Todd McCarthy

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The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
For 1,835 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Todd McCarthy's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Showgirls
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 947 out of 1835
  2. Mixed: 724 out of 1835
  3. Negative: 164 out of 1835
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Searching
    Impressively, first-time filmmaker and former Google commercials creator Aneesh Chaganty has also made a real movie, the story of a family that morphs into a crime drama that gradually ratchets up the tension as all good thrillers must, one that’s well constructed and acted as well as novel in its storytelling techniques.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    Emerges as a dynamic action drama in its own right. Making sure of that is writer Taylor Sheridan, who's hatched a compelling new yarn that triggers rugged, full-bodied work from returning leading men Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    The Aristocrats
    A raucous insider documentary that invites the viewer to share a secret held exclusively by comics for untold generations.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Ray
    Bursting at the seams with music, Taylor Hackford's ambitious film provides a good sense of the pioneering entertainer's extraordinary journey and brings it to life with plenty of colorful detail.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Fly Away Home
    An animal, kid and family picture of the first order, "Fly Away Home" marks an impressive return to form for Carroll Ballard, his best work since "The Black Stallion" 17 years ago.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    The Assignment
    The somber tone and low-end production values may not be exactly in tune with young neo-noir enthusiasts, but more seasoned fans of the genre and the filmmaker will recognize and embrace Hill’s use of noir to play with and comment on topical issues in a deliciously subversive way, political correctness be damned.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Dog Eat Dog
    The film positively swills in its disreputability and all-around low-budgetness; sporting a healthy disregard for respectability, Schrader has just gone for it here with a highly focused recklessness that he turns to his creative advantage.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque
    A labor of love made over the course of seven years that crucially matches the energy and passion Langlois himself embodied, this deep-dish account of the life and times of the longtime head of the Cinematheque Francaise will enthrall buffs.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Open Range
    An intensely scenic, refreshingly humanistic oater that dares to be sincere and open-hearted.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Bad Boys for Life
    It’s impressive and enjoyable to behold how easily Smith and Lawrence slide back into these characters and actually make them more accessible and fun to be around than before.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    A Beautiful Mind
    Consistently engrossing as an unusual character study and as a trip to the mysterious border-crossing between rarified brilliance and madness, this serious-minded but lively film is distinguished by an exceptional performance by Russell Crowe.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Jerry Maguire
    An exceptionally tasty contempo comedic romance.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    A Walk in the Woods
    A Walk in the Woods serves as a terrific showcase for two exceptionally durable stars.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    2012
    The visual effects are pretty sensational, delivering the cutting-edge CGI goods auds want and expect. It will be hard to watch "Earthquake'' ever again after this one.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Runaway Bride
    The central idea is quite clever and appealing, and that the charm meter is turned up all the way.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Puss in Boots
    A perfectly diverting romp that happens to showcase some of the best 3D work yet from a mainstream animated feature. Colorful, clever enough, free of cloying showbiz in-jokes, action-packed without being ridiculous about it and even well choreographed.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Interstellar
    This grandly conceived and executed epic tries to give equal weight to intimate human emotions and speculation about the cosmos, with mixed results, but is never less than engrossing, and sometimes more than that.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Cold Mountain
    A grim picaresque odyssey across a beautiful scarred landscape laced together by private romantic longing. Handsomely made and vividly acted.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Bob Roberts
    Both a stimulating social satire and, for thinking people, a depressing commentary on the devolution of the American political system.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Logan Lucky
    Working with a script by first-time writer Rebecca Blunt, Soderbergh has made the sort of breezy, unpretentious, just-for-fun film that scarcely exists anymore, one almost anyone could enjoy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Tower Heist
    A smoothly engineered crowd pleaser.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    101 Dalmatians
    Where the film misses its biggest bet, however, is in depriving the animals of the voices they had in the animated version.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Nineteen years after their last adventure, director Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford have no trouble getting back in the groove with a story and style very much in keeping with what has made the series so perennially popular.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Todd McCarthy
    Invictus
    Inspirational on the face of it, Clint Eastwood's film has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion.
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