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Paul O'Callaghan

Paul O'Callaghan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Times of Bill Cunningham (2018) 80% EDIT “When detailing Cunningham's work as a discreet queer activist, the film packs an emotional punch.” – Slant Magazine Feb 8, 2020 Full Review Echo (2019) 100% EDIT “The film ultimately coheres into a vivid portrait of contemporary Iceland that's equal parts bleak and beguiling.” – Slant Magazine Aug 21, 2019 Full Review Das freiwillige Jahr (2019) EDIT “Ulrich Köhler and Henner Winckler do a fine job of eliciting sympathy for their deeply flawed characters.” – Slant Magazine Aug 21, 2019 Full Review Technoboss (2019) 60% EDIT “Ultimately, the film is too narratively slight and tonally monotonous to justify its two-hour running time.” – Slant Magazine Aug 21, 2019 Full Review Advocate (2019) 100% EDIT “The filmmakers eschew many of the conventions of biographical documentary to deliver a propulsive, cool-headed courtroom drama.” – Sight & Sound Jun 21, 2019 Full Review Brief Story From the Green Planet (2019) 100% 6 EDIT “Brief Story is one of the weaker Teddy winners of recent years - but it's hard to begrudge this playfully inventive, big-hearted little film its moment in the spotlight.” – Sight & Sound Apr 3, 2019 Full Review The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “Chiwetel Ejiofor announces himself as a sensitive, shrewdly restrained filmmaker with his quietly assured directorial debut.” – Slant Magazine Feb 23, 2019 Full Review The Nightingale (2018) 87% EDIT “Kent hammers her concerns home with blunt force.” – Sight & Sound Jan 2, 2019 Full Review Ben Is Back (2018) 81% 2/4 EDIT “In its early scenes, Ben Is Back is more unpredictable and slyly entertaining than its earnest-sounding premise might suggest.” – Slant Magazine Dec 4, 2018 Full Review Diane (2018) 93% EDIT “A loose-limbed, deceptively modest portrait of small-town Massachusetts as seen through the eyes of a stoic septuagenarian widow, whose loved ones are falling sick and dropping dead at a rather alarming rate.” – Sight & Sound Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Vox Lux (2018) 62% EDIT “As brashly provocative as the first act may be, Portman's outrageously over-the-top turn may still come as a shock.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2018 Full Review A Star Is Born (2018) 90% EDIT “The occasional bum note aside, this is broad-strokes filmmaking of the highest calibre.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2018 Full Review The Favourite (2018) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The Favourite's biggest revelation may be that Yorgos Lanthimos treats his characters here with a degree of compassion, rather than regard them with his usual smirking indifference.” – Slant Magazine Sep 6, 2018 Full Review First Man (2018) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “Damien Chazelle is clearly in awe of the collective efforts it took to propel Neil Armstrong to the moon, but he remains ambivalent about whether it was all ultimately worth such immense sacrifice.” – Slant Magazine Sep 4, 2018 Full Review Ray & Liz (2018) 94% EDIT “With this remarkably assured film, artist Richard Billingham reaches further into the dark recesses of his childhood to deliver a richly evocative portrait of working-class life in the British Midlands.” – Slant Magazine Aug 15, 2018 Full Review M (2017) EDIT “Yolande Zauberman delivers a formally inventive film which is angry but empathetic, and which leaves the viewer with a sense that recovery from even the most appalling trauma is possible.” – Slant Magazine Aug 15, 2018 Full Review Genesis (2018) 89% EDIT “Philippe Lesage is presumably sympathetic to his main female character's plight, but his penchant for lingering tracking shots lends some of her scenes an unsettlingly voyeurism.” – Slant Magazine Aug 10, 2018 Full Review Too Late to Die Young (2018) 96% EDIT “Though the social milieu it depicts is markedly different, the film is strikingly reminiscent of Call Me by Your Name in its nostalgia-tinged evocation of a bucolic haven for artists, intellectuals, and free spirits.” – Slant Magazine Aug 10, 2018 Full Review Generation Wealth (2018) 46% 2.5/4 EDIT “Into a broad-strokes picture of a culture in crisis, Lauren Greenfield attempts to incorporate autobiographical elements, which results in some awkward narrative pivots and jarringly clunky voiceover.” – Slant Magazine Jul 18, 2018 Full Review Ideal Home (2018) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “The broad strokes of the performances make the film's occasional lurches into sentimentality seem especially jarring.” – Slant Magazine Jun 26, 2018 Full Review Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “Lorna Tucker's documentary sustains a tone that oscillates between earnest admiration and wry exasperation.” – Slant Magazine Jun 4, 2018 Full Review Hard Paint (2018) 92% EDIT “Matzembacher and Reolon perform a deft balancing act, crafting a character study that is empathetic and emotionally engaging yet unflinching and unsentimental, and unapologetically erotic.” – Sight & Sound Mar 8, 2018 Full Review Touch Me Not (2018) 59% EDIT “Touch Me Not should strike a chord most readily with those who've struggled to understand or express their own identity, but adventurous viewers of all persuasions should approach this celebration of female and minority sexuality with an open mind.” – Sight & Sound Feb 26, 2018 Full Review Madeline's Madeline (2018) 88% EDIT “At once intimidatingly dense and breezily concise, uncompromisingly experimental and riotously entertaining.” – Sight & Sound Feb 19, 2018 Full Review Custody (2017) 96% EDIT “One hell of a calling card, and perhaps the most dazzling fusion of grim social realism and giddy genre thrills since Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” – Sight & Sound Sep 19, 2017 Full Review
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