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MAITLAND MCDONAGH
Maitland McDonagh

PUBLICATION(S)
• Boxoffice Magazine
• Film Journal International
• Time Out New York
• TV Guide's Movie Guide

BIOGRAPHY
Maitland McDonagh is TV Guide Online's Senior Movie Editor, and has been writing about movies for more than 15 years.
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Total Reviews: 2076

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• Online Film Critics Society
• New York Film Critics Online

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• Location: New York, USA


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"Tom Putnam and Heidi Ferrer's gross-out romantic comedy, a vehicle for the persona of vapid celebutante Paris Hilton, is preposterous, disingenuous, remarkably unfunny and genuinely distasteful." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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"Nasty, ugly, pointless and depressing, even if you hate clowns." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Apr 25, 2002
 
Vulgar (2002)23%
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"The profoundly unconvincing CGI work only makes the sorry screenplay and lackluster performances look worse." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Sep 2, 2005
 
A Sound of Thunder (2005)8%
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"This bare-bones plot is merely an excuse to string together a series of gross-out jokes involving bodily fluids, private parts, food and genetic deformities." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 12, 2005
 
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)11%
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"Even by the degraded standards of dim-witted summer blockbusters, this is sorry stuff." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jul 29, 2005
 
Stealth (2005)13%
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"[A] crass, trashy and none-too-funny comedy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Apr 27, 2005
 
King's Ransom (2005)0%
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"An unpleasant slog to an unrewarding conclusion that feels far longer than it is." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Mar 25, 2005
 
Nowhere Man (2005)43%
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"The film vacillates between inanity and flat-out lameness, and the decision to recut from an R-rated version to a PG-13 sucked out whatever life might have been left." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Feb 28, 2005
 
Cursed (2005)16%
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"If you can't spell 'bogeyman,' you shouldn't make movies about him." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Feb 4, 2005
 
Boogeyman (2005)14%
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"Commits a striking number of sins against competent filmmaking." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jan 28, 2005
 
Fascination (2005)4%
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"Cube is genuinely charming, but even he can't elevate the proceedings above the coarse sensibilities of Brian Levant, whose niche is directing boorish, noisy children's pictures." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jan 21, 2005
 
Are We There Yet? (2005)12%
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"Even by the debased standards of later films released under the National Lampoon banner, this is sorry stuff." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Sep 17, 2004
 
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)0%
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"Pokey, blood-spattered, cheap-scare- larded prequel." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 20, 2004
 
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)11%
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"A dismal sequel to the second-rate Whole Nine Yards." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Apr 9, 2004
 
The Whole Ten Yards (2004)5%
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"Dumb and shabby." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Feb 27, 2004
 
Twisted (2004)2%
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"Watching it is the closest thing yet to seeing a first-person driving game play itself." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jan 16, 2004
 
Torque (2004)23%
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"This amateurish comedy features some amazing sequences shot in Moscow. But everything else about it is second rate." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Nov 21, 2003
 
Mail Order Bride (2004)29%
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"Filled with pseudoscientific gibble-gabble, arbitrary time-travel rules, howlingly clichéd dialogue and renaissance-fair ambience, this dreary science-fiction/historical-action hybrid is a misfire of staggering proportions." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Nov 25, 2003
 
Timeline (2003)10%
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"A truer title would be Mike Myers' Cat in the Hat, since this coarse, loud assault on the senses bears few traces of Dr. Seuss's tartly whimsical sensibility but fairly oozes Myers's brand of smirking humor." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Nov 21, 2003
 
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)12%
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"Coarse and misguided, Keith Gordon's film of the late Dennis Potter's own reworking of his intricate, dyspeptic, 1986 miniseries is a failure on every level." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Oct 24, 2003
 
The Singing Detective (2003)39%
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"So utterly unimaginative it doesn't even count as hommage; it's just a smudgy copy of a still chilling original." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Oct 17, 2003
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)34%
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"A formulaic hodge-podge that trades on a certain demographic's affection for the bogeymen of their formative years." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 15, 2003
 
