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
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.- The Telegraph
- Posted Mar 5, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
Longinotto and editor Ollie Huddleston stitch it, with lightness and dexterity, into a wholly edifying, often stirring tapestry of survivors’ stories.- The Telegraph
- Posted Mar 5, 2015
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- The Telegraph
- Posted Feb 26, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
Considering these characters are bounced round like pinballs, it’s amazing Hawke and the hitherto unknown Snook gain the emotional traction they do: even those struggling to keep up can’t fail to notice how these two are burnt, figuratively and literally, by their experiences.- The Telegraph
- Posted Feb 19, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
Strange as it sounds – and is – Kumiko comprises a lingering display of empathy for its heroine, marching stridently on through her own peculiar headspace.- The Telegraph
- Posted Feb 19, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
[Aniston's] the one element keeping this unexceptional dramedy halfway watchable.- The Telegraph
- Posted Feb 19, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
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.- The Telegraph
- Posted Feb 18, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
Though our heroine remains more self-reliant than most Disney princesses, the film is too mild to constitute any kind of statement.- The Guardian
- Posted Jan 29, 2015
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- Mike McCahill
It makes the text feel newly alive, bristly, radical. A palpable hit, in any language.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 2, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
It’s no-frills, B-movie modesty might have been winning, if it weren’t so dashed-off.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 2, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
Headland has comic smarts enough to venture both filthily revisionist readings of My So-Called Life and riffs on the Potsdam conference, while refusing her audience any comforting safety nets.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
The director's background in online shorts manifests itself in an occasional, montage-heavy scattiness, and the broadly conventional closing act can't quite maintain the laugh rate, but there's a lot of warm-hearted and commendably daft business along the way.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
Boseman hits his key scenes out of the park, making a swell couple with Shame's Nicole Beharie, while Helgeland stages Robinson's signature base-stealing with undeniable aplomb.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
A certain doofy sincerity – all fairy lights and lakeside kisses – and Wilde's nervy, natural responses keep matters semi-watchable. As a romance, though, it's by-the-book.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
The film finds the subtle tells that suggest these free-roaming girls might themselves have become prisoners of war, while enveloping its heroines in a persuasive turbulence: unpredictable, never forced, and forever compelling.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
It's imprisoned by its own glibness, grabbing for sensation over emotion, and looking silly whenever it misses.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
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.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
Even by the standards of allowance-snatching half-term filler, this is pretty indifferent.- 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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- Mike McCahill
It sometimes strays off the beaten track into shapelessness, but Oreck lends individual segments a quiet fascination.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
Spiritually, it's closer to a mid-range crowd-pleaser such as City Slickers than Blazing Saddles, too enamoured of genre convention to reach for the comic dynamite.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
Wallace permits some debate as to what this tale represents – miracle? horror show? evidence of declining anaesthesiology standards? – yet that titular conclusion depends entirely on faith: what's on screen peters out.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
Ti West's latest feels both more expansive – choppering Vice reporters into a seemingly progressive tropical utopia raises intriguing social themes – and yet a marked disappointment.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
Schwarz offsets the camp with a sincere appreciation of both the obvious, larger-than-life personality and this performer's oft-overlooked skills.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
The franchise is a low-risk work-in-progress, but DeMonaco is improving as a shotmaker.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Mike McCahill
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.- The Guardian
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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