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Rory Doherty

Rory Doherty's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% 8.6/10 EDIT “Never does It Was Just an Accident drag – each scene pinpoints its dramatic angles and doesn’t belabor them, and Panahi punctuates them with unexpected, tension-breaking outbursts and twists in fortune to remind us of reality outside the moral dilemma. ” – Paste Magazine Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 82% C+ EDIT “The resulting film is full of dead air. Rather than discovering anything novel or liberating about the hostile, modern battleground of America, Relay‘s compelling set-up becomes overly dependent on typical rug-pulls and action beats.” – AV Club Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% 5.7/10 EDIT “Being fatalistic is perfectly acceptable for a survival drama, but Howard is happy to paint the Galápagos affair in the brashest emotional tones, so the ugly payoff to the “hate triangle” of Floreana’s settlers feels stagey, clumsy and anticlimactic.” – Paste Magazine Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “Superman says too much and not enough about its character and the heightened world he finds himself in, and we’re left with a film that’s eager to please but, like Gunn’s version of the hero, nakedly flawed.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% B- EDIT “The Jurassic franchise has continued to harm its reputation with baffling choices and tired retreads, and the seventh entry gets a moderate stamp of approval only if one agrees that it’s the last one.” – AV Club Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% 5.8/10 EDIT “We can be entertained for scenes, but the action and humor is built atop an utterly tedious story of duty and revenge that reminds us of its hollowness whenever the pounding techno music turns down and the bullets and punches stop flying.” – Paste Magazine Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% B EDIT “This thriller positions two men of ambition against each other, exposing the old guard’s vulnerabilities so that, through a suspense plot, they can work through their insecurities and triumphantly refuse to capitulate to insolent young upstarts.” – AV Club May 21, 2025 Full Review Alpha (2025) 56% EDIT “There’s the sense that Alpha and Ducournau end up in similar positions: we do not know how the past will hold onto us, how it will affect how we see those around us, and attempts to excavate it will be messy, arduous, and vulnerable.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) May 20, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “At times our confidence is shaken, but The Phoenician Scheme reaffirms the joy of discovering something tiny and human tucked away in Anderson’s dollhouse.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) May 19, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “To Aster, whose prior film Beau is Afraid was an frustrating odyssey of Freudian paranoia, emasculation is a crucial key to decoding the world’s violence and misery, and in Eddington, he pursues it to the point of self-sabotage.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) May 19, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “The longest, choppiest, and most frustrating chapter in the eight-film, 30-year series that, only when pressed, delivers the slick, propulsive thrills deserving of the franchise.” – Inverse May 15, 2025 Full Review Fight or Flight (2024) 76% 6.3/10 EDIT “The fight scenes will make you laugh more than the dialogue, and it doesn’t survive a bumpy landing, but led by Captain Hartnett, Fight or Flight takes advantage of its budget airline resources for a knowingly ludicrous romp.” – Paste Magazine May 5, 2025 Full Review G20 (2025) 55% 1.9/10 EDIT “G20, on the other hand, is a generic, ugly, and poorly composed piece of Grade A streaming slop, and makes us want to give the likes of Wolfgang Petersen and Roland Emmerich the Medal of Freedom.” – Paste Magazine Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% EDIT “The most exciting film of the year so far. Black Bag reels you in with simmering, ill-behaved characters and tightly-wound thriller mechanics. ” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Apr 3, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% EDIT “Like King’s short stories, there’s a freedom to The Monkey; it’s unshackled from the writer’s legacy but playfully opening itself up to his extremes of humour and depravity.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “Somewhere between the stuttering narrative momentum and the project’s massive scale and resources (budgeted around $118 million), the focus and clarity of how Bong diagnoses social and political malaise has been compromised.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Apr 3, 2025 Full Review A Working Man (2025) 47% EDIT “Maybe the missed opportunities of A Working Man would be less egregious if the director and star hadn’t just made a film about a beekeeping assassin.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 46% 3.8/10 EDIT “Brave New World is as visually lifeless as the most lifeless MCU thrillers, marred by needless overcutting, flimsy digital backdrops and stilted composition; thematically, it says nothing confidently and even less coherently.” – Paste Magazine Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% EDIT “There is nothing radical in Nosferatu; it is a large-scale exercise in repeating visual, tonal, and dramatic language that we have seen before, for a narrative interpretation we are even more familiar with. ” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Jan 15, 2025 Full Review The Last Showgirl (2024) 83% 5.6/10 EDIT “At once Coppola’s most coherent and least interesting film to date, it feels designed for award body screenings, where its most unique elements can be itemized and lauded on a voting ballot, rather than them adding to a complex and effective film. ” – Paste Magazine Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 6.7/10 EDIT “Making a religious thriller with no trace of holiness is encouraged; failing to meet the spiritual demands of the material is a greater sin.” – Paste Magazine Oct 24, 2024 Full Review Dahomey (2024) 97% 4/5 EDIT “By centralising real and imagined voices in nearly every scene, [Dahomey] underlines how we should never be satisfied with decolonisation on anyone but the colonised people's terms.” – The Skinny Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) 50% C EDIT “The American West was not built in a day, but Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 2 does not convince us to keep our eyes trained on its construction.” – AV Club Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% EDIT “It is not that this version of the Joker is inherently wrong, but it is uninteresting. Please let us be done with this.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Wolfs (2024) 66% C- EDIT “Forget these two charisma-sapped bagmen; not even Michael Clayton could clean up this mess.” – AV Club Sep 4, 2024 Full Review
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