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 12.5 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
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    • 25 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Rings
    This offshoot is essentially a well-produced, easily accessed B-movie. Still, it wouldn’t kill you to watch it, and it does more than expected to reinvent its particular wheel.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Wilde Salomé
    Too much chaos ultimately prevails, but the rehearsal sequences at least forsake vapid luvvie-isms for close, instructive study of how to pull the best out of actors and text alike.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    The Boxtrolls
    Set it against the shiny blandishments that have passed for family fun this season, and it starts to look vaguely radical.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Last Passenger
    Nooshin holds on to a strain of logic that doesn't often survive at this level of filmmaking.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Watermark
    It’s not as focused as its predecessor, but its best sequences rehydrate the mind.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Thugs of Hindostan
    It has that rare and unmistakable look of an event movie that was huge fun to assemble. Whether you’re watching in Hindi, Tamil or Telugu – or reliant on English subtitles – much of that enjoyment does translate.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    The weakness is in the material: these are second-string Miller yarns... But the vision remains uncompromising and it dazzles far more than any sequel should.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Coherence
    Its success may depend on how alert you’re feeling, but for once you can’t complain that a movie hasn’t given your synapses a thorough workout.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Yardie
    A debut of unarguable promise, though – plenty to build on if Elba can resist the adolescent lure of running round with 007’s PPK.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Instant Family
    Instant Family retains the obvious appeal of watching basically nice people attempt a fundamentally decent thing for a few hours. The shamelessly optimistic finale may even leave you with something in your eye, dammit.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    The Angry Birds Movie 2
    This is one sequel you can’t fault for effort, and the dud jokes are far outnumbered by the ones that are just about cute, smart or screwy enough to nudge out a laugh.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Dinosaur 13
    If it all feels too anomalous to seal its case against today's big legal and corporate predators, it never lacks for diverting turns and quirks.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Poltergeist
    Mostly it’s a scare machine, and in this respect Kenan’s is the more efficient telling, its VFX lubricating all that now creaks about the original.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    I Am Bolt
    Raised up on the big screen, the victories look even easier and more jaw-droppingly elemental: flashes of lightning, allowing us to share in the pleasure of watching a fellow human doing something simple preternaturally well.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Sachin
    Prolific sports documentarian James Erskine (Pantani, The Battle of the Sexes) here takes on his most ambitious project yet: a study of Sachin Tendulkar – the closest thing Indian cricket has to a living deity – played out over Test session duration to soaring AR Rahman compositions.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    The Purge: Anarchy
    The franchise is a low-risk work-in-progress, but DeMonaco is improving as a shotmaker.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
    The kids – particularly Zoe Colletti as the sensitive Stella – are very good, and it just about functions as a brainstorm of primal fear scenes, the movie equivalent of a horror-comic summer special: good for the odd giggle and shiver, if naggingly disposable.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Knock Knock
    Little here is going to challenge the opinion of Roth as a bratty provocateur, but it’s still fun to experience a latter-day thriller pushing so many buttons in broadly the right order: if Knock Knock’s no more than a sick joke, it’s been very shrewdly constructed.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Life of Crime
    If you’re in the market for a workaday crime story, Schechter’s film fulfills some of its obligations. You might just wish it had more life.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    Breaking In
    These 88 minutes never drag their heels long enough for us to get hung up on their myriad implausibilities. One of those low-expectation releases that’ll see you right if Infinity War remains sold out.
    • 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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