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)41%
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"Embalmed in the deadening juices of Affleck and Lopez's throwaway celebrity." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jul 31, 2003
 
Gigli (2003)6%
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"Longer, louder, stupider and more vulgar than 1995's Bad Boys." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jul 18, 2003
 
Bad Boys II (2003)24%
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"Numbingly ordinary." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jul 11, 2003
 
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)16%
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"It's hard to imagine who would find this funny." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Mar 21, 2003
 
Boat Trip (2003)7%
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"Director Reginald Hudlin and screenwriters Jay Scherick and David Ronn never seem to have settled on a comic tone, with painfully uneven results." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 23, 2002
 
Serving Sara (2002)5%
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"This painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ... that have no bearing on the story." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 8, 2002
 
The Chateau (2002)49%
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"Painfully unfunny and misguided to boot." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 2, 2002
 
The Master of Disguise (2002)2%
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"Lame, derivative comedy." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted May 10, 2002
 
The New Guy (2002)7%
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"This film is painfully predictable." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Apr 26, 2002
 
Jason X (2002)21%
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"The gags are familiar collegiate stuff." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jan 31, 2002
 
Slackers (2002)9%
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"Mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty. Mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jan 25, 2002
 
Kung Pow! (2002)12%
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"The film aims low and scarcely lives up to its own diminished expectations." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Nov 14, 2001
 
The Wash (2001)8%
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"This slow-paced spiritual thriller is remarkably short on thrills, unless you've never seen a movie about exorcism." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Lost Souls (2000)7%
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"Kaufman runs a vaguely clever premise right into the toilet, both literally and metaphorically." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Poultrygeist (2008)68%
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"Might have made an entertainingly direct-to-DVD B-movie thriller with the courage of its sleazy convictions. But expectations are different for a theatrical feature starring Al Pacino, and by those standards it's a preposterous misfire." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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"The movie's patent lack of interest in anything but coarse slapstick only serves to make the moments when it tries to get sincere about the unique bond between fathers and their daughters even more excruciating than they would otherwise be." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
College Road Trip (2008)14%
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"Writer-director Malcolm D. Lee wraps a soft and gooey message in a thick crust of crass slapstick." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)24%
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"The musical number that runs during the closing credits is funnier than anything that precedes it, which isn't saying much." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
Meet the Spartans (2008)2%
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"Brevity is the soul of camp, and at close to two-and-a-half hours, Boll's film is just too exhausting to be fun." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Jan 14, 2008
 
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)5%
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"Crises are weathered and lessons are learned en route to a painfully predictable conclusion." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
The Bucket List (2007)42%
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"Pretentious and not half as clever as it thinks it is." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Revolver (2007)16%
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"Alison Eastwood makes her directing debut with this ludicrous melodrama, in which a troubled couple and a newly orphaned boy heal each others' emotional wounds against a backdrop of blunt metaphors." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Rails & Ties (2007)34%
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"...might push boundaries better were it not so painfully unfunny." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Freshman Orientation (2007)33%
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"This reductive revenge thriller preaches at the same time it panders to base payback fantasies." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 31, 2007
 
Death Sentence (2007)17%
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"The real culprit is Atkinson's grotesque mugging and lazy pratfalls, combined with the misguided decision to tweak the voice tracks so that most of Bean's sparse utterances come out as guttural, near-incomprehensible grunts." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 24, 2007
 
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)50%
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"Everyone involved seems to have been operating from the presumption that gross and blasphemous equals hilarious. Would that it did." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Aug 3, 2007
 
The Ten (2007)39%
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"This collection of cautionary anecdotes never adds up to much more than the sum of their obvious morals." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted May 18, 2007
 
Even Money (2007)23%
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"Where [the Swedish version] was a downbeat story of cruel, capricious fate and hard, haunting choices, The Invisible is a formulaic tale of redemption and teen angst." -- TV Guide's Movie Guide
Posted Apr 30, 2007
 
The Invisible (2007)19%

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