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Mar 30, 2017 · McCarthy himself played one of television’s least reliable reporters, the scandalous Scott Templeton in the final season of The Wire. Fabricating stories to whip up sizzling copy, he was a post ...
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Jul 28, 2021 · In ‘Stillwater,’ Tom McCarthy questions America’s moral authority through the lens of a red-state hero. Perspective by Ann Hornaday. Chief film critic. July 29, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. EDT.
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- The Cobbler
- Stillwater
- Win Win
- Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
- The Visitor
- The Station Agent
- Spotlight
What makes The Cobbler such a baffling misfire is that it didn’t have to be garbage. It could have been a perfectly lovely piece of magical realism, a Jewish fairy tale set in a New York neighborhood that still has a bit of Old World folklore in the air. Even the presence of Adam Sandler isn’t necessarily fatal, as he’s proven himself to be an exce...
Thankfully, there’s an enormous leap in quality between McCarthy’s worst and second-worst movies. Stillwater is by no means a bad film: it’s the kind of character study McCarthy does so well, but with a more uneasy, ambiguous tone than usual. Loosely based on the Amanda Knox case, Stillwater centers on an oil rig worker from Oklahoma (Matt Damon in...
McCarthy made his career out of understated character studies, but even by his standards Win Win is low-key. It’s set in Rhode Island, perhaps the least picturesque state in New England; its cast is populated by reliable, non-flashy actors like Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, and Bobby Cannavale; the sport at its core is not football or baseball, but the ...
The first film McCarthy directed after the Oscar-winning triumph at #1 on this list was… a kids' movie? A kids' movie about a Segway-riding amateur detective and his imaginary polar bear friend? It’s not as much of a departure as one might think. McCarthy had already dabbled in child-friendly media - he helped formulate the story for Up, and co-wro...
The Visitor could have been a white savior narrative, a magical minority narrative, or a mealy-mouthed message movie. Instead, it’s a quiet, grounded, deeply sad picture of New York in the wake of 9/11. It achieves this by simply treating every character as a human being, and not as a symbol. Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, a treasure) isn’t supposed...
In terms of sea-change movies whose journey began at the Sundance Film Festival - Clerks, Little Miss Sunshine, Get Out - The Station Agent is rarely mentioned. While it was only a modest box office hit, its blend of gentle quirk and emotional earnestness helped codify what is known as a “Sundance movie”. Even if it didn’t directly inspire movies l...
In some ways, Spotlight was something of a departure for Tom McCarthy. After a career consisting of small-scale, understated dramas, here was a movie about nothing less than the exposure of widespread sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. It was also his first movie based on true events, as well as his first movie where he wrote the screenplay...
Lowest Rated: 9% Little Fockers (2010) Birthday: Jun 7, 1966. Birthplace: New Providence, New Jersey, USA. Though actor Tom McCarthy began his career performing in front of the camera on notable ...
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCreditNo Score Yet93%Executive Producer75%72%Director, Screenwriter, Producer84%60%Director, Screenwriter, Producer72%83%Screenwriter- June 7, 1966
Thomas McCarthy. Tom has been a lifelong student of language and mystery. He needed a certain facility with both in order to survive his childhood in Omaha as the eighth of nine children, a blessing from which he sought frequent refuge in the Hardy Boys, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Tolkien and Dickens. Apparently, Jesuit high school ...
Jul 22, 2021 · Tom McCarthy, director of "Stillwater," earlier this month at the Cannes Film Festival. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images. Nearly a decade ago, Tom McCarthy began work on a script based loosely on ...
