Mike McCahill
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30% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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63% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Mike McCahill's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 53 | |
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| Highest review score: | For Sama | |
| Lowest review score: | The Gandhi Murder | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 213
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Mixed: 168 out of 213
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Negative: 12 out of 213
213
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- Mike McCahill
Look beyond the lifelessly choreographed shootouts and you keep catching glimpses of ghosts: those of American industry, yes, but also those of the American action movie, once manufactured with a skill, verve and wit wholly absent from these painfully long 98 minutes.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 10, 2020
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- Mike McCahill
The combination of WTF casting and glaring technical limitation proves so distracting you can barely focus on the script’s new intel.- The Guardian
- Posted Jan 30, 2019
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- The Guardian
- Posted Nov 29, 2018
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- Mike McCahill
Belleville cranks up the colour saturation and ironic Yuletide soundtrack, but all his slo-mo hedonism can’t disguise an otherwise addled story treatment: we chop haphazardly between hemispheres, leaving characters and subplots treading crystal blue water.- The Guardian
- Posted Apr 23, 2018
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- Mike McCahill
The malfunctioning studio system has foisted many subprime ideas upon us recently, but this opportunistic, Trump-age hybrid of war-on-terror drama and YA fantasy numbers among the junkiest.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 14, 2017
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- Mike McCahill
It’s soon clear that OOTS follows the model of Bay’s Transformers sequels. Longer, louder and boasting even more hardware, it does everything to generate the illusion of bleeding-edge bang-per-buck, while cribbing shamelessly from 1991’s Secret of the Ooze.- The Guardian
- Posted May 31, 2016
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- Mike McCahill
It’s a test of one’s tolerance for watching predominantly empty frames – the anonymous performers scarcely count – in the hope something will jolt us from mounting tedium.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 22, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
Director Prabhudheva’s idea of comedy is broad and very much soundtrack-led.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 8, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
One innovation: the application of thrash metal to fight scenes, which at least hushes the shriller voice artists.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 2, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
This tardy rehash of fairytale tropes finds sometime genre innovator M Night Shyamalan clinging in abject desperation to the found-footage movement’s careworn coattails.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 16, 2015
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- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
It proves very much un film de Sandler: so lazy you feel unconscionably guilty for snorting at the three jokes in its two hours that merit any response.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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