ROTTEN TOMATOES: John P. McCarthy

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4.5/5	WALL-E
4/5	The Queen
3.5/5	The Blood of My Brother: A Story of Death in Iraq
2.5/4	Inland Empire
3/5	Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock?
2.5/5	The Quiet
2/5	Lady in the Water
1.5/5	See No Evil
1/5	Good Luck Chuck
.5/5	Repo! The Genetic Opera

BEST REVIEWED
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4.5/5	WALL-E
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WORST REVIEWED
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.5/5	Repo! The Genetic Opera
1/5	Dark Streets
1/5	Noise
1/5	Choose Connor
1/5	Good Luck Chuck
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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	" It's difficult to immerse yourself in this glossily mechanical recreation of the 1944 plot by German officers to assassinate Adolph Hitler." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 24, 2008	Valkyrie (2008)	57%
	" Writer/director Joel Hopkins' unforced dialogue and the two lead performances make 'Last Chance Harvey' come across as tasteful and true." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 24, 2008	Last Chance Harvey (2008)	73%
	" That this movie doesn't seem fantastic at all is a testimony to its emotional power." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 24, 2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	72%
3.5/5	" With no shortage of wit and ample awareness of the human condition, Moscow, Belgium revolves around a complex female character, wonderfully limned by Barbara Sarafian." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 22, 2008	Moscow, Belgium (2008)	100%
	" This stirring animated family film raises the bar for intricate plotting yet may be too scary for the preschool set." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 19, 2008	The Tale of Despereaux (2008)	54%
	" When this lump of coal isn't being schmaltzy and falsely mysterious, it's being harsh." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 19, 2008	Seven Pounds (2008)	29%
2/5	" Is Yes Man an entertaining Jim Carrey vehicle? No sirree." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2008	Yes Man (2008)	43%
1/5	" The roster of R&B artists heard on the soundtrack is impressive; the movie is not." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 15, 2008	Dark Streets (2008)	16%
	" Sci-fi fans of the first 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' will probably experience more than a moment's worth of discomfort, but this remake is not horrible." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 15, 2008	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)	19%
	" The recipe for an entertaining celluloid Christmas is followed to the letter in 'Nothing Like the Holidays.'" -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 12, 2008	Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)	49%
	" Those interested in the concept of due process and the ethics of discovering the truth shouldn't miss 'Doubt.'" -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 11, 2008	Doubt (2008)	75%
2/5	" While Celestino doesn't roll snake eyes exactly, Yonkers Joe could have prospered if the filmmaker had worried more about keeping the dice hot and had let viewers' hearts warm naturally." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 10, 2008	Yonkers Joe (2009)	50%
4/5	" The Secret of the Grain is crowd-pleasing in the sense that the story and characters are easy to identify with...belongs somewhere between the arthouse and the multiplex." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 10, 2008	The Secret of the Grain (2008)	93%
3.5/5	" Slightly more evolved from a narrative perspective than his previous feature Tirador (Slingshot), Serbis (Service) is another overwhelmingly tactile experience that should further cement the prolific filmmaker's reputation." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 10, 2008	Serbis (2009)	n/a
1.5/5	" In theory, there's no reason a movie shouldn't endeavor to be somber and tentatively hopeful at the same time. In practice, unfortunately, Ciao is depressing and ploddingly elegiac." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 5, 2008	Ciao (2008)	36%
	" Jeffrey Wright convinces as Muddy Waters and Mos Def dazzles as rock-'n'-roller Chuck Berry, but it's Beyonce who upstages everyone as singer Etta James." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 5, 2008	Cadillac Records (2008)	66%
	" Ron Howard's mainstream sensibility is just what Peter Morgan's play needed to make a seamless transition from stage to screen." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 4, 2008	Frost/Nixon (2008)	91%
	" Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon can't bring this Yuletide comedy home, but without their chemistry and respective personalities it would be dire." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 27, 2008	Four Christmases (2008)	25%
	" Gus Van Sant's conventional biopic about an unconventional figure is a well-constructed, generally well-performed work of hagiography." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 26, 2008	Milk (2008)	93%
	" Anyone craving a wide-screen romantic epic is in luck. Though flawed, Baz Luhrman's sprawling fantasia is a throwback to a noble cinematic tradition." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 26, 2008	Australia (2008)	54%
3.5/5	" It's rewarding even if you're not a football fanatic, alum, or sociologist researching Ivy Leaguers of the era." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 21, 2008	Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)	80%
	" Now that 007 has got Vesper out of his system, maybe we'll get a Bond flick that doesn't just smolder but is genuinely combustible." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 17, 2008	Quantum of Solace (2008)	65%
2.5/5	" A heist comedy with showbiz savvy oozing from its pores." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2008	The Dukes (2008)	58%
2/5	" Despite the fine performances, it might have been a better idea just to leave this one to the theatre where it was probably better suited." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2008	Eden (2008)	68%
