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	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

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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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3.5/5	"Stands out from the recent wave of movies about the plight of immigrants coming to the United States...because it�s more suspenseful than heart-tugging." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 16, 2008	Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)	75%
3.5/5	"Filmmaker Christian Petzold meets his goal of providing an alienating portrait of the business world." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 16, 2008	Yella (2008)	82%
2/5	"Will be remembered as a shard in Page�s filmography." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 9, 2008	The Tracey Fragments (2008)	38%
2.5/5	"While they celebrate and subvert genre conventions, their tone isn�t mocking. They want kiddies and their chaperons to enjoy and question, yet the approach does distance the audience." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 8, 2008	Speed Racer (2008)	35%
1.5/5	"Amounts to overkill and leaves no room for interpretation or analysis." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 7, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2008)	57%
	"Downey acquits himself well enough during the action sequences in 'Iron Man,' but there just aren't enough of them and the existing ones could use a boost." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 5, 2008	Iron Man (2008)	93%
2.5/5	"The movie starts out in muscular, typically Mametian fashion but can�t sustain that punch due to his less-than-firm handling of the storyline." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 2, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
	"The line between vulgar-funny and just plain vulgar is crossed too often in this indefensible sequel." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 28, 2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)	56%
2/5	"Overly deliberate, quite preposterous thriller." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2008	Deception (2008)	12%
2.5/5	"Anyone prone to carsickness should bypass Stuff and Dough, unless they have an unquenchable desire to understand Romanian society or a keen interest in the career development of one of its best filmmakers." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2008	Stuff and Dough (2008)	67%
	"'Forgetting Sarah Marxhall' channels Jason Segel's talents in a way that's satisfyingly fresh but still validates classic rom-com story arcs." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 21, 2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	84%
1.5/5	"Expelled may prove to be as controversial as the producers hope, but the reactions will be more entertaining and elucidating than the film itself." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 18, 2008	Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)	9%
2/5	"An academic thriller likely to engage only avid collectors of serial-killer flicks." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 18, 2008	Anamorph (2008)	27%
2.5/5	"Sorely in need of an outsider�s impartial slant." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 14, 2008	Bra Boys (2008)	77%
	"A recurring story pushed to the hilt, 'Street Kings' has a fiercely hyperbolic integrity." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 14, 2008	Street Kings (2008)	33%
	"I found one vital piece of 'Nim's Island' to be ridiculous and the entirety to be only marginally successful." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 12, 2008	Nim's Island (2008)	48%
	"As much as I was hoping it would be a game effort, I'd quick-kick 'Leatherheads' on any given Sunday." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 8, 2008	Leatherheads (2008)	53%
3.5/5	"Graced with a captivating lead performance and artful cinematography." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2008	Tuya's Marriage (2008)	82%
	"Though slightly overstated, the part played by singing was no doubt significant. Its implied role in keeping the Estonian revolution nonviolent is especially stirring." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 3, 2008	The Singing Revolution (2007)	86%
3/5	"*Love conquers lucre in the cosmopolitan fairytale Priceless, a Kir Royale of a romantic comedy pairing Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh on the French Riviera." -- Boxoffice Magazine* Posted Mar 28, 2008	Priceless (2008)	85%
4/5	"The mixture of the surreal and concrete feels remarkably accurate: a verit� depiction of war with a profound ghostly quality." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 28, 2008	Alexandra (2008)	95%
2.5/5	"The scenery isn�t mind-blowing or the filmmaking awesome, but there�s a certain majesty in how the movie achieves its noble goal of raising awareness about the world water crisis." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)	86%
1.5/5	"Antonio Negret employs too many characters, backstories and plot tangents to address a subject that�s unwieldy enough already" -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Towards Darkness (2007)	13%
2.5/5	"a useful time capsule � a generously baked history of a minor pop-culture institution." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008)	89%
2/5	"Considerably more importance is placed on the chops and the socks than the story, and yet the action sequences aren�t terribly memorable." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2008	Flash Point (2008)	47%
