Nick McCarthy

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For 39 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 28% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 72% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Nick McCarthy's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 56
Highest review score: 88 A Summer's Tale
Lowest review score: 25 The Best Offer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 39
  3. Negative: 11 out of 39
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Nick McCarthy
    Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
    Inflammatory talk-show host Morton Downey Jr. sparked, delighted, and quickly faded like a firecracker--not unlike the erratic, quick-fire presentation of his persona in this documentary.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Nick McCarthy
    Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
    What results is a lopsided, put-upon narrative of survival where humans, and not the animals themselves, are the ones to be celebrated.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Nick McCarthy
    The Artist and the Model
    This safe, solemn tale of an aged artist whose vitality is briefly revived by a pretty young thing is unconvincing as an articulation of the potentially spiritual nature of the artist/model relationship.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Nick McCarthy
    Monsters University
    Unfortunate proof that the animation studio previously known for its brains is now resting a little too heavily on its nominal brawn.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Nick McCarthy
    Bluebird
    Unable to reconcile plot with poetry, Bluebird is knitted-together by its sense of place and lived-in performances, yet unraveled by anemic false melodrama and overbearing music.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Nick McCarthy
    The Look of Love
    With its softened edges, bland aftertaste, and watered-down distillation of Raymond's life and career, Michael Winterbottom's film represents the house champagne of biographical cinema.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Nick McCarthy
    Populaire
    Candy-colored to a potentially cavity-causing degree, the film is a bubbly regurgitation of retrograde romantic comedy tropes and reactionary sexual politics.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Nick McCarthy
    Greetings from Tim Buckley
    Despite the counter-culture subjects at its core, Daniel Algrant's film possesses a put-upon hipness that cannot mask its disarming dorkiness.

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