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Tara McNamara

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As a film journalist and critic, Tara McNamara loves watching movies, but more than that, she loves spurring audiences to think about movies. In print and on screen, she focuses on motivating people to reflect on how media messages affect their own actions and opinions. To that end, she has appeared as the Fandango Film Mom, co-hosted the digital series “Mom’s Movie Minute;” and had recurring segments “Reel Moms” on Today and “Parents Guide” on The Insider. Currently, she’s on staff as a film critic for Common Sense Media. Tara also writes several articles a year for Variety, a relationship that began in 2007 when she served as their entertainment news anchor on Sirius XM. Tara’s film journalism career began in 2004 when she and her then 9-year-old son Cole created KidsPickFlicks, a website where kids of all ages could send in their own movie reviews, providing a kids-eye view of movies offered by no other site.

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The Legend of Ochi (2025) 80% “This film is music video director Isiaiah Saxon's first feature, and it certainly won't be his last: What he has created here is pure, out-of-the-box imagination.” – Common Sense Media Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Sacramento (2024) 89% “Here, the jokes will still make you laugh out loud, but it all feels pretty grounded.” – Common Sense Media Apr 15, 2025 Full Review The Amateur (2025) 61% “An awkward tech genius taking on trained killers to avenge his wife's death should make for a slick, high-stakes thriller, but the story is trapped by its own source material. ” – Common Sense Media Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Hell of a Summer (2023) 52% “Older teens will likely be screaming with laughter at Wolfhard and Bryk's slasher parody, but adults may not be as gutted with a splitting side.” – Common Sense Media Apr 8, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 83% “Just like Apollo the Great Dane, this doggy drama is sweet and simple on the surface, but more layered and depressed than you might expect. ” – Common Sense Media Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% 3/5 “This father-daughter horror-comedy ... is like E.T. meets Cocaine Bear.” – Common Sense Media Mar 28, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 40% “Compared to other mob movies, The Alto Knights is less about the climb to power and more about maintaining that power. ” – Common Sense Media Mar 26, 2025 Full Review The Assessment (2024) 82% “Chilling because it's both outlandish and alarmingly grounded and plausible, this sci-fi drama is likely to be scrutinized in your own dome long after the credits roll. ” – Common Sense Media Mar 26, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% “In telling this story of married spies, writer David Koepp gives us the antidote to Mr. and Mrs. Smith: a story that's unabashedly marriage affirming.” – Common Sense Media Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) 88% “So no matter how entertaining the film is, audiences who grew up loving the WB's looney crew may experience some disappointment.” – Common Sense Media Mar 17, 2025 Full Review F Marry Kill (2025) 54% “This movie throws two popular genres (romcom, true crime) and a party game into a pop culture blender, and the satirical mixture comes out clunky but pleasant enough for a Gen Z Girls' Night In.” – Common Sense Media Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Queen of the Ring (2024) 73% “Mildred Burke is a feminist icon who's well deserving of a biopic, and while this one is all ham and cheese, so is wrestling, so perhaps it's perfect. ” – Common Sense Media Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Seven Veils (2023) 77% “For fans of opera, director Atom Egoyan's modern-day Salome set inside an actual production of Salome will likely be an absolute triumph. ” – Common Sense Media Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Uppercut (2025) 0% “Perhaps it was all lost in translation, but this remake of a German-language drama just doesn't work. ” – Common Sense Media Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Old Guy (2024) 29% “So, where does Old Guy go wrong? The script. ” – Common Sense Media Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Between Borders (2025) 3/5 “The movie highlights principles that many people of faith hold to: Love one another, treat others like you would want to be treated, and, to help yourself, help others.” – Common Sense Media Jan 25, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% 2/5 “Halina Reijn's "women are kinky too" erotic thriller is well-made, but it offers a worrisome message at a worrisome time.” – Common Sense Media Dec 30, 2024 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) 96% 4/5 “Delaporte and de La Patellière vividly bring The Count of Monte Cristo to life in a way that helps makes this enduring story and its life lessons understandable to today's teens.” – Common Sense Media Dec 30, 2024 Full Review Sidelined: The QB and Me (2024) 3/5 “Not quite a touchdown but still enjoyable enough, this Wattpad-originated teen romance does have some refreshing angles.” – Common Sense Media Dec 30, 2024 Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) 85% 4/5 “Team Sonic's race to save the world in this threequel offers families a funny, crowd-pleasing, globe-spanning action-adventure comedy.” – Common Sense Media Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% “Magical and majestic, this perilous animated adventure about a black cat who's having its own bad luck is pretty purrfect. ” – Common Sense Media Dec 4, 2024 Full Review Elevation (2024) 55% “This creature feature doesn't offer anything new, including answers to the questions it asks. ” – Common Sense Media Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Red One (2024) 30% “There's not much that's holly or jolly about this salty Christmas monster mash, but tweens and teens may be just fine with an entertaining action movie about Santa. ” – Common Sense Media Nov 13, 2024 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% “Funny and poignant, Eisenberg's rumination on the guilt felt by many descendants of Holocaust survivors is a personal story with potentially broad impact.” – Common Sense Media Nov 6, 2024 Full Review Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024) 53% “That said, Lost on a Mountain in Maine doesn't quite hit the emotional heights that it likely did in book form. ” – Common Sense Media Nov 1, 2024 Full Review
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