Mike McCahill

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For 214 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 30% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 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
Highest review score: 100 For Sama
Lowest review score: 20 The Gandhi Murder
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 214
  2. Mixed: 169 out of 214
  3. Negative: 12 out of 214
214 movie reviews
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    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Captive
    The actors are committed – Mara, generally waif-like, appears frail indeed – but there’s barely anything worth committing to.
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    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Bellbottom
    BellBottom always feels more movie than propaganda – a mission undertaken to offer audiences a good time after the longest and worst time.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Liam Gallagher: As It Was
    Though one very sharp montage nails the bewilderment of touring, much of As It Was resembles any other rock doc with an access-all-areas pass, and it has one of those contractual-obligation climaxes designed to dovetail with the wider promotion of new material. It benefits considerably from a subject who’s bolstered his charisma with a newfound humility, an awareness of the world beyond the Roman nose.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Your Name.
    This thoroughly emo body-swap fantasia, a sizable hit on home turf, demonstrates that [Makoto Shinkai] inherited much of his [Hayao Miyazaki's] artistry and charm, but not yet his narrative mastery – nor, crucially, that magic that distinguishes lasting artworks from well-drawn ’toons for teens.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Theeb
    Eid proves a dolefully expressive lead, and Wolfgang Thaler’s ever eloquent camerawork is as fascinated by the discovery of bullet shells in the sand – a clue, and a warning – as it is by the punishingly craggy landscape.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Mother's Pride
    The cast nurdle matters along to the climactic real ale awards, which becomes the scene of current cinema’s least surprising surprise result.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    Even by the standards of allowance-snatching half-term filler, this is pretty indifferent.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Puzzle
    There is modest craft and genuine heart here, not to mention an eye-catching centrepiece: an actor growing more certain of herself, and more capable than ever of holding an entire picture together – even one as unusual, and sometimes as unlikely, as this.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Piku
    Star power aside, it’s a modest, reined-in entertainment, rejecting musical numbers for a simple whistled refrain, and clocking in at just two hours.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    The Dark Horse
    Robertson gives himself and his actors time to ponder the board and build convincing relationships and tensions: he’s especially deft around his younger performers, allowing them to register as distinct, often defiant personalities.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Wild Tales
    Vengeance has powered countless movies over the years, but rarely can it have been given such a thorough – and thoroughly entertaining – showcase as it gets in Wild Tales.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Dead Lover
    It is perhaps too much the acquired taste (and smell) to appeal to everyone, but it’s distinctive, never dull and – much like its most noxious niffs – difficult to shake.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    The Face of an Angel
    Winterbottom’s shapeshifting spontaneity has long seemed as much limitation as virtue, characteristic of a filmmaker unable or unwilling to commit to his own better ideas. Here, you feel him hedging around his subject, less out of sensitivity than a constitutional evasiveness, an inability to formulate a clear line of argument.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Robot Overlords
    The film is never less than amiable, and rather more spirited and nonconformist than the Transformers movies.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Iron Lung
    Many of us have long sensed culture is making a decisive break with the analogue in favour of the (perhaps terminally) online and Fischbach’s film makes that paradigm shift not just visible but visceral; it feels not unlike spending 12 hours on Twitch with all the curtains closed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
    It sometimes strays off the beaten track into shapelessness, but Oreck lends individual segments a quiet fascination.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Beats
    Compared with Mia Hansen-Løve’s resonant French house drama Eden, or Michael Winterbottom’s kaleidoscopic 24 Hour Party People, these beats sound tinny.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    The Last Right
    Crehan knits it together like a well-worn onesie: you know exactly what shape it’s going to be once you’re wrapped up in it, but that doesn’t mean it lacks for comfort and warmth.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Appropriate Behavior
    It’s Akhavan’s presence that elevates it above a crowded field. Her film’s a little bit different from the norm, and that – for now – is promising enough.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Whistle
    British director Hardy has far more fun here than he did with 2018’s mechanical franchise entry The Nun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    LifeHack
    It is efficiently executed, though its relentless cursor-nudging will probably make older viewers want to unplug and retreat into an 18th-century novel.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Insidious: Chapter 2
    Wan remains a crafty enough director to draw your eye warily across the frame. You shouldn't feel so daft for flinching this time.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Searching
    Chaganty’s tab-toggling is pacy enough, but he gets pedantic about tying up unfinished digital business, and Unfriended’s pulse-raising wildness is beyond him.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
    The film’s artistry is undeniable.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Run & Jump
    Peake, warmly sketching a woman busy fooling herself that everything will work out, and Forte, as precise as he was in Nebraska, keep it honest, and within touching distance of real poignancy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    I Am Divine
    Schwarz offsets the camp with a sincere appreciation of both the obvious, larger-than-life personality and this performer's oft-overlooked skills.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Napping Princess
    It starts feeling fairly mechanised itself, every clank of those boysy Transformer knock-offs further drowning out its wistful heroine.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Blue Story
    Onwubolu avoids the usual flash and posturing in favour of a careful, rooted storytelling, finding subtly different perspectives on gang life, and offering his characters as many ways out as there are ways in.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Planes: Fire & Rescue
    The action is colourful, the vistas as organic as pixels will allow and, once it gets past the quickfire editing of the early stages, considered application of 3D heightens the sense of space and glide. Not much magic, but an appreciable level of polish.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 42 Mike McCahill
    Tenet
    What kind of picture is it? Big, certainly: IMAX-scaled, and a hefty 150 minutes even after a visibly ruthless edit. It’s clever, too — yes, the palindromic title has some narrative correlation — albeit in an exhausting, rather joyless way. As second comings go, Tenet is like witnessing a Sermon on the Mount preached by a savior who speaks exclusively in dour, drawn-out riddles. Any awe is flattened by follow-up questions.
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