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Jenny McCartney

Jenny McCartney's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Triplets of Belleville (2003) 94% EDIT “The plot and its destination - although pleasurable - are not as important as the intense degree of joy in getting there.” – The Spectator Apr 10, 2020 Full Review You Were Never Really Here (2017) 89% EDIT “The director, Lynne Ramsay, has a talent for arresting imagery and the generation of disturbance... Yet this, and Phoenix's considerable screen presence, are not enough to carry the film on its own: it needs ballast, and elsewhere there is only schlock.” – New Statesman Mar 15, 2018 Full Review 1918: Journey's End (2018) 91% EDIT “Journey's End is charged with electricity: I have rarely seen a war film that conveys so powerfully the pained tenderness of comrades, and the insidious creep of fear.” – New Statesman Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Mean Girls (2004) 84% 4/5 EDIT “Fizzes with peculiarly feminine evil, of the kind that comes dripping through a pillowy smirk garnished with baby-pink lipgloss.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 3, 2016 Full Review The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 87% 3/5 EDIT “I respected The Dark Knight Rises; I didn't quite love it.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 1, 2015 Full Review Inception (2010) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Inception isn't a dud but nor is it a masterpiece. It's like a very ambitious, overlong potboiler: visually beautiful, ingenious in parts and dragging in others.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 20, 2015 Full Review Kick-Ass 2 (2013) 33% 1/5 EDIT “Although the film has the cheap veneer of female empowerment that comes from having a girl assassin, it is rotten with misogyny.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 7, 2015 Full Review Le Week-End (2013) 89% 5/5 EDIT “This is a beautifully executed, fearlessly truthful and droll film on the emotional politics of reinvention.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 6, 2015 Full Review 112 Weddings (2014) 72% 4/5 EDIT “112 Weddings is a bittersweet portrait of the state of modern marriage, as interpreted by a New York wedding photographer.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 13, 2014 Full Review Cold Comes the Night (2013) 43% 3/5 EDIT “The real revelation is Alice Eve, who gives a strikingly direct and affecting portrait of a woman in a desperate situation.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 6, 2014 Full Review Blackfish (2013) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Blackfish is a heartbreaking documentary, forensically constructed by Gabriella Cowperthwaite, about the extreme psychological distress of killer whales kept in captivity and used to entertain crowds at venues such as SeaWorld in Orlando.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 1, 2014 Full Review Frances Ha (2012) 92% 3/5 EDIT “I found Frances Ha frequently irritating and even cringe-inducing in the moment, yet feel tenderer towards it in retrospect. It's about a specific time in life, when the sudden stampede to self-definition can make people seem cruel, crazy or resentful.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 11, 2013 Full Review Persepolis (2007) 96% EDIT “Persepolis is, in its way, a hymn to the enduring influence of family, particularly during a time in which the state is attempting to seize all hearts, minds and instincts for itself.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 12, 2013 Full Review The Sapphires (2012) 91% 3/5 EDIT “The film might veer towards the predictably sentimental, but it has a fizzing energy that is hard either to deny or dislike.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 22, 2013 Full Review Skyfall (2012) 92% 4/5 EDIT “This is Bond as interpreted by the British director Sam Mendes and shot by the renowned cinematographer Roger Deakins, and one of the first things that strike you is how sumptuous it looks.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 6, 2012 Full Review The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) 71% 4/5 EDIT “The plot might be predictable, but this fluid film has free-ranging fun with the physicality of what it feels like to be a spider, especially when tied to the emotions of a teenager.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 5, 2012 Full Review Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The performances from Hayward and Gilman, as runaways, are at the heart of the film, and they manage to seem both innocent and powerful.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 8, 2012 Full Review What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) 23% 2/5 EDIT “Those who don't have children would find it rather agonising, while those who do might not wish to pay a babysitter for the pleasure of seeing a film about nappies and epidurals.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 8, 2012 Full Review The Dictator (2012) 56% 1/5 EDIT “Both the laughter and the satire had crawled off and quietly died.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 1, 2012 Full Review 2 Days in New York (2012) 66% 3/5 EDIT “As the cultural outrages and arguments escalate, I was increasingly grateful for the presence of Mingus, a necessary foil played by Rock as smart, sane, funny and at the end of his tether.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 1, 2012 Full Review Greenberg (2010) 76% 3/5 EDIT “Gerwig has an unaffected screen presence that is oddly compelling: a kind of luminous ordinariness” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 11, 2010 Full Review The Duchess (2008) 62% EDIT “There is, however, much to enjoy. The cinematography, settings and costumes are glorious. Knightley gives a nuanced and often very moving performance, although Georgiana's love affair with the politician Charles Grey (Dominic Cooper) is remarkably lacking” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 5, 2008 Full Review Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) 86% EDIT “As a result, the impression is one of richly ingenious chaos that, despite all the hellfires burning, left me just a little cold.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 22, 2008 Full Review Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) 77% EDIT “Despite its limitations, I found it impossible to dislike this frail little tale.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 15, 2008 Full Review
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