dickens's secret affair with a young actress." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 13, 2013
69% The Unknown Known () " Morris tediously recycles points he already made in his 2008 look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Standard Operating Procedure." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 13, 2013
86% Palo Alto () " A promising debut from a third-generation Coppola." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 13, 2013
97% 12 Years a Slave (2013) " A strong, involving, at times overstated telling of an extraordinary life story." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 13, 2013
88% Under the Skin () " Viewers willing to embrace a purely visual experience without dramatic, emotional or psychological substance will comprise an ardent cheering section, but the film provides too little for even relatively adventurous specialized audiences to latch onto ..." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 12, 2013
76% How I Live Now (2013) " Ronan is almost always worth watching, but not especially in this drippy outing, in which she morphs from sullen teen brat to can-do wilderness heroine under the influence of an attractive red-headed hawk trainer." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 11, 2013
86% Dom Hemingway (2014) " A wannabe outrageous gangster saga seems patched together from spare genre parts from a generation ago." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 9, 2013
95% Enough Said (2013) " A winning comic romance with a wonderful regular guy performance by the late James Gandolfini." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 9, 2013
70% Fading Gigolo () " An odd, sometimes funny, other times touching, always modest look at a strange bunch of New Yorkers." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 9, 2013
88% Captain Phillips (2013) " Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks team up for a pulsating account of the kidnapping of the captain of an American cargo ship by Somali pirates." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 6, 2013
88% Rush (2013) " The lead actors shine in an engaging look at the two fierce rivals who battled it out for the Formula One championship in 1976." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 3, 2013
67% Labor Day (2013) " A nuanced, superbly acted love story with a most unusual genesis." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 3, 2013
98% Gravity (2013) " At once the most realistic and beautifully choreographed film ever set in space, Gravity is a thrillingly realized survival story spiked with interludes of breath-catching tension and startling surprise." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 28, 2013
71% The Summer House (Clothes in the Wardrobe) (1993) " Chain-smoking, guzzling booze and spouting worldly epigrams about love and life, Moreau fits into Croydon like a peacock in Antarctica, sashaying around and imposing her seductive will on everyone." — Variety
Posted Aug 13, 2013
73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Even with all contrivances and obvious point-making and familiar historical signposting, Daniels' The Butler is always engaging, often entertaining and certainly never dull." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 12, 2013
47% We're The Millers (2013) " We're the Millers is vulgar vanilla, a "family" comedy about a bunch of would-be golly-gee squares who talk dirty and get involved with Mexican drug dealers because it's 2013 instead of 1953." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 6, 2013
68% Elysium (2013) " A politically charged flight of speculative fiction makes an exciting launch, only to tailspin into an ungainly crash landing in Elysium." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 1, 2013
22% The Canyons (2013) " A lame, one-dimensional and ultimately dreary look at peripheral Hollywood types not worth anyone's time either onscreen or in real life." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 28, 2013
91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Cate Blanchett is neurotically golden in another memorable female character study from Woody Allen." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 22, 2013
14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " As a major undertaking with clear sequel ambitions, there's just not enough new and exciting here to cut it; when the brief 96-minute running time is one of its two or three only virtues, you know you're in trouble." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 19, 2013
65% Turbo (2013) " An attractively designed but narratively challenged, one-note film." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 10, 2013
72% Pacific Rim (2013) " A better-and-smarter-than-average humans-vs.-monsters spectacular." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 8, 2013
31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " This attempt for another Pirates of the Caribbean-scaled series tries to have it too many ways tonally, resulting in a work that wobbles and thrashes all over the place." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 1, 2013
65% The Heat (2013) " A crude, low-brow audience-pleaser that will hit the funny bones of both performers' fan bases ..." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 27, 2013
56% Man of Steel (2013) " Zack Snyder's huge, backstory-heavy extravaganza is a rehab job that perhaps didn't cry out to be done but proves so overwhelmingly insistent in its size and strength that it's hard not to give in." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 11, 2013
78% Monsters University (2013) " It should be remedial school, not an institution of higher learning, for Monsters University, an alarmingly lame effort from Pixar, the Oxbridge of animation studios." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 10, 2013
84% This Is the End (2013) " The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with This Is the End, an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 5, 2013
67% World War Z (2013) " Brad Pitt delivers a capable performance in an immersive apocalyptic spectacle about a global zombie uprising." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 4, 2013
50% Now You See Me (2013) " Now You See Me is a superficially diverting but substance-free concoction, a would-be thriller as evanescent as a magic trick and one that develops no suspense or rooting interest because the characters possess all the substance of invisible ink." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 30, 2013
81% Nebraska (2013) " A bittersweet father-son road trip through an emotionally economically parched homeland." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 29, 2013
100% All Is Lost (2013) " Robert Redford gives an impressive one-man show in this sea-stranded survival tale." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 23, 2013
67% Blood Ties () " This overlong and anemic drama features an impressive cast but is too inert to catch on with critics or audiences." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 20, 2013
—— Death March () " A stylistic experiment that engages the interest for about a quarter of an hour." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 20, 2013
42% As I Lay Dying (2013) " A startlingly effective adaptation of William Faulkner's challenging novel by James Franco." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 20, 2013
92% Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) " An outstanding fictional take on the early 1960s folk music scene from the Coen Brothers." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 20, 2013
59% The Bling Ring (2013) " Perhaps even more here than in her other films, Coppola's attitude toward her subject seems equivocal, uncertain; there is perhaps a smidgen of social commentary, but she seems far too at home in the world she depicts to offer a rewarding critique of it." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 16, 2013
69% Fast & Furious 6 (2013) " This new entry will only add mightily to the good fortunes of Universal's biggest franchise; no matter how silly and outlandish the action gets -- and it does become ridiculous -- it also delivers the goods its audience expects." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 13, 2013
93% Frances Ha (2013) " An exhilarating black-and-white New York seriocomedy from Noah Baumbach with a stellar star turn by co-writer Greta Gerwig." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 13, 2013
49% 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
87% 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
7% 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
79% 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
49% 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
54% Oblivion (2013) " A terrific-looking sci-fier that loses steam in the second half." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 11, 2013
79% 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
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