	"When a screenwriter and cast, to the extent they ad-libbed, resort to so much gratuitous profanity, it's a sure sign of desperation." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 14, 2008	Semi-Pro (2008)	21%
	"While there are moments, '10,000 B.C.' never makes you jump. On the plus side, the movie isn't as lumbering as those digital elephantine beasts." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 10, 2008	10,000 B.C. (2008)	9%
	"Clear-eyed and without aiming for the emotional jugular, Ezra goes well beyond geography, politics and ethnicity... to explore the psychological toll on young people caught in violent situations not of their making and beyond their understanding." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 19, 2008	Ezra (2007)	63%
	"Jumper is like a glorified TV pilot from 2005, when supernatural dramas were all the rage. It will make it onto the schedule, but have its legs cut out from under it before the season is over." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 19, 2008	Jumper (2008)	16%
	"Alas, the nautical romantic comedy constitutes a missed opportunity�a voyage to Red Lobster in a dinghy�mostly thanks to mediocre directing." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2008	Fool's Gold (2008)	10%
	"The internecine clash depicted between coastal elites and down-home folk goes beyond race to address universal themes about culture and family, so it�s more than a guilty pleasure like sweet tea." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2008	Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)	25%
	"The juiciest bits happen off camera, yet their consequences are riveting, thanks in no small measure to sympathetic performances by Carla Ribas and Berta Zemel." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2008	Alice's House (2008)	88%
	"No matter how reluctant and torn the killer, 'Rambo' is an apologia for brute force." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jan 30, 2008	Rambo (2008)	33%
	"The only time viewers will be inspired to sing halleluja is on their way out of the theatre." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 10, 2008	First Sunday (2008)	15%
	"Drastically under-produced, One Missed Call is so tedious that Alexander Graham Bell would have difficulty staying awake. Those vigilant Verizon Wireless techies from the commercials would be fired for napping on the job." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 7, 2008	One Missed Call (2008)	0%
	"From the movie's opening organ blast to the pieta with which it ends, 'Sweeney Todd' is a formally precise artwork about vice washing away virtue." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 31, 2007	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	86%
	"There's sounder logic and more genuine sleuthing in a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 24, 2007	National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)	32%
	"*If you can watch Praying With Lior* without shedding a tear, it�s time for an emotional checkup.*" -- Boxoffice Magazine* Posted Dec 21, 2007	Praying with Lior (2008)	72%
	"Along with its hazards and turmoil, Zhang-Ke reveals the environment�s haunting beauty by using striking photographic compositions and injecting a few surreal occurrences." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 19, 2007	Still Life (2008)	93%
	"'I Am Legend' may boil down to a zombie flick with a religious motif, yet it entertains the way a popcorn movie should." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 17, 2007	I Am Legend (2007)	68%
	"'The Golden Compass' concludes in a way that left me feeling teased and cheated." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Dec 13, 2007	The Golden Compass (2007)	42%
	"*Waking up during major surgery would be horrible. Waking up during surgery and being forced to watch Awake* would be truly ghastly.*" -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews* Posted Dec 5, 2007	Awake (2007)	23%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2007	Purple Violets (2007)	n/a
	"Although [the director] often shifts abruptly from micro to macro, the film holds together, and a two-pronged thesis gradually emerges." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 30, 2007	Oswald's Ghost (2007)	74%
	"Playing her fairytale character with giddy aplomb, Amy Adams gives a winsomely energetic performance as the live-action version of maiden Giselle." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 29, 2007	Enchanted (2007)	94%
	"'Beowulf' brings Anglo-Saxon literature to life with a vividness hardly imaginable when I skimmed the Old English poem as a high school student." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2007	Beowulf (2007)	70%
	"The movie�s inadequacies exemplify the chief problem it diagnoses -- our society�s reluctance to allot sufficient time for crucial issues to be defined and argued in depth." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 9, 2007	Lions for Lambs (2007)	28%
	"Too low-key to seize hold of the imagination, 'American Gangster' is divided against itself, stylistically and story-wise." -- ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Nov 5, 2007	American Gangster (2007)	79%
	"Martian Child has intelligence and a modicum of wit -- if only it had more heart and a kid worth shedding a tear for." -- Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2007	Martian Child (2007)	29%

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