3/5	" Winner of the Best Documentary award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 10, 2008	Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)	100%
.5/5	" Without question, Repo! The Genetic Opera will pop up on worst-movies-of-the-year lists." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 7, 2008	Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)	30%
2/5	" What strikes me as entirely bogus is the notion, expressed in the movie's taglines, that this narrative can be interpreted as hopeful or positive." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 7, 2008	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)	63%
4/5	" An admirably spare and forthright chamber piece about divorce and its painful central theme receives a mysterious, beautiful and eventually hopeful counterpoint." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 7, 2008	Stages (2008)	50%
	" For every bit of frat-house jocularity there's a quiet, off-the-wall moment to keep things grounded in this surprisingly satisfying comedy." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 7, 2008	Role Models (2008)	76%
	" Animation holds everything together with aplomb, injecting the whirlwind picture with plenty of attitude and jokes." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 7, 2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)	63%
	" Much of the credit for the movie's winsome genuineness should go to the charismatic Efron, who has filled-out nicely in the years since the franchise began." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 2, 2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)	67%
3/5	" The bare outlines of these lives underscore Gitai's fundamental point that biography is inextricably linked to geopolitics: genealogy and geography cannot be separated." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 27, 2008	News from Home/News from House (2008)	n/a
3.5/5	" Mendoza's means of pricking the conscience of society is to show how the sacred and the profane intermingle rather than how they diverge." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 24, 2008	Tirador (2008)	n/a
4/5	" Stranded is not about dying or the afterlife; it tells a story about both the precariousness and powerful pull of this life and about how difficult it is to pinpoint the deciding factor between life and death." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 23, 2008	Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains (2008)	91%
3.5/5	" Lively and informative documentary makes an estimable contribution to the field of gender studies by arguing that motherhood and art shouldn’t be seen as mutually exclusive." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 21, 2008	Who Does She Think She Is? (2008)	75%
1/5	" Bean�s scenario is too inconsequential to take seriously and not outlandish enough to entertain." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2008	Noise (2008)	48%
2.5/5	" In sum, Frontrunners is like the famous New Yorker magazine cover that shows the Big Apple looming in the foreground and the rest of the country as insignificant specks in the distance." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 17, 2008	Frontrunners (2008)	88%
2.5/5	" The story dithers, albeit entertainingly, for such a long time...that you start fearing it will be a dry hump of a movie where he's concerned." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 17, 2008	Sex Drive (2008)	41%
	" For every heart that's warmed by this celluloid celebration of the maternal spirit, another will find it condescending regarding race and/or gender." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 17, 2008	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)	56%
	" The denizens of Guy Ritchie's now-familiar London underworld milieu seem second-string here, even though the writer/director has recruited some new faces." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 11, 2008	RocknRolla (2008)	58%
	" 'The Express' adopts a conservative game plan, running right up the middle on every play, stubbornly refusing to take chances and try the unexpected." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 11, 2008	The Express (2008)	62%
	" There's just not much being said in 'Body of Lies.' When it comes to novel ideas, everyone gets left out in the cold." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 11, 2008	Body of Lies (2008)	51%
4/5	" Yameogo is able to convey his pointed social message with a subtle yet steady rhythm derived from the physicality of his mainly nonprofessional actors." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2008	Delwende (2008)	n/a
1/5	" At numerous points, you suspect the low-budget project has been conceived and executed by middle-schoolers." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 8, 2008	Choose Connor (2008)	43%
2/5	" Evasively banal, the story of a female petty thief in lower Manhattan morphs into a marginally intriguing character sketch at around the 55 (out of 71) minute mark." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 3, 2008	The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)	20%
	" The film's major drawback is its unintentional drone-like quality. It's poorly lit and the somber production design becomes a grind rather than looking like one." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 3, 2008	Flash of Genius (2008)	57%
	" Unfortunately, this silly attempt at deep cinema merely amounts to a pretentious zombie flick." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Oct 3, 2008	Blindness (2008)	40%
3.5/5	" It's hard to deny the luminous integrity of Silent Light." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2008	Silent Light (2008)	83%
2/5	" Takes its title from a real standing police order issued after the attacks and, seemingly, its inspiration from both nighttime soaps like EastEnders and the PBS Mystery! series." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2008	Shoot on Sight (2008)	25%
	" Among the most unappetizing feature films in recent memory." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 26, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%

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