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MovieMail is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Angie Errigo, Mike McCahill.

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King Jack (2015) Mike McCahill [Director Thompson] has a particular ally in Plummer, a bashed-up presence more compelling than a dozen stage-school brats, displaying a fortitude you warm to even as you're watching all cockiness being kicked from his form.
Posted Dec 31, 2016  Edit critic review
Ma ma (2015) Mike McCahill Ma Ma, at best minor Medem, unfolds like an afternoon TV movie that's been at the sherry, or placed on the heaviest of medication.
Posted Dec 31, 2016  Edit critic review
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) Mike McCahill 13 Hours remains very much a combat movie made by the man who once hustled Armageddon onto our screens, no more nourishing, affecting or heavyweight than the popcorn ground into the multiplex carpet.
Posted Dec 31, 2016  Edit critic review
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) Mike McCahill The second film is likewise sustained by a generosity of spirit you don't often get in self-penned star vehicles.
Posted Dec 31, 2016  Edit critic review
The Ones Below (2015) Mike McCahill A horror-thriller that gets in several satirical shots at the status envy of modern urban professionals.
Posted Dec 31, 2016  Edit critic review
Down by Love (2016) Mike McCahill Godeau reaches out frantically for material that might give the pair's encounters any measure of dramatic heft.
Posted Dec 31, 2016  Edit critic review
The Pearl Button (2015) Mike McCahill Time and again, Guzman generates profound meanings from simple concepts.
Posted Dec 28, 2016  Edit critic review
Marguerite (2015) Mike McCahill It's handsomely turned out in its monochrome palette, and Marguerite's big numbers remain reliably amusing, Frot mangling her standards like a sham-dram Liza or Barbra while Marcon tersely clutches his hunting rifle in the wings.
Posted Dec 28, 2016  Edit critic review
The Club (2015) Mike McCahill Few other films this year will provoke as much post-screening discussion, that's certain.
Posted Dec 28, 2016  Edit critic review
Speed Sisters (2015) Mike McCahill The film's appeal is universal.
Posted Dec 28, 2016  Edit critic review
Fire at Sea (2016) Mike McCahill Fire at Sea is the kind of film that, without ever seeming to harass or harangue the viewer, could well change minds and save lives; a small film, certainly, but no mean feat.
Posted Dec 27, 2016  Edit critic review
Green Room (2015) Mike McCahill Saulnier evidently wanted to provide audiences with a bad trip, but sometimes a bad trip is indistinguishable from a backward step, or simply a dead end.
Posted Dec 27, 2016  Edit critic review
Evolution (2015) Mike McCahill By all means wallow in its imagery; when it comes to meaning, however, most viewers surely won't be waving but drowning.
Posted Dec 19, 2016  Edit critic review
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) Mike McCahill 10 Cloverfield Lane arrives as proof that, between the bloated junk and commercial no-brainers, the studio system can still surprise us.
Posted Dec 19, 2016  Edit critic review
High-Rise (2015) Mike McCahill For the risks Wheatley takes, you should see it. It may be a very mixed bag -- no impediment for cult status, of course -- but High-Rise does feel like the ragged movie Britain deserves at this self-flagellating austerity moment.
Posted Dec 19, 2016  Edit critic review
Hail, Caesar! (2016) Mike McCahill Hail, Caesar! is finally all too effortful, a doodle undertaken by scholars.
Posted Dec 19, 2016  Edit critic review
The Witch (2015) Mike McCahill For pure spooky atmosphere, The Witch is unmatchable right now.
