Todd McCarthy

Like Hollywood Reporter rated it at an A minus.

Todd McCarthy, he said this paradoxically derivative yet imaginative sci-fi epic is everything every monster movie since the beginning of time might have wished it could be.

So, I mean, he's giving it high praises.

A little lower score I found was from The Guardian, Andrew Pulver.

Now roll the critics.

Variety, Todd McCarthy gave it 100 out of 100, uh, calling it, "A gem-like picture crafted with rare and immaculate precision."

Mm.

Michael Wilmington, the Chicago Tribune, 100 out of 100.

No, she sure doesn't.

Todd McCarthy of Variety.

I worked with a Todd McCarthy once.

At Variety?

Nope.

Kenneth Turan of LA time says it's a film in love with both traditional noir mythology and ultra modern violence, a combination that is not ideal.

Todd McCarthy of Hollywood reporter says tasty.

If sketchy modern noir with car chases and bloody action that should turn the trick for genre seeking audiences over And Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times says, here is still another illustration of the old Hollywood noir principle that a movie lives its life not through its hero, but within its shadows.

We have a Rotten Tomatoes score of 93%, an audience score of 79%, an IMDb score of 7.8 out of 10, and a Metacritic score of 79%.

First one from The Hollywood Reporter.

This is Todd McCarthy.

It says, not the worst, but is very far from the best film that the star has made in his career.

Next one, Stephen Rea from The Philadelphia Inquirer.

But

that's what it seems like, according to I think it's Todd McCarthy's book on Hawks.

Yeah.

But I got the impression that it was basically, yeah, him deliberately being like, I'm I'm an I'm objectively excellent filmmaker.

Um, so we'll start with to have and have not.

Um, this is a book that Hemingway writes that is clearly kind of detested internally by Howard Hawks.

Uh, and, uh, for the gray Fox himself, securing Hemingway's worth, um, it really breaks down to some stuff that's discussed in Todd McCarthy's book on Hawks.

I'm going to read this out verbatim because it's a little bit convoluted, but behind all the socializing lay the subject of Hemingway writing for films.