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Bill O'Driscoll

Bill O'Driscoll's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Hurt Locker (2008) 96% EDIT “Depicting that toll fairly, and soldiers as flawed people with doubts and fears as well as triumphs, deepens our understanding of war. Still, Hurt Locker probably won't change anyone's interpretation of current events.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Feb 27, 2018 Full Review Million Dollar Baby (2004) 90% EDIT “In Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood makes us believe both that [the] relationship is completely surprising and wholly a product of fate.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Feb 27, 2018 Full Review Downsizing (2017) 47% EDIT “But [Alexander] Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor maintain their sense of humor, even if the film ultimately feels less like satire and more like a poignant brief for humanism” – Pittsburgh City Paper Jan 10, 2018 Full Review Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) 91% EDIT “At two-and-a-half hours, with about nine separate cliffhanger endings, it's a bit long, but Johnson's keen visual sense, doses of humor and a couple of cameos buoy the film” – Pittsburgh City Paper Jan 10, 2018 Full Review Molly's Game (2017) 82% EDIT “Beyond painting Bloom as a young woman who saw an opportunity and grabbed it, the film's attempts at psychology don't pan out very convincingly. But for sheer voyeurism, this study of an illicit but unusually well-bankrolled demimonde is quite satisfying.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Jan 3, 2018 Full Review Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) 97% EDIT “Like all good kids' movies, it's more complex than it seems.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Dec 13, 2017 Full Review Fences (2016) 92% EDIT “Wilson's powerful story, which encompasses not just love, sex, race, oedipal clashes, betrayal and death, but even music and sport, has the scope of a Great American Novel. Washington and company do it justice.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Dec 13, 2017 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% EDIT “Many movies have told us that bad things are bad, and good ones good. But Raimi makes sure even a child of 10 can tell why.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% EDIT “For all its whimsy, Moulin Rouge is so full of itself it comes up empty.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% EDIT “Perhaps uniquely among living filmmakers with some degree of mainstream U.S. recognition, Lynch makes movies that aren't fictions so much as documentaries of states of mind: newsreels of nightmares.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Dreamcatcher (2003) 27% EDIT “If this is after all a movie about growing up, you wonder why it's framed as a juvenile fantasy.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% EDIT “Jurassic Park III is both pointless and bad. ” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review In the Mood for Love (2000) 92% EDIT “Chow's and Li-Zhen's secret meetings and quiet solitudes are cut to the film's plaintive, waltz-timed score and to Nat King Cole singing melancholy Spanish pop tunes, and Wong adds subtle, at times barely perceptible touches of slow motion.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Girlfight (2000) 87% EDIT “Kusama's attention to the details of boxing training and strategy is admirable, and the fight scenes realistic.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% EDIT “Traffic is in most respects an unusually intelligent film. But its racial attitudes undermine too much of what's right about it.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001) 93% EDIT “At three hours long, deliberately paced, and mostly cast with nonprofessional actors, Atanarjuat works largely by immersing us in this neolithic society of a dozen or so members, built from bone, fur, flesh and ice.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Mission: Impossible II (2000) 58% EDIT “It's all quite memorable, even when it's ridiculous.” – Pittsburgh City Paper May 1, 2003 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% EDIT “While the film masks its more reactionary sentiments with the rhetoric of democracy, it's entertaining enough doubletalk.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Apr 30, 2003 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% EDIT “Mary Harron's adaptation of the Brett Easton Ellis novel sets out to indict a culture of narcissism, but plays its few notes early and never gets beyond slight variations.” – Pittsburgh City Paper Apr 30, 2003 Full Review
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