Posted Dec 19, 2016  Edit critic review
Elvis & Nixon (2016) Mike McCahill It remains a naggingly slight experience: while its showbiz savvy should satiate the Elvis demographic, it feels at least a slight copout that a film where Nixon shares top billing should be so determinedly depoliticised.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
The Commune (2016) Mike McCahill For much of its running time, Vinterberg's film is an agreeable, well-acted, funny wallow -- but it's no more profound than that.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
The Neon Demon (2016) Mike McCahill For once, Refn is on the side of the angels -- though you may prefer to avert your eyes as he finally gets his own fingers sticky.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Maggie's Plan (2015) Mike McCahill The juice of Maggie's Plan is all in the writing, however, and there's something quasi-mathematical in the way this triangle keeps reformulating, as if these characters were no more than symbols being plugged into an equation.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
The Wait (2015) Mike McCahill Messina stages events with a muted elegance, making a lot of the silence that serve as route markers in this winding conversation between two women at very different stages in life.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Sweet Bean (2015) Mike McCahill Sweet Bean senses how even the tiniest change in the basic ingredients of one's life can yield considerable rewards.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
From Afar (2015) Mike McCahill Breaking down the world in order to remake and remodel it, From Afar reveals, with the heaviest of hearts, the brutal, dehumanising violence that lurks within the heart of some contemporary relationships.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
The Brand New Testament (2015) Mike McCahill A diverting, often chuckleworthy, sometimes provocative act of creation.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Disorder (2015) Mike McCahill Disorder is a character study that flirts with becoming a love story while retaining the far cooler blood of a thriller in its veins.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Rams (2015) Mike McCahill It's a delight to encounter a film that quietly, gradually creeps up on you; which, without seeming to expand a huge amount of effort in so doing, puts a smile on your face.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Triple 9 (2016) Mike McCahill When the last bullet hits, it's still the same old runaround, only with several new faces striking poses and emptying their weapons into one another.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Miss Hokusai (2015) Mike McCahill While the emphasis on suggestion over standard biopic spectacle is novel, one suspects the film probably won't be suggestive, coherent or affecting enough for hardcore Hokusai admirers, leaving it to occupy a curious artistic no-man's-land.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015) Mike McCahill it's an obvious must-see, yet even newcomers may be surprised at the manner in which Joplin's spirit comes over loud and clear.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Chronic (2015) Mike McCahill I was poised to reclaim Franco as an earthy humanist, peering into the grimmer nooks and crannies of our existence. Then, alas, came Chronic's disastrous punchline.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Dragon Blade (2015) Mike McCahill Dragon Blade feels like a dispiriting way for even seasoned bargain-bin trawlers to be seeing in the New Year.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Bolshoi Babylon (2015) Mike McCahill Bolshoi Babylon joins Frederick Wiseman's La Danse and National Gallery, and Nicolas Philibert's La Maison de la Radio, as another recent documentary that regards its chosen institution as a complex, living organism.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Partisan (2015) Mike McCahill A big fat meh.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
A War (2015) Mike McCahill If A War can't, at the last, land the gutpunch of its predecessor, it scores points enough to provide a worthy watch -- and to confirm its writer-director as among the preeminent agonised consciences in contemporary world cinema.
Posted Dec 13, 2016  Edit critic review
Notes on Blindness (2016) Mike McCahill Sighted viewers should be thankful enough; for cinemagoers who've suffered or who are suffering sight problems, Notes on Blindness might well comprise the most powerful -- and most empowering -- audio-described screening in years.
Posted Dec 12, 2016  Edit critic review
Indignation (2016) Mike McCahill All this is tribute to how Schamus both respects the text, its narrative thrust and its thematic undercurrents, while allowing it to breathe and open up before us.
Posted Nov 18, 2016  Edit critic review
United States of Love (2016) Mike McCahill If you wanted a film to remind you nobody had it better than we do - and I could well understand why you might right now - than United States of Love provides a bracing vodka-expresso jolt.
Posted Nov 17, 2016  Edit critic review
Napoleon (1927) Mike McCahill It's a national origin myth, a monument to resistance and an enormous spectacle; a work of expansive genius, restored to us by a considerable labour of love.
Posted Nov 11, 2016  Edit critic review
The Innocents (2016) Mike McCahill Fontaine's film joins Chabrol's underseen A Story of Women as a rare work to seriously and successfully address the female experience of war from the inside out.
Posted Nov 10, 2016  Edit critic review
A Hundred Streets (2016) Mike McCahill 100 Streets emerges as one of those flawed yet promising debuts that encourages critics to retain its creators' names for future reference.
Posted Nov 10, 2016  Edit critic review
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (2016) Mike McCahill What Black offers, simply but appreciably, is a celebration of one of American cinema's good guys, whose progress we've been lucky indeed to witness.
Posted Nov 04, 2016  Edit critic review
Nocturnal Animals (2016) Mike McCahill It often resembles an exercise in seeing to what extent quote-unquote good taste can be used to dress up bad.
Posted Nov 04, 2016  Edit critic review
Rupture (2016) Mike McCahill Nobody's heart or soul is invested too heavily in it.
Posted Nov 04, 2016  Edit critic review
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Mike McCahill [It's] worth catching, but only in its final chapters -- pondering what's coming down the wires -- do you feel Herzog delving deep. What goes before is all a bit too ZOMG to provoke much in the way of serious reflection.
Posted Oct 28, 2016  Edit critic review
Ethel & Ernest (2016) Mike McCahill Briggs's humanism and pacifism are the baselines here, and both the narrative and visuals keep finding ways to illustrate the uncertainties of wartime.
Posted Oct 28, 2016  Edit critic review
After Love (2016) Mike McCahill It's very skilfully mounted, Lafosse pushing the naturalism of his earlier features to brave new heights.
Posted Oct 28, 2016  Edit critic review
Starfish (2016) Mike McCahill The film doesn't quite connect emotionally as it might.
Posted Oct 25, 2016  Edit critic review
Queen of Katwe (2016) Mike McCahill [Queen of Katwe is] a film that, like the best Disney fare, connects on some deep and profound level with that part of us that still seeks to improve ourselves -- and, who knows, perhaps even the world.
Posted Oct 21, 2016  Edit critic review
Sonita (2015) Mike McCahill What we're watching here, increasingly, isn't a documentary so much as an engrossing rescue attempt.
Posted Oct 21, 2016  Edit critic review
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