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Todd McCarthy

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Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% EDIT “Craftwork is aces across the board, with a sound mix that’s particularly dense.” – Variety Aug 23, 2025 Full Review Computer Chess (2013) 86% EDIT “Unfortunately, writer-director Andrew Bujalski’s latest is as deadly dull as the event it covers...” – The Hollywood Reporter May 13, 2025 Full Review Burning Man: The Burning Sensation (2000) 38% EDIT “A knock-out documentary with a renegade personality ideally suited to its anarchic subject matter.” – Variety Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 42% EDIT “Largely listless and witless, this extensive reworking of the 1968 sci-fi favorite simply isn’t very exciting or imaginative; most surprisingly, given the material, it’s also Burton’s most conventional and literal-minded film.” – Variety May 1, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% EDIT “[Almost Famous] is eager to please and does just that, but it’s neither as outright funny nor as resonant as it seems to want to be. ” – Variety Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% EDIT “A light, entertaining treatment of serious themes that speaks with a distinctive, unusual voice and instinctively pulls back from the temptation to be solemn and pretentious.” – Variety Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Old Dads (2023) 27% EDIT “A boorish and obnoxiously vulgar comedy that, since it can’t claim any other great distinction, might well have been expressly written to break the all-time record for use of the f-word in the major studio movie. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 20, 2023 Full Review Fast Charlie (2023) 83% EDIT “[Fast Charlie] puts you in a position to either embrace it as fun or discard it as foolish. What tilts you in the former direction is the energy Noyce injects into the silliness as well as the kick that results from pushing the material so far. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 9, 2023 Full Review Janet Planet (2023) 85% EDIT “Both disarming and odd, a film both lovely for its observational aptitude and at times mildly annoying in its smarty-pants conversational cleverness. Whatever else you can say, it’s an absolute original.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 2, 2023 Full Review Expend4bles (2023) 14% EDIT “Expendabes 4 is ambushed by its own utter lack of new ideas or better ways to use the talents of the many charismatic actors who did turn up to work for various lengths of time. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 21, 2023 Full Review Fingernails (2023) 60% EDIT “Yes, the director has obvious gifts that we’ve seen before and which surface momentarily even in this miscalculation. Still, why he chose this off-putting material for his American debut, especially with its grotesque climax, is a real head-scratcher.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% EDIT “Enormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level.” – Variety Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Daddio (2023) 75% EDIT “Sean Penn is at his absolute best here in a tremendously engaging performance as a salty working-class guy with an endless supply of opinions and ways of drawing out his passengers, while Dakota Johnson more than holds her own.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Wildcat (2023) 59% EDIT “O’Connor’s personality and the filmmakers’ attentiveness to detail make this oddball character study worthwhile for literati looking for new angles from which to make observations about perennial subjects for biographical analyses.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 2, 2023 Full Review Rustin (2023) 83% EDIT “Colman Domingo blows through the title role like a force of nature in Rustin, an exhilarating biographical drama about the highly significant but not widely known civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 2, 2023 Full Review Saltburn (2023) 72% EDIT “[Emerald Fennell] reveals a strong hand behind the camera, even if the trajectory of the story feels rather overwrought and familiar. Nonetheless, the writing is alive and often amusing, giving the fine cast a lot to play with.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 1, 2023 Full Review El Conde (2023) 83% EDIT “The film strikes a remarkable balance among elements that are potently dramatic, darkly amusing wistfully streaked and, at every moment, brilliantly accomplished.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Aug 31, 2023 Full Review Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) 65% EDIT “The film touches on many aspects of life, big and small, and Blomkamp keeps things running at a brisk clip. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Aug 8, 2023 Full Review Meg 2: The Trench (2023) 27% EDIT “Meg 2 rather wears out its welcome very early on as it begins feeling like a tedious, repetitive joke.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Aug 3, 2023 Full Review They Cloned Tyrone (2023) 95% EDIT “If not well balanced or fully achieved, They Cloned Tyrone is provocative in its mix of sci-fi and contemporary political elements; it’s unusual, gutsy and entirely welcome as something different and unexpected in the genre.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Jul 14, 2023 Full Review The Matrix (1999) 83% EDIT “An eye-popping but incoherent extravaganza of morphing and superhuman martial arts. Ultra-cool visuals that truly deliver something new to the sci-fi action lexicon will make this time-jumping thriller a must-see among genre fans.” – Variety Jul 12, 2023 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% EDIT “This is a serious, sharp-minded and top-tier action film by any standard, and many fans will no doubt mollify themselves by seeing it more than once before Part Two opens a year from now. This is Hollywood action filmmaking at its peak.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Jul 5, 2023 Full Review No Hard Feelings (2023) 71% EDIT “The film is funny, gross, ballsy, lame, daring and uncertain, more or less in equal measure. The leading lady is all of the above, definitely all in and yet always ingratiating...” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Extraction 2 (2023) 80% EDIT “Even seasoned pros and cinephiles will gape and wonder how they pulled off any number of the shots and sequences here... This may not be a particularly good film, but you’ll definitely see things here in a way that you’ve never seen them before.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Jun 15, 2023 Full Review The Machine (2023) 31% EDIT “The Machine is loud, gross, obnoxious and overbearing. It’s also disarming, quick-witted, fast moving and becomes increasingly funny.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 26, 2023 Full Review
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