Todd McCarthy Articles

Bill Condon's BREAKING DAWN Gets Strongly Panned: Early Reviews Below are three The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 review snippets — all pans — from major trade publications. After reading Todd McCarthy's take on the film in The Hollywood Reporter (see below), I believe it's clear that there'll be a Special R-rated version of Breaking Dawn on DVD/Blu-ray. According to McCarthy's description of the [...]

Michael Fassbender, Shame Steve McQueen-Michael Fassbender's SHAME: Sex Addiction at the Movies Directed by Steve McQueen (no relation to the star of Bullitt and The Getaway), and written by McQueen and playwright Abi Morgan, Shame was screened at the Venice and Telluride film festivals. Its next stop is the Toronto Film Festival later this month. McQueen's drama revolves around the dangers of sex addiction and [...]

Christoph Waltz, Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Rosie the Elephant, Water for Elephants Following a merciless pan in The Associated Press, Water for Elephants and its participants received a considerably warmer welcome from The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy. Based on Sara Gruen's 2006 bestseller, Water for Elephants was directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese; Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and [...]

Robert Pattinson's REMEMBER ME & Critics: Part II Robert Pattinson himself (above, with director Allen Coulter) has earned mixed reviews for his performance as the rebellious Tyler Hawkins in the romantic melodrama Remember Me, Pattinson's first starring vehicle since he became the idol of millions of tweens — and not so tweens — the world over. Many reviewers compared his Tyler to James Dean's rebels [...]