ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mike McCahill

MIKE MCCAHILL

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Biography: BBC film critic.

Publications: BBC, Daily Telegraph, Scotsman

Total Reviews: 31

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh 3/5	Rotten 30%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" It's stronger on dream logic than plot... yet knows its audience exactly: about 30 of its 130 minutes consist of slo-mo lingering on Pattinson's preternatural jawline and Lautner's preposterous abs." — Scotsman Posted Nov 20, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	White Lightnin' (2009)	" An amusingly nutty aberration of the traditional follow-your-dreams story arc." — Scotsman Posted Sep 25, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 28%	Fame (2009)	" Fame 2009 has turns rather than scenes, and its interchangeable students don't have names to remember so much as tags: "angry", "nervy", "blonde". Most can sing or dance, though the relentless exhibitionism grows tiring." — Scotsman Posted Sep 25, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" Easily Sony's best [animated film] since Monster House." — Scotsman Posted Sep 18, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 90%	District 9 (2009)	" The creature effects, overseen by Jackson's WETA workshop, are first-rate, but this appears to be one of those instances where the hype seems as likely to be detrimental as beneficial: more seasoned observers may emerge underwhelmed." — Scotsman Posted Sep 4, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 15%	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)	" This appears too obviously the work of middle-aged men � director Columbus included � trying to regain past glories." — Scotsman Posted Aug 21, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	Dance Flick (2009)	" A few very throwaway chuckles rank it above Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie in the movie gutter, for what it's worth, but it's been assembled with the usual shoddiness." — Scotsman Posted Aug 21, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 38%	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)	" Surprisingly watchable up until its late, headlong plunge into TV-movie blandness." — Scotsman Posted Aug 14, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 16%	Crossing Over (2009)	" At once ambitious, familiar in its multi-stranded storytelling, and suspect in its underlying politics." — Scotsman Posted Jul 31, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 83%	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	" David Yates feels a safer pair of hands than ever, underlining the Potter world's essential Englishness in a string of atmospheric locations." — Daily Telegraph Posted Jul 17, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 14%	The Informers (2009)	" Much of it remains purposefully pointless, and Ellis and Jordan never attempt to reframe the dead-eyed hedonism and solipsism that makes these characters very hard to care about." — Scotsman Posted Jul 17, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 93%	The Damned United (2009)	" The casting (Meaney as Revie, Spall as Taylor) is exemplary, the on-pitch action stylised yet credible, and it's heartening to see a British feature addressing a history that doesn't involve princesses or socialites." — Scotsman Posted Mar 27, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 68%	Cadillac Records (2008)	" As a brash, showbiz-y digest of blues roots and culture, it's lovingly designed and performed in the right spirit, finding as much to cherish in a Cadillac's tailfin as in a risqu� rhyming couplet." — Scotsman Posted Feb 20, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 62%	The Reader (2008)	" The revelation of evil not only confounds the characters here; it numbs the film, stifles whatever wayward life it once had in it." — Daily Telegraph Posted Jan 5, 2009
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 84%	Sweet Land (2006)	" Pleasant surprise of the week, a US indie so unashamedly romantic about pie, cornfields, family and baseball you could be forgiven for thinking you were watching a Presidential campaign video." — Daily Telegraph Posted Sep 5, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 64%	Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson (2008)	" It's not great cinema, but it's never less than good fun; watch it in conjunction with Anderson's recently published diaries, and you'll get a sense of a unique, irreplaceable and finally very human talent." — Daily Telegraph Posted Sep 5, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 24%	El Cantante (2007)	" Leon Ichaso's film soft-pedals everything save the language in what often resembles a made-for-cable biopic." — Daily Telegraph Posted Sep 5, 2008
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 2%	Disaster Movie (2008)	" Surely even bovine American teenagers have to realise their intelligence is being insulted sooner or later." — Daily Telegraph Posted Sep 5, 2008
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 9%	Bangkok Dangerous (2008)	" It's certainly no worse than the original - a flashy grab-bag of tricks to begin with - and has a certain grim stylishness in its favour, but you miss the breezy, funny Cage of old." — Daily Telegraph Posted Sep 5, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 36%	Face Addict (2008)	" The film is flatly shot, as though to illustrate the dimensional difference between stills photography and cinematography." — Daily Telegraph Posted Aug 22, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 13%	College Road Trip (2008)	" Ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived at a new circle of hell: the one where Martin Lawrence is no longer the most irksome presence in a Martin Lawrence movie." — Daily Telegraph Posted Aug 22, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 19%	The Clone Wars (2008)	" Can someone beam a hologrammatic representative into Lucasfilm HQ with a message from the real world? Master George, we beseech you, give it up: nobody cares anymore, and besides, your tea's ready." — Daily Telegraph Posted Aug 15, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 79%	Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)	" Only belatedly, with the arrival of Alan Dershowitz, does Demme happen across anybody who might disrupt the air of non-confrontational niceness, but Carter ducks the challenge, and the film heads ever onwards into hagiography. A disappointment." — Daily Telegraph Posted Aug 15, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 69%	Paris (2009)	" An insane amount of dancing can't shake off the heavy feeling we've all been here before, and in the hands of more revealing guides." — Daily Telegraph Posted Jul 25, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 77%	Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)	" For devotees only, I'm guessing." — Daily Telegraph Posted Jul 25, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007)	" Throughout, Makhmalbaf juggles extraordinary scenes of observation and tension, filling the screen with indelible imagery..." — Daily Telegraph Posted Jul 25, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 56%	A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)	" It's a display of gross bad faith both as documentarist and lover, and its subject probably deserves never to get laid again." — Daily Telegraph Posted Jul 1, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 67%	Female Agents (2008)	" At no point does Female Agents begin to approach the muddy, bloody complexities of war represented by Black Book or Lust, Caution, films genuinely fascinated by the plight of women behind enemy lines." — Daily Telegraph Posted Jul 1, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 40%	Hancock (2008)	" Between the jittery pseudo-realism of Peter Berg's direction and the maudlin undercurrent to its hero's redemption, all Hancock can summon up is the faintest sensation of nausea." — Daily Telegraph Posted Jul 1, 2008
Fresh 3/5	Fresh 86%	Sequins (2005)	" At the film's heart is an acutely observed and sensitively played relationship between two people very much in need of one another." — BBC Posted May 10, 2005

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