Mike McCahill

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For 213 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 213
  2. Negative: 12 out of 213
213 movie reviews
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Mike McCahill
    Longinotto and editor Ollie Huddleston stitch it, with lightness and dexterity, into a wholly edifying, often stirring tapestry of survivors’ stories.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Mike McCahill
    A social conscience movie with real cinematic bite.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    [Aniston's] the one element keeping this unexceptional dramedy halfway watchable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Though our heroine remains more self-reliant than most Disney princesses, the film is too mild to constitute any kind of statement.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    It makes the text feel newly alive, bristly, radical. A palpable hit, in any language.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    It’s no-frills, B-movie modesty might have been winning, if it weren’t so dashed-off.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    42
    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.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Mike McCahill
    Ban this sick filth.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Mike McCahill
    As an antidote to Premier League cynicism, it couldn't be bettered.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    It's imprisoned by its own glibness, grabbing for sensation over emotion, and looking silly whenever it misses.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Even by the standards of allowance-snatching half-term filler, this is pretty indifferent.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    It sometimes strays off the beaten track into shapelessness, but Oreck lends individual segments a quiet fascination.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    Tom Gustafson's film proves genial to a fault.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 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.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Mike McCahill
    The franchise is a low-risk work-in-progress, but DeMonaco is improving as a shotmaker.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Mike McCahill
    The absence of new or sustainable ideas dooms it to instant mediocrity.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 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.

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